by Natalie Hill

The staff of Robinson OB-GYN Associates invites mothers and daughters of all ages to an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at its office in Park West One, 1000 Cliff Mine Road, Suite 210, Robinson. The practice's new doctors, Jennifer Stull, D.O., and Vlad Nikiforouk, M.D., will be available to meet with patients and discuss the facility's same-day appointment opportunities, incontinent procedures and laproscopic hysterectomies. Call Lauree Criss-Basalyga at 412-777-6363.

Latrobe Foundry Machine and Supply Co. relocated from its Hillview Avenue location to Route 981, near Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. Its manufacturing facility is in Whitney. Call 724-537-3341 or visit www.latrobefoundry.com.

Business Notes

ClearlySpeaking LLC, a speech and voice consulting firm, has launched a Web site, www.clearly-speaking.com. The site features online purchasing options and an online speech and voice evaluation is also available.

Rehabilitation and Pain Specialists named Krol Media Associates LLC agency of record to market its three locations in Shadyside, Fox Chapel area and Mount Pleasant. The agency will handle the pain management practice's media buying, advertising, public relations and marketing collateral.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Engineering Technology Building at Fairmont State University will be held on Friday. The general contractor for the project is Landau Building Co. The Fairmont State University Engineering Technology Building is a renovation of the Wallman Hall Technology Wing with the construction of two additional stories at 20,000 square foot each.

Think Communications Inc. was tapped by The Early Learning Institute to help lead branding and marketing initiatives aimed at families across Allegheny County.

Smart Futures said it was awarded a $190,000 grant from Highmark Healthy High 5, an initiative of the Highmark Foundation. Funding will be given to Smart Futures over two years in $95,000 installments and will go to the regional expansion of the PA eMentoring program, an e-mail-based effort that connects persons in the workplace with youth in regional high schools and training programs. Funding from the Highmark Foundation will make it possible for Smart Futures to collaborate with 75 schools and the Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania to serve 1,500 students.

The Highmark Foundation has awarded a $262,500 grant to the Forbes Health Foundation to support a new program that uses manufacturing-based quality principles to dramatically change the way heart patients are cared for at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital Forbes Regional Campus. The Highmark Foundation grant immediately follows the recent opening of The Ed Dardanell Heart & Vascular Center at Forbes, a state-of-the-art facility that offers open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterizations, a cardiac intensive care unit and advanced endovascular surgery in a suburban location. The new program, called Redefining Chronic CARE, is a three-year concentrated effort that is changing the organizational culture by adopting Toyota production system concepts. Saint Vincent College's Kennametal Center for Operational Excellence is teaching, training and demonstrating the concepts.

Inspired by an organization called Becca's Closet and in conjunction with Community Banking Month, Parkvale Bank's Oakland office is collecting gently used prom dresses to give to area high school girls who may not have the extra cash for a dress. More than 40 dresses have been collected, and donations are accepted at the 3520 Forbes Ave. Parkvale Bank location. The dresses will be displayed at Northway Church at 120 McKee Place, Oakland, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 17. Call Joyce or Amber at 412-687-1200 and visit www.parkvale.com.

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