34th annual CTMC HealthCheck

Registration is underway for Central Texas Medical Center’s (CTMC) 34th annual HealthCheck, Hays County’s largest health fair. The event will take place Friday, May 1 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Embassy Suites in San Marcos. 

HealthCheck allows participants to receive more than $500 worth of important tests for just $30. 

The $30 comprehensive screening panel includes: 

• Complete Metabolic Panel (screening for glucose, renal and liver disorders); 

• Lipid Panel (cholesterol with HDL/LDL breakdown, triglycerides), and; 

• Complete Blood Cell Count (white blood cell, hemoglobin, hematocrit and platelets). 

Several additional screenings are available for a low fee, including Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, or TSH ($15), Hemoglobin A1C ($15), Vitamin D ($15) and Hepatitis C ($15). Qualifying criteria is required to receive the Carotid Artery Disease (CAD) and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) screenings which cost $30 each. In order to take advantage of additional screenings, participants must receive their comprehensive screening panel. 

While blood draws will be available at HealthCheck on May 1, participants are urged to register for a pre-event community blood draw, so they can review their results with a clinical provider at the event. 

Weight loss coach Shaila Martin laughs helps Jay Horton understand his readout from the body composition analyzer scale at the San Marcos Family Medicine booth at the 2019 health fair.

Community blood draw dates and location are as follows. Each community blood draw will take place from 7 to 10 a.m. Participants must fast for at least 8 hours. 

• CTMC Community Classroom, 1301 Wonder World Dr. Feb. 21 and 28; March 6, 13, 20 and 27; April 3 and 10 
• Kyle Live Oak Health Partners, 177 Kirkham Circle March 19 
• Wimberley Community Center, 14068 Ranch Rd 112 March 24 
• Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, 211 Lee St. March 31 
• To register for a pre-event blood draw, call CTMC at 512-753-3818. Registration will continue through April 10.  For more information, visit CTMCHealthCheck.com. 

CTMC originated in 1923 as Hays County Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Memorial Hospital. It opened at it's current Wonder World Drive location in 1983. The CTMC staff of more than 700 employees works with more than 300 active and consulting physicians to provide quality services to patients and their families. For more than 20 consecutive years, CTMC has been named The Best Hospital in Hays County in the annual “Best of Hays” ballot released by the San Marcos Daily Record. In addition to interventional cardiac services, CTMC is a Certified Chest Pain Center and an accredited Primary Stroke Center. CTMC leads the region in da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery and offers a variety of specialty care services including medical imaging, rehabilitation, hospice, women’s services and more. For more information, visit CTMC's website. CTMC is a member of the AdventHealth. 

Practice representative Kimberly Shoemaker explains which areas of muscles located along the spine are showing signs of tension for a visitor at the Kyle Family & Injury Chiropractic booth during the 2019 HealthCheck

AdventHealth is a connected system of care for every stage of life and health. More than 80,000 skilled and compassionate caregivers in physician practices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and hospice centers provide individualized, wholistic care. A shared vision, common values, focus on whole- person health and commitment to making communities healthier unify the system’s 46 hospital campuses and hundreds of care sites in diverse markets throughout nine states.