For Immediate Release:
March 9, 2012

Southcoast VNA and Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care to host free lecture on cancer prevention and cancer screening updates

Therese M. Mulvey, MD

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. — Southcoast Visiting Nurse Association, known in the community as Southcoast VNA, and the Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care will host a free lecture on cancer prevention and cancer screening updates on March 13. The lecture will be delivered by Therese M. Mulvey, MD, Physician-in-Chief and Medical Oncologist at the Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care.

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 13, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Little Compton Wellness Center, 115 East Main Road in Little Compton. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information contact Southcoast VNA at 800-698-6877 or the Little Compton Wellness Center at 401-592-0400.

About Southcoast VNA

Part of Southcoast Health System, Southcoast VNA is one of the largest not-for-profit, community-based home health and hospice care agencies serving Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. For more than 100 years Southcoast VNA has provided high quality, comprehensive home health and hospice services, which foster improvement and maintenance of health, prevention of disease and disability and compassionate end-of life care.

Southcoast VNA is a Medicare and Medicaid certified agency offering a full range of skilled home health care and hospice and palliative care services from highly trained, screened and credentialed health care professionals. Services are available 24 hours a day, every day.

Southcoast VNA's main office is located at the South Coast Business Center at 200 Mill Road in Fairhaven; with community offices located at 244 North Main Street in Raynham, at 1822 North Main Street, Fall River, and at Linden Tree Family Health Center, 2444 East Main Road, Portsmouth, R.I. For more information about Southcoast VNA call 800-698-6877 or visit www.southcoastvna.org.