With a multitude of accolades to its name, it should come as no surprise that Methodist Hospitals went above and beyond the general care one can find at one of their medical locations.
Methodist Hospitals hosted their Fall Community Health Fair this Saturday, offering many beneficial opportunities. From 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. at St. Peter and Paul Macedonian Banquet Hall in Crown Point, free health screenings for body mass index, cholesterol, glucose, PSA, breast health, bone density, blood pressure, and heart attack and stroke risk were offered. With 54 different booths, services such as Ask-A-Surgeon, HIP 2.0 enrollment, and balance tests were offered as well. Spending just a short amount of your time, you could learn information on behavioral health, acupuncture, oxymetry, dental care, and so much more. Attendees could also enter to win prizes including Walgreens gift cards and a Samsung 40-inch flat screen HDTV.
President and CEO of Methodist Hospitals Raymond Grady said, “Methodist Hospitals demonstrates its commitment to improving community health through a wide array of community outreach programs, including dozens of regular screenings programs, support groups and clinics, educational seminars led by physicians and other clinical experts as well as free community health fairs such as the Fall Community Health Fair.”
The Lake County Sheriff’s Department hosted a booth at the event. “We’re here to promote health inside of the household, “ said Sergeant Yolanda Brown, security for the Behavioral Health Unit. The department’s booth included information on internet safety, bullying prevention, and gun safety. They also offered free gun locks to families who kept firearms in their home. “We do this for the children in the home. Gun locks are a way for families to make their home much safer,” said Brown.
For over 20 years, Methodist Hospitals has been hosted health fairs.
“Every year we have more health vendors who want to use our fair as a way to give out information to the community,” said Evelyn Morrison, Marketing & Corporate Communications Manager for Methodist Hospitals. “People are becoming more educated about their health. They are asking a lot of questions because they want to become healthier. They use the fair as a way to further educate themselves by visiting booths such as Ask-A-Doctor.”
With hundreds of guests utilizing all the Fall Community Health Fair had to offer, Methodist Hospitals was able to do exactly what they had hoped: provide compassionate, quality health care services to all those in need.
“There are a lot of nice, friendly people here that are eager to create a good health benefit for the community,” said attendee Linda Sredzinski.