The Prouty has become an institution in the Upper Valley, and we are thrilled to expand this wonderful event to our friends, patients and community in southern New Hampshire.
Steven D. Leach, MDThe Prouty, Dartmouth Cancer Center’s premier fundraising event, is hosting its first-ever Prouty Community Day & Walk on Sunday, June 8. Held at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, located at 100 Hitchcock Way, the event will raise support and awareness for Dartmouth Cancer Center programs and patient services in southern New Hampshire.
The fundraising goal for the inaugural Community Day & Walk is $200,000. All money raised will stay within Dartmouth Cancer Center locations in southern New Hampshire. Funds go toward support services for patients and their families, such as gift cards for groceries and gas, comfort carts for patients in treatment, and much more.
The event will include a one-mile walk and community celebration with refreshments, activities for children, music and more. Dartmouth Cancer Center leadership will hold an opening ceremony, and participants will get the chance to meet Prouty Heroes and visit a survivor tent celebrating past and current cancer patients and survivors.
“The Prouty has become an institution in the Upper Valley, and we are thrilled to expand this wonderful event to our friends, patients and community in southern New Hampshire, said Steven D. Leach, MD, Dartmouth Cancer Center director. “Every dollar raised through Prouty events helps provide life-saving cancer care and fuel innovative research to one day end cancer. I look forward to it every year, and I’m delighted to build The Prouty’s reach and impact."
For more information on the southern New Hampshire Prouty Community Day & Walk and to register, visit bit.ly/450o6CU.
About Dartmouth Cancer Center
Since 1972, Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) has combined groundbreaking and advanced cancer research at Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine with award-winning, personalized, compassionate, patient-centered cancer care and clinical trials. At its flagship location at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, with 14 locations across New Hampshire and Vermont, DCC is one of fewer than 60 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers nationally. Each year, DCC manages 74,000 appointments, treats more than 4,500 newly diagnosed patients, and currently offers more than 240 active clinical trials. DCC remains committed to excellence, outreach and education. DCC strives to create new knowledge and impact, accelerate integrated and collaborative research to prevent and cure cancer, enhance survivorship and promote cancer-related health equity. Learn more at cancer.dartmouth.edu.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.