CAPI to host March 3 event to focus on sharing mission with local healthcare community

The Central Florida Association of Physicians from the Indian Sub-Continent (CAPI) will host an evening event for members and non-members beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, at The Rosen Centre Hotel on International Drive in Orlando.

“The focus this year is to spread the word about our organization and how we can help in the medical community,” said 2012 CAPI president Nikita Shah, MD. “Not many people in the Orlando area know that we have 400 to 500 members – physicians and dentists representing specialties and subspecialties across the board. We want all the hospitals and healthcare administrators and providers to know we’re here to help with community service projects or whatever the need may be. That’s our big push.”
For the past several years, CAPI has been hosting health fairs at Indian temples around Orlando. “Just because they’re held at temples doesn’t mean they’re only open to Indians,” she said. “We’re open to the public.”
Sanjiv Vyas, MD, a CAPI physician member who owns a pathology lab in Orlando, routinely donates the use of his facility.

“He volunteers his lab services every year, and we’re very fortune and glad about that. So for $30 to $40, we’re able to do comprehensive blood work for patients,” she said. “We typically have patients come in who have fasted and have their blood drawn one or two weeks before the health fair. Then they come back the day of the health fair and physicians go over the results with them.”
Health fairs are typically held every April and September. “We try to host them six months apart,” she said. “Most people don’t have healthcare insurance today, and for them to go have blood work done, you’re talking a few hundred dollars, at least. So if they can get the whole comprehensive panel done twice a year for $30 or $40, that’s a lot we can offer them. We can alert them if there’s a high PSA, for example, and make a difference if it’s caught early.”
CAPI’s all-day fall conference is slated for Saturday, Sept. 22.

“We don’t have the lineup yet, but we’re hoping to have local hospital leaders talk about where they see healthcare headed in Central Florida, and how hospitals systems see things changing because the next few years will be very challenging,” said Shah.
For more information, call (321) 952-0853 or visit www.capimed.com.

 

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