EIRMC Offers Blood Draws for Complete Heart Health Panel

The Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center held it’s 21st annual heart and health fair.

They do this to help prevent community members from becoming another statistic of heart disease.

EIRMC is reminding everyone to check their heart health, and community members are responding.

February is American Heart Month, an reminder every year to commit to a lifestyle that improves overall heart health.

If you’re already looking up ways to reduce weight loss after the holidays, and the Valentine’s candy, you might want to consider researching how to reduce heart risk diseases.

“There’s lots of information out there, on the internet with physicians about how to reduce your risk for heart diseases but the truth is, we really haven’t moved the needle in terms of fighting it.” Said Coleen Niemann, the marketing director for EIRMC.

“There is not a low of education out there about the multiple different things that happen in the heart,” said Robin Markham, a cardiac catheterization lab nurse with EIRMC. “That’s why I think it’s important to get this event out there because a lot of people just think of having a heart attack is a heart problem when it’s actually it involves a lot of other things.”

As part of an annual effort, EIRMC is offering the public healthy heart screenings.

It includes blood draws for a complete heart health panel that can indicate a persons risk factors for heart disease.

“It was 20 dollars,” said Jaynie Bell, who attended the fair, “You can’t get lab work for 20 dollars and you find out this information when you do your yearly physical and you can go ‘well I had this 6 months ago look at where I am today’ and you can see the improvement. You know it’s just such a positive thing. Last year my cholesterol was horrible. My husband and I have a contest every year and he beat me. Not having that. So this year I won.”