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Health And Fitness
2024 Fall Tracking Portal Update: Lead Poisoning
The 2025 Winter Tracking Portal update includes new data for the data visualizations listed below.We have included a direct link to the webpage where the data visualizations are accessible. If you visit these visualizations often, we encourage you to create a new bookmark so that you can easily find them in their new location on the Iowa HHS website.
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10th Annual Health and Wellness Fair Saturday, March 1, 8:00 a.m. to noon
It's time for the 10th Annual Health and Wellness Fair this Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to noon. The event will be held at the Vinton Shellsburg High School gym. The event includes:-On site health screening-Facepainting-Welcome Bags-Prize Drawings-Demonstrations-Information Booths
2024 Fall Tracking Portal Updates: Tick Borne and Misquito Borne Diseases
The 2025 Winter Tracking Portal update includes new data for the data visualizations listed below.We have included a direct link to the webpage where the data visualizations are accessible. If you visit these visualizations often, we encourage you to create a new bookmark so that you can easily find them in their new location on the Iowa HHS website.
Blood donation requirements change to allow for more donations
An important update is now in effect for LifeServe Blood Center who collects donations at Virginia Gay Hospital has lowered the minimum weight requirement for blood donors from 120 pounds to 110 pounds. This change will allow more people to donate and help us bring even more lifesaving blood into the community.Spread the Word! Some people who were previously ineligible may now be able to donate!If you know of anyone who was previously turned away for being under 120 pounds, let them know that they can now donate.
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM): Respect in Relationships
It is important for both partners to communicate openly and honestly
about their feelings in a healthy relationship. This is so neither of them
has “authority” over the other. By doing so, mutual respect is fostered,
and misunderstandings or conflicts are prevented from escalating.
Healthy and loving relationships can happen when respect is a
cornerstone and that is when trust and emotional safety thrive.
Give of Yourself this March: Be a Volunteer
In the month of March, LifeServe Blood Center is recognizing our volunteer chairpeople who selflessly give of their time to make sure our mobile blood drives are successful. They work to secure locations for drives to be held; recruit volunteers to assist with set up, registration, canteen, and tear down; and to recruit volunteer blood donors. According to volunteer statistics, in 2024, more than 970 million individuals around the world participated in some form of volunteer work, which represents about 12.
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM)
Did you know that 1 in 3 teens in the U.S. will experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse in their relationship before they become adults?It’s a reality we can’t ignore.This month is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM), a nationwide effort to raise awareness and empower teens and young adults with knowledge, support, and resources to stop dating abuse before it starts.
Lifeserve Blood Center recognizes the volunteers in March
This March, LifeServe Blood Center celebrates our volunteer chairpeople who are instrumental in the success of the blood drives we have with businesses, churches, schools, and other organizations in the communities we serve. Without these individuals, blood drives would not have a location to be held, donors registered on the schedule, or volunteers recruited to assist with registration and canteen. Schedule a blood donation for March 28 at Virginia Gay Hospital
It takes less than one hour to donate
blood and in that one hour, blood donors will do more than most will do in a lifetime – they will
save lives. Just one blood donation will help save the lives of up to three different hospital
patients in your community.
Every two seconds, someone in our country needs blood. You can pay it forward by giving a
lifesaving donation and be a community hero.
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