Engage Estero Community Health Council comprises health* and safety-minded volunteers who think about community health comprehensively with a common desire to improve the overall health of the citizens of greater Estero.
Judy Kessel
jkrollak@gmail.com
Our Mission:
To Be a think tank for creative ideas about community health and how to impact the health of greater Estero favorably.
We exist to provide guidance, information, education, and initiatives and engage citizens in efforts that result in healthy options, decisions, and behaviors.
Values essential to success and longevity:
We aspire to have greater Estero Recognized As” The Healthiest Community In Florida.”
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*Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity: The World Health Organization, 1948, revised in 1976 to include the underlined text.
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Important Health and Safety Issues in the Greater Estero Area The ECCL is pleased to provide the second quarter’s Greater Estero Community Report (GECR) for 2022. Each of the articles contained in the report focus on aspects of importance in our area. We discuss:...
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Veterans' ResourcesEngage Estero is committed to assisting our veteran community. We share resources and items of interest here to help our local veterans connect with others and with agencies that can help. Engage Estero is not endorsing any particular organization...
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Troubled Waters: A Public Health Hazard During the height of the 2018 Blue-Green Algae and Red Tide HAB (harmful algal bloom) crises in Southwest Florida, Calusa Waterkeeper met and interviewed many of the nation’s leading research scientists studying HABs, but also...
Prepared by the ECCL’s Health Council and the “Fall’s” Sub-Committee More people over 65 in Lee County die from a fall than all people who die in a motor vehicle crash. One in four people over 65 will fall each year. Lee Health Emergency Departments have over 1000...
On Saturday April 17, 2021 Lee Health hosted a drive-in “Health Fair” at their Coconut Point complex. The aim was to increase awareness of the many advanced services available, their integrated approach to preventive healthcare as well as their state-of-the-art...
Two of the key areas that the ECCL focuses on concerning our vision, "To make the greater Estero area the best place to live, work, and play," are Healthcare and Safety. With this in mind, the ECCL considered a recent article published by Kaiser Health Newsworthy of...
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