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Contributions to the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
from the Cancer Institute Auxiliary
1997 – Early 2008
- $740,000 in direct grants to Cancer Institute physicians, cancer programs
in Arkansas and the Cancer Institute Foundation
- $485,500 to the UAMS Family Home and Cancer Institute Auxiliary Cancer
Support Center
(The auxiliary is the largest monetary donor to the Family Home.)
- $200,000 pledge over 4 years (the first three payments totaling $150,000
were made in 2006, 2007 and early 2008) for a new digital mammogram
machine already in use
- $25,000 for the bone marrow transplant waiting room in Ward Tower
- $25,000 sponsor of the 1999 Charles William Rasco, III Endowed Symposium
on Oncology
- $22,000 to Dr. Steve Harms Breast Imaging Project
- $30,254 from Miracle Star projects to the patient support fund
The total donated for this period of
time is $1,477,754
2007 Cancer Institute Auxiliary
Grants & Donations
(given in March 2008)
- UAMS Family Home and Cancer Institute Cancer Support Center
- HOPE, Inc. (Helping Oncology Patient’s Excel) in Northwest Arkansas
for Emergency Assistance Program
- Clinic visits and associated diagnostics for uninsured and underinsured
women who present with breast abnormalities identified by the Modular
Mammography Program
- Patient education/screening/navigation for prostate cancer patients
- Post-mastectomy bras and pads
- Free wigs for each new female patient who is losing her hair
- Blanket warmers for CARTI/UAMS
- Weight control program for breast cancer patients
- Prosthesis and Wig Boutique for Cancer Support Home in Northwest Arkansas
- Housing assistance for multiple myeloma patients
- Be a Survivor books that physicians give to patients and
use to explain breast cancer treatment options
- Underwriting for the free prostate screening program
- Underwriting for free head and neck screening program
- Knitting needles and yarn for the Knit-and-Chat support group at the
UAMS Family Home
- Waiting room supplies for the myeloma and all other waiting rooms
in the Cancer Institute
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