NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - The Southcoast Health Van provides free education and screenings for the community addressing cardiac disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. It also serves as an off-site blood donation center for the Southcoast Blood Bank.

Primary services offered on the van include health screenings, blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, vaccines, pregnancy testing, educational teen programs, medical physical referrals and health education. Tetanus diphtheria (Td) and Pneumococcal Vaccine are also offered.

The van is wheelchair accessible. For screening information, please call 508-679-7131 or for blood drives call 508-961-5320 or visit www.southcoast.org/van/.

In case of inclement weather the van will be canceled. Check Southcoast's cancellation website for up-to-date information http://www.southcoast.org/news/cancellations/

FALL RIVER
Saturday, April 5
YMCA
199 North Main Street, Fall River
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

FALL RIVER
Thursday, April 10
Family Services of Greater Fall River
151 Rock Street, Fall River
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Friday, April 11
YMCA
25 South Water Street, New Bedford
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
5 to 8 p.m.

WAREHAM
Saturday, April 12
YMCA
33 Charge Pond Road, Wareham
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

FALL RIVER
Thursday, April 17
Webster Bank
Sponsored by Division of Public Health
33 Sullivan Drive, Fall River
Blood Drive
8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

FALL RIVER
Friday, April 18
Charlton Memorial Hospital
363 Highland Avenue, Fall River
Blood Drive
8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
 
NEW BEDFORD
Tuesday, April 22
Whaler’s Cove
114 Riverside Avenue, New Bedford
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

WESTPORT
Thursday, April 24
The Cedars (Health Fair)
628 Old Westport Road, Westport
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

WAREHAM
Friday, April 25
Wal-Mart
3005 Cranberry Highway, Wareham
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Tuesday, April 29
Building 19
19 Hathaway Road, New Bedford
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.


The Southcoast Health Van travels throughout towns across the South Coast region on nearly a daily basis offering some 4,000 residents a year free health screenings, education and blood donation abilities.

Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham. For more information visit www.southcoast.org.
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Southcoast Health System

Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of advanced health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast has more than 40 ancillary facilities, including the Southcoast Health Van, home health care, hospice and infusion services, numerous outpatient medical services, an assisted living facility and a wellness center. For more information visit www.southcoast.org.

Southcoast is one of three community hospitals approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to perform open heart surgery and primary angioplasty beginning in Spring 2002.

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