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Henry Schein Donates Health Care Products to Support Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® Screenings at Special Olympics World Winter Games 2025 in Turin, Italy
With This Donation, The Company Promotes Wellness, Prevention, and Health Education for Athletes With Intellectual Disabilities Around the World MELVILLE,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nWith This Donation, The Company Promotes Wellness, Prevention, and Health Education for Athletes With Intellectual Disabilities Around the World\n\n MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nHenry Schein, Inc. – the world’s largest provider of health care solutions to office-based dental and medical practitioners – is supporting the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® screenings at the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025, which take place from March 8 to 15, 2025, in Turin, Italy. The organization is donating a range of oral health and medical products essential to overall health and wellness. During the Healthy Athletes Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, on March 8, 2025, Henry Schein was recognized for these contributions. Healthy Athletes offers free health screenings and education to participating Special Olympics athletes. The goal of the program is to identify and address unmet health needs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and provide referrals for follow-up care while also promoting healthy lifestyle choices.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250311890733/en/The Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025 kicked off on March 8, 2025, with an Opening Ceremony in Turin’s Inalpi Arena. Photo credit: Special Olympics International\nAs a partner since 2018, Henry Schein has donated essential health care products to support local programs in Canada, Germany, Israel, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, the United States, and now Italy. Most recently, in support of the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin in June of 2023, the organization provided $55,000 in medical and non-medical supplies to support the administration of the Games.\n\n“Over the past seven years, our partnership with Henry Schein has been pivotal in enabling us to deliver free high-quality health screenings for our athletes,” shared Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer at Special Olympics. “We are grateful for the organization’s ongoing support in Turin, which enables us to provide accessible and dignified healthcare that everyone deserves.”\n\nHenry Schein’s donations will be used during the Special Olympic World Winter Games for screenings in seven Healthy Athletes disciplines, including Special Smiles® (dentistry), which provides athletes with co...