WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES DISCUSSED AT TEA PARTY SPONSORED BY KEYSTONE HEALTH CENTER   (Chambersburg, PA) - About 50 area women attended a free Tea Party sponsored by Keystone Health Center and the John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Health Ministry on Sunday afternoon, February 22.  The event—For Women, About Women—gave women of all ages the opportunity to talk with health care providers from Keystone Health Center about health issues related to women.           Following a social period, Sarah Myers, nurse midwife, Dr. Yvette Brown, obstetrician-gynecologist, both from Keystone Women’s Care; and Mona Lemanski, Keystone’s registered dietician, gave brief presentations on health topics of interest to women and then took questions from the audience.  Margie Roach, LPN at Keystone Family Practice, was on hand to take blood pressure readings, and Sharon Brocious of the Cumberland Valley Breast Care Alliance also participated.  The Tea Party, which was held at the John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church in Chambersburg, expanded on the health fair theme by allowing for questions and group discussion.  Jenny Englerth, the director of behavioral health at Keystone, said, “For this particular event, we primarily targeted African American and Hispanic women. The Tea Party format helped us get important health information to these women in a relaxed setting where they were free to ask questions and learn from not only practitioners but also each other.”  According to Vanessa McDowell, outreach coordinator at Keystone and coordinator of the event, “Women feel very comfortable asking questions in this type of setting because they’re on a more equal footing with the providers.  Being outside the clinical setting gives women the chance to view health care providers as people and vice versa.”  McDowell said that Keystone hopes to offer similar events in the future at other area churches.  Keystone Health Center, a public, non-profit organization, provides high-quality family medical, obstetric, gynecological, cardiac, behavioral, and dental health care and, when needed, social services to underserved and vulnerable populations as well as the entire community. At present, Keystone Health Center operates six primary care sites—Keystone Family Practice, Keystone Dental Center, Keystone Women's Care, Keystone Health Center-Path Valley satellite family practice, Franklin County Pediatrics, and the State Migrant Farmworker Administration office—and one specialty practice, the Franklin County Heart Center. Keystone also operates one year-round migrant and seasonal farmworker site in Berks County and one seasonal farmworker site in Adams County. Services are also provided through outreach workers and contracted providers across the Commonwealth.  For more information regarding Keystone Health Center, please visit the website at www.keystonehealth.com. For more information regarding this news release, please contact Dawn Stinson at (717) 263-2230 x227. ###