HealthAmerica Paints Lackawanna County Stadium Pink to Raise Awareness of Breast Cancer.SCRANTON, Pa. & WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance: DATE: Sunday, May 7, 2006 LOCATION: Lackawanna County Stadium TIME: 1:30 p.m. HealthAmerica is teaming up with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons to support the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC PBCC Palm Beach Community College PBCC Packet Binary Convolutional Coding (RF modulation) PBCC Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition PBCC Pitney Bowes Credit Corporation PBCC PowerBASIC Console Compiler PBCC Peninsula Bible Church Cupertino ) through a special event at Lackawanna County Stadium called "HealthAmerica Paints the Park Pink." "Pink is the color of the breast cancer awareness ribbon Awareness ribbons are short pieces of ribbon folded into a loop, or representations of such, which are used in the United States, Canada, Australia, UK and other parts of the world as a way for the wearer to make a subtle statement of support for a cause or issue. , but is not usually associated with baseball," said Robert L. Dawson, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of HealthAmerica. "It's for this very reason that HealthAmerica chose to develop this unusual event. Baseball has a family-oriented fan base, and no audience is more important to reach with a message about breast cancer awareness." HealthAmerica and the Red Barons are pulling out all the stops to bring as much pink as possible to the ball game on Sunday, May 7, 2006. Fans are encouraged to wear pink, and the first 1,500 women and girls in attendance will receive pink baseball caps. The Red Barons players will get into the act as well, by trading their official uniforms for pink jerseys and ball caps. Throughout the game, the team will raffle and auction off the pink team jerseys. The winners can have their jerseys signed by players afterwards. A ceremony will be held before the game to recognize breast cancer survivors Cancer survivors are those individuals with cancer of any type, current or past, who are still living. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) pioneered the definition of survivor as from the time of diagnosis and for the balance of life, a person diagnosed with . The PBCC will be on hand to provide information on breast cancer and breast health. Fans who wear pink will be invited onto the field to take part in a special group picture, which will be posted on the PBCC's website. All proceeds from the player jersey raffle and auction, as well as a portion of all ticket sales for this game, will benefit the PBCC. To purchase tickets for the HealthAmerica "Paints the Park Pink" event at the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, call 570-969-2255. About HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance HealthAmerica Pennsylvania, Inc., has a 30-year record of providing health care benefits. HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance Pennsylvania, Inc., and affiliate companies cover over 700,000 members in Pennsylvania and Ohio through PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale , HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, , Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage plans. In addition, HealthAmerica offers a product for individuals and families who are not eligible for employer-sponsored health care benefits, Medicare, or Medicaid, called HealthAmericaOne. HealthAmerica earned an "Excellent" Accreditation for its HMO plan and HealthAssurance earned an "Excellent" Accreditation for the HealthAssurance POS by the National Committee for Quality Assurance National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical practice A private, not-for-profit organization which has become the leading accreditor of managed care plans; in site visits, NCQA reviewers evaluate a managed care plan in terms of quality management, physicians' , an independent, non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to measuring the quality of America's health care. With corporate offices in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance provide managed health care products and services to over 12,000 employers in Pennsylvania and Ohio. HealthAmerica and its affiliates employ over 1,500 people in Pennsylvania. For more information, visit HealthAmerica's website at www.healthamerica.cvty.com. |
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