HealthFair Expo attracts 4,000 visitors Personnel from Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center handed out information about its many programs to community attendees at the HealthFair Expo 2000, held Sunday, November 5. Other exhibits offered educational information on first aid, organ donation, women's health, cardiac care, and disaster preparedness. As one of the 64 booths at Loma Linda University Medical Center's HealthFair Expo 2000, adult day services volunteers offered free information and samples of Ensure. Nearly 4,000 visitors also had the opportunity for blood pressure, body fat, vision, and osteoporosis screenings. There was seldom an empty chair at the Loma Linda University Medical Center Rehabilitation Institute's booth where adults came to take a stroke risk assessment test.
Visitors receive a height and weight check.
In addition, guests were able to receive dental and vision screenings as well as hearing examinations and flu shots. Foot screenings help identify diabetic patients at risk for foot problems William P. Bunnell, MD, professor of orthopaedic surgery, tests nerve functions in the feet of a young patient with diabetes. Foot irritations that seem harmless can become serious if the diabetic patient has lost feeling in the lower limbs. As part of the screening, patients were given proper skin and nail care tips, instructions on how to examine feet daily for warning signs, and information about the Medicare Therapeutic Shoe Bill, which subsidizes the cost of therapeutic shoes and shoe inserts for patients with diabetes. For those with diabetes, common foot problems can lead to infection and possible amputation.