Registration is now open for Holy Family Hospital’s 5th Annual Adult Behavioral Health Conference.

This year the conference will be held on Friday, September 18, 2015 in the David Hartleb Technology Center at Northern Essex Community College, 100 Elliott St. in Haverhill, MA.

The day will begin at 8:00 a.m. with registration and continental breakfast, and end at 3 p.m. The cost of $40 includes breakfast, lunch and five continuing education credits for physicians, nurses, social workers and addiction counselors.

This year’s topics are:

Norwood Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes Norwood Hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

Medicare 101- Things to Consider as Open Enrollment Approaches will be the topic of discussion during Senior Lunch at Holy Family Hospital at Merrimack Valley in Haverhill on September, 1, 2015.

Gerald Lodge, an expert in the health insurance industry, will guide attendees through changes in Medicare and things to consider as the open enrollment period approaches.

Mr. Lodge has worked in the health insurance industry for 27 years; 10 years with Blue Cross Blue Shield and 17 as a field sales representative with Tufts Health Plan Medicare Preferred.

At the beginning of July 2015, Gabriel Simon, MD, became the new chief of emergency medicine at Nashoba Valley Medical Center (NVMC). Since 2013, Simon has been a staff physician in NVMC’s emergency department.

Orthopedic Surgeon Thomas Hoerner, MD will present a medical Meet the Expert seminar on Mako™ Technology and its potential role in anterior total hip replacement on August 4, 2015, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the ground floor auditorium at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen.

Dr. Hoerner will talk about the differences between the direct anterior and posterior approaches to total hip replacement, explain ways to treat hip and knee pain, describe what Mako is, and explain how a computer-assisted procedure like Mako is performed and why.

If you or a member of your family has ideas to improve the health care experience at Saint Anne’s Hospital, you’re invited to become a member of the hospital’s Patient and Family Advisory Council.

Holy Family Hospital at Merrimack Valley’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center has earned the Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Center of Excellence national award making it one of only 7 centers nationwide to receive this distinction for four consecutive years (2012-2015).

Farmers markets on the campuses of Holy Family Hospital in Methuen and Holy Family Hospital at Merrimack Valley in Haverhill will open to the public in mid-July.