in Franklin County health outcomes, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Healthy Community Day is part of an effort by the center to support not just individual patients but entire communities.The event featured over 30 community partners, dozens of tables of information, music and entertainment from the and 15 different free health screenings. In the first two hours, over 130 people received free screenings.
“It’s a way to engage people in a nonthreatening way,” Jackiethia Busch said. “More just kind of talking, not in a formal medical setting but just T-shirts and jeans.” “It’s not just going to the doctor. If you can’t eat, if you don’t have a roof over your head, if you can’t keep the lights on, we have people here,” said Chasity Washington, director of theRentful614
William Woods, 65, found Saturday’s event helpful, but felt that some in the Near East Side still struggled to attend.