2012 Medline Pink Glove Dance
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Liberty Campus
Voting link: http://on.fb.me/WplOVE
Voting closes midnight Nov. 2; votes accepted daily.
Local health care workers are in the running for a $10,000 donation to a cancer research organization if they garner enough votes to win a national video contest.
A group of 130 employees from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Liberty Campus submitted a three-minute video to the 2012 Medline Pink Glove Dance in September. Nearly 300 organizations submitted taped dance routines choreographed to Katy Perry’s “Part of Me” as part of the breast cancer awareness initiative by Medline, a national provider of medical products.
Medline created the first Pink Glove Dance in 2009. By the following year, 4,000 health care workers and breast cancer survivors were featured in the sequel, according to Medline’s website.
This is the second year of the national competition. Voting is open until midnight Nov. 2 online at www.pinkglovedance.com.
The local effort is being led by hospital staff in Perioperative Services, but has representation from more than 10 of the hospital departments, including pharmacy and radiology, said Cindy Burnett, administrative assistant in perioperative services.
Burnett said her department has been greatly affected by breast cancer. Between late 2009 and early 2011, three nurses within perioperative services were diagnosed with breast cancer.
Linda Rubush, RN, said it was during a routine mammogram in December of 2010 that her breast cancer was found. She went through surgery, chemotherapy and reconstruction.
“Everyone here rallied around,” Rubush said. “We went through chemotherapy together,” she said of the third nurse diagnosed shortly after her.
Rubush said if Cincinnati Children’s video wins enough votes — submitted through Facebook at http://on.fb.me/WplOVE — the group has chosen to donate the grand prize of $10,000 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure in Cincinnati.
Rubush said staff in her department have been active in the Komen Race for the Cure for the past two years. Rubush said she was only 10 days post-operation during her first walk.
Rubush said it was a personal achievement when she ran the 5K course this year with her children.
“(Breast cancer) is a hard thing to go through but when you have co-workers that are supportive it helps,” Rubush said, describing the Pink Glove Dance as a team-building event.
Rubush said she’s hoping for “all of Cincinnati’s votes,” because the Cincinnati Children’s Liberty Campus was the only Cincinnati-area organization to submit a Pink Glove Dance.
Burnett said the three-minute video was edited down from more than 130 minutes of footage, filmed over the course of a week on the hospital campus.
“This wouldn’t have happened without all the support of our directors, managers and people being willing to dance,” Burnett said. “The enthusiasm was contagious and fun.”
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