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FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — “Wholesome State Honest enjoyable since 2001!”  

Well being Honest 11 on the Honest begins its twenty first 12 months of providing free or low-cost well being checks and well being training for all individuals attending the Minnesota State Honest. Since launching in 2001, greater than 1.3 million screenings and well being connections have been tabulated by Well being Honest 11 exhibitors.

This 12 months, seventeen organizations are providing providers like blood typing, memory-loss evaluations, and genetic testing training. Study Minnesota’s medical hashish program from the organizations that oversee it. Decide up the official record of state truthful meals which might be gluten-free and discuss with the individuals who compiled it. Free imaginative and prescient checks can be found for kids six months to 6 years outdated. The complete household can get their annual flu pictures from pleasant Cub pharmacists. (Bear in mind to deliver insurance coverage playing cards as most insurance coverage applications can pay for these vaccinations.)

On choose days fairgoers will discover info on the way to reside with sickle cell anemia and kidney illness, how to deal with a pancreatic most cancers analysis, and the way to stop overdoses.

HealthPartners is selling its new DNA well being testing program referred to as myGenetics. It’s open to all sufferers 18 years and older. You’ll be able to assist form a more healthy future.

1000’s of Minnesotans misplaced sleep throughout the pandemic. The Minnesota Sleep Society joins the Well being Honest 11 household to supply info on sleep-loss points and methods to get your bedtime again on monitor.

The place to seek out Well being Honest 11

Well being Honest 11 on the Honest is positioned on the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on the intersection of Dan Patch Avenue and Cooper Avenue. The constructing is open from 9:00 a.m.to eight:00 p.m. each day of the Honest.

Here’s a full rundown of the assorted organizations and the providers they’re offering. Age restrictions and hours of availability might apply to some well being actions.

Flu Vaccinations and Blood Stress checks – Cub

1000’s of Minnesotans have made ‘flu pictures’ considered one of their State Honest custom. Since 2009 greater than 29,000 flu pictures have been given on the Honest. Cub Pharmacy is again this 12 months to offer fairgoers with their annual flu vaccination. Cease into the Well being Honest 11 constructing between 9:00 a.m. and eight:00 p.m. every day.

Honest time is the right time to vaccinate your entire household earlier than sending them again to highschool or off to varsity. If accessible, excessive dose vaccine will likely be supplied to these over 65 years of age. You have to be 5 years of age or older to be vaccinated on the truthful. Be sure you deliver prescription playing cards, medical playing cards, insurance coverage playing cards or another proof of insurance coverage.

As well as, Cub can have self-service machines accessible to conveniently examine your blood stress and weight/physique mass index.

Be taught extra about Cub at www.cub.com

Cub is an official 2022 sponsor for Well being Honest 11 on the Honest. Thanks, Cub!

Blood Typing – Memorial Blood Facilities 

Memorial Blood Facilities has been serving communities in Minnesota by offering blood merchandise and biomedical providers since 1948. For 20 years, MBC has partnering with Well being Honest 11 by testing and figuring out the blood kind of fairgoers 16 years of age or older. By this fast and correct take a look at, people will study one thing distinctive about themselves and achieve a greater understanding of the necessity for blood in our communities. Pleasant MBC workers will clarify how fairgoers can contribute to assembly that blood provide want.

MBC’s Mission: Saving lives by offering blood and biomedical options. By efficient outreach to donors, continuous growth of biomedical experience, and brand-building partnerships with blood drive sponsors, well being care services, and international medical suppliers, Memorial Blood Facilities connects those that want blood with these beneficiant volunteers who give. Memorial Blood Facilities delivers the best stage of technical experience and laboratory testing providers to clients world wide.

MBC’s Imaginative and prescient: To be one of the best blood heart in America. Devoted to high quality, integrity, service, and excellence in the whole lot we do, Memorial Blood Facilities works to make sure dependable and streamlined entry to an satisfactory provide of completely examined and secure blood and associated merchandise wherever they’re wanted, and to turn out to be the business’s standard-bearer in offering the best stage of service to all the assorted stakeholders we serve—from monetary contributors and company blood drive sponsors to in vitro fertilization clinics, hospital companions, and biotechnology firms.

Go to Memorial Blood Facilities web site at MBC.ORG 

for extra details about Memorial Blood Facilities, to study how one can be part of them of their mission, and to find how one can assist Memorial Blood Facilities serve the group.

Genetic Testing Training – HealthPartners 

HealthPartners is selling its new DNA well being testing program, myGenetics, which is open to all sufferers 18 years and older. Your DNA makes you you, and it could maintain the important thing to understanding sure well being threat components. That’s why HealthPartners created myGenetics, a group well being analysis program.

myGenetics appears at what your DNA can inform you about your well being. The information gained can be utilized to offer extra personalised care to our sufferers, households, and group – constructing a more healthy future for all.

Be taught extra on-line at healthpartners.com/mygenetics 

Medical Hashish Data (choice 1) – Inexperienced Items/Vireo

Inexperienced Items and Vireo Well being Worldwide, Inc. accomplice to coach fairgoers about medical hashish. Minnesota’s medical hashish program has been in existence for greater than 5 years and nonetheless many individuals have no idea the way it works.

With a motto To embrace and allow goodness, Inexperienced Items’ extremely skilled and educated crew members will likely be offering training and assist for all truthful goers who’re curious and need to study extra about medical hashish in Minnesota. There will likely be product packaging demos (NO CANNABIS INCLUDED IN PRODUCT DEMOS, NO SELLING OF PRODUCT and NO SAMPLES) and a wide range of giveaways and promotions.

Vireo Well being Worldwide, Inc.’s said mission is to construct the hashish firm of the longer term by bringing one of the best of medication, engineering, and science to the hashish business. Vireo is a physician-led hashish firm targeted on bringing one of the best of expertise, science, and engineering to the hashish business.

Vireo manufactures proprietary, branded hashish merchandise in environmentally pleasant services, state-of-the-art cultivation websites and distributes its merchandise by means of its rising community of Inexperienced Items™ and different retail areas and third-party dispensaries.

Vireo’s crew of greater than 400 workers, led by scientists, engineers, and cultivation consultants, is concentrated on effectivity and the creation of best-in-class merchandise, whereas driving scientific innovation inside the hashish business and creating significant mental property.

Medical Hashish Data (choice 2) – RISE Medical Hashish

RISE is greater than a dispensary with top quality, examined, medical hashish merchandise on its cabinets. RISE is a vacation spot the place well-being is approached with a rounded perspective and a human contact. RISE dispensaries serving Minnesota Medical sufferers are open in Eagan, Hibbing, St. Cloud, St. Paul, Mankato, and Willmar.

For extra info, go to the RISE web site 

Medical Hashish Data (choice 3) – Dodson Ache Consultants Medical (DPC Medical) 

DPC Medical is worked up to be part of the Nice Minnesota Get Collectively and assist educate fairgoers on the advantages of medical hashish! DPC Medical has been certifying sufferers for medical hashish since 2016. DPC Medical has licensed hundreds of sufferers and strives to make the method as simple and painless as potential.

Medical hashish helps with a wide range of circumstances, similar to: PTSD, Power Ache, Sleep Apnea, Most cancers, Autism, Epilepsy, Sickle Cell Illness, Intractable Ache, and HIV/AIDS. Individuals dwelling with these illnesses should get ‘licensed’ in an effort to be eligible to medical hashish prescriptions. DPC Medical will assist potential new sufferers get the method began whereas on the truthful. Potential sufferers can get screened and registered for medical hashish whereas within the Well being Honest 11 constructing. DPC Medical may also assist fairgoers fill out an ROI and fax it for them. After the Honest, DPC Medical will observe up with and presumably schedule potential sufferers.

Sleep Evaluation – Minnesota Sleep Society 

Minnesota Sleep Society is a nonprofit state group of sleep professionals who need group members to know and worth sleep well being. The occasions of the final 2½ years have prompted a plethora of sleepless nights. Minnesota Sleep Society has sources addressing basic sleep questions similar to “how a lot sleep do I would like” and “are naps good or unhealthy.” They’ve screening instruments for sleep issues like sleep apnea and circadian rhythm problems. Fairgoers can register for a weighted blanket drawing and product giveaways that can enable you to sleep.

For extra info, take a look at their web site at www.mnsleep.internet or contact them at secretary@mnsleep.internet.

Reminiscence Evaluation & Alzheimer’s Training – Bluestone Doctor Providers and St. Croix Hospice

August 26 – September 1
Bluestone Doctor Providers is an progressive main care follow, delivering on-site care to sufferers dwelling in Assisted Residing and Reminiscence Care Communities in addition to these with disabilities in each residential and group settings. Offering care since 2006 for chronically ailing, aged, and disabled people, Bluestone is Minnesota’s main on-site main medical care supplier. Bluestone will likely be providing free reminiscence screenings and details about dementia and Alzheimer’s illness.

For extra info and Bluestone Doctor Providers areas, please go to www.BluestoneMD.com.

September 2-5
St. Croix Hospice helps sufferers, their households and caregivers once they want it probably the most, delivering distinctive hospice care 24 hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a 12 months wherever a affected person calls residence. The company serves sufferers throughout Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin, taking delight in round the clock availability, immediate response and similar day admissions – together with throughout evenings, weekends and holidays. This 12 months, St. Croix Hospice will co-host its Well being Honest 11 sales space with BlueStone Physicians the place they may present complementary reminiscence care screenings

For extra info and providers contact St. Croix Hospice 24 hours a day, 7 days at week at 855-278-2764 or on-line at stcroixhospice.com.

Gluten-free Honest Meals Listing & Celiac Illness Training –  Elevating Our Celiac Children-Twin Cities Chapter

Elevating Our Celiac Children (ROCK) – Twin Cities Chapter, Inc. DBA Twin Cities ROCK, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group returns to truthful this 12 months with their Gluten Free Consciousness Sales space as a part of Well being Honest 11.

Twin Cities ROCK has turn out to be a elementary a part of Minnesota’s well being group, offering important info for these navigating by means of their Celiac and subsequent gluten-free life-style whereas offering alternatives for kids and households with Celiac Illness. Twin Cities ROCK affords an abundance of data by means of their volunteers. It additionally researches and compiles the ‘Gluten Free Meals on the Honest Listing’ annually. This useful resource gives a lifeline to all these gluten-free truthful friends and the flexibility to get pleasure from the entire Minnesota State Honest expertise with out the concern of the place to eat. The record might be discovered at any info sales space and on the Twin Cities ROCK sales space positioned contained in the Well being Honest 11 constructing.

Test them out on Fb at Twin Cites ROCK or their web site. 

Preschool Imaginative and prescient Screenings  –  MD5M Lions KidSight Basis 

The MD5M Lions KidSight Basis, Inc is comprised of members of Lions Golf equipment from Minnesota, Northwest Ontario and Manitoba in Canada. Their aim is to offer imaginative and prescient screening to all youngsters between the ages of 6 months to six years to detect imaginative and prescient issues that may influence children’ means to see and study. All youngsters taking part within the imaginative and prescient screening program will obtain a pair of youngsters’s sun shades.

Extra details about Lions KidSight might be discovered at: www.kidsightmd5m.org

Meals Allergy Data & Training – Anaphylaxis & Meals Allergy Affiliation of Minnesota 

AFAA is a Minnesota state-wide, all-volunteer nonprofit whose mission is meals allergy training, advocacy, and assist. Their motto is “Taking the worry out of meals allergic reactions.”

AFAA’s sales space can have meals allergy info, literature, and interactive quiz about meals allergic reactions, and on choose days Ask-the-Physician segments that includes main Minnesota allergists. Contact AFAA by e mail at information@minnesotafoodallergy.org or take a look at their web site.
 

Restricted time alternatives 
On designated days, truthful attendees can study:

August 25-28
 Kidney well being – The Nationwide Kidney Basis

The Nationwide Kidney Basis is a significant voluntary nonprofit well being group devoted to stopping kidney illness, enhancing the well being and well-being of people and households affected by kidney illness and growing the provision of kidneys for transplantation. Be taught extra concerning the kidneys: Understanding kidney well being, Threat components & causes, Kidney well being testing, Kidney Stones, and extra.

You’ll be able to study extra at www.kidney.org 

August 29-31
Overdose prevention –  Maxx-imum Overdose Consciousness and Steve Rummler HOPE Community – 

Worldwide Overdose Consciousness Day is August 31. Two grassroots organizations are becoming a member of forces to succeed in out to fairgoers who’ve been impacted by overdoses. The shared targets and applications of each teams embrace Advocacy, Training, and Overdose Prevention.

The mission of the Steve Rummler HOPE Community is to intensify consciousness of the opioid disaster, deal with its influence on the bodily and emotional burdens of habit and continual ache, and enhance the related care processes. The community needs to coach most of the people concerning the significance of naloxone, fentanyl take a look at strips, and Steve’s legislation (Good Samaritan Legislation).

Be taught extra on-line at www.steverummlerhopenetwork.org

September 1-3 
Pancreatic Most cancers Consciousness – PanCAN Minnesota 
The Pancreatic Most cancers Motion (PanCAN) has a imaginative and prescient to create a world through which all sufferers with pancreatic most cancers will thrive. Its mission is to take daring motion to enhance the lives of everybody impacted by pancreatic most cancers by advancing scientific analysis, constructing group, sharing information, and advocating for sufferers.

The Minnesota Affiliate will likely be accessible to reply questions, present academic supplies, informational brochures, and one-sheets. It is going to distribute pancreatic most cancers consciousness objects similar to purple ribbons, purple bracelets, and momentary tattoos, Honest staffers will supply assist to anybody who’s been impacted by pancreatic most cancers.

Sickle Cell Anemia Training  – Sickle Cell Providers of Minnesota  

Sickle Cell Basis of MN (SCFMN) is a nonprofit group primarily based affected person advocacy group offering affected person assist, training and consciousness for Sickle Cell Illness, the most typical genetic dysfunction within the US.

SCFMN gives enjoyable information, brochures and different supportive info for many who are impacted by this illness, who take care of affected people or those that might need extra details about this illness. Additionally they present info on methods to attach with and get entangled (i.e. volunteer, donate, sponsor, and so forth) with the Basis.

Be taught extra on-line at www.sicklecellmn.org or e mail SCFMN your questions at information@sicklecellmn.org.

Well being Honest 11 coordinates Well being Honest 11 on the Honest. Well being Honest 11 is a nonprofit group with a imaginative and prescient of making more healthy communities by means of collaborative outreach. Our mission is to offer well being training and free or low-cost well being screenings to the individuals in our group. Well being Honest 11 operates with assist from KARE 11 TV. Cub is offering further assist for Well being Honest 11 on the Honest.

Be taught extra about turning into an official sponsor of our group and about different applications at www.HealthFair11.org.