BCHD holds second annual Outreach Day

Volunteers from the Southeast Missouri Food Bank load groceries for attendees at the Butler County Health Department Outreach Day, May 5. This is the event's second year.

Booths for various BCHD services line the department's parking lot. The Outreach Day also brings in community partners. New organizations this year were Miracle Ear, MPACT, the Missouri State Health Insurance Assistance Program, Healthy Blue and Recycling Grace.

The Saint Francis Mobile Wellness clinic provided free mammograms to attendees. The clinic was acquired late last year and has made four visits to various communities in that time. In the next two weeks it will return to Poplar Bluff and travel to Dexter, appointments can be scheduled by calling 573-331-3952.

Inside the Saint Fracis Mobile Wellness clinic, mammography technologist Amy Boyer prepares to serve her next patient. Mammograms are free at the clinic, either being charged to insurance or paid for out of Saint Francis' Dig for Life Foundation.