Capital Health offers a variety of educational programs to increase the knowledge of our communities and other health care providers when it comes to neurological diseases and disorders. These educational programs take many forms, including educational conferences and seminars, community programs and events, as well as school-based programs.
Learn more below about our programs and how you or your group can take advantage of them.
Stroke School
For the last 15 years, Capital Health nurses have taught area school children in the Mercer County area the signs and symptoms of stroke. They’ve also taught them how strokes can be prevented.
We know that kids can have a big impact and educating them empowers our community as a whole. As of January 2024, more than 10,000 students have been educated in 40 schools since stroke school began.
Interested in having 4th grade students in your school participate? Call Maggie Gray, RN, Community Health Educator, at 609-394-4153 or email Maggie at [email protected].
Community Health Education – Events, Lectures, Speakers Bureau
Capital Health’s medical specialists provide neurosciences health education on a variety of conditions such as stroke, concussion, epilepsy, back pain and surgery, movement disorders, aphasia, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, brain tumors, and more. These programs focus on specific neurological diseases, risk factors, prevention, and treatment. These programs are free to attend.
To find an upcoming lecture, please visit our events page at capitalhealth.org/events. We also offer videos of past lectures which can be found here.
For those diagnosed with a brain tumor, we offer a monthly Brain Tumor Support Group. Click here for upcoming dates and to register.
If you’d like a physician or medical specialist to do a neurosciences presentation at your office, church, school, or sports organization, please call Diane Hasili at 609-394-4034 or email [email protected].
Concussion Education for Schools
Capital Health offers educational programming on the topic of concussions and how they affect students in schools. School nurses, administrators, teachers, trainers and athletic directors can all benefit from understanding concussion. To schedule a concussion education session at your school, click here or call 609-394-4153.