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Beaver Island Rural Health Center begins lower-cost cholesterol testing, 2005

Also Cholesterol Testing at the BIRHC 2005

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TypeEvent
Date2005-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2005-05
Kind
Announcement
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
healthcarepublic-servicecommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The May 2005 Beaver Beacon announced that the Beaver Island Rural Health Center could perform cholesterol testing using a drop of blood at less than half the cost of hospital testing. The notice also described high cholesterol as a risk factor and encouraged regular screening.

Evidence limits

This is a provider service notice and general health-information article, not a patient record, clinical recommendation tailored to an individual, or report of testing volume and outcomes.

Sources

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Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2005, "Cholesterol Testing now available at the BIRHC."
    Explains cholesterol risk, recommended screening intervals, and the BIRHC's new finger-stick testing service and lower stated cost. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the health-service notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Rural Health Center begins lower-cost cholesterol testing, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-birhc-cholesterol-testing-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2005, "Cholesterol Testing now available at the BIRHC." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-07. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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