The primary annual Fountain Hills Group Well being Honest is scheduled for Saturday, February 11, the place guests can study native well being suppliers.
Held on the FHUSD Studying Middle from 10 am to 2 pm, the Group Well being Honest is full with eight well being care supplier cubicles and three cellular well being models together with the Vitalant Bloodmobile, Cellular Onsite Mammography (MOM) and Prostate On-Website Undertaking (POP), parked alongside the highschool bus lane.
Displays by native well being professionals will happen contained in the FHUSD Studying Middle in the course of the Well being Honest. The Studying Middle is situated at 16000 E. Palisades Blvd., adjoining to the highschool.
Displays embrace “Ditch Medication and Keep away from the Scalpel” at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm by Dr. Christopher R. Condon of Ally Backbone Middle; “Your Coronary heart and Your Well being” at 11:15 am by Dr. Mead of Fountain Hills Medical Middle; “The All-Pure Therapeutic Advantages of Purple Mild Remedy” at midday by Licensed Mild Therapist PJ Cardona of Lights and Well being and “A More healthy Me in 2023” at 12:45 pm by Vitamin Guide licensed, Debbie Romano of Fountain Hills Wholesome Heartbeats.
Sponsored by the Rotary Membership of 4 Peaks and run by Clason Communications proprietor Debbie Clason, the Fountain Hills Group Well being Honest is free and voluntary donations are accepted. Parking is obtainable on the FHUSD Studying Middle or highschool parking zone.
Clason’s thought to coordinate the primary Fountain Hills Group Well being Honest grew out of his years of expertise advertising a well being care system in Kokomo, Indiana.
Every year, Clason stated, 1000’s of residents and guests flock to the annual well being honest to study native healthcare suppliers and be proactive about their well being.
“All the pieces was very nicely attended and really nicely acquired,” Clason stated. “I feel it might be the identical right here in Fountain Hills.”
Based on Clason, the idea of well being care has expanded over time to incorporate issues that transcend merely visiting the physician’s workplace annually.
“What are you able to do every single day to remain nicely?” she stated. “It’s each preventative and reactive.”
Funds raised from sponsorships and donations raised on the occasion shall be used to determine a brand new Group Well being and Wellness Fund. Initiated by the 4 Peaks Rotary Basis, the brand new well being and wellness fund shall be used for neighborhood members in want.
“Sure [FHUSD Superintendent] Dr. J calls and says, ‘Hey, we’ve a 3rd grader who wants glasses and the household cannot afford them,’ so we will simply take that request to the inspiration and get funding and pay the optometrist or ophthalmologist, whoever that no matter, and get that child some glasses,” Clason stated.
The identical goes for adults and seniors, Clason added, saying that if a scenario arises the place an individual cannot afford their remedy, the Group Well being and Welfare Fund is there to bridge the hole till they get nicely.
Trying forward, Clason is hopeful that this occasion will change into a wholesome annual gathering in Fountain Hills.
“I feel good well being is essential to the neighborhood,” Clason stated. “The extra instruments we’ve and the extra we apply them, the more healthy we shall be.”
To register for Vitalant Bloodmobile, name 877-258-4825. For MOM name 480-957-3767 and for POP name 480-954-3013.