St. Bernards Receives Two Komen Grants
by April 22, 2015 3:51 pm 120 views
St. Bernards Healthcare recently received two grants totaling more than $97,000 from the Arkansas Affiliate of Susan G. Komen to help provide breast health services to women in Northeast Arkansas.
One of the grants presented to St. Bernards included $66,689 for the “Bringing Mobile Mammography To Your Community” program. The other was for $31,000 for the BreastAssured XI program.
The grants were among 21 announced recently at a luncheon in Little Rock.
St. Bernards has had a program of providing mobile mammography to work and clinic sites in 18 counties in Northeast Arkansas and has been in the business of taking mobile mammography to underserved areas since 1999.
The group’s mammography technicians are on the road an average of three days a week and have done over 13,000 screening mammograms aboard the Women’s Mobile Unit since 2005.
It was on site for the April 11-12 St. Bernards Medical Group Expo at the Arkansas State University Convocation Center. Since 2008, more than 125 women have received free screening mammograms, and more than 150 have received free clinical breast exams because of the mobile mammography program.
The mobile unit provides services in Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Fulton, Greene, Independence, Lee, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett, Randolph, Sharp, St. Francis and Woodruff counties.
The St. Bernards BreastAssured XI program now is in its 11th year of providing screening mammograms, diagnostic mammograms and breast ultrasound services for uninsured or underinsured women. Eligibility is determined at the time of registration, with services especially helpful for women who have chosen to pay the penalty for not having health insurance and those who have extremely high deductibles and/or co-pays that make it difficult to afford healthcare services such as mammograms.
St. Bernards supports the Arkansas Affiliate of Susan G. Komen through a number of activities and programs.
Among those are the annual Runway to the Cure style show scheduled this spring for 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 28 at St. Bernards Auditorium and the Komen Arkansas Ride for the Cure, a recreational bicycle ride which includes routes of 20, 45 and 62 miles and is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 1, in Jonesboro.