MUSC Health Midlands and Healthy Me – Healthy SC partner for free community health fair
May 31, 2023
To improve health care access to rural communities, MUSC Health Midlands Division and Healthy Me – Healthy SC are partnering to organize a community health fair on Saturday, June 3rd, at the Winnsboro Armory, located at 300 Park Street, Winnsboro, SC 29180, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
The health fair will offer free health screenings, adult and children health education, diabetes education, free food boxes (while supplies last), women’s health education, and other giveaways.
“This free community health fair is helping individuals in rural communities to be healthier by providing education about good health care and preventive medicine,” said Tallulah Holmstrom, M.D., MBA, CPPS, Chief Medical Officer MUSC Health Midlands Division. “I am happy we can offer free health screenings and education all in one place for the benefit of the community.”
“We’re excited to host this community health fair in partnership with Healthy Me – Healthy SC for the citizens of Winnsboro,” said Chiquila Barber, MHA, MUSC Health Midlands Division Healthy Me Healthy SC Outreach Director. “We invite everyone in the community to learn about these services and help us spread knowledge about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.”
Some free health screenings are blood pressure and blood sugar.
About Healthy Me – Healthy SC
The program is a partnership between MUSC and Clemson University and makes use of Clemson’s Health Extension network, which is already modeled on providing food access, health, and wellness to citizens across the state. It also provides extension agents for all of the 46 counties in the state of South Carolina.
Pop-up clinics and health fairs give direct access to health care under the initiatives. For example, in St. Stephen’s, a temporary clinic is set up in a local high school six times per year where medical students provide glucose and blood pressure screenings for diabetes and hypertension prevention and education.
Health clinics and fairs also partner with FoodShare to provide boxes full of fresh fruits and vegetables to those in need.
About MUSC
Founded in 1824 in Charleston, MUSC is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system, with a unique mission to preserve and optimize human life in South Carolina through education, research, and patient care. Each year, MUSC educates more than 3,000 students in six colleges – Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy – and trains more than 850 residents and fellows in its health system. MUSC brought in more than $297.8 million in research funds in the fiscal year 2022, leading the state overall in research funding. For information on academic programs, visit musc.edu.
As the health care system of the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Health is dedicated to delivering the highest-quality and safest patient care while educating and training generations of outstanding health care providers and leaders to serve the people of South Carolina and beyond. Patient care is provided at 14 hospitals with approximately 2,500 beds and five additional hospital locations in development; more than 350 telehealth sites, with connectivity to patients’ homes; and nearly 750 care locations situated in all regions of South Carolina. In 2022, for the eighth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health the No. 1 hospital in South Carolina. To learn more about clinical patient services, visit muschealth.org.
MUSC and its affiliates have collective annual budgets totaling $5.1 billion. The nearly 25,000 MUSC team members include a world-class faculty, physicians, specialty providers, scientists, students, affiliates and care team members who deliver and support groundbreaking education, research and patient care.
