For immediate release: October 15, 2007
Contact: Mark Levine, Senior Director
Office 702-671-6455
Mobile 702-818-9842
mlevine@medicine.nevada.edu
University of Nevada School of Medicine offers Community Health Day
LAS VEGAS, Nev.— “Something for Everyone” is the theme for the University of Nevada School of Medicine’s Community Health Day scheduled for November 3 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
University Health System, the clinical practice of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, will host the event at the Family Medicine Clinic located at 2410 Fire Mesa Street (between Buffalo and Tenaya Way) in Las Vegas.
Free flu shots for the first 100 visitors will be provided. Thereafter flu shots will be available for $20. Free health screenings for hypertension, hearing, body mass index, obesity, and free chair massages will be available. Guests will learn more about diabetes, obesity and healthy lifestyle choices, pediatrics, smoking cessation programs, organ donation, women’s health issues and autism. Representatives from World Doc Foundation, AARP, RESEP, American Lung Association, Senior Support Services, and Lili Claire Foundation will be on hand to provide information about their organizations.
Kids can play in a bounce house and take part in a fitness course. Las Vegas Police and Fire will attend, as will McGruff the Crime Dog and COSMO, the Las Vegas 51’s mascot. Retinal scans for children will be offered by Metro Police Department.
Participating media include Greenspun Media, KVMY/KVCM Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Israelite. KDOX Radio Fox News 1280 will be broadcasting their morning programming live from the site.
Healthy refreshments will be provided Caffe Gelato, COSTCO, Great Harvest Bread Company, and Diabetic Delights. In addition, door prizes will be provided.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.