All funds raised for this event will stay in the Dartmouth Cancer Center Manchester and Nashua locations, supporting meaningful patient and family support services. It’s a wonderful way to support and celebrate the patients in our community.
Christi A. Hayes, MD, medical director of Dartmouth Cancer Center in Manchester and Nashua.The Friends of Dartmouth Cancer Center are bringing the spirit and impact of the Prouty, northern New England’s largest family-friendly fundraising initiative, to southern New Hampshire with the second annual Prouty Community Day and Walk on Saturday, May 16.
The event, hosted at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester at 100 Hitchcock Way, offers a meaningful and accessible way for community members to come together in support of local cancer patients and families receiving care in southern New Hampshire. Funds raised through the walk will directly benefit patients and families receiving care at Dartmouth Cancer Center locations in Manchester and Nashua. These dollars stay local, supporting essential services such as food and gas cards for patients in need, comfort carts, and other critical resources that ease the burden of cancer care.
“We strongly believe in the importance of receiving quality cancer care close to home,” said Christi A. Hayes, MD, medical director of Dartmouth Cancer Center in Manchester and Nashua. “All funds raised for this event will stay in the Dartmouth Cancer Center Manchester and Nashua locations, supporting meaningful patient and family support services. It’s a wonderful way to support and celebrate the patients in our community.”
The day will begin at 1:00 pm with an opening ceremony led by Dartmouth Cancer Center leaders, followed by an inspiring 1-mile community walk highlighting individuals whose cancer journeys motivate and unite participants. Attendees can also visit a survivor tent honoring past and current cancer survivors, and enjoy family-friendly activities including kids’ programming, food, music and more.
The event is part of the 45th annual Prouty, which aims to raise $12 million this year to advance life-saving cancer research and patient support services at Dartmouth Cancer Center. All funds raised are eligible for a dollar-for-dollar match from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, doubling their impact.
Community members of all ages and abilities are encouraged to participate and help make a difference close to home. Register for the Manchester event at this link.
For additional details about the Prouty, visit theprouty.org.
About Dartmouth Cancer Center
Dartmouth Cancer Center combines advanced cancer research at Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, with award-winning, personalized, and compassionate patient-centered cancer care and clinical trials based at the Norris Cotton Cancer Care Pavilion at Dartmouth Health's Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. With 14 locations around New Hampshire and Vermont, Dartmouth Cancer Center is one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. Each year the Dartmouth Cancer Center schedules 74,000 appointments seeing more than 4,500 newly diagnosed patients, and currently offers patients more than 240 active clinical trials. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022, Dartmouth Cancer Center remains committed to excellence, outreach and education. We strive to prevent and cure cancer, enhance survivorship and to promote cancer health equity through pioneering interdisciplinary research and collaborations. Learn more at the Dartmouth Cancer Center website.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.