BUSINESS AWARDS
Firefighter Paul Conover has been honored with the Robert O’Toole EMT/Firefighter of the Year Award from the Centerville Noon Optimist Club. The annual award honors a member of the Washington Township Fire Department for contributions to the community.
Conover frequently seeks additional projects and assignments and, as a direct result, has taken on responsibility for creating a fire equipment stockroom, a project that has included organizing, cleaning, and maintaining equipment. Other examples include assisting with training and hose records.
Conover, 25, joined the fire department in 2016 and since then has taken a proactive approach to both formal and on-the-job training. He has completed his Firefighter I, Firefighter II and EMT Basic certification and currently is enrolled in Paramedic class. The award he received is named in honor of Robert O’Toole, a Washington Township firefighter who died in the line of duty on Jan. 12, 1998, while assisting an accident victim on I-675. O’Toole’s mother, Ruth, attended the presentation. Centerville Police Officer John Kalaman also was killed in the incident.
Young H. Kim, Broker Owner of Young Kim Realty, LLC in Washington Twp., was awarded the Luxury Home Staging Specialist designation at the International Association of Home Staging Professionals Annual Conference in Charlotte, NC.
Previously, she earned the Accredited Staging Professional designation, which is a benchmark of true excellence in customer service for home sellers. For Young, learning still continues. Even after 39 years of serving Dayton area home buyers and sellers, she strives to better serve her clients. She is one of the first REALTORS® who received the Luxury Home Staging Specialist Designation in the Dayton Area.
Lifestages Centers for Women, a Premier Physician Network practice, has been recognized by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) as a National Best Practice for its low rate of primary cesarean births obtained by its certified nurse midwives in 2017.
National organizations such as ACNM, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have made it a recent goal to encourage low rates of cesarean births. Cesarean births vary widely across the world from about 85 percent in private clinics in places like Brazil to more than 30 percent in the United States. Data collected by Lifestages midwives in 2017 showed they obtained a much lower rate than the national average, said Jalana Lazar, CNM, who tracks the data for Lifestages. The Lifestages midwives’ primary cesarean birth rate has been less than 10 percent annually for the past five years, compared to the national average of 31.9 percent.
Lifestages Centers for Women has five midwives on its staff, who see patients at their Englewood, Centerville and Huber Heights locations. The practice is accepting new patients and can be reached by calling 937277-8988.