During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, St. Tammany Hospital Foundation is rallying local organizations and businesses to be United in Pink, a month-long effort to raise funds and awareness while encouraging early detection, patients’ most potent weapon in the fight against breast cancer.
United in Pink is a collaborative effort of St. Tammany Hospital Foundation, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Mauti Cancer Fund / Be A Saint.
“From mammograms on the Be Well Bus to pink-wrapped cruisers in the Sheriff’s Department, we are all united together in a great big pink effort to make sure every woman across the Northshore knows that early detection of breast cancer could save their life,” said Jack Khashou, administrator of St. Tammany Cancer Center, a campus of Ochsner Medical Center. “We have this broad coalition of organizations all focused together on the goal of saving local lives, United in Pink.”
The campaign launch is Oct. 1, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., in the cancer center parking lot at 900 Ochsner Blvd. in Covington. The event will feature two Sheriff’s office vehicles wrapped in pink to raise awareness all month long across the parish, the STHS Be Well Bus offering mammograms and food trucks selling lunch from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Donors can support the initiative through purchase of United in Pink T-shirts at STHfoundation.org/UnitedInPink and by making a $5 donation for the honor of signing the Sheriff’s pink-wrapped vehicles.
Proceeds from this campaign benefit education, screening, and early detection initiatives of St. Tammany Health System and patient care at St. Tammany Cancer Center, a campus of Ochsner Medical Center.
See below for a listing of United in Pink mammogram events on tap across the Northshore through October. Visit StTammany.health for weekly updates as additional events are added.
Those interested in making an appointment to get a mammogram at any of the United in Pink events, or to schedule a visit by the Be Well Bus to their place of business, should contact Pablovich at apablovich@stph.org or (985) 898-5932.
United in Pink screening events
Oct. 1, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: United in Pink launch event, St. Tammany Cancer Center, 900 Ochsner Blvd., Covington. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus. Additionally, the wrapped Sheriff’s Office vehicles will be on-site for those wishing to sign them. Food truck roundup from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Oct. 4, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Tropical Smoothie, 70360 Highway 21, Covington. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus as well as wrapped Sheriff’s vehicles for signing.
Oct. 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: St. Tammany Physicians Network - Folsom, 82525 Highway 25. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus.
Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Chick-Fil-A, 3585 Highway 190, Mandeville. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus as well as wrapped Sheriff’s vehicles for signing.
Oct. 13, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Ochsner Health Center - Franklinton, 2219 Main St. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus.
Oct. 16, 8 a.m. to noon: Mandeville Farmer’s Market, 615 Lafitte St. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus as well as wrapped Sheriff’s vehicles for signing.
Oct. 19, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Walgreen’s, 71041 Highway 21, Covington. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus as well as wrapped Sheriff’s vehicles for signing.
Oct. 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Ochsner Health Center – Bogalusa, 2781 S. Columbia St. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus.
Oct. 27, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: St. Tammany Physicians Network – Madisonville, 1520 Highway 22 West. Mammograms aboard the Be Well Bus.