Event Description

Discover Pink promotes awareness of the importance of screening in the early detection of breast cancer while raising important dollars for Project Access Network’s breast health program, which connects the underserved in Marion and Polk Counties to needed breast health care. 

Project Access Network (PAN) partners with area healthcare providers to connect to donated care those who have exhausted all of their options.  PAN community health workers then help with overcoming barriers to accessing this care, such as language and transportation, ensuring that an average of 98% of patients attend their appointments.  Between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, Project Access Network helped 158 women in Marion & Polk Counties get their breast cancer screening and diagnostic services.  This is about a 12% increase over the 137 women we navigated the previous year.