 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new 40 million dollar facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. The Pikeville area family YMCA continues to host their weekly Wellness Wednesday event to everyone's satisfaction. On March 8th, Pikeville Medical Center made an appearance to further spread awareness and talk about the importance of cancer screenings. By hosting these events the Y is doing their part to make a more health conscious community. So Wellness Wednesdays we really wanted to focus in 2023 on health and resources in the community and truly to be to be invested in the community have to be collaborative and so you know we are a health and wellness organization we're a youth service organization but we also have space and we have traffic through the facility where other community partners can come in and talk about their resources what's going on at their businesses so it's like really a one-stop shop. So I thought it was really great that we partner to do Wellness Wednesdays and we bring in different agencies to set up in the lobby and catch members and guests as they go through the facility. Really excited to have PNC here with us today they're talking about a very important subject colon cancer awareness they have some literature here about how how you get screening what are some signs and who you need to talk to if you think you need a screening. Justice Fouts mentions the success of hosting Wellness Wednesday has been overwhelming information and schedules can be found on pikevilleymca.org and the YMCA Facebook page. I think it's really awesome the response that we've had to you know requesting people to come in for Wellness Wednesdays. A lot of people were really eager we thought maybe we would just do it during heart month but so many people kept coming to the table like hey we want to spot hey we want to spot so we think we're going to try to continue it through the whole year that way everyone in the community has an opportunity to visit once or maybe twice. Really encourage everyone to check out our website and Facebook page learn about what next Wellness Wednesday events coming up. Very thankful to PNC and their partnership with the YMCA it's always great to reach out to them when we're having health fairs or events they're great to come in and partner and be a part of our community outreach. Reporting for mountaintop news I'm Nick Colum