Helping to keep the community healthy, Bayshore's Consumer Education Department offers ongoing lectures, presentations, screenings and a speakers bureau both on- and off-site.

The Consumer Health Education Department at Bayshore provides area residents with a wide variety of ongoing seminars, workshops, screenings and training programs designed to promote good health, prevent illness, promote basic life-support and first-aid knowledge, and educate consumers about various health issues.

Hours
Consumer Health Education Department is open during regular weekly business hours.

Contact
For information or to register for a class or lecture, please call (732) 739-5919 or email us.

Please see our Events Calendar for monthly programming of all courses, lectures and events.

Smoke Hypnosis
Bayshore's SMOKE HYPNOSIS program is a two-hour group session taught by a Certified Hypnosis Consultant. Hypnosis can help you take control of your life by eliminating the desire, urge and craving to smoke, no matter how long or how much you have smoked.

In hypnosis, you are completely aware, you hear everything, your senses become more acute, your concentration increases and your mind sharply focuses. While under hypnosis, you are very relaxed, but you are NOT asleep. Hypnosis requires consent, trust and cooperation. It cannot force you to do anything you do not want to do.

Classes are taught by a Certified Hypnosis Consultant and held at both the Hospital and Bayshore Fitness & Wellness Center, Hazlet. Classes begin at 7:30 p.m.

Please call (732) 739-5919 to register and for fee information.

Please see our Events Calendar for monthly programming of all courses, lectures and events.

Support Groups
Please call the corresponding numbers before attending the first meeting, and make sure you call to confirm the day and time during the summer, holidays or bad weather.

• Alzheimer's
  (732) 888-4567 — FREE
  Meets third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Call for location.
• Bereavement
  (732) 739-5888 — FREE
  Meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Bayshore Community Hospital in the TCU Dining Room on 2-East.
• Cancer Support Group — FREE
  Meets first and third Thursdays of each month at 5:30 p.m. at Bayshore Community Hospital in the TCU Dining Room on 2-East.
• Caregiver
  (732) 888-4567 — FREE
• Stroke Support Group
  Held quarterly, please call (732) 739-5919.
• Suicide Survivors Support Group
  (732) 739-5919 — FREE
  Meets second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Bayshore Community Hospital in Conference Room A.

Support Groups Coordinated by Outside Agencies

• Al Anon
  (for family members of alcoholics) (973) 744-8686 — FREE
• Alcoholics Anonymous
  1-800-245-1377 — FREE
• Families Anonymous
  (for family/friends concerned about drugs, alcohol and behavioral problems)
  1-800-736-9805 — FREE
• Narcotics Anonymous
  Please call this automated number for current times and dates: 1-800-992-0401 — FREE

Referral to Additional Support Groups — (732) 739-5919

Annual Screenings
Part of our mission in keeping you healthy includes providing FREE screenings to the community. Some of our annual free screenings include:

• Breast Cancer
• Glaucoma & Vision
• Prostate Cancer
• Diabetes Eye
• Colorectal

Bayshore Classic 5K Race, Half-Mile Family Fun Walk & Community Day
Check your local newspapers for advertisements and race information around the middle of August, or you can call us at (732) 739-5918 for information and race applications. Children's applications will be distributed through the local school systems at the appropriate time.

Speakers Bureau
In need of a speaker for your next meeting? Bayshore Community Hospital offers a FREE Speakers Bureau to community organizations. Our professional staff members are available to give informative presentations on almost any health-related topic — from snoring to reading supermarket labels. Please call (732) 739-5918 for topic ideas for your organization.