Health Update: Richmond Heights to hold Community Health and Wellness Fair – What Experts Say

Richmond Heights is turning toward well-being this weekend as they kick off their free Health and Wellness Fair on Feb. 7.

The yearly event will be from 10 a.m. to noon at the Richmond Heights Community Center, 27285 Highland Road, and will offer resources on nutrition, pharmacy services, aging and senior health services.

Flu vaccinations, COVID-19 shots, bio-metric health screenings and other health services will also be available in between chats with healthcare professionals and a chance to talk to city’s community paramedic to find out what services are offered locally.

Recreation Director Cameron Campbell said the event has gone beyond connecting people with healthcare services but also a social event for people who want to break up the winter season.

He said that sometimes people can get overwhelmed by the healthcare system and the fair tries and to help. For instance, this year, he will be showing how to navigate University Hospitals “MyChart” software so that seniors and anyone else that needs the information will be familiar with it.

“We have a decent amount of organizations and companies coming out just to make the community aware of resources,” Campbell said. “That’s really what this is about; making sure they understand the resources that are available to them.

“In the senior programming that we have every Monday a couple seniors actually asked me if I could help her with their MyChart,” Campbell continued. “I was able to help her, but we had a UH representative come in and said that we could actually offer a (session) to help.

“The ladies reaction was saying that she wished that she had this help before, so that kind of just jogged the mayor’s and my memory that maybe we should just offer it all together.”

Campbell said this is the third year of the clinic and that he was hoping for a better attendance than last year’s and was hopeful that the new city app, Richmond Ready, would help promote it to residents.

“People come and go it’s an open door,” Campbell said. “Last year we didn’t really get the attendance that we wanted. But I told the mayor that we would really push it out this year, so that’s what we are trying to do.”