TOP TO?BOTTOM: KHEIR’s colorful booth drew lots of attention at the KAMA Health Fair! • Clinic and Social Services staff explain our programs and services to visitors. • Visitors receive information about KHEIR.

 

KHEIR joined other nonprofit organizations, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals at a community health fair sponsored by the Korean American Medical Association (KAMA) on Oct. 13. Held in Koreatown, several hundred people turned up to learn more about healthcare resources in their community.

The KHEIR-S Mark Taper Foundation community clinic offered appointments for free mammogram screenings and promoted awareness about the importance of receiving regular screenings, especially for Korean American women. Breast cancer is the leading cancer diagnosis for Korean women. Despite this, Korean women continue to have the lowest screening and re-screening rates out of all ethnic groups in the U.S. Due to early detection, there are more than 2 million breast cancer survivors in America today. Ninety-five percent of women experience a more than five-year survival rate when breast cancer is detected early. Prevention is the only means of inhibiting the fatality rate of breast cancer.

Mammograms are provided once a week at the clinic. To make an appointment, please call (213) 637-1070 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday .

Information about free and low-cost health coverage programs available through KHEIR were provided by KHEIR’s human service department. The department offers enrollment assistance for a whole range of health coverage programs including:

 

• Healthy Kids 

• Healthy Families

• Medi-Cal      

• Medi-Care

• And many more!

 

To make an appointment for enrollment into any of our programs, please call (213) 637-1080, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

KHEIR was proud to join KAMA in bringing the health fair to the community. It was a great opportunity to educate residents in the neighborhood about the resources available to them.