Med Beat: Health Wagon sets free health fair for March
This story was reported with the support of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism.
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The Lee County Regional Medical Center in Pennington Gap was closed by Wellmont Health System in 2013. The hospital authority in 2017 partnered with Americore Health to reopen it. That partnership is coming to an end. The hospital authority is now in talks with Ballad Health.
(Photo Credit: Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times)
The Health Wagon will host a health fair offering free exams and and testing on March 6 in Wise and on March 7 in Clintwood.
Participants will be offered physical exams; lab work that includes cholesterol levels, PSAs, blood sugar and pap smears. Vision and hearing exams will be offered, as well as prostate exams, ankle ; cholesterol checks, PSAs, blood sugar checks, pap smears, vision testing, hearing exams, prostate exams, ankle brachial tests, pulmonology consults, lung-function testing and cardiovascular-risk screenings, massages and chiropractic services.
The Health Wagon said in a news release that ultrasound and chest x-ray will also be offered.
Information in enrolling in Virginia's expanded Medicaid program will also be available.
The health fairs will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Zion Family Ministries in Wise on March 6 and at EnerVest, Happy Valley in Clintwood on March 7.
Those planning to have lab work should not eat or drink after midnight.
[This story was originally published by The Roanoke Times.]