Current Grant Recipients

These projects have been selected by our independent Grant Review Panel as those that will have the greatest impact in serving uninsured or underinsured women in our service area. Please note that Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is not a direct service provider.

2011-2012 Current Community Grant Recipients - Northern Nevada Affiliate

To date, the Northern Nevada Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has granted over 3.2 million to local organizations for education, mammography screening, diagnostic and treatment programs. For more information on the organizations or to find out if there are mammography services in your area, please click on the grant recipient below.

Access To Healthcare (775-284-8989) is a comprehensive network of hospitals, clinics, primary, specialty, ancillary, and pharmacy healthcare professionals offering their medical services to under and uninsured members of our community at vastly reduced rates. For more information visit their website at http://www.accesstohealthcare.org

Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare Foundation (775-445-5161) provides temporary housing assistance to medically underserved and uninsured breast cancer patients in the counties of Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, White Pine, Eureka, El Dorado, Nevada, and Placer. For more information please visit their website at http://carsontahoehospital.com/main.asp?pID=41

HAWC Community Health Center (775-336-3017) provides financial assistance to low-income, uninsured women under 40 for clinical breast examinations, self-breast exam education and training, breast ultrasounds, mammography, and breast biopsies and related pathology services, coordinated by a bilingual patient navigator, in Washoe, Storey, Lyon, and Douglas counties. For more information please visit their website at http://www.hawcinc.org

Nevada Health Centers (775-888-6619) provides a mobile mammogram van that travels throughout the State to offer mammography services to women who typically would not visit a mammography center, or may be under or uninsured. They also provide breast health awareness programs. For more information please visit their website at http://www.nvrhc.org

Pershing General Hospital (775-273-2621) provides screening mammograms and transportation for low-income, underserved, under and uninsured women and men in Pershing county. For more information please visit their website at http://www.pershinghospital.org

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (775-472-6614) provides breast health education, clinical breast exams, and referrals for screening mammograms for low-income, underserved, under and uninsured women and men in northern Nevada . For more information please visit their website at http://www.plannedparenthood.org/mar-monte

Reno Cancer Foundation (775-329-1970) increases access to treatment for medically underserved, under and uninsured breast cancer patients in northern Nevada by paying for co-pays, insurance premiums, COBRA payments medication, transportation, housing and other out-of-pocket expenses.

Renown Foundation (775-982-4973) provides under and uninsured breast cancer patients with lodging, transportation and nutritional costs associated with seeking treatment, as well as prescription drugs, out-of-pocket co-payments and emergency surgical and needle biopsies when no coverage is available. For more information please visit their website at http://www.renown.org

Saint Mary's Foundation (775-770-3798) provides low-income, under and uninsured women who are not eligible for any other source of support with clinical breast exams, mammograms, advanced diagnostic testing, transportation assistance and referrals to specialists for treatment. For more information please visit their website at http://www.supportsaintmarys.org

Tahoe Forest Hospital Foundation (530-582-6317) provides bilingual breast health education and mammography to the medically underserved population of the North Lake Tahoe and Truckee region. For more information please visit their website at http://www.tfhd.com