One-Stop Shop for Women’s Services
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A new women’s health center – a one-stop shop for services ranging from mammography to healthy menu planning – is scheduled to open in Glasgow in late summer 2009.
The effort is a collaboration between the T. J. Sampson Community Hospital and the Glasgow Business and Professional Women’s Club.
The new center, which will be housed in a renovated 4,000-square-foot home on Glenview Drive, sits on 42 acres of land purchased by T. J. Sampson Community Hospital.
“[The Glasgow Business and Professional Women’s Club] has a history of working with us and donating to the hospital,” says Bill Kindred, CEO of T.J. Sampson Community Hospital. “When they approached us about the women’s health center, we quickly began work on a benefit gala that would kick off fundraising.”
The house is in the midst of being converted to an all-purpose facility that will provide preventative services such as mammograms along with a full range of other women’s services and support programs.
“About 85 percent of our workforce at the hospital is women, and studies have shown that women make 90 percent of health-care decisions for their families,” Kindred says. “They take care of everybody around them, but often not themselves. We’ll be providing a lot of services in a convenient location and an aesthetically pleasing environment for them to come to.”
Prevention will be a key focus of the center, with heart disease and other major illnesses being addressed through diagnostic and therapeutic means. In addition to education on physical issues, classes will be offered on stress management, alternative medicine and more.
Space is also planned for bone-density screening and ultrasounds in addition to mammography.
“There are so many things we can do there that will promote overall health awareness,” Kindred says. “We want to have a lot to offer in terms of diagnostics, but also things like massage and therapeutic relaxation services.”
The price tag for the center will be around $300,000, Kindred says.
For the Glasgow Business and Professional Women’s Club, the center is a dream come true.
“We think it’s a tremendous opportunity for the women of Glasgow and Barren County,” says Monica Conrad, the club’s president. “It’s the chance to have a centralized women’s center to not only seek treatment, but also diagnostic care, education and wellness information. We think it’s going to be a tremendous asset to the area.”
Story by Joe Morris
