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This is where your financial support went this year in the annual WV Susan G Komen Community Grant Program.2014-2015 Community Grant Recipients We are proud to
announce this year's West Virginia Community Grant Recipients.
Project Name: REACH: Raising Everyone's Awareness Can Help to Save Lives Project Contact: Marsha Dillow About: The main purpose of this program is to provide mammograms to women who are uninsured or underinsured. Educating women about teh importance of early detection is also an important component of this program. These goals will be met by offering educational programs to both providers and the community as well as planning community events where mammography will be offered on the day of events. By collaborating with community partners, multiple sources for funding will be utilized to maximize grant funds in order to help as many women as possible. Members o the Breast Cancer Leadership Committee will attend community events as well to increase awareness and mammograms can be scheduled at these events.
Project Name: Breast Health and Education Project Project Contact: Kim Couch About: This Breast Health Project proposes to educate our population service area and to provide 275 free mammogram screenings to our patients in need of assistance. We will also focus this project on two educational events in October: a health event and a social event. The health event done in collaboration with the Family Fitness Center will have activities such as a Family Fun Run, Celebration Zumbathons, Health Cooking Demonstration, and Pamper Me booths. The social event, Bravo-Painting A Picture of Hope - will be done in conjunction with the Parkersburg Arts Center.
Project Name: Greenbrier County Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Project Contact: Robin Taylor About: The BCAP project will continue our awareness and media campaign in 2014 and 2015, create a patient support fund to be utilized for breast cancer patients who need assistance with travel expenses to attend treatment appointments, provide 120 screening mammograms at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center to WV women who are uninsured or under-insured and do not qualify for other available programs, provide diagnostic testing for up to 15 women who require further diagnostic services by utilizing and expanding our current network of referring providers and service Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers and Pocahontas counties. We will also assist our partnering organization sin Bonnie's Bus visits by providing Komen grant vouchers to these facilities to assist in paying for uninsured or underinsured women who utilize Bonnie's Bus services. We will also provide two clinical trials training programs during the grant year.
Project Name: Eliminating the Cost of the Gasoline Barrier Project Contact: Debbie Radosevich About: Wheeling Hospital established a Cancer Navigation Program in October 2012. The navigator's role includes but is not limited to: assisting newly diagnosed patients in maneuvering the complex healthcare system, providing a single contact that crosses over disciplines and enhances communication to all team members and patients, evaluating and reporting anxiety/depression to the appropriate provider(s), and identifying and providing resources to assist in eliminating barriers to care. Our Patient Navigator has identified the cost of gasoline as a sincere barrier to treatment for some of our patients. Funds are being requested to provide financial assistance in the form of gasoline cards for individuals needing to make multiple trips to Wheeling Hospital for treatments who live beyond the eligible radius to utilize our transport van. Project Name: Breast Health Basics Project Contact: Jayme Nardo About: Breast Health Basics is an educational program conducted 7 times annually by Wheeling Hospital's Breast Patient Navigator. The curriculum outlines the basics of a breast self-exam, the role of clinical breast exams, healthy lifestyles to promote breast health, the importance of regular mammograms for women over 40 years of age, elimination of barriers and how early detection can save lives. A focus of Breast Health Basics is to reach underinsured and/or uninsured women over age 40 who do not obtain routine mammography screening. Women are then directed to the appropriate resource for obtaining mammograms at no cost. Target area: the northern panhandle of WV. This program has additional partner programs (Bosom Buddies, a Hand Therapy Department specializing in upper extremity rehab) that will benefit from the WV Affiliate of Susan G. Komen assisting us in expanding our Breast Health Basics program. It will allow us to continue in our efforts to reach and provide care for the underinsured and uninsured in our service area with a specific focus of participation from residents in Ohio and Hancock counties.
Project Name: Breast Health Care for the Impoverished Medically Project Contact: Angie Settle About: WV Health Right, the State's oldest and largest free clinic, provides comprehensive primary and specialty healthcare at no charge to 14,193 impoverished medically underserved women from 34 south central WV counties. Through this project, the clinic will provide breast health education, screening and treatment services to women between the ages 40 and 49, who are at greatest risk of poor breast health: those with very low incomes, low educational levels, no health insurance or those women who may be eligible for Expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but are unable to access a medical home. Further, in light of the implementation of the ACA, we will now serve those who are uninsured whose household incomes are 250% of the Federal Poverty Level. Our project will provide breast health education to an additional 200 women and provide free appropriate care and treatment to an additional 500 women between the ages of 40 and 49 who are ineligible for the WVBCCSP services.
Project Name: Bonnie's Bus: Providing Mammograms & Education Project Contact: Sara Jane Gainor About: Bonnie's Bus does not turn away any woman over the age of 40 because she is not insured or cannot pay for her mammogram. Grant funds are used to fund services for these women. We make every effort to check eligibility for WVBCCSP and to refer to that program, but there are many women who come to the Bus who do no qualify or are not able to enroll it hose programs for a variety for reasons... We are requesting funding for up to 200 mammograms (at approximately $130-140 per mammogram) for uninsured women age 40 and over who are not eligible for or do not have access to WVBCCSP. In addition, we are requesting funding to cover diagnostic procedures at Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center for up to $2500.Alhtought WVBCCSP covers most uninsured women for follow-up diagnostic tests, occasionally tehre are women who do not qualify for one reason ro another; we would like to fill this gap with our Komen project.
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