For more information about any of the programs, call the telephone numbers listed below. Free valet parking is available.
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., The Diabetes Center at Quincy Medical Center, A 4. For more information, call 617-376-5494.
This is a comprehensive outpatient nutrition program for patients with diabetes. The program reviews nutrition, blood glucose monitoring, wound management and understanding insulin administration. Physician referral is required. For more information or to register, call 617-376-5494.
This group will meet for seven sessions and is intended to help alleviate feelings of loss while assisting with the healing process. There is no cost to attend. Pre-registration is required. Call 617-376-5502.
Quincy South Shore AIDS Cares offers free, anonymous and confidential testing. Walk-ins welcome on Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. or appointments are available Monday through Thursday. Call 617-376-5462.
Each fall, Quincy Medical Center hosts a fundraising walk to support the Marie A. Curry Fund, a permanent endowed Fund at Quincy Medical Center, focused on encouraging prevention and early detection of cancer and enhancing access to vital cancer screenings and services for uninsured and underinsured women and men.
From 1999 to 2004, Quincy Medical Center and the City of Quincy’s Mayor’s Commission on Women co-sponsored an annual Marie Curry Walk, raising more than $1 million to support the Marie A. Curry Fund at Quincy Medical Center.
With the community’s strong support of the Fund, in 2005 the Curry Family and Quincy Medical Center were able to expand the Marie A. Curry Fund’s mission to underwrite additional cancer screenings and services to inspire the prevention and early detection of a wider range of cancers. A new Quincy Medical Center Cancer Walk was established to support the expanded mission of the Marie A. Curry Walk.
The 2008 Quincy Medical Center Cancer Walk will be held on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at Pageant Field in Merrymount Park in Quincy. To pre-register or create your personal on-line pledge sheet, click here, www.firstgiving.com/qmccancerwalk.
Quincy Medical Center (www.quincymc.org) is a 232-bed acute care community-teaching hospital providing South Shore residents with comprehensive medical and surgical services. The Medical Center’s Alliance for Quality with Boston Medical Center (BMC), formed in 1999, brings academic medicine to the community. At Quincy Medical Center, physicians from Boston Medical Center direct the departments of medicine, surgery, anesthesia, emergency medicine, and psychiatry. Additionally, physicians from BMC who are board-certified in a range of medical and surgical specialties work with community physicians to ensure the continuity of patient care.