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/


NEW BEDFORD
Saturday, May 3
Holy Name School
91 Summer Street, New Bedford
Health Screenings
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Thursday, May 8
Sovereign Bank
1 Sovereign Place, New Bedford
Blood Drive
8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Monday, May 12
Brandon Woods Nursing Home
567 Dartmouth Street, New Bedford
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

DARTMOUTH
Wednesday, May 14
Hawthorn Cancer Center
535 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth
Blood Drive
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Thursday, May 15
Taber Street Nursing/Rehab Center
19 Taber Street, New Bedford
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Saturday, May 17
Brooklawn Park
Acushnet Avenue, New Bedford
Health Screenings
1 to 5 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD
Wednesday, May 21
Jewish Convalescent Home
200 Hawthorn Street, New Bedford
Blood Drive & Health Screenings
8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

DARTMOUTH
Wednesday, May 28
Hawthorn Country Club
970 Tucker Road, Dartmouth
Health Screenings
6 to 9 p.m.

DARTMOUTH
Saturday, May 31
Center for Women’s Health
Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth
Health Screenings
9 a.m. to Noon

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

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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