by Mike Bush
Outside the Boys & Girls Club, medical personnel in the Blue Cross-Blue Shield RV were running electrocardiograms.
Registered Nurse Jacob Casey of Roswell Regional Hospital checks the blood pressure of Hazel Shepherd, hospital education coordinator, at the Roswell Regional booth at the Community Health Fair Saturday at the Boys & Girls Club.
Inside the gymnasium, Dr. Fundador Adajar and nurse practitioner Julie Jones, both from The Heart Institute, were interpreting results and making a list of people who, based on test results, needed to schedule a visit to a doctor for a checkup.
Dr. Fundador Adajar, left, cardiologist with The Heart Institute, holds Jack Batson’s electrocardiogram as the two discuss it during the Community Health Fair at the Boys & Girls Club Saturday.
The occasion was the Boys & Girls Club’s annual Community Health Fair Saturday, sponsored by the Chaves County Health Planning Council, Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, Roswell Regional Hospital, Eastern New Mexico Medical Center and the New Mexico Department of Health. The club parking lot remained full as many Roswell residents showed up for free health checks and free information on locally offered medical services.
Roswell Regional Hospital nurses were on hand at the hospital’s table to check blood pressure.
At other tables, blood sugar was being measured, as was body-mass index, a ratio indicating the percentage of fat to muscle in a body.
Physicians, physician’s assistants, nurses and medical office personnel manned tables in the room, offering health advice and providing information on services offered at the hospitals and associated medical groups.
Other booths represented the NMDOH, Roswell Public Health, Income Support Division of the New Mexico Human Services Department, Chaves County Court Appointed Special Advocates, Region 4 Children’s Medical Cervices, the Roswell Literacy Council, Frontier Medical, Roswell Home Health Care and Agape Home Care.
At the Roswell Regional Hospital tables, hospital education coordinator Hazel Shepherd and other hospital employees were handing out bandages, packages of wipes and pedometers.
CONTACT: Mike Bush, 575-317-6249