2008-2009 Grants Awarded
Georgetown Hospital System for "It's all about me"Awarded: $62,644
To bring an additional digital mammography operation to Georgetown County, serving more patients in southern county. Saturday clinics, on site clinical breast exams by physicians, education, high risk assessment, same day mammograms and follow up lab work if needed. 4 clinics serving 30 women each time will reach 120 women uninsured /underinsured in need.
Allendale County Hospital for "Pink Prevention"
Awarded: $36,200
To provide funding for uninsured and underinsured women from 21-64 who don't qualify for Best Chance to receive screening and follow up mammograms. To provide services to Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Hampton counties to reach 110 uninsured/underinsured women.
Medical University of South Carolina - Hollings Cancer Center for "Mobile Mammography Screening for Underinsured Communities"
Awarded: $18,600
To reach 300 women ages 35 and older who are uninsured, underinsured and not qualified for Best Chance through the mobile van and its many outlets.
Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc. for "Just in case you ever wonder"
Awarded: $75,000
To provide 1,000 women with educational materials and counseling through outreach programs. To provide 470 clinical breast exams and mammograms for uninsured women. To provide some follow up care with maximum of $2,000 per patient. To provide 6 outreach programs in collaboration with Beaufort Memorial Hospital.
Volunteers in Medicine for "VIM Community Mammogram Project"
Awarded: $63,986.18
To collaborate with Hilton Head Regional Medical Center and MUSC Mobile van to screen 528 underserved women in Hilton Head area including Daufuskie Island.
Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun County for "Think Pink"
Awarded: $57,630
To continue to reach and serve 400 women who don't qualify for Best Chance and are uninsured or underinsured.
Roper St. Francis Foundation for "Breast Health Navigation for all Women: Building on Success"
Awarded: $15,000
To continue to build on the success of this program initiated through a grant from the Charleston Komen Affiliate. To develop a patient data management system, to provide education, support and care supplies to patients and families and to establish a consumer advisory panel to identify and guide key components to serve excellence. To serve 125 underserved women.
Charleston Breast Center for Saving Women's Lives through "In Reach"
Awarded: $59,801.39
To provide clinical site-based screening and diagnostic services to a minimum of 100 underserved women.
2008-2009 Small Grants Awarded
Hollings Cancer Center - "Mobile Mammography Screening for Underserved Communities"Awarded: $4,950
Mobile Unit will work collaboratively with Federally Qualified Health Centers, South Carolina DHEC Centers and Free Clinic for women who do not qualify for Best Chance.
Closing the Gap in Healthcare Inc.
Awarded: $5,000
Dissemination of customized message about the importance of early detection and for women in need of mammograms to contact Lowcountry Office for help and referral.
United Way of Bamberg, Colleton and Hampton - "Pink Prevention: Screening and Detection"
Awarded: $4,985
Provision of mammograms to 20 women and allow for follow-up appointments.
United Way of Bamberg, Colleton and Hampton - "Pink Prevention: Screening and Detection"
Awarded: $5,000
Provision of mammograms to 20 women and allow for follow-up appointments.
Lifefit Community Health & Beaufort Memorial Hospital - "Beaufort County Cancer Resource Guide"
Awarded: $1,874
A collaborative effort to help produce a quality cancer resource guide for cancer patients.
Hilton Head Auziliary
Awarded: $5,000
A collaborative effort to provide Susan G. Komen for the Cure educational material into Breast Center in Hilton Head.
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