Frankfort Regional Medical Center has entered the 2013 Medline Pink Glove Dance Competition for a chance to win a $25,000 donation to the Kentucky Pink Connection and international social media attention—and needs your vote!
The fun and creative video features over 160 hospital employees, physicians, volunteers, community members and breast cancer survivors dancing to “Brave” by Sara Bareilles. The dancers are all wearing pink-colored exam gloves to raise awareness about the importance of early detection through mammograms.
To vote for Frankfort Regional Medical Center’s video, visit http://www.pinkglovedance.com/videos/2013-video-contest/frankfort-regional-medical/ vote, and share. Voting starts October 25 at noon (CST) and runs through November 8, 2013. The winners will be announced November 15.
Frankfort Regional Medical Center partnered with the volleyball teams at Franklin County High School and Western Hills High School to create their video. Together, they have raised over $5,500 for the Kentucky Pink Connection – an organization who provides support for breast cancer patients by reducing and/or eliminating barriers to screening, diagnosis and treatment. Their portion of the video features a choreographed routine from the volleyball teams. To see Frankfort Regional Medical Center’s video and the other entrants, go to www.pinkglovedance.com.
"We’re so excited to be part of what has become a major national competition,” said Brad Wands, hospital spokesperson. “Filming and dancing in our Pink Glove Dance video was a great experience and now we’re hoping to get the word out to get as many people as we can to vote for our video so we can win the donation.”
Frankfort Regional Medical Center is one of only five organizations from Kentucky participating in this year’s competition. Frankfort Regional also participated in 2012, receiving 4,793 votes.
“We are so thankful to be selected as the charity of choice for Frankfort Regional Medical Center,” said Vicki Blevins-Booth, Executive Director of Kentucky Pink Connection. “We are grateful for the hospital’s financial support to provide breast screening, treatment and supplies to the many women and men in Central Kentucky.”
Medline, the creators of the YouTube® sensation Pink Glove Dance® video and makers of the pink exam gloves, have sponsored Pink Glove Dance video competitions in 2011 and 2012, in which more than 80,000 have participated.
The competition has quickly become a social media phenomenon with the videos generating millions of views and votes.
History of the Pink Glove Dance
The original Pink Glove Dance video premiered in November 2009 and featured 200 Portland, Ore. hospital workers wearing pink gloves and dancing in support of breast cancer awareness and prevention. Today the video has more than 13.8 million views on YouTube® and has inspired hundreds of pink glove dance videos and breast cancer awareness events throughout the world. Because of the overwhelming response to the original video, a sequel was produced in October 2010 featuring 4,000 healthcare workers and breast cancer survivors throughout North America.
“Gloves are the first point of contact between the health care worker and the patient,” said Andy Mills, president of Medline. “As a way to extend our breast cancer awareness campaign, we developed a line of pink gloves called Generation Pink®, with the aim of getting people to talk about breast cancer.”
Medline is donating a portion of the proceeds from each sale of the Generation Pink® gloves and other Medline pink branded products to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF). Since 2005, Medline has donated more than $1.2 million to the NBCF to help fund mammograms for individuals who cannot afford them, as well as other educational and prevention resources.