CHESI Champions Showcased at CHESI’s Cairo Levee
Footrace
14/01/09 09:26 |
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This year,
fifth and sixth graders at Bennett School trained to
run the Cairo Levee Footrace as a pilot project,
promoting exercise and nutrition.
Called “CHESI Champions”, these students ran three nights each week for five weeks, gradually increasing the distance. They were also given a healthy snack, like apples, oranges and granola bars.
On race day, the CHESI Champions all ran in the 5K race, and several won or placed in their age groups.
The project, designed by Community Health & Emergency Services, Inc. (CHESI) staff, included Bennett schools’ principal and teachers, missionaries from “Two Rivers”, and CHESI staff, all of whom volunteered their time to work with the participants.
The project was sponsored by the law office of Johnson & Schneider (Cairo), Capaha Bank, the AFL-CIO Local 773, Southern Illinois Healthcare (Carbondale), and First Southern Bank (Carbondale).
Efforts are being made to expand the program next year, to include more students and to include other area schools.
Called “CHESI Champions”, these students ran three nights each week for five weeks, gradually increasing the distance. They were also given a healthy snack, like apples, oranges and granola bars.
On race day, the CHESI Champions all ran in the 5K race, and several won or placed in their age groups.
The project, designed by Community Health & Emergency Services, Inc. (CHESI) staff, included Bennett schools’ principal and teachers, missionaries from “Two Rivers”, and CHESI staff, all of whom volunteered their time to work with the participants.
The project was sponsored by the law office of Johnson & Schneider (Cairo), Capaha Bank, the AFL-CIO Local 773, Southern Illinois Healthcare (Carbondale), and First Southern Bank (Carbondale).
Efforts are being made to expand the program next year, to include more students and to include other area schools.
Pre registration forms
You may now download and print our patient registration
forms to speed up your visit. Go to website
http://www.chesi.org and click the Pre register link.
Download and print all five forms. Famiarize yourself
with them. Sign and date the forms and bring them with
you for your office visit. This will greatly speed up
your time to seeing one of our physicians.
SIDEZ Grant
Community Health & Emergency Services, Inc. would
like to publicly acknowledge the SIDEZ grant that was
received to construct an access road for the newly
acquired Daystar Care Center in Cairo, Illinois. The
pictures below show the significant improvements
afforded by SIDEZ’s generosity.
FQHC commercials
Have you seen our commercial on TV? Channel 3 WSIL is
carrying the FQHC Your Medical Home commercial. We and
several other FQHCs in the region have joined for this
presentation of regional healthcare access points. Our
medical, dental, specialty and sliding fee programs are
featured.
CHESI Harrsiburg Medical & Dental Clinic opened
Our new Harrisburg Medical and Dental Clinic opened on
August 9th 2005. Telephone 618-253-8450. Offering both
primary medical and dental care to residents of Saline
County Illinois.
Located at 205 N. Main St. Harrisburg, IL.
Located at 205 N. Main St. Harrisburg, IL.
Cedar Court Speciality Clinic had opened
The Cedar Court Specialty Clinic opened October 3,
2005. Offering specialty services including
endocrinology, internal medicine and infectious disease
management. Located at 1175 Cedar Court, Carbondale,
IL. Telephone 618-351-1213.