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A.J Robinson Deployment – One Good Deed After Another

The A.J. Robinson Foundation (501c3) was started in 1985 within Lions District 4-C6, to provide free mobile medical screening to underserved communities. The Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation Mobile Health Screening Unit (MSU) is a mobile trailer outfitted for providing health screenings that highlight risks for blindness, vision problems, but also blood pressure, diabetes and hearing.

Our 6-Spot-Vision cameras are often used without the trailer to screen hundreds of students in grammar and middle school in all counties of district 4-C6 that include Santa Clara, San Bonito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. All workers at the trailer are volunteers and the only expenses are for supplies, gas and insurance.

The Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation MSU is visible evidence of this successful District 4C-6 project within the various communities “We Serve” and is a great advertisement for Lions programs on sight, hearing, and diabetes. The MSU is available for community health screenings at community centers, fairs, events and also vision & hearing screenings at schools.  Each club in the district sponsors the use by completing the Lions AJ Robinson contract. Instructions can be found on the Lions District 4-C6 website. (AJ-R-Contract-Final-revised-9-2018.pdf (lions4c6.org))

For more information contact the Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation Scheduler, Lion Richard Conrad.

Report from the Monterey Fair event.
These are the results from the AJR health screening event at the Monterey County Fair per consent form information:

  • 23 screenings,
  • 3 eye tests,
  • 2 eye tests   referred for glasses,
  • 9 hearing tests
  • 22 diabetes screening using blood glucose testing 3 were elevated and counseled; 3 more who were slightly elevated due to eating at the fair within the past half hour.
  • 22 blood pressure tests done; five were above 140/90 and counseled; 1 was extremely high. She is under a doctor’s care and encouraged to follow up with her doctor.

We are proud to conduct these screenings this year in our new truck and trailer that replaced our 20-year-old unit.

We have also taken the unit out to many other events supported by our local Lions Clubs.  Apart from the Monterey Fair Grounds, the unit went out to ‘Day at the Bay’ and the ‘Healthy Living Fair’ at the Sacred Heart Community service center in San Jose in the past few weeks and will be deployed regularly in the coming weeks at similar events.