Welcome to Get Screened America

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Get Screened America hits the road in 2010 as it expands the healthcare awareness program to all 10 races in which the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series participate as the series was renamed by NHRA in a November announcement. The program will provide healthcare services to as many as 5,000 attendees per race from among the 100,000 to 175,000 NHRA fans that attend each of the 10 races.

Over the past 15 years, you have heard a lot in newspapers, magazines and on TV about the “fattening of America”, obesity and fatness among our kids, high blood pressure in adults, pre-diabetic conditions, “silent killers”, and how the cost of healthcare keeps increasing. Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, skin cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, etc … all of these diseases can be detected and/or treated if we are made aware of health risk assessments, health screenings and the simple tests that are available.

Get Screened America's Mission - Click here

Get Screened America's mission is to make you aware of the importance of being tested or screened for health conditions that can often be easily treated if they are diagnosed early enough. Such screenings include blood glucose testing (diabetes), blood cholesterol (high cholesterol), blood pressure checks (hypertension), breathing tests (COPD), simple vision tests (glaucoma and/or macular degeneration), and certain cancers (at current only facial skin abnormalities) while stressing early testing needs for colorectal, breast and other invasive cancers.

2009 Accomplishments - Click here

For 2009, Get Screened America is very proud to annouce the following accomplishments:

  1. Get Screened America sponsored the Get Screened America Pro Mod Challenge at 10 NHRA events
  2. Get Screened America’s midway pavilion appeared at 4 events (NHRA races), providing over 12,000 fans with information about testing and screening
  3. Over 1600 blood glucose tests, 1200 cholesterol tests and 5000 blood pressure checks were performed - ALL FREE
  4. Over 1500 health risk assessment forms were collected at the new on-track kiosk or on paper, and published behind a secure website
  5. More than 100 Get Screened America Pharmacy Savings Cards were issued
  6. More than 15,000 pieces of educational literature were distributed to interested fans

Get Screened America is dedicated to providing reliable preventive health screening and educates the fans about working with your doctor is important. Our healthcare screening is FREE to you and promotes the importance and awareness of you and your family members being tested and screened as a way to detect these "silent killers" while they are treatable. Devoted to healthcare education, Get Screened America is using motor sports – specifically NHRA – to highlight this awareness in simple language, on this website and at selected NHRA events. We want to de-mystify the screening process, and promote the importance of testing for disease states that can be so easily cured or treated if you get diagnosed early enough. Remember the key words … “get screened”.

While the whole disease “thing” can seem overwhelming, our experts have suggested that we start keying in on some of the diseases that are easiy to diagnose first. So … Get Screened America focuses on:

Keep checking back … there’s more to come!

For more basic information on each disease, click on the “Diseases” button along the top or side menu bar.