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Kearney Hoffman, from left, Carly Strobel, Genna Sloan, all 12 years old, talk while taking the Myers-Briggs Personality Test at Bullhook Community Health Center. Bullhook this week is celebrating National Health Center Week by hosting different events with different themes each day.
With Celebrate National Health Center Week in full swing at the Bullhook Community Health Center, the Jon Tester Room was packed Wednesday afternoon with people getting free personality, career and love assessments.
"It's been a great turnout," Jay Getten, behavioral health counselor, said. "The afternoon has been especially good."
Getten and four other clinic employees - behavioral health case worker Ron Kling, behavioral health counselor Lindsey Reichelt, behavioral health coordinator Julie Strobel and data entry recorder Laura Wheeler - were handing out and scoring tests like the Myers-Briggs Indicator Instrument Personality Test, the Love Language Quiz, a career assessment quiz and a Color Personality Quiz, which was a shorter version of the Myers-Briggs test, Getten said. Free adult coloring books were also offered to those who wanted one.
Celebrate National Health Center Week: Innovators in Community Health is a national effort to celebrate the work and services health centers provide to populations within their community. Focused, themed days have been added this year, which "will allow for more opportunities to showcase the innovative services and programs at health centers," a statement on healthcenterweek.org says.
"I believe the purpose of health center week is to engage with the community," Getten said. "Also to raise awareness of services Bullhook Community Health Center provides."
Celebrate Health Week began Sunday morning with a fun run around the city. Monday featured a pharmacy open house, where the public was invited to meet the pharmacy staff, get free blood pressure checks, receive medication reviews and get information about diabetes.
Tuesday was "It's All ABout Kid's Day!" A $25 back-to-school physical and wellness check was offered.
The reduced-priced physicals will continue until the week of Aug. 19.
Celebrate National Health Center Week continues today with "Dental Team Day." Tours of the dental clinic will be offered and Timmy the Tooth will be available for pictures.
The emphasis Friday will be women's health, with the first 75 women getting a tumbler that says "You are Strong and Powerful and Beautiful."
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