On Thursday, September 26, 2024, Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) staff, community members and cancer survivors will create a human pink ribbon to help promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
Please join us to create this bright pink human ribbon. An aerial photo of the ribbon will be taken.
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024 (Rain date: Friday, October 4, 2024)
Time: 1 p.m. (arrive by 12:45 p.m.)
Location: Murnane Baseball Field, across from the Faxton Campus in Utica, New York
How: Please let us know you’ll be there by registering at bit.ly/octoberpinkribbon. Participants are asked to wear bright pink!
This event is sponsored by the MVHS Cancer Center.
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About MVHS
MVHS is dedicated to delivering premier healthcare to our region, keeping our patients as the focus of all we do. MVHS strives to be the leading patient-centered medical and healing environment, the employer of choice and the pride of Central New York. MVHS is the parent company of the Wynn Hospital as well as MVHS Rehabilitation and Nursing Center (RNC) and Visiting Nurse Association of Utica and Oneida County. MVHS serves a multi county area of central New York. The MVHS Medical Group has 15 primary care locations. The group also provides services in many specialty areas including Women’s and Children’s Health; General, Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Orthopedic and Neurological Surgery; Advanced Endoscopy, Wound Care, Bariatric, Cardiovascular, Comprehensive Stroke, Cancer, Immune Health, Behavioral Health, Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Pulmonary Critical Care and Urology.
In October 2023, MVHS opened the Wynn Hospital – a new, state-of-the art, 373 bed hospital in downtown Utica. The Wynn Hospital replaces two aging community hospitals, St. Luke’s and St. Elizabeth, and is capable of handling 85-90 percent of all healthcare needs in the community. The Wynn Hospital will strengthen and grow full service cardiac offerings, support the development of a Neurosciences Institute that will include a Neurovascular Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center, will be a world class diagnostic center, including Interventional Radiology and Advanced Endoscopy and provides a Level III Trauma Center plus the ability to serve 90,000 emergency visits per year.
For more information, visit mvhealthsystem.org and find us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
