Community Health Fair planned | Local News

Displays from native healthcare professionals might be given contained in the FHUSD Studying Heart all through the Well being Truthful. The Studying Heart is positioned at 16000 E. Palisades Blvd., adjoining to the highschool.

Displays embody “Ditch the Medicine and Skip the Scalpel” at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. by Dr. Christopher R. Condon of Ally Backbone Heart; “Your Coronary heart and Your Well being” at 11:15 a.m. by Dr. Mead of Fountain Hills Medical Heart; “The All-Pure Therapeutic Advantages of Pink Gentle Remedy” at midday by Licensed Gentle Therapist, PJ Cardona of Lights and Well being and “A More healthy Me in 2023” at 12:45 p.m. by Licensed Vitamin Marketing consultant, Debbie Romano of Fountain Hills Wholesome Heartbeats.

Sponsored by the 4 Peaks Rotary Membership and led by proprietor of Clason Communications, Debbie Clason, the Fountain Hills Neighborhood Well being Truthful is free to attend and free-will donations are accepted. Parking is accessible on the FHUSD Studying Heart or in the highschool parking zone.

Clason’s thought for coordinating the primary Fountain Hills Neighborhood Well being Truthful stemmed from her years of expertise advertising and marketing for a healthcare system in Kokomo, Ind.

Yearly, Clason stated 1000’s of residents and guests streamed into the annual well being truthful to study native well being service suppliers and to be proactive about their well being.

“It was all very effectively attended and really effectively obtained,” Clason stated. “I believe it could possibly be the identical right here in Fountain Hills.”

Based on Clason, the idea of healthcare has expanded through the years to incorporate issues above and past merely visiting the physician’s workplace every year.

“What are you able to do every day to maintain your self effectively?” she stated. “It’s as a lot preventative as it’s reactive.”

Funds raised by sponsorships and donations which are collected on the occasion might be used to ascertain a brand new Neighborhood Well being and Wellness Fund. Initiated by the 4 Peaks Rotary Basis, the brand new well being and wellness fund might be used for neighborhood members in want.

“If [FHUSD Superintendent] Dr. J calls and says, ‘Hey, we’ve obtained a 3rd grader who wants glasses and the household can’t afford it,’ then we will simply take that request to the muse and get it funded and pay the optometrist or the ophthalmologist, whoever it might be, and get that little one some glasses,” Clason stated.

The identical goes for adults and senior residents, Clason added, saying if a state of affairs arises when a person is unable to pay for his or her drugs, the Neighborhood Well being and Wellness Fund is there to bridge the hole till they’re again on their toes.

Wanting forward, Clason is hopeful that this occasion will turn out to be an annual, wholesome gathering in Fountain Hills.

“I believe good well being is essential for the neighborhood,” Clason stated. “The extra instruments that we’ve got and the extra we apply them, the more healthy we’ll be.”

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