Houston Healthcare Receives Grant For Breast Cancer Program
Houston Healthcare has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Central Georgia Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. With this funding, Houston Healthcare will provide education, support services and mammograms for lower-income women who do not have insurance. The grant will also fund a Nurse Practitioner Case Manager to assist women on a one-on-one basis with education, support and follow-up referrals in accessing breast health and breast cancer services.
The Central Georgia Affiliate, one of over 100 nationwide dedicated to putting an end to breast cancer, recently provided community grants totaling over $101,000 to support breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs throughout the Central Georgia area. Fundraising efforts such as the Komen Race for the Cure event held annually in Macon have made such grants possible.
“In order to ensure our funds are making the greatest impact, we work with local medical experts and community leaders to conduct comprehensive community needs assessments,” said Jennifer Pittard, president of the Komen Central Georgia Affiliate. “We have identified specific, unmet breast health needs within our community and ‘filled in the gaps,’ delivering the life-saving message of early detection and providing assistance to medically-underserved breast cancer patients and their families.”
Houston Healthcare has received several grants over the past few years from the local Komen affiliate. “We are grateful for the support and funding that the Central Georgia Komen Affiliate has provided for our health care system,” said Beth Jones, RNC, Director of Community Education and Services for Houston Healthcare. “We know that the number of women in Houston County without insurance continues to increase each year. With this funding, we can assist more uninsured women in our community who need annual mammograms while educating them about breast health and the fight against breast cancer.”
The Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker in memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36. Thanks to more than 75,000 volunteers dedicated to the fight against breast cancer, the Komen Foundation through its Affiliate network is the world’s largest private funding source of community-based breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs. Together with its Affiliate network, corporate partners and generous donors, the Komen Foundation has raised nearly $600million for the fight against breast cancer.