Home Care In Norwood, PA

NORWOOD, Pa. (CBS) – A Delaware County community was buzzing with excitement Wednesday when part of a TV show was filmed at a bar in Norwood.

Dozens of crew members gathered in the parking lot of Matthew's Tavern on Winona Avenue Wednesday morning to film "Sinking Spring," a show from Apple Studios.

Hillary Stockard is a leasing consultant for Holly Gardens, an apartment complex nearby.

"It was exciting to hear about them, you know, coming right across the street to film the show," Stockard said. "But also a little bit nerve-wracking because we weren't sure what the parking situation would be like."

Crew members dropped off a letter at the apartment complex last week with information on the timing of the road closures, which affect Welcome, Ridley and Garfield Avenues.

"It's a pretty good road here that a lot of restaurants are on it, an active business street for sure, so definitely catch a lot of buzz in the neighborhood," Jason McGovern, owner of All County Insurance, said.

Despite the road closures, most businesses said they're not seeing a loss of customer traffic.

There was a lot of activity all day, from tents and trucks to the barricades, and several people stopped by to take a peek at the set.

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Stockard said she is curious who's going to be in the show and whether there's any chance she could be a part of it.

"I heard that they were casting extras for $300 a day so I inquired about it, but I didn't hear back from anyone," Stockard said.

Road closures will be in effect until midnight, according to the notice given to businesses in the area.

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Madeleine Wright is a bilingual general assignment reporter for CBS News Philadelphia. She joined the team in January 2022.

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Appearing on HGTV’s “House Hunters,” are Norwood’s Villar-Nugent family, (from left) Jovin Mills (with camera), Luka Mills, Luci Villar, Ryan Nugent and Kara Nugent.

A city family’s search for a small suburban home that led them to Norwood was featured Tuesday night on HGTV’s “House Hunters” writes Peg DeGrassa for The Times Herald.

Luciana “Luci” Villar and her husband Ryan Nugent, living in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia, dreamt of getting out of the city and moving to a place with a sense of community to raise their three children.

Their life-changing two-month search for a dream home was captured on HGTV’s “House Hunters”.

Villar, a supervisor in Drexel University’s animal research lab, and Nugent, a Sunbound Technology manager in the Lehigh Valley, appear on the show with their three children: Jovin Mills, 12; Luka Mills, 8; and Kara Nugent, 1.

Luci Villar had once lived in Ridley and liked the area.

“When we drove around this area, we got to see what a small-town feel they had and you just don’t find that in too many places anymore,” Villar said. “That, combined with the sense of a strong community, was the biggest appeal here.”

The family found their dream home on Delaware Avenue in Norwood in March, a three-bedroom duplex with “a beautiful deck”. They moved there in April.

See what the family thinks of Norwood and read about their future plans in The Times Herald.

EPA holds meeting on suspected cancer cluster in Norwood, Pennsylvania. Dann Cuellar reports on Action News at 10 on Nov. 21, 2019.

NORWOOD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Norwood, Pennsylvania residents in the area along E. Winona Avenue want to know if the place where they built their homes is contaminated with materials that are making them sick. On Thursday night, researchers with the Environmental Protection Agency told residents they have nothing to be concerned about, but many are not buying it.

"I hope they clear it up and find out exactly where it is and what it is. And get it out of here," said Norwood resident Linda Smith who lives along E. Winona Avenue.

For the past two years, the EPA has been testing soil in the area to determine if it contains dangerous chemicals. Residents in the area say there have been dozens of cases of cancer and multiple sclerosis, some of them fatal. They wonder if contaminated land is to blame. The residents prompted the EPA research by issuing complaints.

"After receiving concerns from the community, EPA initiated a site assessment to determine if there is a risk posed to human health and the environment by actual or potential releases of hazardous substances at or near the former Norwood Landfill and if there is a need for additional action," said a statement issued to Action News by EPA spokesperson Terri White.

In addition to the old Norwood Landfill, Action News has learned that there were other businesses that engaged in activity involving chemicals in that area. They include a company that made vaccines and a company that made coal tar products.

Weston Solutions prepared a study for the EPA on that area in February 2018. That study found substances including PCBs, arsenic, and benzopyrene (BaP) in soil samples.

Action News researched information on the substances and found that PCBs can cause both cancer and nervous system damage. Benzopyrene can both cause cancer and nervous system damage.

The EPA says while the investigation is ongoing to determine if this should be declared a superfund site that needs to de decontaminated,.

"We've not found any contamination that would warrant the site being placed on the national priorities list that was the premise of this investigation," EPA Site Assessment Manager Joe Ditello.

"The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Pennsylvania Department of Health will also provide a public health consultation report in 2020 that will include community concerns related to cancer and multiple sclerosis," said White in the statement.

"EPA will continue to work alongside community members to inform them of future next steps until and after the final site assessment is completed."

They expect to have the final conclusions by the end of the year.

NORWOOD, Pa. (CBS) -- The Environmental Protection Agency released its findings from an investigation into a possible cancer cluster in Norwood, Delaware County. But residents don't but what they were told.

Residents left Thursday's meeting not feeling very comforted with the preliminary results of the soil and water testing.

The EPA says residents' health is not at risk in Norwood but residents say they beg to differ.

"To hear that there's no correlation here, I can't buy that. There is something here that is causing us to be sick," one resident said.

Frustrations boiled over at a community meeting to address the health concerns in Norwood.

Residents believe the high amount of cancers and autoimmune illnesses that are being diagnosed in their community is linked to the former Norwood landfill.

"Were any testing done on the plant life that we have eaten and fed our children?" asked one resident.

The answer to that question is no. But according to the EPA, the preliminary soil and water test results show no health risks to the community.

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"We've not found any contamination to warrant the site being placed on the national priorities list. That was the premise of this investigation," said EPA Site Assessment Manager Joseph Vitello.

It's important to note the results from the tests do not include the dump. The EPA says they did not know where it was but will test the soil from the dump in early 2020.

"We conduct our investigations as best we can and we're working to establish whether or not there is an environmental component to this. Just simply right now, the data doesn't support it," Vitello said.

Residents left the Norwood fire hall with more questions than answers but one thing is for certain -- this community will continue to fight.

"This isn't stopping here! It took Philadelphia three years to pressure you people to declare the lower Darby creek area, and this area was left out. Well, guess what? You had a fight then, you've got a fight now!" one woman said.

A toxicologist with the EPA says cancer rates run higher in white communities -- Norwood is predominately white.

The map below shows cases of cancer in blue and cases of multiple sclerosis in red.

Evolution of the Norwood procedure has culminated in there currently being three treatment strategies available for initial management: the ‘classical’ Norwood (utilizing a Blalock-Taussig shunt), the Norwood with right-ventricle to pulmonary artery (RV-PA) conduit, and the ‘hybrid’ Norwood procedure utilizing bilateral pulmonary artery banding and ductal stenting. Each variant has its potential advantages and disadvantages, and this paper looks to examine the evidence in favor of each strategy, with emphasis on the supportive data for the RV-PA conduit. The ‘classical’ procedure has the benefit of the greatest accumulated surgical experience and avoids any incision into the ventricle. However, the diastolic run-off of the Blalock-Taussig shunt can cause hemodynamic instability and unpredictable coronary steal phenomenon. The RV-PA conduit has the advantage of maintaining diastolic pressure with a more stable postoperative course, but at the cost of a ventriculotomy that may have detrimental long-term sequelae. The ‘hybrid’ procedure has the advantage of avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass, but does not always secure coronary blood flow and has a high inter-stage morbidity and reintervention rate. The evidence shows that each technique may have its place in future management, and that treatment algorithms could emerge that direct the choice of procedure for specific patient groups.

Introduction

In the field of congenital heart disease, no procedure has undergone greater scrutiny and debate more than the Norwood operation over the past 15 years. Constant refinements in technique and peri-operative management have led to a dramatic improvement in outcomes that, in turn, have had widespread influence in advancing neonatal surgery and intensive care. Early mortality for the procedure has fallen from 25% to 30% in the early 1990s to just 5% to 10% in many contemporary series.1, 2, 3 The reasons behind this improvement are many-fold and it can be difficult to measure the true benefit of each refinement amongst constantly re-engineered management strategies.

The most significant developments in the past decade have been the emergence of the right-ventricle to pulmonary artery (RV-PA) conduit as an alternative source of pulmonary blood supply to the Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt, and the ‘Hybrid’ procedure of utilizing bilateral pulmonary artery banding and ductal stenting (Fig. 1).

Consequently, we are currently in a situation where three major treatment strategies co-exist: the ‘classical’ Norwood (utilizing a BT shunt), the RV-PA conduit, and the Hybrid procedure. This paper will discuss the evidence and rationale for each of these strategies, with a focus in the potential advantages of the RV-PA conduit, and will propose an algorithm for patient selection and operative strategy in hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).

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The Rationale for the RV-PA Conduit

Throughout the 1980s and through to the early 2000s, the definitive technique for the Norwood procedure utilized a BT shunt as the source of pulmonary blood flow. During this period, the outcomes steadily improved as experience accumulated and advancements were characterized by shorter bypass times, the use of smaller shunt sizes, and better manipulation of Qp:Qs in the intensive care, particularly in the use of systemic vasodilatation.4, 5, 6 However, even by the late 1990s the operative

The Randomized Study: The Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial

Prospective randomized trials are notoriously difficult to run in pediatric cardiac surgery, partly because of the number of cases necessary to stand up to meaningful statistical analysis. The Single Ventricle Reconstruction (SVR) trial, run by the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators in North America, has been an outstanding achievement and is one of the most remarkable triumphs of multi-center collaboration of the modern era.¹⁶ The trial successfully randomized 555 patients to either BT

Conventional Surgery Versus the Hybrid Procedure

The hybrid procedure has emerged over the past 10 years as an alternative to conventional surgery. It is an innovative concept that has the great advantage of avoiding cardio-pulmonary bypass, achieving a balanced circulation with bilateral pulmonary artery banding, atrial septostomy, and placement of a ductal stent (Fig. 1C). Comparison with conventional surgery is difficult because there is no Class I evidence and the procedure has generally been reserved for high-risk cases where the risks

Improvements in the RV-PA Conduits

There have been several proposed refinements to the RV-PA conduit technique that may further improve its outcomes.

Collating the Evidence: A Paradigm for the Management of HLHS

If a condition has three widely accepted operative techniques to treat it, then we can be certain that we have not yet found the perfect solution. Perhaps a less cynical interpretation would be to say that we need to recognize that HLHS forms a complex and highly variable spectrum, and that we now have the tools to apply different surgical approaches according to the specific morphology and physiology of the individual patient.

Despite the convincing evidence of the SVR trial, there remains

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