Almost $360K in Grants Awarded By Ellen Hermanson Foundation

 

"We are pleased to be reaching more women who have historically been on the fringes of access to medical care."

By Lisa Finn, Patch Staff
February 6, 2023

 
 

SOUTHAMPTON, NY — The Ellen Hermanson Foundation recently awarded $360,000 in grants for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2022. Recipients include Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, Organización Latino-Americana of eastern Long Island, The Retreat, and the Shinnecock Health Center.

Administered in partnership with the Southampton Hospital Foundation in coordination with the Phillips Family Cancer Center, the grants benefit the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and regional satellites, and Ellen’s Well, a program that provides psychosocial support to breast and gynecological cancer patients.

“Now in our second year of the collaboration, we are pleased to be reaching more women who have historically been on the fringes of access to medical care — the uninsured, the underinsured, the undocumented, and anyone who needs support after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis,” said Julie Ratner, Ed.D., co-founder and board president of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation. “Guided by our mission to ensure access to quality breast health care and by our core belief that health care is a human right, no one is turned away from the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center for lack of insurance or inability to pay for screenings or treatment.”

"We continue to provide essential funding for breast cancer education, screenings, and treatment only with the commitment and support of generous community members who step up year after year to donate, buy an event ticket, participate in Ellen’s Run, become a volunteer, or join us in fundraising,” added Anne Tschida Gomberg, executive director of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation."

In December 2022 the Board approved the following grants to fund 2023 programs:

The Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital

  • Salary stipend for the Ellen's Well licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) providing group and individual therapy

  • Technology fund toward a new tomosynthesis mammography machine

  • Salary stipend for a nurse practitioner — performing community outreach, writing screening prescriptions and following patients in their breast health care

  • Salary stipend for an (RN) oncology nurse patient navigator

  • Emergency fund for breast screenings and diagnostic procedures

  • Ellen’s Well micro-grants for transportation and social services, to be distributed by the patient navigator

Shinnecock Health Center (Stony Brook Southampton Hospital)

  • Funding for the Pink Shawl Program for outreach and social assistance for breast health care

  • Micro-grants for transportation and social assistance for breast cancer patients

Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center

  • Funding for a bilingual licensed clinical social worker and outreach worker

  • Micro-grants for social assistance for breast cancer patients

  • Underwriting for an educational community forum about breast cancer

  • Funding for breast health projects with the Latina Sistas and the Witness Project of Long Island

OLA of Eastern Long Island

  • Funding for bilingual outreach

  • Micro-grants for social assistance for breast cancer patients

The Retreat

  • Funding for bilingual outreach

  • Micro-grants for social assistance for breast cancer patients

Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert

  • Underwriting for the annual Ellen Hermanson Memorial Symposium

Original article: https://patch.com/new-york/southampton/almost-360k-grants-awarded-ellen-hermanson-foundation

 
Julie Ratner