Community Health

Improving the Health of Our Community

St. Charles Hospital is committed to health care education. Our goal is to help you improve and maintain optimum health by providing information and education needed to prevent injury and illness.

We offer a wide range of community outreach activities, including:

• Free community lectures and health screenings to raise awareness, promote wellness and explain the risk factors and methods of diagnosis and treatments for health conditions
• Health screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, glaucoma and cancer screenings
• Community lectures by our medical experts on timely health-related topics
• Perinatal education classes
• Support groups

Health topics we cover include:

• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Falls prevention
• Smoking cessation
• Steps to parenthood
• Substance abuse