FCMC to hold their 12th annual Break For Breakfast to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness month

Franklin County Medical Center has been doing Break for Breakfast for 12 years.

PRESTON – Franklin County Medical Center located in Preston plans to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a Break for Breakfast event to be held on Thursday, October 6 from 7-9 a.m. in Preston.

Past crews for the Break For Breakfast have got all dressed up to bring home the Breast Cancer Awareness Week.

To avoid conflict with the construction of the hospital’s new medical building, this year’s event will be held at the FCMC Adult Developmental Disability Agency building located at 153 N. State.

FCMC officials feel like the Break for Breakfast is the quickest and easiest way to bring awareness to breast cancer which statistically affects one in eight women.

“It is more of a continental breakfast snack in a bag. We will have self-screening and mammogram information in each bag along with an apple string cheese, gogurt and a granola bar,” said Stevie Emerson, Marketing & Communications Director. “We will have it organized in such a way you barley have to push on your brakes to get one of the bags.”

It is a fist-come, first-serve operation with 500 bags and when they’re out it will be done.

“We are usually out before the two hours is up and we’ve have had it in various locations,” she said. “We are hoping this location gives us a less intrusive way to get the bags out.”

FCMC is working with 12 other hospitals in Southeast Idaho that are trying to bring awareness of breast cancer.

“We have been hosting this event since 2010. We love the opportunity to connect with the community and share this important information,” said Jenny Christensen, public relations assistant. “Women these days are just so busy and often put their own health needs on the back burner to focus on being moms, wives, sisters, friends, bosses, co-workers, etc. Brake for Breakfast is a great way to take a few minutes to remind them of these simple and potentially life-saving measures.”

Over the past 12 years, FCMC has hosted this event at several locations around Preston, handing out anywhere from 400 to 600 bags.

This year’s event will be held at the FCMC Adult Developmental Disability Agency building. Franklin County Medical Center (FCMC) has been operating since 1929 and is a hub for rural and critical healthcare access for Southeastern Idaho and is located in the heart of Preston, Idaho.

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