Health screenings offered in November
Karla Hammac
Issue date: 10/30/09 Section: News
The Campus Recreation and Fitness Center will host a Fall Health Check Nov. 4 and 5 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. The health check will take place in the Fitness Center. A blood screening will take place in Room 216, and a vascular screening will be in Room 214.
Cookeville Regional Medical Center is partnering with Campus Recreation and the Fitness Center to offer the health check. Phlebotomists from Cookeville Regional Medical Center will be administering the blood screening. The blood tests that can be performed include comprehensive chemistry profile for $15, lipid profile for $10, thyroid panel for $40, prostate specific antigen for $15, and complete blood count for $10.
"This is an affordable service, and all of the money goes to the hospital," Ramona Pennington, Health Promotions Coordinator, said. The health check is open to all students, staff, alumni and family of alumni. Vascular screening tests that can be performed include stroke screening/carotid artery for $45, abdominal aneurysm screening for $45, Peripheral Arterial Disease Screening for $58, and a discounted complete vascular package for $125.
"The health check has actually saved people's lives," Pennington said. "A man practically diagnosed his own cancer, because he saw his own numbers rapidly change and took his results to his doctor," Pennington explained.
Fasting is required 12 hours before the comprehensive or lipid profile blood is drawn. And patients are not to eat two hours before the abdominal aneurysm.
For more information, call (931) 372-6511.
Cookeville Regional Medical Center is partnering with Campus Recreation and the Fitness Center to offer the health check. Phlebotomists from Cookeville Regional Medical Center will be administering the blood screening. The blood tests that can be performed include comprehensive chemistry profile for $15, lipid profile for $10, thyroid panel for $40, prostate specific antigen for $15, and complete blood count for $10.
"This is an affordable service, and all of the money goes to the hospital," Ramona Pennington, Health Promotions Coordinator, said. The health check is open to all students, staff, alumni and family of alumni. Vascular screening tests that can be performed include stroke screening/carotid artery for $45, abdominal aneurysm screening for $45, Peripheral Arterial Disease Screening for $58, and a discounted complete vascular package for $125.
"The health check has actually saved people's lives," Pennington said. "A man practically diagnosed his own cancer, because he saw his own numbers rapidly change and took his results to his doctor," Pennington explained.
Fasting is required 12 hours before the comprehensive or lipid profile blood is drawn. And patients are not to eat two hours before the abdominal aneurysm.
For more information, call (931) 372-6511.
The Oracle encourages on-topic, civil discussion on its articles posted online. It is our policy not to screen comments before they are posted or edit them after they are posted. However, we reserve the right to remove comments that are off-topic, malicious, libelous or include excessive foul language. The Oracle also reserves the right to turn off all comments on any story it deems necessary.
Comments violating copyright law will also be removed.
Users who repeatedly violate this policy will be banned from commenting.
If you have any questions on our comment policy or wish to report a comment that you feel violates these standards, please e-mail a link to the article to our Web Editor at wahousley21@tntech.edu.
Be the first to comment on this story