HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS
The 12th Annual Family Festival: Cultural, health and Wellness on Sunday, September 8, 2019 at Union High School, men, women and children received free health screenings and exams.
Emergency Medical Services had to be activated on a few due to alarming high blood pressure.
Referrals to local hospitals and medical centers for further evaluations, treatment and management occurred throughout the activities. People received the latest on federal, state and local programs and services.
SERVED: OVER 155,000
HISTORY
In 1998 the first Family Health Festival was held at Church of St. Joseph of the Palisades in West New York, New Jersey, Save Latin America has hosted over 93 Family Festivals in over eleven cities in New Jersey and in the five (5) boroughs of New York City.
THANKS TO SLA HEALTH FAIR I AM ALIVE!
When Mrs. Maria Webster , a 81-year decided to go the Save Latin America Family Health Fair on September 9 in Union City with a fried, to receive the exams and services that Holy Name Medical Center was offering, she did not know that she was about to go through the scariest moment of her life.
“The nurse took my friend’s blood pressure, and then mine. I had it at 250/125; I was at the verge of a heart attack or a stroke. The nurse who save my life told me; you have to go to the hospital right now, and I did not want to go, but between her and Mr. Ed Torres, director of the program, they convinced me and took me to Holy Name, where Dr. Gastell admitted me and attend to me all weekend until I was out of danger. I am eternally grateful to Holy Name for saving my life.”
“Our community cannot stop attending these Health Fairs. They offer all these free services and that is very important. They saved my life”.
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