Pink Power Looks Good On You | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    GREENVILLE     Vidant Health and its physician partners are offering you the chance to learn how early detection, regular screening, and advanced treatment options can give you the power against breast cancer with our Pink Power Speaking tour, a series of eight events offered across the region.

    This year's keynote speaker, Mamie McCullough, is proof that it's not where you start that matters — it's where you finish. Instead of yielding to obstacles, she learned that happiness and success mean living every day to the fullest. She was reared in poverty by her widowed mother, endured abuse as a child, survived breast cancer and lived through the death of a spouse. She will share her life's lessons and inspire others to overcome stresses, with grace and humor.

Event schedule:

  • Vidant Duplin Hospital Dinner
  • Monday, Oct. 12, 6 — 8 p.m.
  • Faison Recreation and Wellness Center
  • 184 Park Circle Dr. | Faison
  • Vidant Beaufort Hospital Luncheon (Full)
  • Tuesday, Oct. 13, 11:30 a.m. — 1 p.m.
  • First United Methodist Church
  • 304 W. 2nd St. | Washington
  • Vidant Medical Center Dinner (Full)
  • Tuesday, Oct. 13, 6 — 8 p.m.
  • Rock Springs Center
  • 4025 Hwy 43 | Greenville
  • Vidant Chowan Hospital Luncheon
  • Wednesday, Oct. 14, 11:30 a.m. — 1 p.m.
  • Edenton United Methodist Church
  • 225 Virginia Road | Edenton
  • Outer Banks Hospital Dinner
  • Wednesday, Oct. 14, 6 — 8 p.m.
  • Jeannette's Pier
  • 7223 S. Virginia Dare Trail | Nags Head
  • Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital Luncheon
  • Thursday, Oct. 15, 12 — 1:30 p.m.
  • Carpenter's Shop Fellowship Hall
  • 903 Catherine Creek Road | Ahoskie
  • Vidant Bertie Hospital Dinner (Full)
  • Thursday, Oct. 15, 6 — 8 p.m.
  • Cashie Convention Center
  • 118 County Farm Road | Windsor
  • Vidant Edgecombe Hospital Luncheon
  • Friday, Oct. 16, 11:30 a.m. — 1 p.m.
  • Edgecombe Event Center
  • 1800 Western Blvd | Tarboro

    In addition to the Pink Power speaking tour, there are other breast cancer awareness events scheduled throughout October. These include:

Health Fairs

  • Vidant Chowan Hospital | Oct. 22 | 1 — 4 p.m.
  • Vidant Edgecombe Hospital | Oct. 24 (includes breast screenings and fashion show) | 10 a.m. — 1 p.m.

Breast Cancer Seminar

  • Vidant SurgiCenter |Oct. 20 | 6 — 7:30 p.m. (genetics and risk factors/bras and prosthetics)

Free Clinical Breast Exams/Screenings

  • Vidant Women's Care — Washington | Oct. 10 |9 a.m. — noon
  • Vidant Family Medicine — Belhaven | Oct. 20|5:30 — 7:30 p.m.
  • Vidant Family Medicine — Aurora | Oct. 21 | 2 — 4 p.m.
  • Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital — Ahoskie | Oct. 24 | 9 a.m. — noon
  • Pitt County Health Department Free Screenings or Mammograms at Eastern Radiology | October-April | 3:45 — 5:15 p.m. (Dates vary)

    All events are free, but registration is required as space is limited for the Pink Power Speaking Tour and breast screenings. To register or to find out more about these events, to find a provider or to take our free online breast cancer risk assessment go to VidantHealth.com/pinkpower, or call 1-855-MyVidant (855-698-4326). For those events that are full, please call to place your name on a waiting list.

    Vidant Health, a mission-driven, not-for-profit corporation, owns, leases or has a majority membership interest in eight eastern North Carolina hospitals. The health system includes Vidant Beaufort Hospital, Vidant Bertie Hospital, Vidant Chowan Hospital, Vidant Duplin Hospital, Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, The Outer Banks Hospital, Vidant Medical Center, Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Vidant Home Health and Hospice,Vidant Wellness Centers, Vidant Medical Group and is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. On the web at www.vidanthealth.com.
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