BAPS Charities aims to serve individuals, families and communities in need by providing high quality, low cost health care.
Annual health fairs are at the core of BAPS Charities’ medical services. Physicians and technicians regularly volunteer their expertise to provide medical care and advice to the increasing number of people who lack access to quality health care.
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Center |
Philadelphia, PA |
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Date |
May 20, 2012 |
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Number of Participants |
177 |
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Number of Physician volunteers |
7 |
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Number of Allied Health Professionals |
8 |
Services Provided
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Specialty |
Number of patients seen |
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Internal Medicine/ |
177 |
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Cardiology |
122 |
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Labs |
Number of tests |
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CBC |
177 |
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Basic metabolic panel |
177 |
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Lipid panel |
177 |
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Screening and Diagnostic Tests |
Number of tests |
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Blood pressure |
177 |
| Eye Exam | 177 |
| Diabetic/glucose screening | 177 |
| Freebies distributed |
Educational booklets and pamphlets:
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| Opinions | |
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I have been participating as a volunteer health professional at this particular annual health fair for over 7 years now. The health fair is well organized and helps many people in the community. Screening the health of people proactively and taking proactive care is valuable. Because many times we ignore health and something comes up and hits us so it is always better to take preventive care. So this is a program that will help quite a bit. I do think annual blood work and regular blood pressure checking are important because there are things like high blood pressure you wouldn’t feel unless it was tested. Everything ran very smoothly. The pre-registration really did work out nice. Everyone seemed to benefit from it.
St Mary Medical Center and BAPS Charities have a working partnership. In particular I participate at many BAPS Charities health events like Health Fairs and Pink Sari Women’s Health Workshops to improve community access to free mammograms for uninsured and underinsured women. |
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