A Summary of 2015 FREE Community Health Fairs
By John Peck | November 28, 2015
In 2015, the New Life Community Health Center saw 304 patients in 7 free health fairs conducted on seven different occasions and in six different neighborhoods. This summer’s activities continues a tradition every year for the last 15 years, of taking health care to the community, rather than simply maintaining care through our central location in Elmhurst, Queens.
Patients represented the following forty-four different countries of origin.
| Argentina |
| Australia |
| Bangladesh |
| Bhutan |
| Bolivia |
| Bulgaria |
| Cambodia |
| Chile |
| China |
| Colombia |
| Dominican Republic |
| Ecuador |
| Egypt |
| Georgia |
| Guatemala |
| India |
| Indonesia |
| Iran |
| Israel |
| Italy |
| Jamaica |
| Kazakhstan |
| Lithuanian |
| Malaysia |
| Mexico |
| Morroco |
| Nepali |
| Pakistan |
| Peru |
| Philippines |
| Poland |
| Puerto Rico |
| Romania |
| Russia |
| Spain |
| Taiwan |
| Thailand |
| Tibet |
| Ukraine |
| United Kingdom United States |
| Uzbekistan |
| West Indies |
| Yugoslavia |
This year’s health fairs, as have health fairs in recent years, involved utilizing medical workers supplied by other partnering organizations. It demonstrates a growing partnership relationship between the clinic and the communities they serve, and the ability of NLCHC to ‘branch out’ beyond Elmhurst/Queens. In Brooklyn, medical workers supplied by Chosen People Ministries at the two Brighton Beach, Brooklyn health fairs, and medical volunteers associated with Queens Bible Church in Glendale, Queens and St. James Episcopal Church in one of the Elmhurst/Queens health fairs, participated in patient assessments.
Patient assessments in our public health fairs usually involves a few free medical checks, such as height and weight/body mass, visual acuity (an eyesight reading such as 20/20), blood pressure, blood sugar, blood oxygen level, total cholesterol readings (when weather permits the use of those sensitive machines outdoors), overall consultations from the results, and referrals to other medical professionals where situations apply.
In the 15 years that NLCHC has been doing free health fairs in various venues, 4,444 people at 87 health fairs have been seen in 10 New York City neighborhoods, for an average of 51 people seen at each health fair. And all for free. Back