It’s Your Business
Hermitage Bank broadens services
During the recently ended Consumer Protection Week (Feb. 6 – 11), credit card companies and financial services firms everywhere helped raise awareness of the growing threat of identity theft, and ways to combat it.
First National Bank has taken that effort a step further by offering a new product that links consumer protection insurance and an array of other perks to the everyday checking account.
The new First Plus Package adds more than $350 worth of savings and security rewards to any personal checking account.
The First Plus Package features free personalized checks; insurance that protects the holder from identify theft and from credit card and/or debit payment card theft; accidental death and dismemberment insurance; everyday rebate rewards for groceries, restaurants, clothing, pet supplies and more; and a subscription to “Sojourns Travel Magazine.”
To enroll, visit any branch of First National Bank, or call 1-800-555-5455.
Uniontown
Caileigh’s expands catering service
Caileigh’s Restaurant in Uniontown is offering expanded catering options through a loan from the Progress Fund, a non-profit loan fund that helps create jobs un the travel and tourism industry.
Opened in 200 by Joe Carei, a certified chef, the restaurant offers a menu including prime meats, seafood and produce and herbs from his garden.
Rated three diamonds by the Automobile Association of America, Caileigh’s has been named on of the region’s top restaurants by readers of “Pittsburgh’ magazine. Carei has also participated in the annual Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo.
Caileigh’s employs 15 people and will likely expand that with the increasing catering services.
More information is available by calling Caileigh’s at 724-437-9463 or the Progress Fund at 724-529-0384 or by visiting its Web site at www.progressfund.org.
Uniontown
Dr. Ball named ACS fellow
Dr. Brandon M. Ball was among 1,300 initiates from around the world who became Fellows of the American College of Surgeons during convocation ceremonies at the college’s recent 90th annual Clinical Congress in New Orleans.
Ball received his medical doctorate in 1996 from West Virginia University and attained board certification from the American Board of Surgery.
Ball has a strong professional interest in cancer surgery and holds membership in other professional societies, including the American Medical Association (AMA), Pennsylvania Medical Society and the Fayette County Medical Society. By meeting the college’s membership requirements, Fellows of the College have earned the right to use the designation of “F.A.C.S.” (Fellow, American College of Surgeons) after their names.
An applicant for fellowship must be a graduate of an approved medical school; must have completed advanced training in one of the 14 surgical specialties recognized by the college; and must have been in practice in the same geographic location for at least one year at the time of application.
Surgeons must further demonstrate ethical fitness and professional proficiency, and acceptance as a fellow of the college must be approved by three-quarters of its board of regents.
Ball is currently practicing with general surgeons Blass, Reilly and Vanek, which recently changed its name Laurel Ridge Surgical Associates. It is located in the Uniontown Professional Plaza Building 1, 205 Easy St.
For more information, call Laurel Ridge Surgical Associates at 724-439-1020.