FREE Spirometry Screenings Around the Country
Updated: October 20, 2003
As part of Lung Health Day and RC Week celebrations around the country, AARC members are offering free spirometry screenings. Check the list below to see whether screenings are available near you.
Remember spirometry is a simple noninvasive test that measures the amount of air that you can blow out of your lungs and how fast you can blow it out. To take the test, you simply take the deepest possible breath, and then blow it out as hard and as fast as you can for a total of 6 short seconds into a device called a spirometer. The test is as easy as blowing out candles on your birthday cake.
FREE Spirometry Screenings Around the Country
Alabama
Colonial Mall/Bel Aire (in front of J.C. Penney)
Springhill Avenue
Mobile, AL
October 19, 20, 21
Sunday - 2-6 p.m., Monday - 5-9 p.m., Tuesday - 7:30-8:30 a.m. & 5-9 p.m.
Contact: Bill Pruitt
Phone: 251-434-3405
E-mail: wpruitt@jaguar1.usouthal.eduWiregrass Commons Mall, near the food court area
900 Commons Drive
Dothan, AL
October, 22
7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: H.D. Odom
Phone: 334 556-2291
E-mail: dodom@wallace.edu
Colorado
University of Colorado Hospital, Lobby
4200 E. 9th Ave
Denver, CO. 80262
October 22
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Contact: Allen Wentworth
Phone: 303 372-6826
E-mail: clydewentworth@msn.com
Connecticut
Hartford Hospital (in the cafeteria)
80 Seymour St.
Hartford, CT 06102
October 22
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Sue Albino, RRT
Phone: 860-545-2414
E-mail: salbino@harthosp.org
Manchester Community College
Respiratory Care Lab, LRC B-129
Manchester CT
Thursday October 23
2 - 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Karen Milikowski
Phone: 860-512-2714
E-mail: kmilikowski@mcc.commnet.edu
Georgia
Archbold Memorial Hospital, Community Room
Gordon Ave. at Mimosa Drive
Thomasville, GA
October 23, 2003
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Contact: Lisa Avera, RRT
Phone: 229-228-2960
E-mail: lavera@archbold.orgTift Regional Medical Center, Tifton Mall
Virginia Avenue
Tifton , GA 31794
October, 22, 2003
1 - 5 p.m.
Contact: Jerry Ethridge
Phone: 229-386-7526
E-mail: ethrje@tiftregional.com
Screenings: Spirometry, Oximetry, Body Fat Analysis, Blood Pressure
Iowa
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
1200 Pleasant St
DesMoines, IA
October 22
8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Linda Severino & Joleen Stephenson
Phone: 515-241-6207
Louisiana
Christus St. Patrick Hospital, Auditorium
Lake Charles, LA
October 18
8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Cora Chretien-Veal
E-mail: cora.chretien-veal@christushealth.org
Pulse oximetry and flu shots are also available.
Minnesota
Valley Hospital at Hidden Lakes
October 22
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Contact: Sue Maldeis
Phone: 763-302-8363
E-Mail: slm75@mn.rr.com
Missouri
Missouri Southern State University, Billingsly Student Center
3959 East Newman Road
Joplin, MO
October 22nd from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Glenda Pippin
Phone: 417-659-4405
E-mail: pippin-g@mail.mssu.edu
Methodist Hospital, outside the cafeteria
Park Nicollet H.S.
St. Louis Park, MN
952-993-5684
October 22
Contact: Julie Clarke
Phone: 952-993-5684
E-Mail: clarkjm@parknicollet.com
Nebraska
Walgreens
72nd Street and Cass Street
Omaha, NE
October 22
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Frank Freihaut
Phone: 402-965-3374
E-mail: ffreihaut@nebraskamed.com
Walgreens
27th Street and Pine Lake
Lincoln, NE
October 22
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Frank Freihaut
Phone: 402-965-3374
E-mail: ffreihaut@nebrskamed.com
Walgreens
Burlington and 7th Street
Hastings, NE
October 22
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Frank Freihaut
Phone: 402-965-3374
E-mail: ffreihaut@nebrskamed.com
Walgreens
25th Street & 2nd Avenue
Kearney, NE
Regional West Medical Center
4021 Avenue B
Scottsbluff, NE
All Nebraska Lung Health Educational Screenings are:
October 22
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Frank Freihaut
Phone: 402-965-3374
E-mail: ffreihaut@nebrskamed.com
Note: Locations are subject to change without notice; for confirmation of location nearest you, call first!
New Mexico
Walgreens
San Mateo and Montgomery
Albuquerque, NM
October 22
Walgreens
On Highway 47
Los Lunas, NM
October 22
Santa Fe, NM
Information to come
October 22
Roswell, NM
Information to come
October 22
Carlsbad, NM
Information to come
October 22Walgreens
Highway 528 and Southern
Rio Rancho, NM
Rhode Island
Miriam Hospital
164 Summit Ave
Providence, RI
October 22
8 a.m. to Noon
Contact: Angela Gasparri
Phone: 401-793-3180
E-Mail: AGasparri@lifespan.org
South Carolina
Lexington Medical Center, Cafeteria
2720 Sunset Blvd.
West Columbia, SC
October 22
Contact: Darlene Fry
Phone: 803-791-2074
E-Mail: dgfrye@lexhealth.org
St. Francis Hospital, Cafeteria
Greenville, SC
October 22
Contact: Suzi Westmoreland and Paul Treffeisen
Phone: 864-255-1063
E-Mail: ptreffeisen@stfrancishealth.org
South Dakota
Sioux Valley Hospital
Sioux Falls, SD
October 20 & 22
10 a.m. to noon
Contact: Ruth Krueger
Phone: 605-333-6514
E-mail: Kruegerr@siouxvalley.org
Vermillion Senior Citizen Center
20 S. Plum
Vermillion, SD
October 22
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact: Lori Salonen
Phone: 605-638-8265
E-mail: salonenl@siouxvalley.org
Note to Press: South Dakota respiratory therapists will also be performing lung screenings at the state capitol. Contact Ruth Krueger at 605-333-6514 for more details.
Texas
St. Luke's Diagnostic and Treatment Center
2457 South Braeswood (Map to St. Luke's)
Kirby Glen, TX
9 a.m. - Noon & 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Contact: 823-355-LUNG (5864) to schedule an appointment. Those with an appointment will be seen first.The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Respiratory Care, Lobby of Allied Health/Research Building
8403 Floyd Curl Drive in the South Texas Medical Center
San Antonio, TX
October 22
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Contact: Will Sansom
Phone: 210-567-2570
E-mail: sansom@uthscsa.edu
