Bike to Beat Cancer, Bike to Beat Cancer Training, Employee stories - Norton Healthcare

Norton Healthcare employee and two-time cancer survivor shares the power of teamwork at Bike to Beat Cancer

When it comes to fighting cancer, Claudia Johnson knows the power of being surrounded by a good team. The physical therapist assistant at Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital beat cancer…

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Foundation, Parkinson’s Disease

$20 million gift will expand Parkinson’s disease programs and research

Norton Healthcare has announced a gift of $20 million to the “Just Imagine” campaign from the estate of Elizabeth Pahk Cressman, M.D., Ph.D., to support programming and research in Parkinson’s disease and…

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Foundation, News, Norton Healthcare Foundation

Norton Healthcare, Norton Children’s launch $200 million fundraising campaign

Not-for-profit Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s ask for the community’s help to improve health and quality of life for every person in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The organization, along with…

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Bike to Beat Cancer, Faith and Health Ministries, Foundation

15 years into Bike to Beat Cancer, for this rider it’s about the people, not the pedaling

For the Rev. Ronald C. Oliver, Bike to Beat Cancer is not about the bike, the route or the pit stops. It is about the people.  “During the Bike to…

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Bike to Beat Cancer, Cancer

Bike to Beat Cancer is an emotional time for the Schembari family and the rest of Team Bryant

Cassie Schembari was a 19-year-old Bellarmine University student when she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. “Cassie took it in stride,” said her mother, Jackie Schembari. “She was a fighter…

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Bike to Beat Cancer, Employee stories - Norton Healthcare, Foundation

Over 15 years of Bike to Beat Cancer, Bryan Redick has ridden through it all

Bryan Redick has been there since the beginning. He participated in the Norton Healthcare Foundation’s first Bike to Beat Cancer 15 years ago, and he’ll be riding again in September,…

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Foundation

Donors join Wade Mountz Heritage Society with gifts totaling $200,000

The 2023 class of the Wade Mountz Heritage Society has made planned gifts totaling $200,000 to the Norton Healthcare Foundation. To date, members of the society have donated more than…

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Norton Healthcare Foundation

Personal experience drives new board chair

Jeffrey Cumberbatch — the chair of Norton Healthcare Foundation board of directors — has experienced firsthand why his role and volunteer service are so important. He is also a patient….

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Bike to Beat Cancer, Foundation

Bike to Beat Cancer ride gives oncologist another chance to see patients outside of the exam room

It won’t be a long bike ride, but it will a meaningful one for Laila S. Agrawal, M.D., when she and her family participate in Bike to Beat Cancer. As…

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Bike to Beat Cancer, Foundation

From stage 4 prostate cancer to ‘no disease detected’

During the 2018 Bike to Beat Cancer,William Cohen and his Omega Psi Phi fraternity brother pedaled through the “Mile of Silence” – a stretch of the route where riders can…

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Childrens Hospital Foundation, Foundation, Norton Healthcare Foundation

New donors give more than $1.5 million through Wade Mountz Heritage Society

A new group of donors has joined the Wade Mountz Heritage Society after making planned gifts totaling more than $1.5 million to the Norton Children’s Hospital Foundation and/or Norton Healthcare…

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Bike to Beat Cancer, Foundation

A 20-year volunteer in the fight against cancer crosses her final finish line

One year ago, I shared the story of one of our longtime Bike to Beat Cancer volunteers, Missy Farfsing, and her battle with a rare cancer of the spine. At…

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