10/9/2009

Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club Kids Receive Flu Prevention Lesson and Kits

Louisville, Ky.– Local children at the Newburg Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club will get a special lesson in flu prevention from Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare.  The children and their families will also receive a flu prevention kit, which contains a bottle of hand sanitizer, disposable thermometer, tissues, flu information pamphlet and medical mask.

WHAT: Flu Prevention Tips and Tools for Kids

WHERE: Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club – Newburg
5020 East Indian Trail

WHEN: Tuesday, October 13 at 5:15 p.m.

OPPORTUNITIES:  
• Approximately 70 local children learning flu prevention tips with Dr. Lynn Simon, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare, from 5:15-5:30 p.m.
• Children and families receiving flu prevention kits.

Editor’s Note: In addition to the children at the Newburg location, children and families at the other three Louisville Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club locations will receive flu prevention kits. Kits were also distributed to the Center for Women and Families and Dare to Care. Free kits are available to the general public beginning October 12 at VNA Nazareth Home Care Flu Shot clinics and select Jewish Physicians Group offices. For more information or to find a location, visit www.jhsmh.org/flu.

About JHSMH:
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare (JHSMH) is a regional health network that includes more than 70 health care facilities and 1,900 patients beds in Kentucky and southern Indiana.  The merger of Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services and CARITAS Health Services to form JHSMH combines the strength and honors the heritages of the two organizations to provide a complete array of health care services to this region and beyond, including: hospitals, outpatient care, cancer care, occupational health, psychiatric care and rehab medicine.  JHSMH provides home health care to families in 41 Kentucky and southern Indiana counties and employs a network of physician practices that provide both primary and specialty medical care.  The organization employs more than 8,100 people and more than 100 physicians.