Grant for transportation
BANGOR — Penquis received a grant from the Walmart Foundation to help individuals with a cancer diagnosis access medical treatment. The grant, in the amount of $30,000, is helping to fund the Penquis Access to Cancer Care program which provides transportation assistance to cancer treatment for individuals living in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties.
“For individual living in rural areas the financial burden of traveling to treatment is just one of the barriers to getting the care they need,” said Marcia Larkin, Lynx mobility services director. Penquis Access to Cancer Care provides reimbursement per mile to individuals who can drive themselves or to family members or friends who are providing transportation. The program also has trained drivers who will pick the individual up at their home and provide the transportation.
The Walmart Foundation awards annual grants through a competitive application and review process.
For information, go to foundation.walmart.com.
Grant to Hope House
BANGOR — Penobscot Community Health Care announce recently that its Hope House Health and Living Center recently received a $50,000 grant from Doree Taylor Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., trustee. The grant will be used to fund general operations in order to support the mission of the center which provides a safe place to sleep for approximately 800 people a year, as well as integrated medical and behavioral health care, substance abuse treatment, and resources to achieve stability and self-sufficiency.
Ann Giggey, director of Hope House Health and Living Center, said, “This grant will assist with replacement and upgrade of equipment much needed to provide shelter care and services.”
With a recovery focused model, including on-site integrated health care, medication management, therapy, groups, and case management, as well as transitional housing, the Hope House provides
emergency shelter to the most vulnerable in our city and is a community safety net in the Bangor area, managing overflow of homeless persons from other shelters. Hope House provides shelter to 55-60 adult men and women each night.
For information, go to https://pchc.com/locations/.
Outstanding Cancer Care
BANGOR — Eastern Maine Medical Center recently received national recognition for its comprehensive cancer care services with a 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer. EMMC is one of only 75 healthcare facilities in the United States, and the only hospital in the state to earn the recognition this year.
Only 15 percent of hospitals in the United States and Puerto Rico received the award. This is the third time since 2004 that EMMC has received such recognition.