{"id":16887,"date":"2025-08-14T23:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=16887"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:11:47","slug":"empowered-wellness-foundation-holds-rise-and-thrive-health-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/empowered-wellness-foundation-holds-rise-and-thrive-health-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowered Wellness Foundation Holds \u201cRise and Thrive\u201d Health Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Truth Staff<\/p>\n

On Saturday, August 9, the recently founded Empowered Wellness Foundation, Inc. hosted its first ever \u201cRise and Thrive\u201d Community Health and Wellness Fair at the Wayman Palmer YMCA \u2013 an event designed to uplift Toledo families with free medial services, educational resources and fun fitness activities.<\/p>\n

Toledo families were extremely receptive \u2013 they started lining up for the event well before the 10 a.m. start time and continued to arrive in great numbers throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Empowered Wellness Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by two local African American physicians, Drs Jamie McBride and Michael Bush-Arnold, with a mission to provide the support to individuals to enable them to lead healthier lives.<\/p>\n

Drs Bush-Arnold and McBride, a husband-and-wife team, brought together numerous doctors, including 15 African American local doctors, and other health care professionals, , for Saturday\u2019s health and wellness fair. In addition, numerous health care organizations were on hand to provide information to the public.<\/p>\n

\"\"In collaboration with community members and nonprofits, services were provided on diabetes prevention, high blood pressure screenings, mammograms, sports physicals, immunizations and more will be offered \u2014 all free and accessible to all, regardless of insurance status.<\/p>\n

In addition, families were able to enjoy free food and refreshments and to receive book bags filled with school supplies. The Imagination Station offered STEM activities, the Toledo Lucas County Public Library provided giveaways and a walk-through inflatable lung exhibit, face painting and free dance classes were also available to visitors.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bush-Arnold is a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physician and Dr. McBride is an Emergency Medicine physician.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re bringing revolutionary care directly to the communities that need it most,\u201d said Dr. Bush-Arnold. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about medicine \u2013 it\u2019s about empowerment, education and building trust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff On Saturday, August 9, the recently founded Empowered Wellness Foundation, Inc. hosted its first ever \u201cRise and Thrive\u201d Community Health and Wellness Fair at the Wayman Palmer YMCA \u2013 an event designed to uplift Toledo families with free medial services, educational resources and fun fitness activities. Toledo families were extremely receptive \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[306],"class_list":["post-16887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16891,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16887\/revisions\/16891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16887"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}