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Currently the St. Vincents Foundation
has 34 services and programs to assist the community.
These programs are possible because of people like you...
- Free mammography screening
for any woman in Fairfield County*
- Free prostate screening for men over 50
- Free cervical screening*
- Free transportation for non-ambulatory cancer
patients with financial need*
- Sponsorship of several cancer support groups
for patients and families
- Free Medications Assistance Program for patients
undergoing cancer therapy**
- Sunday Brunch for cancer patients (St. Vincent's
Medical Center Auxiliary sponsored)
- Annual holiday reception and dinner for over
300 cancer patients and their families
- Travel, room and board assistance for bone-marrow
transplant cancer patients*
- Sponsor of bone-marrow testing campaigns
- Joint cancer prevention programs for Hispanic
women with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation/Connecticut Race for the Cure
- Free circus for children with cancer and
other life-threatening diseases
- Free wigs and prostheses for women undergoing
cancer treatment*
- Sponsorship of a Cancer Resource Guide for
patients and families
- Nutrition counseling for cancer patients
and their families
- Free nutritional supplements for patients
undergoing cancer therapy*
- Corporate and community cancer education
and screening programs
- Public awareness cancer education programs
- Smoking prevention and cessation programs
for teens in regional middle and high schools in 65 communities
(St. Vincent's Medical Center Auxiliary sponsored)
- Free mobile-unit mammography in partnership
with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation/Connecticut
Race for the Cure and Robert D. Russo, M.D. and Associates Radiology…at
community-based senior centers, churches and synagogues, local
government facilities and for medically underserved at-risk
women at the Southwest Community Health Center*
- Financial aid for smoking cessation programs*
- Prostate Cancer Institute
- Buddy Program for prostate cancer patients
- Cancer Survivor Breakfast, cosponsored with
the Swiss Army Brands Company
- Swim Memorial Service for family and friends
- Cancer survivor support programs through
the Joseph Abboud & Bobby Valentine Endowment.
- Endowment funds for
children diagnosed with cancer in Bridgeport &
Trumbull Public Schools.
- Cancer prevention
services, Suffolk County, Long Island
- Full daycare scholarships for preschoolers
of mothers with cancer*
- Free skin cancer screening programs
- Personal Crisis Assistance*
- Toys for children of mothers with cancer
- Free home care assistance for hospice patients
with financial need*
- Leukemia Blood Borne Cancer Support Group
* Available to those with certain financial needs
** Program has maximum benefit of $1,000 per year
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