Habersham Medical Center (HMC) employees are hoping their breast cancer awareness video will win first place in the national Pink Glove Dance video competition.
“To participate, health care organizations had to submit a 90 second video of employees dancing while wearing pink gloves, and you had to feature at least one community organization dancing in the video as well,” says April James, director of business development. “HMC had not just one but several community partners including Habersham EMS, the Habersham Sherriff’s Department, North Georgia Medical Transport, the Demorest Fire Department and the Habersham Fire Department.”
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This is the first year HMC has entered the contest which is now in its fifth year.
James says more than 75 HMC employees participated. She says they wanted to honor local breast cancer survivors and current breast cancer patients, including hospital employees. “We have several employees who are breast cancer survivors and at least one currently undergoing breast cancer treatment,” adds James. Some of them are featured in the video. “We wanted to show them our love and support and let them know that we are all in the fight against breast cancer together.”
In addition to offering moral support to breast cancer fighters and survivors, the video’s also meant to encourage women to get their annual mammograms because early detection is key.
The HMC ‘dancers’ spent four hours one day back in June shooting the video to the popular Bruno Mars song “Uptown Funk.” James says there were only a few songs they could choose from because of the video rules and regulations. HMC chose the theme “Extinguish Breast Cancer.” James says making the video was fun. “The enthusiasm displayed by our medical team and public safety professionals was contagious and showed a lot of community pride!”
The video was produced by recent Piedmont College graduate, K J McCoy of Athens, Georgia, who donated his time and talent to produce the project. His biggest challenge, says James, was working around department schedules to “make sure we didn’t interfere with patient care.”
The video project is part of the breast cancer awareness initiative by Medline, a national provider of medical products. Medline created the Pink Glove Dance competition in 2009 and thousands of health care organizations participate annually to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research.
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The top three videos in each category will win cash prizes for their favorite breast cancer organization. You can vote daily. Voting ends on September 23, 2015.
