Health partnership hosts inaugural Diabetes Awareness Day

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Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes (far right) presents a proclamation recognizing the partnership’s work to GMPHP leader Darlene Hanley, president and CEO of Morris Hall/St. Lawrence, Inc., while Princeton HealthCare System president and CEO Barry S. Rabner, Capital Health executive vice president and chief operating officer Larry DiSanto and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton president and CEO Skip Cimino look on.

The Greater Mercer Public Health Partnership sponsored its first-ever Diabetes Awareness Day on Nov. 6.

Through Diabetes Awareness Day GMPHP hopes to to provide free diagnostic screenings and inform area residents about the escalating threat posed by diabetes.

GMPHP is a collaboration of hospitals and local and county health departments dedicated to improving the health of Mercer and Middlesex county residents.

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