3/19/2015

The community is invited to the “Spring into Health” Open House on Thurs., April 9 from Noon – 5 p.m. at Home Nursing Agency’s office, 129 S. Main St., Lewistown (in the Kish Creek Center).

“We live in this community. We work in this community,” shares Christine Watts, Home Nursing Agency Hospice patient care supervisor. “We want to host this Open House to share all the resources we have available right here in the Mifflin and Juniata County area.”

A variety of free screenings and demonstrations will be offered, including the following: blood pressure checks and balance screenings by Home Nursing Agency, home medical equipment and assistive device demonstrations by Home Health Resource; stroke screening by Health South Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital; oxygen saturation by PRN Medical Staffing of Lewistown; demonstration regarding body fat by Curves of Lewistown; ambulance walk-through by FAME Emergency Medical Services and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) demonstration by the Geisinger Lewistown CHF Navigator.

Attendees will be able to enjoy free refreshments and a chance to win door prizes from those vendors above, as well as other community resource providers, including Barr Funeral Home, Elmcroft of Reedsville, Geisinger Lewistown Hospital Cancer Navigator and Dietician, Lewistown Health and Fitness, Lewistown School of Nursing, Locust Grove Skilled Nursing Facility and Rehab, Meadowview Manor Personal Care Community and Pink Connection.

Home Nursing Agency has been serving Mifflin County since 2009 with programs for people of all ages. The Agency offers home health care, hospice care and grief support, private duty home care, Pediatric Home Connection for medically fragile children and Home Health Resource for home medical equipment/assistive devices.

Click here to see the poster for the event.

For more information about the Spring into Health Open House or Home Nursing Agency services, please call 1-800-445-6262.