SUNY Downstate to Hold Annual University Hospital of Brooklyn Health Fair May 16
May 1, 2015
Brooklyn, NY – SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s University Hospital of Brooklyn will hold its 29th annual community health fair, Saturday, May 16, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The fair is in recognition of National Hospital Week, whose theme this year is "Where Miracles Happen Every Day.” The event will take place in front of the hospital, at 445 Lenox Road, between E. 35th and E. 37th Streets, in East Flatbush.
National Hospital Week celebrates hospitals and the men and women who support the health of their communities through dedication and compassionate care. It also recognizes the miracles they help to make happen on a day-to-day basis, both large and small.
This year’s health fair will feature free health information and screenings – asthma, blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, prostate, hearing tests, vision and glaucoma screening, stroke screening, HIV testing, height and weight measurements, and clinical breast exams.
For women who are uninsured or under-insured ages 40-64 and who meet the eligibility criteria, free mammograms and Pap tests are available. For men and women ages 50-64 who are uninsured or underinsured, a free colon cancer FIT Kit stool test is also available.
There will be free refreshments, giveaways, and raffle gifts, as well as entertainment for people of all ages, including face painting, Zumba, a lion dance, pony rides, clowns, a DJ, chair and hand massages, and music. For more information call 718-270-3739 or 718-270-8846.
Please view the health fair flyer, here:
https://www.downstate.edu/communityhealth/pdf/2015/National%20Hospital%20Week%20Health%20Fair%20Flyer-2015.pdf
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.