Effingham Hospital

The Comprehensive Education and Screening Program for Effingham County will seek to reduce the number of new breast cancer incidences in 40+ African American women.  EHS will hold a series of breast health information and history screening forums.  This will include breast health education and risk assessments.  Participant over 40 identified as risk will receive a free screening mammogram.  Case Management staff will have access to the mammogram database for proactive follow-up and coordination of any additional services if needed.  For women who are uninsured, EHS will facilitate appointments with on-site insurance representatives who will assist one-on-one with HIX enrollment. EHS will measure progress against the stated program goals and objectives through a variety of tools and methods to include; telephone/mail questionnaires, Email database, patient breast cancer risk assessments, focus groups, attendance profiles, schedules, and monthly financial reports.   

Liberty County Health Department

The BRAVE III Project is a continuation project that will support Liberty and Long Counties. The project's priority populations will be African American Women in rural areas of Liberty County and medically underserved Women in Long County. The project will provide breast health education that puts emphasis on women knowing what is normal for the individual, clinical breast exams, screening mobile mammograms, diagnostic services and Client Navigator services which will include interpreter service, follow-up care, education, transportation, and linkage to available community resources. Mobile and weekend mammography outreach events as well educational outreach sessions will be held in churches, grocery stores, and cultural events hosted in rural areas to promote access to breast health care. The number of women screened, the number continuing breast care services and the number of early breast cancer detections will measure the project's impact.

Southeast Georgia Health System, Brunswick Location

The success of Mammograms in Motion is largely due to a network of team members, community partners & support of SGHS to provide resources for patients to transition through the continuum of care seamlessly. Its purpose is to break down barriers to access for the medically underserved with particular emphasis on rural areas. The WOW mobile makes regular visits to rural areas to insure residents have access to screening mammograms & provide an opportunity to educate & increase awareness. The navigation service will track & follow-up on all abnormal findings to ensure proper follow-up care, reduce the amount of time between services, serve as a resource regarding community services & provide educational materials. Statistical & informative data will be reported to leadership & the affiliate. Program evaluation will be ongoing to ensure we are producing the intended effect to contribute to the improved health of the community by providing services, resources and education to those in need.

Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care

Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care, Inc. is requesting $60,000 which will be utilized to provide 450 screening mammograms, and 40 diagnostic studies (diagnostic mammograms/ultrasounds) for CVCPHC’s approx. 5,000 active medically under-served and uninsured women that require this critical service. This will contribute to CVCPHC's overall ability for accessibility, early detection, awareness, and most importantly, positive patient outcomes. CVC has installed a mammography unit at its East Broad St. location, which is now operational.  CVCPHC’s collaborating partner South Coast Imaging Center will continue to provide professional and technical support in reading, tracking, data storage, diagnostic studies, and follow-up. We expect this project to result in 450 screening mammograms and 40 diagnostic studies, enabling early detection of breast cancer, thus reducing morbidity and mortality. Our Providers continue to provide clinical breast exams and breast health education to all women.

Hearts and Hands Clinic

Hearts and Hands Clinic has developed Hearts and Hands for Mammograms to decrease the ethnic and socio-economic disparity that exists in the stages of breast cancer diagnosis between low-income, uninsured and often minority women and those falling outside of that description. Research proves that an unsettling gap exists, and that African American women are diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer more often than most other ethnic groups. As an organization committed to improving health outcomes for the uninsured and low-income in Bulloch County, Hearts and Hands recognizes that mammography services must be available to this population. Hearts and Hands will provide mammograms to 125 people in our target audience, 50% of whom will be of African American descent. We will accomplish this through outreach, organization, scheduling and follow-up and through surveys, educational workshops, one-on-one educational sessions, and data tracking.

Bulloch County Health Department

Funding will help provide screening mammograms as well as diagnostic mammograms and any needed follow-up treatment to those women who currently have no insurance and otherwise would not be able to have testing done due to income barriers. The target age group would be those over the age of 40. Women in the community need to be informed of the availability of services in order to reduce the number of deaths related to breast cancer. Educating local physician offices about funding will also increase the likelihood of referrals for mammograms. The goal is to screen 100 women within a 12 month period.

Coastal Community Health Services

Through outreach and education, Coastal Community Health Services will provide a culturally competent and familial approach to increasing awareness, knowledge, and screening behaviors in low-income and minority women in Glynn County. By delivering messages in a personal, informative and empathic manner, this program will address barriers impeding mammography screening such as lack of knowledge of resources (free screenings) and importance of screenings, fears of pain and potential cancer diagnosis, distrust and misconceptions of healthcare and transportation. Our proposed community outreach worker will access the target populations in community-based settings such as churches, hair and nail salons, senior citizen centers, public housing and will refer uninsured women for breast cancer screenings and help navigate each patient from referral to screening. Through this grant, at least 300 women will receive education and 75 women are expected to receive a mammogram.