Updated 10/20/2011 10:23 PM
ORMC workers dancing for a cause
There are bracelets, ribbons, hats, shirts, just about everything colored pink in October is to show support for breast cancer. Even, as our Christian Farrell tells us, dance videos.
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WALLKILL, N.Y. -- Loud thumping music. An enthusiastic bunch of participants. Believe it or not, but this isn't a group exercise class at the local gym. It's actually the main lobby of Orange Regional Medical Center.
And these gung-ho dancers, well, they're hospital employees getting their "groove on" for a good cause: To try and raise money for breast cancer research.
"We don't do anything small here at Orange Regional. So, there's been an extreme amount of planning over the past three or four weeks," said ORMC VP of Outpatient Operations Sandra Iberger.
The production of what's called the "pink glove dance" video comes together thanks to a number of volunteers. One of them being choreographer Damola Akinyemi.
"It's probably going to be a three-day shoot. We've had the whole departments, different departments work in from the executive branch all the way down to the kitchen staff to the cafeteria," said Akinyemi.
In support of October being breast cancer awareness month, pink has been a featured color at the hospital. So much so that employees have ditched their standard latex gloves in favor of pink ones.
Human resources director Susan Heintz is herself a breast cancer survivor, someone who truly appreciates the attention now directed at the disease.
"I think it's very much more aware than it was in the past, down to the point where I have a grandson who plays football at the age of seven. And they have little pink ribbons on their helmets and pink shoelaces," said Heintz.
And pink gloves, if you're trying to win a $10,000 prize in a nationwide competition. The prize money going towards the breast cancer charity of your choice.
"There's a competition through Medline, which is the vendor for the pink gloves. We will be entering it for 2012. We'll probably put it out before then because we're really proud of what we're doing here," said Iberger.