WHAT’S NEWS IN MCKEESPORT AREA
PITTSBURGH CONCERT
CHORALE 2018-2019
SEASON
The Pittsburgh Concert Chorale’s
2018-2019 concert schedule includes a
variety of musical styles sure to appeal to
every taste.
The concert schedule began with
“Pittsburgh Sings: The Seventh Annual
Pittsburgh Concert Chorale Festival of
Choirs,” and continues with the annual
holiday concert “Sounds of the Season,”
“Messiah Sing”—a sing-along free to
the public, and “Brothers from Another
Mother—Those Musical Masons!”
The season will wrap up with “‘Name’
That Tune!”
Individual concert tickets are available
for purchase in advance or at the door.
All tickets, including group sales and
subscriptions, may be ordered online at
PCCSing.org or by calling 412.635.7654.
2019 LUCKY NUMBER
TICKETS AVAILABLE
FOR HOLIDAY SEASON
The Sisters of Divine Providence
announced the availability of 2019
Lucky Number tickets—a great holiday
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724.942.0940 TO ADVERTISE
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gift idea. The ticket is based on the day
and evening Pick 3 (Daily Number) PA
Lottery game. Each $25 number is valid
from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2019—
yours for the entire year! Daily winners
receive a minimum of $25 up to $150
on select days throughout the year when
their three-digit number is selected.
To participate in the 2019 Lucky
Number fundraiser, call 412.635.5401 or
visit cdpsisters.org/LuckyNumber. Your
participation helps support the ministries
and mission of the Sisters of Divine
Providence.
FOUR ALLEGHENY
HEALTH NETWORK
HOSPITALS RECEIVE
AMERICAN HEART
ASSOCIATION AWARD
FOR QUALITY OF
HEART FAILURE
TREATMENT
Four Allegheny Health Network
(AHN) hospitals continue to receive
national recognition for the quality of
their heart failure programs. Allegheny
General Hospital (AGH) and Jefferson
Hospital earned Gold Plus honors for
the sixth consecutive year, while Forbes
Hospital and Allegheny Valley Hospital
(AVH) received Silver Plus recognition in
this year’s American Heart Association/
American Stroke Association Get
With The Guidelines®—Heart Failure
Achievement Awards.
The American Heart Association
(AHA) award recognizes hospitals that
implement specific quality improvement
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measures outlined by the AHA/American
College of Cardiology Foundation’s
secondary prevention guidelines for
patients with heart failure.
The Get With The Guidelines—Heart
Failure awards program helps to ensure
hospital teams are providing the most
up-to-date, evidence-based standards
of care with the goal of expediting the
recovery of patients with heart failure
and reducing hospital readmissions.
Heart failure affects nearly 6 million
Americans annually, according to the
AHA, with the number expected to rise
to 8 million by 2030. It is also the nation’s
and western Pennsylvania’s leading cause
of hospitalization among people over the
age of 65.
In addition to heart failure recognition,
AGH also recently received the Get
With The Guidelines—AFIB Gold
Quality Achievement Award and Saint
Vincent earned the Bronze Award
for putting in place specific quality
improvement measures outlined by the
AHA/ACC/Heart Rhythm Society for
the management of patients with atrial
fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that can
lead to stroke and other complications.
More than 2.7 million adults suffer from
AFIB, according to the AHA. For more
information, visit ahn.org.
ONE-OF-A-KIND CAR
DONATION PROGRAM
Community Auto, a nonprofit program
of The Lighthouse Foundation, accepts
donated cars, repairs and inspects
them when feasible, and sells them at
discounted prices to low-income working
families and individuals.
The used car in your garage that you
don’t have time to sell, or didn’t get the
trade-in value you wanted, or a car the
kids used but no longer need would be
the perfect car to donate. Your generous
donation is tax-deductible.
Please contact Community Auto
at communityautolico.org or call
724.538.5081 for details on how to
donate your car. ■