How One Woman Battled Cancer


	Robin Gorman wasn’t expecting the lump in her breast to be malignant. “I thought it was a cyst,” she says. “Even when I returned after the mammogram to get an ultrasound, I thought they were just being thorough.” But two weeks after her exam, an ultrasound and a biopsy, Robin was told that she had breast cancer. When Robin first found the lump, she didn’t know where to go. A life-time resident of New Orleans, Robin felt her world stop when Hurricane Katrina devastated her hometown. She was forced to leave the city until September 2006, when she returned with her two daughters. A Health Center in New Orleans Provides Help With no health insurance from her part-time job, Robin searched the Internet and found St. Thomas Community Health Center. Here, Robin was able to get the care she needed. The Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health (LBCH) program is part of St. Thomas, one of the most comprehensive primary care facilities serving both insured and uninsured patients in New Orleans. The program was awarded a Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant in 2007, which allowed the clinic to hire Carmelita Johnson, a full-time mammogram technician. Eleven other Gulf Coast community health centers in four states also received grants to fund primary and preventive medical, dental and vision care services. “When women visit the general health clinic at St. Thomas, they are encouraged to stop by LBCH to get a low-cost or free mammogram,” says Johnson. “The goal is to get these women back on an annual screening schedule, as their health screenings were thrown off course because Katrina caused many local health centers to close.” A Positive Outcome For Robin, the process from diagnosis to treatment took about a month. Dr. Mary Jo Wright from Tulane Medical Center met with Robin to discuss her upcoming surgery, a mastectomy. Robin had the surgery soon after. A year after being diagnosed, Robin is cancer-free and working as the after-school program coordinator at a local elementary school. With the help of her two daughters, she is beginning to remodel her New Orleans home. A Long History of Caring For the past 20 years, the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program has provided nearly 150 grants to community-based health programs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Grants support innovative programs that ensure medically underserved people have access to quality health care services in their community.

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How One Woman Battled Cancer

	Robin Gorman wasn’t expecting the lump in her breast to be malignant. “I thought it was a cyst,” she says. “Even when I returned after the mammogram to get an ultrasound, I thought they were just being thorough.” But two weeks after her exam, an ultrasound and a biopsy, Robin was told that she had breast cancer. When Robin first found the lump, she didn’t know where to go. A life-time resident of New Orleans, Robin felt her world stop when Hurricane Katrina devastated her hometown. She was forced to leave the city until September 2006, when she returned with her two daughters. A Health Center in New Orleans Provides Help With no health insurance from her part-time job, Robin searched the Internet and found St. Thomas Community Health Center. Here, Robin was able to get the care she needed. The Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health (LBCH) program is part of St. Thomas, one of the most comprehensive primary care facilities serving both insured and uninsured patients in New Orleans. The program was awarded a Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant in 2007, which allowed the clinic to hire Carmelita Johnson, a full-time mammogram technician. Eleven other Gulf Coast community health centers in four states also received grants to fund primary and preventive medical, dental and vision care services. “When women visit the general health clinic at St. Thomas, they are encouraged to stop by LBCH to get a low-cost or free mammogram,” says Johnson. “The goal is to get these women back on an annual screening schedule, as their health screenings were thrown off course because Katrina caused many local health centers to close.” A Positive Outcome For Robin, the process from diagnosis to treatment took about a month. Dr. Mary Jo Wright from Tulane Medical Center met with Robin to discuss her upcoming surgery, a mastectomy. Robin had the surgery soon after. A year after being diagnosed, Robin is cancer-free and working as the after-school program coordinator at a local elementary school. With the help of her two daughters, she is beginning to remodel her New Orleans home. A Long History of Caring For the past 20 years, the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program has provided nearly 150 grants to community-based health programs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Grants support innovative programs that ensure medically underserved people have access to quality health care services in their community.

Robin Gorman wasn’t expecting the lump in her breast to be malignant. “I thought it was a cyst,” she says. “Even when I returned after the mammogram to get an ultrasound, I thought they were just being thorough.” But two weeks after her exam, an ultrasound and a biopsy, Robin was told that she had breast cancer.

When Robin first found the lump, she didn’t know where to go. A life-time resident of New Orleans, Robin felt her world stop when Hurricane Katrina devastated her hometown. She was forced to leave the city until September 2006, when she returned with her two daughters.

A Health Center in New Orleans Provides Help
With no health insurance from her part-time job, Robin searched the Internet and found St. Thomas Community Health Center. Here, Robin was able to get the care she needed.

The Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health (LBCH) program is part of St. Thomas, one of the most comprehensive primary care facilities serving both insured and uninsured patients in New Orleans. The program was awarded a Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care grant in 2007, which allowed the clinic to hire Carmelita Johnson, a full-time mammogram technician. Eleven other Gulf Coast community health centers in four states also received grants to fund primary and preventive medical, dental and vision care services.

“When women visit the general health clinic at St. Thomas, they are encouraged to stop by LBCH to get a low-cost or free mammogram,” says Johnson. “The goal is to get these women back on an annual screening schedule, as their health screenings were thrown off course because Katrina caused many local health centers to close.”

A Positive Outcome
For Robin, the process from diagnosis to treatment took about a month. Dr. Mary Jo Wright from Tulane Medical Center met with Robin to discuss her upcoming surgery, a mastectomy. Robin had the surgery soon after.

A year after being diagnosed, Robin is cancer-free and working as the after-school program coordinator at a local elementary school. With the help of her two daughters, she is beginning to remodel her New Orleans home.

A Long History of Caring
For the past 20 years, the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program has provided nearly 150 grants to community-based health programs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Grants support innovative programs that ensure medically underserved people have access to quality health care services in their community.

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