Danbury Hospital’s Community  Health And Wellness Fairs

DANBURY — Danbury Hospital will conduct a Family Health & Safety Fair at the Danbury Fair Mall on Friday and Saturday, October 13 and October 14. The health fair takes place on the mall’s lower level from noon to 8 pm both days.

Come to the fair where more than 14 exhibitors offer a host of health education and disease prevention programs, including a breast cancer awareness month information center sponsored by the Community Cancer Collaborative.

Screenings to be conducted at the Danbury Hospital Family Health & Safety Fair include blood pressures, cardiac and stroke risk factor assessments, pulmonary function testing, and staff from the Danbury Visiting Nurse Association will offer a flu vaccination clinic.

Also at the fair, Danbury Hospital/Danbury Health Systems health care professionals will provide information about asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, smoking cessation, sleep disorders, nutrition for disease prevention, diabetes counseling, screening colonoscopy, weight loss surgery, trauma prevention, and children’s safety. Staff from physicians’ offices affiliated with the Danbury Office of Physicians Services also will be available to answer health care questions.

At the mall health fair visitors can learn about wellness information regarding women’s health, pregnancy and prepregnancy planning, newborn care, breastfeeding and formula feeding supported by staff from the Family Birth Center and Danbury Doula program.

And, especially for kids, Danbury Health Systems Emergency Medical Services will provide an emergency medical vehicle for inspection.

On Sunday, October 15, Danbury Hospital will participate at the Health and Community Resource Fair at Faith Church, 600 Danbury Road in New Milford.

This event takes place from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm, and featured participants from Danbury Hospital/Danbury Health Systems include the Danbury Visiting Nurse Association, Praxair Regional Heart & Vascular Center, Women’s Services, Children’s Services, Danbury Doula Program, Food & Nutrition Services, Center for Weight Loss Surgery, Praxair Cancer Center, and Danbury Diagnostic Imaging.

For more information about Danbury Hospital’s Family Health & Safety Fair at the Danbury Fair Mall on October 13 and October 14, or the Health and Community Resource Fair at Faith Church on October 15, call the marketing and public relations department at 797-7247.