HANCI - Services - Healthy Living Partnership
With the Niagara County Health Department, HANCI is a lead agency in providing no-cost mammograms, pelvic exams, pap-smears and colo-rectal cancer screenings to Niagara County adults who are uninsured or underinsured.
Residents age 50 and older can call for an at home screening kit called Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) to screen for colon cancer.
Niagara County hospitals participating include:
- DeGraff Hospital
- Lockport Memorial Hospital
- Mt. St. Mary’s Hospital
- Newfane Inter-Community Memorial Hospital
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
The Healthy Living Partnership is funded by the New York State Department of Health.
For more information, contact Darlene Muehlbauer, Data Manager of Healthy Living Partnership, at muehlbauer@hanci.com or 716-215-0553.
Community Partners Include
- Alterra
- American Cancer Society
- CIS @ Roswell Park
- Cornell Cooperative Extension
- The Dale Association
- DeGraff Hospital
- Entercom
- Hospice & Palliative Care Group
- Inter-Community Memorial Hospital
- Lockport Memorial Hospital
- Mental Health Association of Niagara County
- Mount St. Mary's Hospital
- Mount St. Mary's Neighborhood Health Center
- Niagara Gazette
- Niagara County Office for the Aging
- Niagara County Risk Management
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
- Opportunities Unlimited
- Planned Parenthood
- WhyMe House
- YWCA of the Tonawandas
Events
Free Cancer Screening Clinic at St. Mary's Neighborhood Health Center, 3003 - 9th Street, Niagara Falls, NY from 1 P.M. - 3 P.M. every third Saturday of the month.
Woman, ages 18-64 who are under-insured or uninsured are encouraged to go to the health center for their free breast and cervical cancer screening. Women over 40 years old are also encourages to come to the clinic for a free examination and referral for a mammogram.
