Community health screenings are an important tool in preventive medicine, and it is with this in mind that students from Skills USA, at Central Mountain High School, held a Community Health Clinic in Mill Hall recently. The screenings included a series of pre-health screenings such as vital signs, blood sugar, blood pressure, and more! All of these screenings were completely free! Nurses from Geisinger accompanied them, so all screenings were monitored and verified.

According to Kurt Yap, a student organizer from Skills USA, the founding idea of their community service project was to improve health literacy in our community. Their ambition is to bring awareness to all communities across the country about their project through SkillsUSA.

Why is health literacy important to them? As a team of future healthcare workers, they want to ensure our community has access to resources that can guide them toward a life of prosperity.

Their goal was to make our community more comfortable in obtaining knowledge from our community healthcare professionals and aspiring healthcare workers in high school.

The students from Skills USA believe the open health clinic was an opportunity for the people in our community to communicate their needs by receiving free health screenings.

The purpose of their project was to promote the importance of health literacy within our community. When people are educated on the appropriate action for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, we can improve the well-being of all people in our region. This project was inspired by a team of future healthcare professionals’ desire to engage, entertain, and educate all community members about personal health.