A grant for $7,350 recently was awarded to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center by the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative (WBCI). The money will be used for a Navigation and Wellness Program. Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center is located in the specialty clinics at 1180 College Drive.
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A grant for $7,350 recently was awarded to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center by the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative (WBCI). The money will be used for a Navigation and Wellness Program. Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center is located in the specialty clinics at 1180 College Drive.
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County/Photo Courtesy
ROCK SPRINGS — A grant for $7,350 recently was awarded to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center by the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative (WBCI).
The grant provides money for a Navigation and Wellness Program. The program includes helping breast cancer patients with gas cards, hotel vouchers, and offering classes to patients and survivors to help with physical, mental, emotional and social well-being. Those classes will include a six-week yoga series, a painting class, and a charcuterie class, according to Tasha Harris, the director of the cancer center’s radiation oncology unit.
“We are very grateful to WBCI for their generous grant and the opportunity to help relieve some financial burdens for our patients with the gas cards and hotel vouchers,” Harris said. “We also are very excited to offer various classes to our patients and survivors. Studies have shown that yoga and movement, and creating art in various forms may help reduce anxiety, depression, and fatigue in women with breast cancer.”
MHSC has about 550 employees, including more than 40 employed providers in dozens of specialties. Its Specialty Clinics offer care in ENT/Otolaryngology, Family Medicine, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Neurology, Nephrology, Obstetrics and Women’s Health, Oncology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Urology, Pulmonology, and with a Walk-In Clinic. MHSC services include Medical Imaging, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiopulmonary, Diabetes Education, Dialysis, Emergency Care, Intensive Care, Laboratory Services, a Medical and Surgical Unit, Nutrition Therapy, Rehabilitation, and Sleep Disorder Lab. Through its affiliation with University of Utah Health, dermatology, cardiology, vascular and maternal-fetal medicine services are offered. Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center is an affiliate partner of the U of U Health’s Huntsman Cancer Institute.
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