CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Lay Pastor Sharon Kruck and member Carol Porter of Pilgrim Holiness Church of Erma, accepted a $500 check from nurse Bonnie Kratzer, parish nurse coordinator and Gloria Schultz program navigator in recognition of the church’s support of breast cancer awareness. Ten women received mammograms as a result of the program.
“We are a small congregation,” stated Kruck. “We were determined to be successful in educating the women of our church and motivating them to obtain mammograms.”
The award is part of an incentive program through a grant by the Central and South Jersey Affiliate Susan G. Komen Reach-Out for Life Program administered by Cape Regional Medical Center. Faith-based organizations are encouraged to promote and support Breast Cancer Awareness to their congregations; a stipend of $500 is awarded to each church that sponsors and signs up 10 or more women for mammograms.
Since April 2010, The Parish Nurse Program and Center for Lifestyle Management Center at Cape Regional Medical Center has been participating in the Reach-Out for Life Grant. The grant focuses on women 65 or older; however, women between the ages of 40 and 64 are also included.
For more information regarding this program, contact Kratzer, the parish nurse and Center for Lifestyle Management coordinator at 609-463-4043, or Gloria Schultz, Reach-Out for Life Program navigator at 609-463-2599.
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