DominGO! Hartford Transforms City, Connects Neighborhoods, Brings Critical Health Screenings to Community

Hundreds of individuals walked, jogged, cycled, and even scootered by three Hartford neighborhoods Sunday as the first DominGO! Hartford kicked-off in the capitol city.

DominGO!, a partnership between the town and Hartford HealthCare, stretched from Farmington Avenue and South Whitney Street all the best way down to Bushnell Park. More than two miles of metropolis streets have been closed to car visitors for the occasion, which is the primary Open Streets program within the state. Open Streets, a worldwide motion geared toward connecting communities, has confirmed to decrease crime and enhance enterprise on the times they happen.

“Over the last few years with the world turned upside down, we’ve been so isolated from one another. This is about bringing our community back together,” mentioned Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin throughout a press convention that formally kicked off the occasion on the Bushnell Park Hub on Sunday, June 26.

Hartford HealthCare’s Neighborhood Health and Heart & Vascular Institute groups carried out 80 glucose and 80 ldl cholesterol exams and greater than 100 blood strain screenings on the occasion’s Asylum Hill hub with a number of folks being referred to main take care of follow-up in the course of the occasion.

Along with well being screenings, Hartford Hospital’s cellular mammography van, the Bone & Joint Institute and CESI with its K-9 SIM dog “Axel” supplied info and video games on the Asylum Hill hub. Hartford HealthCare, together with the crew from LIFE STAR, remodeled the world surrounding Bushnell Park into an leisure and well being hub with sports activities challenges, mural portray, cornhole and a 360° digital dance machine. And, the Hartford HealthCare Community Network hosted a Family Fitness Challenge with a hula hoop competitors and planks to assess core power.

DominGO! additionally included cubicles that includes native companies, neighborhood organizations, reside music and different leisure.

Hartford Hospital Vice President of Community Health and Engagement Greg Jones thanked the town and neighborhood companions for his or her continued collaboration to make care and help extra accessible in the neighborhood.

“This event is so important to us. This is a continuation of what Hartford HealthCare is doing in the city,” mentioned Jones in the course of the morning press occasion.

The subsequent DominGO! Hartford is scheduled for July 24 and can journey down Park Street with hubs within the Parkville neighborhood and on Main Street. To be taught extra go to www.domingohartford.com