A Crucial Catch Day: Open Door teams up with the NFL and the American Cancer Society to Fight Breast Cancer

(Port Chester, NY – October 20, 2014) As part of a collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Football League (NFL), Open Door Family Medical Centers has received $50,000 to provide services and clinical breast exams to women who are 40 and over. On Saturday, October 25, Open Door will host “A Crucial Catch Day: a day to fight breast cancer” in Port Chester from 9am-2pm. The event is free and registration is encouraged. To register call Paola Maureira at (914) 406-8251. Those who attend without reservations will be seen based on provider availability. Open Door is located at 5 Grace Church Street in Port Chester.

A Crucial Catch Day will celebrate health and provide information and education about how to reduce the risk of breast cancer, and how to detect it early. Free clinical breast exams and mammography referrals will be available throughout the day. The event is designed for women 40 and over who have not had a mammogram in the past 12 months, with or without insurance, or with insufficient insurance for breast cancer screenings. There will be refreshments and activities for children.

At 10am, Lindsay Farrell, President & CEO of Open Door Family Medical Centers will be presented with the check for $50,000 by Christina Faber, Senior Director of Primary Care Systems, Eastern Division of the American Cancer Society.

For more information about A Crucial Catch Day and to register for the event call Paola Maureira at (914) 406-8251. For more information about Open Door Family Medical Centers visit: http://opendoormedical.org.

About Open Door Family Medical Centers
Open Door, winner of the 2012 New York Nonprofit Excellence Award, has received the highest Recognition as a Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PPC-PCMH™) from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). This ranking distinguishes Open Door from medical practices across the nation as less than 12% have appropriate systems in place to achieve this advanced standing. For more than 40 years, this federally qualified community health center has served a multi-cultural community providing top quality medical, dental care and social services to the people in Westchester and Putnam counties, particularly the economically disadvantaged. Open Door has centers located in Ossining, Port Chester, Mt. Kisco Sleepy Hollow and Brewster. In addition, Open Door operates five school-based health centers in Port Chester at The Edison Elementary School, Park Avenue School, the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Port Chester Middle School and Port Chester High School with a new school based health center opening in Ossining High School this fall. In 2013, 49,470 patients were treated at Open Door, making 210,615 patient visits. In the same year, 15,235 youth and children (ages 19 years and under), were treated. In 2012 Open Door, partnered with New York Medical College and Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, to launch the NYMC Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program along with a Dental Residency Program, the first new programs in New York State in decades. Funding for Open Door Family Medical Centers comes from local, state and federal grants as well as private foundations and individuals.