Dust off your poodle skirt and leather jacket and join us on Friday, October 24, for Hancock Health’s annual Women Helping Women event! This initiative helps support healthcare services for underinsured and uninsured women in our community, including mammograms, ultrasounds, biopsies, education, navigation, and support services.
Hopelessly Devoted to Women’s Health is the theme for this year’s event, reflecting Hancock Health’s dedication to improving women’s well-being and ensuring women prioritize their own health. Enjoy dinner, dancing, auctions, music, and more while supporting women right here in Hancock County.
Whether you were born to hand jive or are a rock n’ roll party queen, grab your friends and family to celebrate women and fundraise for this hallmark program on Friday, October 24 from 6:00 to 10:00 PM at the Embassy Suites in Noblesville. Learn more at hancockhealth.org/foundation.
The History of Women Helping Women
In 1998, a Women’s Health Task Force identified a community need for breast health education and funding for mammograms for those without insurance. Foundation Director, Myra Bleill, along with a group of dedicated volunteers, created Women Helping Women to help fill this need, and the first fundraising dinner was held. Since then, the program has grown tremendously in size and scope.
The first celebration raised enough to pay for 26 mammograms. Now, the program covers screening and diagnostic mammograms, pelvic exams and ultrasounds, clinical breast exams, biopsies, bone density screenings, as well as providing education, navigation, and support services – all within the Women’s Clinic at Hancock Regional Hospital, located within the James T. Anderson, M.D. Center for Women’s Health.
About the Hancock Health Women’s Clinic
The Hancock Health Women’s Clinic serves at-risk, uninsured or underinsured women who meet income guidelines. The clinic provides basic health services, including clinical breast exams, and screening and diagnostic breast procedures (including mammograms, ultrasounds, and biopsies), gynecological services including Pap and pelvic exams, hormone replacement counseling, birth control counseling, and nonsurgical gynecologic issues. Services are available to men too, if needed.
The clinic is staffed by an experienced women’s health nurse practitioner and a clinic coordinator and overseen by a Hancock OB/GYN physician. The clinic is open to all women, both insured and uninsured. Funding for the Women’s Clinic comes from multiple sources, but a large portion of the clinic is funded through donations to Women Helping Women.
Find more information here, or for appointments, please call the clinic coordinator at (317) 468-4641.