Community Services

Our board members have 

• Served indigent patients for more than fifteen hundred hours at the Good Neighbor house, Five Rivers and Reach Out Montgomery free clinics in Montgomery County, Ohio;
• Prepared handouts with simple and easy to follow advice to the uninsured patients regarding lifestyle modifications designed to reduce the risks of chronic illnesses; and,
• Mentored the medical students and resident physicians on the preventable links between chronic illnesses and lifestyle risk factors at these clinics.

Raised awareness of lifestyle modification through:

• Area support groups
• Local hospitals and universities
• Free clinics and other medical clinics
• Medical students and residents at almost all the Dayton area hospitals
• Public health schools in Dayton,Ohio
• Regional National Kidney Foundation meeting in Columbus 
• Grand rounds at Kettering Hospital 
• The medical students ‘healthy habits week’ celebration at Wright State University
• Free Clinics of Ohio Conference, Columbus 
• Asian American Youth Council Of Dayton 
• Annual kidney walks and KEEP screening programs in Ohio
• Annual Polycystic Kidney Disease Walk since 2011
• Wellness awareness groups
• Childhood obesity initiative of American Association of Physicians of Indian origin (AAPI), prepared educational material and increased awareness
• Presentations in the community
• Montgomery County Public Health Department as partners in disseminating the lifestyle modification message in the community
• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Fund creation at an area hospital to increase awareness of CKD in the community
• Local media collaboration
• Organizing 5K Walk/Run

Between 2011 and 2014, Global Pragathi was known as Stop N Check Movement.