NOC and Lions Club Partner in Neighborhood Health Screening
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NOC and the Hilton Head Lions Club (Evening Group) will partner on May 7 and 8 to bring health screening to the Oaks Apartments and neighboring apartments on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.The NOC-Lions Club partnership program will be implemented through a two-day community-based screening in Hilton Head Island. The Mobile Health Unit will be stationed at the Oaks Apartment complex, but the project will target several neighborhoods including Oaks Apartments, Hilton Head Gardens, Sandalwood, Woodlake Apartments and other areas in Hilton Head where low-income families reside (e.g., Gum Tree Road, Squire Pope Road, Wild Horse Road, Baygal, and Spanish Wells). Roughly 3,000 to 5,000 people live in these distressed neighborhoods.
The program has two objectives:
(a)To educate and increase awareness among people about causes of vision loss, hearing loss, and hypertension, their consequences for quality of life, and ways to combat these health problems; and
(b) To provide free access to reliable health screenings, advice for follow-up remedial actions, and referral information. The health screenings will focus on the following:
Eyesight (including visual acuity, glaucoma, and refractive measurement)
Hearing
Hypertension
The goal of this program is to improve the health of people in distressed neighborhoods in Hilton Head Island through early detection and timely treatment of vision and hearing loss, and hypertension.
