Saturday’s annual fair is designed to get people without health insurance to have annual screenings and checkups.
By: Scott Morgan
HIGHTSTOWN It is estimated that nearly 16 million Americans have diabetes. A third don’t even know they have it.
Statistics such as that highlight the need to ensure Americans without access to preventative checkups are kept healthy and alive.
To that end, the Hightstown-East Windsor Community Action Service Center and the Hispanic-American Medical Association of Central New Jersey will be hosting its third annual health fair at Hightstown High School Saturday.
The fair will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until 2 p.m.
The health fair is a free event designed to get people without health insurance to have annual screenings and checkups, said Jackie Rojas, CASC’s community nurse. The fair is open to everyone.
According to CASC, nearly 40 health-care services, such as St. Francis Medical Center of Trenton, Henry J. Austin Health Center of Princeton and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton, will be on hand to provide blood-pressure checks, glucose and cholesterol screenings, bone-density and body-fat checks, prostate and clinical breast exams, free consultations with doctors and eye exams.
Buses will provide free transportation to the fair from five different locations around the borough and East Windsor. Shuttles begin at 9:30 a.m. and will run every hour from the following locations:
Garden View, Building 11, Garden View Terrace;
Orchard Apartments, 103 G, One Mile Road;
East Windsor Princeton Arms, Dorchester Drive;
Windsor Castle Apartments, M8;
new CVS Pharmacy location in Twin Rivers.
The township’s Commission on Aging also will be providing free transportation for seniors who have signed up for the service.
Seniors who wish to enlist for transportation may call Amy Bauman at the East Windsor Senior Center at (609) 371-7192. Anyone interested in finding out more about the health fair may call Jackie Rojas at the CASC at (609) 443-4464.