Canton City Council voted unanimously on Monday, Oct. 24 to award Mercy Medical Center a City of Canton Community Development Block Grant for $250,000 for the Mercy Primary Care at St. Paul Square project. Located at 1459 Superior Ave. in Northeast Canton, Mercy Primary Care at St. Paul Square will offer a primary care physician office and ancillary services to a medically underserved area. The grant will be used to renovate a building on the grounds of the former St. Paul Catholic Church to the new Mercy health care facility

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Fresh, locally grown fresh fruit and vegetables raised by Cleveland urban teen farmers known as the Garden Boyz will be available for purchase bi-weekly at the Solon Medical Campus of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center.

Garden Boyz is an urban teen farmers program of Building Healthy Communities, which is a ministry of the Sisters of Charity Health System. The young farmers grow pesticide-free produce in Cleveland using organic methods for farmers markets, including those held at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, the Cuyahoga County administration building and Western Reserve Area on Aging senior programs. 

Throughout early to mid-summer, the Garden Boys will bring a variety of lettuces, onions, radishes, summer squash, greens and fresh herbs to market.   

Beginning June 29 and recurring every other Wednesday throughout the summer, the Garden Boyz Fresh Markets will be open 3 to 5 p.m. in Solon.

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Eighteen abstracts have been selected for break-out sessions at the inaugural Ohio Health Literacy Conference being held October 12-13 at the Renaissance Hotel in Cleveland.

The goal of the Ohio Health Literacy Conference is to increase health literacy awareness; share resources to improve health literacy and ultimately, health outcomes; and provide tools to increase health literacy capacity at the local, regional, and state levels. The keynote speaker will be Richard H. Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States.

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In celebration of Father’s Day, programs of the South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families are holding a series of family-friendly events, June 18.

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St. John Medical Center, which is co-owned by University Hospitals and Sisters of Charity Health System, was featured in a recent Sun Newspapers article describing details of the planned renovations and upcoming groundbreaking ceremony to kick-off the project.

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