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National Spotlight

Financial Resources —Did you know that there are many financial resources that can help people living with breast cancer? Find out more

Rally for the Cure — Golf, tennis, dinner events and so much more...

Go Passionately Pink to help save lives! — Just wear pink, have fun and raise money to fight breast cancer. Be inspired by the multitude of ideas right here, or think of your own. There are so many creative ways to have fun and fight breast cancer.

Profiles/Success Stories

Keep up to date on the news and events from our Grantees!

 

Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation (SNMH)  

   

The Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation has been a grantee of Komen Sacramento for 3 years. This year the "Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator Program" was funded to help Nurse Navigators conduct education and outreach in remote areas of SNMH's service area and the alternative medicine community. They serve approximately 2,500 people each year in western Nevada County by providing education, guidance, support and care coordination throughout the patient's treatment. Below is an event that Komen help funded through SNMH and it continues to be a sucess.

 Moonlight Mammogram

Moonlight Mammograms are a popular and successful means for us to educate and provide a light-hearted atmosphere in which to get screened. We host this event several times a year, and it invariably seems to motivate women to come in for screening who haven't done so in serveral years and/who have been putting off a baseline mammogram. It also seems to get women to call us to inquire about financial assistance and/or how we can remove other barriers they may have for getting a mammogram. At Moonlight Mammogram events, we keep the Breast Imaging Center open until 9 pm and we provide live music, free chair massages, finger foods, beverages (including wine), and generally a fun atmosphere of women enjoying themselves.
 
 To learn or read more about the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, please click here or visit the website at www.snmh.org. 

California Health Collaborative - Fresno  

 

The Patient Navigation and Support Project is a program of the California Health Collaborative, with funding from the Sacramento Valley Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The program provides support and financial assistance to ensure early detection of breast cancer, access to care, treatment and long-term survival.

Julie Ruiz, a Bilingual Care Coordinator provides participants with emotional support, linage to and coordination with a variety of financial and supportive services, guidance in securing coverage for treatment and breast cancer early detection and prevention educational information.
 
To learn more about the California Health Collaborative, please visit them at www.healthcollaborative.org.

Patient Letter

Dear Ms. Ruiz,

I wish to express my gratitude for the financial and personal support you extended to my wife, Dana, and me during her two year battle with stage 4 breast cancer. As you know she passed away on June 31, 2011 at age 57. Your financial support, while minimal, was helpful of course but your personal attitude and encouragement helped us as well. Please advise your colleagues at Susan G. Komen that more help for victims and their survivors is so important. Thank you again and may you continue to help and support those who are fighting the disease.

Respectfully,

Richard Raiholl

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