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ATLANTA—As part of the Johnson & Johnson Community Health
Care Program, Saint Joseph’s Mercy Care Services recently received a
second-year disbursement of $50,000 toward its health improvement project that
serves Atlanta.
“Johnson & Johnson creates and supports effective
partnerships,” said Sister Angela Ebberwein, RSM, vice president of SJMCS.
“They didn’t just give us funding. They provided a supportive
professional network as well.”
The grant money has enabled SJMCS to fund its Mercy Mobile Breast
and Cervical Cancer Education and Screening Program to address the need for
culturally appropriate breast and cervical cancer education and screening
services for low-income women in Atlanta. The program targets African-American
communities and communities with high immigrant and refugee populations.
“With the help of this grant money, we provided services to
several hundred women in our first year who otherwise would not have had breast
and cervical cancer education and screening,” said Dr. Noemi Carcar,
medical director of SJMCS. “For at least a few, the screening changed the
course of their lives.”
SJMCS is part of Saint Joseph’s Health System, which also
includes Atlanta’s oldest hospital. Saint Joseph’s Hospital was
founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1880. Today the facility is recognized as
one of the leading acute-care, specialty-referral hospitals in the Southeast.
At the core of all Saint Joseph’s entities is its Catholic mission
dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the communities it serves.
Since 1987, the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care
Program has supported various innovative health care programs for medically
under-served communities, from enhancing a center’s operating efficiency
to developing creative and effective programs to support the needs of their
community. The program represents a partnership between the National Council of
La Raza, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the Morehouse School of
Medicine and Johnson & Johnson. |
