$43,500 Donated by Porterville Breakfast Rotary Club to Cancer Treatment Center

$43,500 is the total amount that members of the Porterville Breakfast Rotary Club (PBRC) raised to benefit local cancer care and research in the past year with the help of community donations. Today, PBRC members presented the check to Sierra View Medical Center’s Roger S. Good Cancer Treatment Center (CTC). There to help receive the generous donation was Sierra View Medical Center CEO/President Donna Hefner and CTC and other SVMC leadership, including Patient Experience Officer Dan Blazar who is also a Rotarian.

The PBRC began raising funds for local cancer care 20 years ago. Throughout the years, PBRC has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to SVMC. The club works closely with Sierra View Medical Center to raise funds through their signature Run For Life Cancer Walk/Run event. Returning after two years, the latest Run For Life event held on May 7, 2022, drew in more than 300 runner and walker registrations, of which nearly 60 were SVMC employees.

“We are just really proud as a club to be able to support the cancer center,” said PBRC member Rob Taylor. “It’s a real bright spot in our community and something that the whole community is proud of.” Taylor, also a local business owner, thanked the hospital for their vision of creating a facility where local community members could receive the cancer care they may need close to home.

Director of CTC Crystal Davis explained that this year’s gift will continue positively impacting the care local patients receive at the center. Proceeds help to host cancer support groups, breast cancer awareness events and health fairs, the purchase of equipment and educational materials, and community outreach projects. Recently, the CTC team has used a portion of past PBRC donations to complete two landscaping projects. The updated facilities are meant to provide peaceful green spaces for CTC patients, employees and visitors. PBRC club members were invited for a socially distanced tour of the garden areas to see the progress.

PRBC donations also help fund the center’s Survivors Day Celebration. The CTC Community Relations Coordinator Carol Ann Moore invites patients to join us on Friday, June 3, 2022, for a very special presentation honoring local cancer survivors. The theme is “Hope Grows Here.”

The long-term commitment from service clubs like PBRC highlight the importance of partnerships and the far-reaching impact collaborations have on the care Sierra View Medical Center can provide for our community members. “Especially coming out of what we’ve been through, it gives us all hope," said Hefner.

To learn more about the Porterville Breakfast Rotary Club, please visit http://pvillebrkfstrotary.com. For more information about giving opportunities to the Cancer Treatment Center and other hospital funds, community members can work with SVMC’s fundraising organization, Sierra View Foundation by visiting www.sierra-view.com/foundation.

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Photo Credit: Jason Pommier. PBRC members presented the check to Sierra View Medical Center’s Roger S. Good Cancer Treatment Center (CTC). There to help receive the generous donation was Sierra View Medical Center CEO/President Donna Hefner and CTC and other SVMC leadership, including Patient Experience Officer Dan Blazar who is also a Rotarian.

Sierra View Medical Center CEO/President Donna Hefner welcomes Porterville Breakfast Rotary Club members and their generous donation.

CTC Community Relations Coordinator Carol Ann Moore (right) shows guests around CTC garden area.

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Sierra View Medical Center

Sierra View Medical Center (SVMC) is an integrated healthcare system located in Porterville, California, and is the health care service of the Sierra View Local Health Care District. The hospital serves the Southern Sequoia region of California’s Central Valley and is the pre-eminent health care provider in the area. The 167-bed hospital is comprised of 132 acute care beds and a distinct part skilled nursing (DP/SNF) facility with 35 beds, in addition to primary and specialty outpatient clinics. Sierra View Medical Center features the latest in stroke care and is certified by The Joint Commission as an Advanced Primary Stroke Care Center and offers specialty heart care services at the Cardiac Catheterization Lab licensed by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). SVMC provides excellent health care services in a compassionate environment where the goal is to make patients and their families feel comfortable. SVMC’s primary and specialty outpatient clinics and programs include: The Roger S. Good Cancer Treatment Center, the Urology Clinic, Wound Healing Center, Physical Therapy, Intensivist Critical Care programs, and adult and pediatric hospitalist programs. SVMC has partnership affiliations with Valley Children’s Medical Center, Keck USC School of Medicine, and Healogics™. The hospital features a Graduate Medical Education (GME) Internal Residency Program, accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and a Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ to cultivate and train superior community hospital-based healthcare professionals for our region and beyond.

By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety, Sierra View Medical Center earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval. To learn more, please visit www.sierra-view.com. Questions? Please contact marketing@sierra-view.com. SVMC Media Kit available online: www.sierra-view.com/media-kit

Porterville Breakfast Rotary Club

The Porterville Breakfast Rotary Club was chartered on February 27, 1997. The clubs charter members sought opportunities for expanded community service and fellowship in the Porterville community. Over the past 24 years the club has solidified its place in the community as a club that exemplifies true "Service Above Self" through its signature fundraisers and active community involvement. To learn more, please visit http://pvillebrkfstrotary.com/index.php.