Alta View Hospital will be hosting a free community health fair on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the hospital, which is located at 9660 South 1300 East in Sandy.
Everyone — including adults, teenagers, and children — is invited to come learn more about being healthy, have fun together, and see the services offered at Alta View Hospital.
A summary of what you can do at the health fair:
- Get free or low-cost health screenings including free blood pressure checks, vision acuity and glaucoma screenings. Reduced price cholesterol ($15, lipid) and diabetes screenings ($5) and PSA tests to screen for prostate cancer ($15) are also available. (For accurate results, please come fasting for the cholesterol and diabetes screening tests.)
- Sign up for Slim Down Sandy. Slim Down Sandy, sponsored by Alta View and the Healthy Sandy Partnership, is a 10-week program designed to help residents of Sandy and others increase their daily activity, become nutritionally conscious, improve their health, and lose weight. Everyone who enters gets a free pedometer, and everyone who completes the program will be entered into a drawing for great prizes from local merchants.
- Catch up on immunizations. Immunization Express (formerly Immunization Care-A-Van) will be providing immunizations. Immunizations for children up to 18 years of age are $10 if you qualify under federal guidelines. If you’re insured, Immunization Express may be able to bill your insurance.
- Get information about medications. A pharmacist will be on hand to help answer questions about medications you’re taking or considering.
- Take an interactive look at surgical procedures. Kids and adults can get a fun, interactive, close-up look at surgical procedures such as lap-banding, total joint surgery, bone surgery, and other surgeries.
- Check out a Life Flight helicopter or a fire truck and more. One of Intermountain Healthcare’s Life Flight medical transport helicopters will be on hand at the fair. Also, representatives from Sandy City’s police and fire departments will provide safety information. A number of police and fire vehicles will be on display in the parking lot.
- Take part in interactive games and displays including a fun hand-washing station that helps you see how well you wash your hands.
- Sign up for prize drawings for free calcium scoring tests, mammograms, and gift baskets.
“We’re excited for this year’s health fair. Two of our goals for the health fair are to offer free and reduced price screenings and give members of the community an opportunity to see what we do at Alta View,” says Becky Kapp, the hospital’s administrator. “We offer many services that help keep people healthy and safe. This is a great opportunity for families to come and see what we do and see how we benefit everyone who lives in the southern part of the Salt Lake valley.”
For more information about the health fair, please call 801-501-2795.