Mobile Flashes are hitting the road to serve the community.
The Kent State Mobile Flashes program is a collaboration between Kent State University's College of Public Health and partner organizations to provide community screening and wellness services. The Kent State Mobile Wellness Unit is part of this new initiative working to meet the needs and improve the health of communities through outreach, health education, health promotion, disease prevention, health assessments and screenings.
The first event for the Mobile Flashes student and staff team from the College of Public Health was the "Heart Health Screening and Education" at the UH Portage Medical Center.
The Kent State Mobile Flashes attend health fairs with partners at hospital systems, health departments, social services agencies, senior centers, schools and more, serving the isolated rural communities and urban underserved neighborhoods of Portage, Summit, Stark, Trumbull and Cuyahoga counties.
Community partners of the Kent State Mobile Wellness Unit include Summa Health System, Kent State College of Podiatric Medicine Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, University Hospitals Portage Medical Center, Portage County Combined Health District, Kent City Health Department, Bon Secours Mercy Health, and Aultman Health Foundation.
Want to see one of YOUR photos in “IN A FLASH?” Submit your Kent State-related photos to InAFlash@kent.edu and you may see them in a future Kent State Today post. Photos should be framed -horizontally- and include a brief description of what’s happening in the photo along with when and where it was taken.