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Health Calendar

11.1

2012 Medicare Options Review

Where: Southern Hills Hospital Education Room 2, 9300 W. Sunset Road

When: 10-11:00 a.m.

Details: 880-2700

11.1, 11.8, 11.15, 11.29

FREE Blood Pressure ScreeningS

Where: H2U MountainView Office, 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 114

When: 10-11 a.m.

Details: 233-5474

11.2

Getting to Know You

Open to seniors who may be new to town

Where: The SMA Lifestyles Center East, 5820 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100

When: 1 p.m.

Details: 797-2350

Stroke Support Group

Where: Sunrise Hospital Auditorium, 3186 S. Maryland Parkway

When: 6-7:15 p.m.

Details: 233-5300

11.3

Brown Bag Q&A with pharmacist

Where: The SMA Lifestyles Center East, 5820 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100

When: 9 a.m.-noon

Details: 797-2350

Tobacco Cessation Program

Where: The SMA Lifestyles Center East, 5820 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100

When: 3 p.m.

Details: 797-2350

11.4

Adult Outpatient Diabetes Class: Overview

Where: MountainView Hospital

3100 N. Tenaya Way

When: 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Details: 233-5454

Adult Outpatient Diabetes Class: Overview

Where: Sunrise Hospital Auditorium, 3186 S. Maryland Parkway

When: 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Details: 233-5454

Adult Outpatient Diabetes Class: Overview

Where: Southern Hills Hospital, 9300 W. Sunset Road

When: 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Details: 880-2700

11.5 and 11.12

Prepared Childbirth (two sessions)

Where: Southern Hills Hospital, Medical Office Building

9280 W. Sunset Road, 2nd Floor Room 222

When: 8 a.m.-noon

Details: 880-2700

11.6

influenza immunization clinic

Where: St. Rose Dominican Hospital San Martin Campus, Aljian Conference Center, 8280 W. Warm Springs Road

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Details: www.SNICNV.org

11.8

Daddy Marines

Where: MountainView Hospital Lobby Classroom, 3100 N. Tenaya Way

When: 6:30-8 p.m.

Details: 233-5474

11.8, 11.15 and 11.22

Prepared Childbirth Class (three sessions)

Southern Hills Hospital, Medical Office Building, Room 222, 280 W. Sunset Road

When: 6-9 p.m.

Details: 880-2700

11.9

Avoid the Holiday Blues

Where: Southern Hills Hospital Education Room, 300 W. Sunset Road

When: 10-11 a.m.

Details: 880-2700

11.12

Delta Theta Boule ninth annual Boule Eyeglass Program

Free examinations and eyeglasses to needy students between the ages of 5 and 18

Where: Nevada Institute of Ophthalmology, 2800 N. Tenaya Way

When: 8 a.m.-noon

Details: 647-4798 or dmod@att.net

11.12 and 11.13

bike ms: vegas challenge

Where: Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 West Bonneville Ave.

When: 7:30 a.m. Saturday (100- 65- and 30-mile routes; 7:30 a.m. Sunday (65- and 30-mile routes); check-in/registration 5:30 a.m. each day

Details: 736-1478 or www.nationalms
society.org

The Health Calendar runs Mondays. Information on health or fitness events can be mailed to Health Calendar, Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125 or emailed as a text file to healthbriefs@reviewjournal.com.

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