Overlake Medical Center Offers Free Health Screenings for Eastside Vitality Health Month

The start of a new school year is the ideal time to focus on your family’s wellness and make healthy living a priority. Worried your blood pressure and cholesterol might be too high? Get free health screenings, cardiac and diabetes risk assessments and speak directly with physicians this September during Overlake’s second annual Eastside Vitality Health Month.

The community health fair will come to Overlake Medical Center’s Main Campus in Bellevue from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28. “We are committed to keeping our community healthy. By offering important health screenings across the Eastside, we hope to help people prevent serious health conditions before they occur and encourage them to manage conditions they may already have,” said Craig Hendrickson, Overlake’s president and CEO.

In addition, Eastside Vitality Health Month will serve as an opportunity for the community to familiarize themselves with the different Overlake Medical Clinics’ primary care physicians and cardiologists. The final event, at the main hospital campus in Bellevue, will feature additional skin cancer spot checks, target heart rate readings and body mass index readings. There will also be Overlake surgeons on hand to demonstrate the da Vinci^® Surgical System and nutritionists available to discuss diabetes and tips for eating healthy. In addition, there will be CPR and automatic external defibrillator (AED) demonstrations by the Bellevue Fire Department.