Mark your calendars to join Triad Health Practice, a Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) location providing primary care services, for First Friday Fitness on Friday, Oct. 7 at the HBHC Brown Elephant resale location in Andersonville.
Committed to providing quality healthcare to the entire community, HBHC launched First Friday Fitness. On the first Friday of each month through December, the Triad medical staff will provide FREE mini health examinations. This includes a general health assessment of blood pressure, temperature, weight, height, body mass index and general health lifestyle questions. After these evaluations, tips on how to improve your personal health and future appointment scheduling will be available.
In addition, the Andersonville Cheetah Gym will give away FREE gym passes and Reza's Restaurant will provide healthy snacks.
WHAT: First Friday Fitness
WHEN: Oct. 7, 2011 - Health screenings take place between noon and 4 p.m.
First Fridays will be held the first Friday of every month through December 2011.
WHERE: Andersonville Brown Elephant resale store—5404 N. Clark Street in Chicago
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About Howard Brown Health Center
Founded in 1974, Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) is one of the nation's largest health care and research organizations, primarily serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and its allies. With an annual budget of approximately $18 million, it is the largest such organization in the Midwest and serves more than 36,000 adults and youth each year throughout the region. As an innovative and growing patient-centered health home, HBHC provides primary medical care, behavioral health services, and specialty chronic and infectious disease services, and conducts nationally-renowned clinical and behavioral research. Its nearly 200 staff deliver culturally competent and compassionate care in a supportive environment that also includes comprehensive health, wellness and social service programs that enable and expand access to care for all LGBT men, women, youth and seniors, and their friends and families. HBHC is a multi-site operation based in Chicago and includes a main health and research center in the Uptown neighborhood, the TRIAD Health practice at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, and the Broadway Youth Center. HBHC also operates the Brown Elephant Resale Shops, which include three resale shops in Chicago's Wrigleyville/Boystown and Andersonville neighborhoods, and in Oak Park. The proceeds from the Brown Elephant help HBHC provide services to those who are un/underinsured.
