Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center - Vietnamese Community Outreach

The hospital offers specialized services for the areaâ€™s vulnerable Vietnamese community, which include: supporting Vietnamese-language radio and TV shows promoting health and wellness featuring physicians; collaborating with physicians to provide free health and wellness classes in Vietnamese; offering free clinical breast exams and flu shots, screenings for stroke risk, prostate cancer, hepatitis and bone density; collaborating with the Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation for community health screenings and clinical breast exams; Vietnamese-language cancer support groups; and attending community health fairs.

What is it?

The hospital offers specialized services for the area’s vulnerable Vietnamese community, which include: supporting Vietnamese-language radio and TV shows promoting health and wellness featuring physicians; collaborating with physicians to provide free health and wellness classes in Vietnamese; offering free clinical breast exams and flu shots, screenings for stroke risk, prostate cancer, hepatitis and bone density; collaborating with the Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation for community health screenings and clinical breast exams; Vietnamese-language cancer support groups; and attending community health fairs.

Who is it for?

Area Vietnamese families.

Why do they do it?

A vast majority of the Orange County Vietnamese community resides in the hospital’s service area. This population has disproportionate unmet health needs.

Impact

An estimated 58,000 people listened to the Vietnamese radio shows, and 416,250 people viewed the TV shows. The Vietnamese classes had a cumulative total of 705 attendees, and the free screenings and flu shots were attended by 1,166 people.

Contact: Patricia Collins
Senior Development Director
Telephone: 714-378-7808
Email: pcollins@memorialcare.org

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