New day and time for blood pressure checks
February 22, 2008

New day and time for blood pressure checks

February 22, 2008

West Valley Hospital will offer free blood pressure checks on a new day and time, beginning in March.

Blood pressure checks are available on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, from 2 to 3 p.m., in the surgery department of West Valley Hospital, 525 Washington Street, Dallas.

The hospital had offered the blood pressure checks weekly.

"We hope that having this blood pressure check once a month won't cause an inconvenience to our community," says Eric Buckland, West Valley Hospital administrator. "We needed to make this change because the community's use of the hospital has increased. The hospital has become busier in large part due to the additional physicians that the hospital and Salem Health have brought to the Polk County area in an effort to make healthcare more readily available close to home."

To learn more about the hospital's blood pressure check clinic, call 503-623-8301.