Middletown, NY – Orange Regional Medical Center will offer free skin cancer screenings at its Outpatient Services Building located at 707 East Main Street in Middletown, during the week of May 20.
Screening participants must be age 18 and older, not under the care of a dermatologist or plastic surgeon in the past year, and have not been diagnosed with skin cancer. Pre-registration is required. To register, please call the Orange Regional Health Connection at 1-888-321-ORMC (6762). Physicians volunteering at this year’s screening include Ray Basri, MD, Jeffrey Bowden, MD, Stefan Chevalier, DO, Galia Meiri, MD, MaryBeth Parisi, MD and Jay M. Weitzner, MD.
A skin cancer screening is a visual inspection of your skin by a medical professional. Often the first sign of skin cancer is a change in size, shape or color of an existing mole.
The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 1 million skin cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States. Risk factors for skin cancer include excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight or artificial sources, fair complexion, severe childhood sunburns, family history and multiple moles.
Skin Cancer Prevention Tips:
-Avoid the mid-day sun (from mid-morning to late afternoon) whenever you can.
-Wear long sleeves and long pants of tightly woven fabrics, a hat with a wide brim, and sunglasses that absorb Ultraviolet rays.
-Use sunscreen lotions with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15.
-Do not use sunlamps and tanning booths.
-Get screened for skin cancer annually.
About Orange Regional Medical Center
Orange Regional features seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs approximately 3,300 healthcare professionals. In addition to inpatient services, highlights of Orange Regional include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Orange Regional Medical Group with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Orange Regional was named by Healthgrades as one of the 100 best hospitals nationally for cardiac intervention and General Surgery and was a recipient of the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Orange Regional also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ placing the hospital in the top 5 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals assessed nationwide for its superior clinical performance. In 2017, Orange Regional was named the Most Beautiful Hospital in the US and is recognized by US News & World Report as a Best Regional Hospital. It is a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7; the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS), which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2018 and 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about ORMC, visit www.ormc.org.
