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Pathways
Holds Free Community Event to Celebrate Minority Health
Month
Special to
The Truth
As part of Minority Health
Month, the Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB is holding a free
community event on Wednesday, April 6 that will feature
demonstrations about healthy cooking, shopping and exercise.
Free health screenings, information about smoking cessation,
giveaways and children’s activities also will be part of the
Minority Health Month event held from noon to 3 p.m.
Wednesday, April 6 at the Market on the Green grocery store,
1806 Madison Ave., Toledo.
The Hospital Council of
Northwest Ohio’s Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB helps connect
low-income pregnant women and adults with or at risk for
chronic diseases – including prediabetes, diabetes, high
blood pressure and other heart problems – to needed medical
care and social services. Community members participating in
the free April 6 event will be able to learn more about how
to improve their health, as well as what services Pathways
has available.
The Minority Health Month event
includes:
Cooking demonstrations by a
registered dietitian featuring healthy food found at Market
on the Green and recipe cards.
Grocery shopping tours
highlighting healthy food choices.
Exercise demonstrations,
including one specifically for pregnant women.
Blood pressure readings and A1C
tests performed by Mercy.
Children’s activities, including
coloring and reading.
Information about smoking
cessation services.
Gift cards for pre-registered
Pathways clients who participate in events and other
giveaways.
The community-wide Pathways care
coordination system helps address health disparities,
especially among pregnant African American women and other
groups in Lucas County. African American women are more than
twice as likely as white women to deliver a low birth weight
baby, the leading cause of infant mortality in Lucas County.
Chronic disease and associated risk factors also are a
concern for minorities and low-income residents in Lucas
County, where 49% of African Americans have high blood
pressure, 79% of Hispanics are overweight or obese, 33% of
African Americans are smokers, and 24% of adults making less
than $25,000 a year have diabetes, according to the
2013/2014 Lucas County Community Health Assessment.
For more information about
Pathways or the April 9 event, please contact Alishea Sutton
at 419-842-0800
or
asutton@hcno.org.
About the Hospital Council of
Northwest Ohio’s Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB
The Hospital Council of
Northwest Ohio’s Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB is a
community-wide care coordination system that connects
low-income pregnant women and adults with chronic diseases
to needed medical care and social services. Pathways has
several funding partners, including the Ohio Commission on
Minority Health, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Partnerships to Improve Community Health, and
Fostering Healthy Communities, a collaboration among Mercy
Health, ProMedica and the University of Toledo Medical
Center. For more information, please visit
hcno.org.
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