Sebasticook Valley Hospital (SVH) is pleased to host—for the fourteenth year in a row—the area's Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk on Saturday, October 18th in Pittsfield. Walkers from throughout central Maine participate every year, raising tens of thousands in support of breast cancer services at the hospital.
According to the Director of the Women's Health Center, Linda Cregnole, "This year's walk offers two new features that our perennial walkers will find exciting: one is the walk location, which will begin and end at Sebasticook Regional Family Care (SRFC) in Pittsfield, and the second is the new walk-friendly routes. The one-mile route will begin at SRFC and continue down Somerset Avenue to Hathorn Park before tracking back to end at SRFC. The two-mile route will start at SRFC, continue down Somerset Avenue to Main Street before circling back through Hathorn Park and up Somerset to SRFC. Both routes feature sidewalks and meander past Pittsfield neighborhoods and businesses."
The money gathered from the hundred or more walkers will be used to provide free mammograms to area women who cannot afford this life-saving cancer screening. Every year, SVH provides at least fifty free mammograms to women in need. Mammograms, in conjunction with regular self-exams, are the best defense against breast cancer.
In the past, SVH has shared the proceeds from breast cancer awareness walks with the Komen Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. To register or for more information, please contact Beth Bacon at 487-0916 ext. 479.
SVH is a progressive 25-bed critical-access hospital in Pittsfield, Maine. It was established in 1963 by a group of community leaders, and has been an integral member of the communities it serves ever since. SVH is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and is a proud member of the Eastern Maine Healthcare System. |
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