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Money Raised at Get Your Rear in Gear® – NH Helps HealthFirst Family Care Center to Fund a Colon Cancer Screening Program
FITKits are now available for eligible HealthFirst clients; talk with your provider to learn more
Franklin and Laconia, NH --- The Colon Cancer Coalition has awarded HealthFirst Family Care Center a grant to fund a colon cancer screening program. The money for this grant comes from funds that were raised during the 2015 Get Your Rear in Gear® – New Hampshire run/walk event.
HealthFirst Family Care Center (HealthFirst) is a Federally-Qualified Health Center that covers a five-county service area in central New Hampshire, with a population of approximately 2,063 people aged 50-75 years. HealthFirst provides primary healthcare services through an intervention, prevention, and education model following that of a Health Home and Community Health Center.
Federal Health Resources and Services Administration data for 2015 indicates that 91.8% of HealthFirst patients are at or below 200% of poverty and their colorectal cancer screening rate is 30%. HealthFirst is actively working to increase the screening rate by offering average risk patients a postage-paid, take home fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kit. To become a HealthFirst patient or to learn more about FIT kits, call HealthFirst Franklin (603) 934-1464 or HealthFirst Laconia (603) 366-1070.
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The 2016 Get Your Rear in Gear® – New Hampshire event is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24th at Gould Hill Farm in Hopkinton. For more information, visit coloncancercoalition.org/newhampshire.
About the Colon Cancer Coalition
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The Colon Cancer Coalition is a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minn. dedicated to encouraging screening and raising awareness of colon cancer. The organization’s signature Get Your Rear in Gear® and Tour de Tush® event series are volunteer-driven in communities throughout the United States. Since 2004, millions of dollars have been granted by the Colon Cancer Coalition to local programs that promote early prevention, screening, and patient support services for this disease.
By making the words colon, colorectal and colonoscopy a part of the everyday language, we believe we can overcome the fear and decrease deaths from this largely preventable cancer. For more information visit coloncancercoalition.org.
