New Blood Pressure Monitor Program at The Mexico-Audrain County Library District

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The Mexico-Audrain County Library District recently began offering a new service in partnership with a local doctor – blood pressure monitors that can be checked out for two weeks at a time.

Christal Bruner, the director of the Mexico-Audrain County Library District, said she was approached by Dr. Alex Fink, a doctor at Cornerstone Family Medicine and grew up in the community.

“I'm one of these people, it's like, ‘We'll try it and we'll see if it works. If it works, I'm all for it,” and so, I said, “Sure,” and he wrote a grant to the American Heart Association where he was able to purchase them the monitors for us to have at all five of our locations.”

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