For Immediate Release	Contact: Joyce Faria Brennan
September 30, 2005	508-961-5270
	brennanj@southcoast.org
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. — Southcoast Hospitals will be hosting a free seminar for women in celebration of National Breast Cancer Awareness month on Saturday, Oct. 22, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Hawthorne Country Club, 970 Tucker Road, North Dartmouth.

Women are encouraged to attend a morning dedicated to staying healthy. Local health care professionals will demonstrate aromatherapy and essential oils and discuss issues such as urinary incontinence, lymphodema, breast cancer and breast cancer surgery.

Special guest Barbara Allman of the U.S. Postal Service will be on hand to present a reproduction of the breast cancer awareness stamp. There will be raffles and an auction to benefit patient education programs and an assortment of door prizes.

A free continental breakfast will be served. Registration is necessary as space is limited. To register, call the Southcoast Wellness Line at 1-800-497-1727.

Program schedule:

8:45 to 9:30 a.m. — Patricia Ciccotelli, RTR, CT, Aromatherapy and Essential Oils

9:30 to 10:15 a.m. — Patty Bernadino, RN, Urinary Incontinence

10:15 to 11 a.m. — Janet Gillis, PT, Lymphodema and Breast Cancer

11 to 11:45 a.m. — Patricia Andrade, MD, Breast Cancer Surgery

About Southcoast

Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast is one of three community hospitals approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to perform open heart surgery and primary angioplasty beginning in Spring 2002.

Media Contact

Joyce Faria Brennan
Phone: 508-961-5270
Pager: 508-387-9605
Fax: 508-961-5876
brennanj@southcoast.org