Free Diabetic Screenings Offered At Brookhaven Town Hall July 29

Press release from the Town of Brookhaven:

July 25, 2022

On Friday, July 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Town of Brookhaven will be sponsoring a free diabetic screenings and education services event with Sun River Health and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County (CCE Suffolk) in the parking lot of Brookhaven Town Hall, located at 1 Independence Hill in Farmingville.

Sun River Health’s Mobile Diabetes Screening Clinic is equipped with air conditioning and two private exam rooms. Their staff will offer a simple blood test, hemoglobin A1C, that measures your average blood sugar levels over the past 3 months. Results will take approximately 5 minutes. A Registered Dietician (RD) from the CCE Suffolk Diabetes Program will be available to meet one-on-one to review your test results and entertain your diabetes related questions and a nutritionist from SNAP-Education will be demonstrating a tasty, budget friendly recipe, while sharing healthy eating tips, resources and healthy recipes.

For further information please contact Samantha Gleeson, Public Health RN, at (845) 745-4751 or email sagleeson@sunriver.org.

This press release was produced by the Town of Brookhaven. The views expressed here are the author's own.