Health Education and Support for Patients in the Community

Health counseling session

At our 250 stores nationwide, we organized health counseling sessions where our nationally certified dietitians provided each local participant advice to improve their lifestyle habits so that they could live healthier lives.

No. of health counseling sessions:
2,121
No. of those receiving health counseling:
35,044
Health counseling session

Organizing health events

Organizing health events with nationally certified dieticians serving as instructors

Organizing events on women’s health

Organizing events on women’s health
New form of health support from the angles of medical care, exercise, and nutrition, linked by nationally certified dietitians

At SUGI Pharmacy Hayashiji Store, nationally certified dietitians provide nutritional consultations in cooperation with the clinic and fitness club housed on the second floor of the store. In this new initiative to support health from the three angles of medical care, exercise, and nutrition, we provide individualized guidance with patients encouraged by the clinic doctor to have nutritional guidance, using their blood and body composition data. In addition, at the fitness club on the second floor, we regularly hold events on themes such as dementia prevention and muscle loss, helping to raise health awareness among local residents. Providing comprehensive health support through the store, we are striving to establish a future healthcare model.

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Providing support for breast cancer patients

As part of the Pink Ribbon Campaign for raising the public awareness of early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of breast cancer, we donated medical hair wigs to 100 breast cancer patients.

Wigs donated to a total of approx. 1,100 patients in the past 11 years

Organizing wig sales events

We periodically organized wig sales events at our flagship stores. By featuring well-tuned counseling by wig makers at the sales venues, the events helped the customers feel close to wigs. While ensuring sales, we contributed to increasing the QOL of patients suffering from an adverse effect of anticancer drug treatment.

Organizing wig sales events

Health promotion seminars by the Sugiura Memorial Foundation

In cooperation with the SUGI Pharmacy Group, the Sugiura Memorial Foundation annually holds seminars in operating areas of SUGI Pharmacy nationwide in order to help local residents, including senior citizens and their families, understand about the latest medical treatment and disease prevention and feel more keenly the importance of early detection and treatment of disease, as well as preventive care against dementia and other geriatric diseases.

Health promotion seminars by the Sugiura Memorial Foundation
Background of the establishment of the Sugiura Memorial Foundation

In September 2011, when the SUGI Pharmacy Group celebrated the 35th anniversary of its establishment, the Sugiura Community Healthcare Promotion Foundation was established, with Hirokazu Sugiura and Akiko Sugiura, who had established SUGI Pharmacy, as the organization’s founders, in the hope that they could reciprocate the support extended by local residents so far and be of use as much as possible by contributing to society. In July 2015, the foundation was certified as a public service corporation and renamed the Sugiura Memorial Foundation. Not only does it continue to support individuals and organizations that work toward realizing a comprehensive community care system, but the foundation also contributes to society extensively in the fields of dementia and preventive care.

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