Healthy Community Coalition Mobile Health Unit Outreach

September schedule of events

Farmington ¾

 

The Healthy Community Coalition of Greater Franklin County (HCC) announces its September schedule for Mobile Health Unit outreach events. Staff will be offering services such as blood pressure and cholesterol checks; body composition analysis; information on cancer prevention, nutrition, physical activity and tobacco; one-on-one health counseling; and information and assistance on the Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program and other health assistance programs.

 

The Mobile Health Unit will be offering health screenings on the following dates: Tuesday, Sept. 3, Tranten’s Store in Farmington ; Sept. 6, Edmunds Market in Phillips; Sept. 10, Tranten’s Store in Kingfield; Tuesday, Sept. 13, IGA in Rangeley; Sept. 15-21 at the Farmington Fair (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.); and Tuesday, Sept. 27, town office in Eustis. Services will be provided from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

 

All services are offered free thanks to funding from the following: Avon Foundation, Healthy Maine Partnership, Helen & George Ladd Foundation, Maine Community Foundation, United Way of the Tri-Valley Area, and US CDC Community Transformation Grant.

 

Donations are accepted. For more information, contact Janis Walker, HCC program manager, at 779-2750 or jwalker@fchn.org.