Bay Pines Women Veterans Program Sponsors Healthy Heart Fair

The Bay Pines VA Healthcare System (VAHCS) Women Veterans Program is sponsoring a Healthy Heart Health Fair to raise awareness of heart disease in women and to highlight the comprehensive care available to eligible Veterans through the Women Veterans Program.  The program will highlight the major components of comprehensive women’s health care and will emphasize Wellness and Health Promotion Services.  Comprehensive Women’s Health Services include state of the art mammography, gender-specific primary care, women’s health pharmacy consultation, cardiovascular preventive care, gynecological care, maternity care coordination, women’s health specific mental health services, specialty care referral and health promotion programs such as smoking cessation and weight management.              

Featured activities include a yoga demonstration, healthy heart conversations with women’s Health pharmacist and nutritionist; heart healthy teaching kitchen demonstration, blood pressure readings, fitness assessment (% body fat and BMI), wellness wheel health quiz, wellness information and prizes.  Please join us for this fun and informative event.

When: Friday, February 17th, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Where: C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center, Building 100, 4th Floor – Room 4A-106 (View driving directions at: www.baypines.va.gov/locations/directions.asp)

Who: Sponsored by the Bay Pines VAHCS Women Veterans Program

For questions, contact Julia Adams, Women Veterans Program Manager, at 727-398-6661, extension 14312.

 

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.