NJ CEED Partnership – Shore Memorial Hospital

The New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection (NJ CEED) Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement, provides breast, cervical, prostate and colorectal cancer education and screening services to eligible people who are of low income and noninsured or underinsured.

As the lead agency for the NJ CEED Program in Atlantic County, Shore Memorial Hospital's goals include prevention and early detection, and though the NJ CEED program helps fulfill these goals, it does not cover the costs of further diagnostic procedures, anesthesia and treatment for patients who are diagnosed with cancer.

Therefore, RNS's $50,000 donation (2001) allows Shore Memorial Hospital to sub-contract with local healthcare providers, such as the RNS Mobile Mammography Program, and other not-for-profit, community-based minority organizations to provide cancer-related services. The RNS funding has been used to provide the appropriate, quality healthcare services to every person screened via the NJ CEED Program, who needed further diagnostic procedures, anesthesia and/or treatment for cancer.