The SNHD resource links are listed below from the email dated 07/26/25. Please use the links to access the information you need.
Happy Friday! Thanks everyone for sharing resources!
SNHD Community Calendars:
- Get Healthy Events Calendar (Move Your Way fitness events, diabetes classes, community events, and free Barbershop and Beauty salon blood pressure screenings—multiple dates and sites at participating locations)
- Viva Saludable Events Calendar (Spanish):
COMMUNITY UPDATES
NEW
- University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Free Cooking classes for parents with small children
July 26
- Back to School Health Fairs
Attached flyers (English and Spanish)
July 31
NEW
- Back to School Health & Wellness Expo
10 – 2
Derfelt Center
3343 W Washington Ave, LV
NEW
- Back to School Vaccine Clinics at SNHD
Info
August 2
NEW
- Move Your Way Back to School event at Silver Mesa Pool
Visit our Get Healthy Calendar for event details!
August 7
- Shop Talk Barbershop Event
Must RSVP Space is limited:
Thursday, August 7, 2025
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Blade Masters
2245 N Decatur Blvd # D, Las Vegas, NV 89108
August 11
NEW
- Nevada Cancer Coalition
Free Skin Cancer Check
Durango Hills YMCA/UNLV School of Medicine/Thomas Dermatology
5-8 pm
CC is cohosting a community skin check clinic on Aug 11 at the Durango YMCA (see attached flier!) with Thomas Dermatology and UNLV School of Medicine.
See attached flyer.
August 21
NEW
- Partners for a Healthy Nevada Obesity Prevention Coalition Meeting
SNHD 280 S Decatur or virtual.
See attached agenda for meeting details.
August 27
- Grocery Store Tour (Spanish)
Must RSVP prior to attending tour.
Emai: vivasaludable@snhd.org or call 702-759-1270
September/October Diabetes Classes at SNHD
NEW
- Free Diabetes Self-Management class at SNHD
Spanish
September 15 and 22 (attend both days to complete class)
- Free September 25 and October 2 (attend both days to complete class)
Spanish Diabetes Self-Management Class
SNHD
October 18
- American Heart Association
2025 Las Vegas Heart Walk (flyer attached)
Location: Las Vegas Ballpark, 1650 S Pavilion Center Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89135-1857
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Start or join a team! 2025 Las Vegas Heart Walk – Heart Walk – American Heart Association
- Dr. William Bestermann Jr.
Chronic Disease Substack
Email: whbester@gmail.com
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt!
Full substack article:
During a long career focused on people who had diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and complications like heart artery disease, I can’t tell you how many times I have been told, “I have mild diabetes” or “I have a touch of diabetes.” There is no such thing. By the time you have reached a fasting glucose level of 126 or 200 after eating, your body has been sick for some time. Those are the sugar levels required to diagnose diabetes, whereas a fasting sugar of 100 or greater means you have prediabetes. Even at the prediabetes stage, damage is occurring. Patients with prediabetes may develop eye damage, heart attack, or chronic kidney disease. Patients in the later stages of prediabetes, have insulin resistance that is as bad as it gets and they have lost eighty percent off the cells that make insulin. Even prediabetes is pretty serious, late disease.
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Rayleen Earney, M.Ed., CHES
Senior Health Educator/Diabetes Program
280 S Decatur Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89107
Phone: 702-759-1271
Email: earney@snhd.org
SNHD @ Decatur is closed Fridays.