HealthFirst Family Care in Franklin and Laconia just received good news from
the Colon Cancer Coalition that they will be awarded funds raised during the 2017 Get Your Rear in Gear® New Hampshire run/walk event! These funds will be used to purchase FIT kits to help increase their colorectal cancer screening rates. Fit Kits are an in home testing that is easy and low cost.

HealthFirst is a Federally-Qualified Health Center which covers a five-county service area in Central New Hampshire, with a population of approximately 2,063 people aged 50-75 years old. HEALTHFIRST provides primary healthcare services through an intervention, prevention, and education model following that of a Health Home and Community Health Center.

Federal Health Resources and Services Administration data for 2015 indicates that only 30 % of the regions residents have had colorectal cancer screening. HEALTHFIRST is actively working to increase the screening rate by offering average risk patients a postage-paid, take home fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kit. To become a HEALTHFIRST patient or to learn more about FIT kits, please call HEALTHFIRST Franklin at (603) 934-1464 or visit us online at www.healthfirstfamily.org.

The 2018 Get Your Rear in Gear® New Hampshire run/walk event is scheduled to be held on Saturday, September 8 at Gould Hill Farm in Hopkinton. For more details on the event visit coloncancercoalition.org/newhampshire.