Wyckoff Heights Medical Center’s annual Health Fair had something for everyone: children played with balloon animals and danced to music from Radio Disney while adults and seniors had their blood pressure and blood sugar tested on site.
More than 1,500 Brooklyn residents registered for the fair, which was designed to introduce them to the different health services the hospital, located at 374 Stockholm Street, offers and to promote a new Family Health Clinic opening at the hospital in September that will offer services during evening hours.
“This new health clinic will be dedicated to addressing the needs of Brooklyn’s working families and provide them with top-quality care and preventative services,” Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez said. “The family clinic is a much needed and welcome addition to the neighborhood.”
Congresswoman Velazquez presented hospital officials with a check for $400,000 for the new clinic, after getting her blood pressure and blood sugar levels tested at a nearby booth.
Six booths down, three street performers were busily snatching balloons in a rainbow of colors from a large black knapsack and forming balloon animals for a patient line of children.
“I did an event at the White House,” said Todd Neufeld, a street performer. “They said they didn’t want a photo of the president wearing a balloon animal hat.”
