Category: News

August is National Immunization Awareness Month

Are your children ready for school? Check those vaccine records. It’s National Immunization Awareness Month! Just because you are an adult, doesn’t mean you should throw away your shot! Immunizations, or vaccinations can help prevent dangerous and occasionally deadly diseases, such as the flu, measles, and pneumonia. Vaccinations are important…
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Hundreds Attend Watervliet Health Center Open House

What better way to take part in National Health Center Week than host an open house for your brand new health center? On Tuesday, August 9th, Whitney Young Health unveiled, along with federal, state and local officials, the new Watervliet Health Center with an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony.  Not only…
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WYH Celebrates National Health Center Week

Happy National Health Center Week!  Are you ready to celebrate all week long? National Health Center Week (NHCW) is a week-long celebration of recognizing not only our health center, but health centers all over the country who provide high quality, cost effective, accessible care to the under-served population. This year’s theme is “Celebrating America’s…
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WIC Throws a Baby Shower

Happy World Breastfeeding Week! From August 1st – 7th, organizations all over the world celebrate World Breastfeeding Week to encourage breastfeeding and to improve the health of babies around the world. In honor of this week of awareness and recognition, WIC decided to throw a “baby shower!” The goal of the event was to shower breastfeeding mothers and their babies…
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