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Carthage Lions Club Donates $700 to Carthage Area
Hospital Foundation Diabetes Fund
Published: December 06, 2021
at 07:30 p.m.
By: Press Release from Carthage Area Hospital
Carthage Lions Club Donates $700 to Carthage Area
Hospital Foundation Diabetes Fund
Money Raised Through Yearly Gift Basket Fundraiser
Photo: Marilyn Hazen (L), Carthage Lions Club; Taylour Scanlin (R), Carthage
Hospital Foundation Executive Director
(December 6th,
2021) CARTHAGE, NY — Since 2009, the Carthage Lions Club has raised money
during the month of November, also known as Diabetes Awareness Month, to
donate back to the Carthage Area Hospital Foundation’s (CAHF) Diabetes
Education Fund. This year, a check totaling $700.00 was presented to the
CAHF. Proceeds were raised from raffle baskets that were placed at Carthage
Savings & Loan over a period of several weeks.
“We are extremely
grateful of the generosity from our local Lions Club. Their platform is
geared towards advocacy for the blind and visually impaired and diabetes
can cause vision loss and blindness in some individuals. Their fundraising
allows us to purchase materials for our diabetes education program, among
other items to help individuals manage their diabetes,” said Taylour Scanlin, Carthage
Hospital Foundation Executive Director.
According to the
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), an
estimated 30.3 million people in the United States have diabetes and about
84.1 million Americans aged 18 and older have prediabetes. For patients who
are looking for ways to manage their diabetes, Carthage Area Hospital’s
Nutrition Department created their Diabetes Education Program. Patients are
instructed by Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, Carly
Draper, RD, CDN, CDE to cover an array of topics including healthy eating
& nutrition, physical activity & impact, benefits of blood glucose
monitoring, medications, and diabetes & family.
For more
information on the Diabetes Education Program, patients can call Registered
Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, Carly Draper, RD, CDN, CDE at
315-519-5468 or by email at cdraper@cahny.org.
A physician referral is required.
About the
Carthage Area Hospital Foundation
The Carthage Area
Hospital Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable corporation that
promotes charitable gifts to ensure continued excellence in community
health care. The Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that the Carthage area
retains a local hospital that delivers quality, primary health care to the
local community and its neighbors.
About Carthage Area
Hospital
Carthage Area
Hospital was established as a not-for-profit rural community hospital in
1965. It operates today as a fully accredited 25-bed Critical Access
Hospital, serving approximately 83,000 residents in Jefferson, northern Lewis and southern St. Lawrence counties. The hospital
formed a clinical affiliation with Crouse Health, Syracuse, in 2017.
The hospital also
operates a network of community-based clinics, including its Philadelphia
Medical Center, Family Health Center, Pediatric Clinic and Women’s Way to
Wellness and provides a range of specialty care, including general surgery,
orthopedics, podiatry, urology, neurosurgical care, physical and
occupational therapy and behavioral health.
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