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NORTHWEST LIONS FOUNDATION

Health screening
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Health

Providing Free Health Screenings…

The Northwest Lions Foundation partners with Lions clubs throughout Multiple District 19 of Lions Clubs International to help detect health problems. Checking for glaucoma, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sight and hearing loss is key to interventions in potentially life-threatening health problems.

The Foundation famously operated the “Lions Health Screening Unit”, a 62 foot trailer and tractor that became a popular sight throughout Washington State and Northern Idaho for many years. That unit, known as the “LHSU”, has now been retired and replaced by several medically–equipped, Mobile Health Screening Units (affectionately dubbed the “Mini” or the “Minis”) that are staged at various locations throughout Washington state and Northern Idaho for much easier access to clubs than the legacy, LHSU.

Mini Health Screening Unit

The Mobile Health Screening Units are available to Lions Clubs to give free health screenings at schools, fairs, and other public events. Checking for glaucoma, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sight and hearing loss is key to interventions in potentially life-threatening health problems. The “Minis” provide the same health screenings that the legacy LHSU provided at no cost to school children and adults to assist the early detection of health problems that could potentially result in the loss of vision or hearing if left untreated.

This year, the Lions Mobile Health Screening Units will provide free screening for an estimated 30,000 patients, the vast majority of whom will be children.

To book a Mini Health Screening Unit, or for questions, contact your district's Northwest Lions Foundation Trustee.

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“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

—Hippocrates

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The LHSU
Health Screening Unit

The LHSU that served Washington and Northern Idaho Lions clubs and their communities the last 40 or so years has retired. In short, the Mini Health Screening Units that have been deployed in various locations throughout Washington and Northern Idaho the last few years have proven to be a much more cost–effective and efficient method of providing Lions clubs with the tools they need to conduct effective health screenings in more communities than the LHSU could reach each year. The 62–foot LHSU trailer that became a fixture in many communities cost US$170,000 annually to operate, much more than the costs of outfitting and deploying the Minis.

Although we will miss the LHSU, the Northwest Lions Foundation is proud of the service it brought our communities (more than 30,000 annual health screenings), and of the symbol of servce the LHSU represented.