Self Regional Healthcare’s fourth annual Pretty in Pink, the area’s largest breast cancer awareness celebration, is scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Medford Center at Piedmont Technical College
The Self Regional Healthcare Foundation will use proceeds from the tournament to establish a Women’s Health fund that can be utilized for community outreach and programming to improve the health of the region’s women. The foundation was the title sponsor for the inaugural Women’s Health Classic.
Eight local students have each been awarded a $1,000 nursing scholarship from The Self Regional Healthcare Foundation at its annual nursing scholarship luncheon. The Foundation has two funds named in honor of two influential nurses who worked at Self Regional: the Mary Ella Ruff Nursing Scholarship fund and the Charlotte Blackwell Memorial Nursing Scholarship.
The public is invited to participate in this marrow registry event. The process takes 15 minutes and requires a cheek swab. Blood cancers like leukemia or other diseases such as sickle cell anemia may require a marrow transplant for survival. Having more individuals on the registry provides a greater chance for a match.
The Community Outreach Committee has selected five local nonprofits to receive a total of $143,000 to provide a safe haven for homeless individuals, expand the Girls on the Run program, visit limited-income new moms at home, establish wireless communication between ambulances and Emergency Care, and more.
Camp porcupine is Self Regional Healthcare’s camp for children with Type I and Type II diabetes. It takes place June 16-20, 2014 at Greenwood Family YMCA.
Greenwood Genetic Center, Clemson University Begin Collaboration on Projects. Five of the first projects to be funded focus on the understanding and treatment of autism spectrum disorders, while two proposals were combined to study improved diagnostics for hereditary cancers.
Self Regional Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare system serving the 250,000 residents of the Lakelands region, is now a seven-time Gallup Great Workplace Award recipient.
Starting this week, visitors to Self Regional Medical Center may need to access services and visit patients at the Medical Center using an alternate entrance. Direct access to the Patient Tower from the Epting Street entrance will be closed due to construction.
Hundreds of local eighth grade girls and boys will participate in a hands-on golf instruction with 14 Symetra Tour professional golfers and PGA-certified teaching professionals as part of the Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Women’s Health Classic.