Infant and Child CPR Classes provided at FTMC       Fisher-Titus Medical Center is offering Infant and Child CPR training from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, March 11 at the hospital, 272 Benedict Ave., Norwalk. Participants become certified in important life-saving CPR techniques specifically for infants and children. For more information and to register, call 419-660-2646. FTMC Co-Sponsors Happiest Baby on the Block Program Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Erie-Huron County WIC services and Help Me Grow will offer The Happiest Baby on the Block course in the Norwalk area. The course, primarily for parents-to-be, and parents/caregivers of babies, age birth to four months old, provides information on techniques to help calm and comfort babies. The techniques also can help babies increase their sleep at night. The national curriculum will be taught by Happiest Baby on the Block Certified Educators and FTMC registered nurses Julie Flesher and Beth Schnellinger. Class will be held from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 16 at the Help Me Grow Office, 811 Woodbine Ave., Willard. For more information and to register, call 419-660-2117 Ext. 6560. 
 Fisher-Titus Offering Diabetes Screenings

Fisher-Titus Medical Center has contributed $31,774 to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief fund after a unique two-week fund-raising effort sponsored by the center’s Employee Advisory Group. The donation included employee contributions that were matched by Fisher Titus. “As soon as Fisher-Titus Medical Center employees heard news of January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, they were asking how they could help,” said Lorna Strayer, FTMC’s vice president of business development. “FTMC’s Employee Advisory Group quickly organized a fundraising effort … Our employees whole-heartedly responded, donating $15,887.22 for the Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund.” The employees’ fund-raiser included a special arrangement allowing FTMC staff to contribute up to eight hours of their “banked” vacation time to the fund. FTMC employees contributed more than 650 hours of that paid time off valued at $12,847.29, and also gave $3,039.93 in cash to the effort. The medical center then matched the employees’ total donation.

Firelands Regional Medical Center will be hosting sessions of Stork Express on the following days during the month of March: Saturday, March 13 from noon to 2 p.m.; Monday, March 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, March 27 from 12 to 2 p.m.  All sessions will be held at Firelands Main Campus, 1111 Hayes Ave., Sandusky. Stork Express is a free program designed to give pregnant women the opportunity to start on paperwork that is required during their hospital stay.  During the program, each participant will review and sign the necessary paperwork,

Firelands Regional Medical Center will be hosting the second program in the Pediatric Program Series on Thursday, March 4.  The program titled “Preschool-School Age Speech Skills:  What should my child be doing?” will be presented by Katie Bell, MA CF-SLP, Speech Language Pathologist at Firelands. The program will be from 6 to 7:30 pm in the Community Resource Room at Firelands South Campus, 1912 Hayes Ave., Sandusky.