Community Connections
What is it?The Citizens Memorial Hospital (CMH) Senior Health Center offers health and fitness-related services designed for individuals 55 and older. Membership is free; services include open pool time and hot tub use, exercise equipment, exercise classes, strength-building classes, blood pressure…
What is it?During National Poison Prevention Week, the hospital’s pharmacy staff visits schools and educates children about the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. Students are challenged to do a home survey with their parents to help eliminate unnecessary poison from the home. The class…
What is it?MOVE! is an exercise and weight management curriculum designed by and for military veterans. Each veteran completes a physical fitness assessment and is given a pedometer and a punch card for 25 free visits to the rural area’s fitness facility. MOVE! meets twice weekly for eight weeks.…
What is it?Crestwood Medical Center’s Maternity Center was the presenting local sponsor of Huntsville’s first Babypalooza on Sept. 28, 2013. From health services to childcare centers to boutique shopping, moms were able to find everything they needed under one roof, in one day. In addition to baby…
What is it?Widowed Persons Outreach, founded in 1992, is a free community service sponsored by Sibley Memorial Hospital in partnership with IONA Senior Services, Capital Hospice, William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing and Joseph Gawler’s Sons, Inc. Program volunteers have been widowed themselves…
What is it?Continuing its longstanding tradition of community outreach, the Heart & Vascular Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center hosted its annual Heart Health Fair to increase awareness of heart disease, promote positive lifestyle behaviors and identify risk factors. The daylong…
What is it?People Living Active Year-Round (PLAY) was developed to teach individuals how to PLAY and learn how to stay motivated. PLAY mixes physical activities such as jumping rope, doing the Hula Hoop and playing catch with a Frisbee, along with working out with resistance bands, some simple…
What is it?The Developmental Support Project (DSP) promotes improved developmental care and outcomes for children seen by Saint Anthony Hospital-affiliated physicians. DSP provides: (1) free training and technical assistance on best practices to pediatricians and family practice physicians to…
What is it?The Center for Attention and Learning (CAL) provides neuropsychological evaluations for children with attention and learning disorders, with a particular focus on children from low-income families. Referrals are received primarily through city agencies, individuals, pediatricians and…
What is it?Rally4Recovery is an annual festival celebrating recovery from addiction and mental illness. Roger Williams Medical Center hosted the kickoff event and unveiled the 2013 Recovery Quilt. Each square is made by a current or former participant in the hospital’s Addiction Medicine and…