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Each month, Crozer-Keystone hosts a wide variety of community health events. For your convenience, we have listed upcoming community events with links to flyers about the events. Feel free to click on the links, print the flyers (in PDF format), and post them-on your refrigerators, at your church or synagogue or share them with your friends-then attend these interesting and helpful FREE lectures-and bring a friend!
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May 2010
(Please click on the links below for additional information.)
CKHS Special Events
Dining at Dusk
CKHS Lecture Series
CKHS Screenings
CKHS Special Events
For a listing of our special events, please visit our Community Calendar at http://calendar.crozer.org.
Spring Into Good Health, Saturday, May 8, 9 a.m.-noon, A Guide to health Issue for Women of All Ages, to be held at the Springfield Country Club, 400 W. Sproul Rd., Springfield. Registration is at 8:30 a.m.; continental breakfast served 8:30-10 a.m. Free raffles and giveaways from CKHS; lectures by CKHS physicians on menopause; lung and colorectal cancer prevention; breast augmentation, reduction and reconstruction; genetics; foot problems; sleep disorders; breast health; urinary incontinence; and gynecologic cancers; informational tables and much more.
Download, print and post the flyer about the Spring Into Good Health event for women.
Registration is required. For more information or to register, call 610-284-8158.
Sleep Disorders Education and Support Group, to be held from 6-7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every other month, starting January 5, 2010 in the First Floor Conference Room at Springfield Hospital. Additional meetings will be held on May 4, July 6, September 7 and November 2. If you think you have a sleep disorder or have already been diagnosed, plan to attend this support group. Participants will share positive and negative experiences, new ideas, and support with others who are experiencing similar symptoms.
Download, print and post the flyer about the Sleep Disorder Support Group
For information or to register, contact 1-888-SLEEP-03 (1-888-753-3703).
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Dining at Dusk
Crozer-Keystone's Senior Health Services Department presents the following free lectures geared just for seniors.
May 11
“Why Are You At Risk? A Conversation about Stroke” **
Presented by Suzanne Jenkins, CKHS Evidence-Based
Medicine Coordinator
S.H., Café Carl
5-7 p.m.
Meal costs $6.00 and includes entrée, dessert and a fountain drink. Free parking.
(Menu will include open-faced roast beef sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed vegetables, tossed salad, a dinner roll, dessert, and coffee, tea or a fountain drink.)
May 12
“A Walk Around The Brain: Understanding the Risk Factors of Stroke” **
Featuring Joseph Lubeck, D.O., chief of the Section
of Neurology at DCMH, and Maureen DePrince,
DCMH stroke coordinator
DCMH, Cafeteria
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Meal costs $6.00 and includes entrée, roll, and
choice of two sides, dessert and a fountain drink. Free parking.
For more information or to register, call 1-800-CK-HEALTH (1-800-254-3258).
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CKHS Lecture Series
May 4
“Sports Safety for Kids” **
Featuring Steven Collina, M.D., chief of the Division
of Sports Medicine at CKHS
Springfield Library, Downstairs Meeting Room
70 Powell Rd., Springfield
6:30 p.m.
May 11
“If You Don’t Snooze, You Lose” **
Featuring Asad Khan, M.D., Crozer-Keystone
pulmonologist and medical director of the
Crozer-Keystone Sleep Center at Brinton Lake
Springfield Library, Downstairs Meeting Room
70 Powell Rd., Springfield
7 p.m.
May 13
“Why Are You At Risk? A Conversation about Stroke”
Featuring Suzanne Jenkins, CKHS Evidence Based
Medicine Coordinator
Media Borough Hall, Mansion Parlor Room
5:30 p.m.
May 17
“The Weekend Warrior: Common Knee Injuries in
Recreational Athletes” **
Featuring Anne Colton, M.D., CKHS
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Marple Public Library, Downstairs Meeting Room
2599 Sproul Rd., Broomall
6 p.m.
May 19
“What Causes Vascular Disease? You May
Be Surprised By the Answer!”
Featuring Gregory Domer, M.D., CKHS
Vascular Surgeon
B.L., Community Room
1 p.m.
For more information or to register, please call 1-800-CK-HEALTH (1-800-254-3258).
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