Intermountain Hospitals In Salt Lake Valley Launching A Thousand Points Of Pink Initiative To Improve Utah’s Dismal Mammography Rate

Breast cancer specialists have long known about Utah's dismal mammography statistics: Women in the Beehive State have the second worst record in the nation for getting the only exam proven to save lives from breast cancer.

That's why Intermountain Healthcare's Salt Lake Valley hospitals ­Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City and Riverton Hospital ­ are joining forces for a special initiative to have 1,000 Utah women screened by the end of the year. 

The Thousand Points of Pink campaign will kick off Thursday, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, as Utah breast cancer survivors and medical experts to help raise awareness about the disease. 

The event will include speakers, a short film, live music, and delicious dishes created by local chefs. Survivors will decorate bras that will be used throughout the month of October at Intermountain Healthcare hospitals throughout the Salt Lake Valley in an effort to encourage 1,000 women who have never had a mammogram, or who have not had one within the past two years, to get the test that could save their lives. 

WHEN: 

WHERE: 

Intermountain Medical Center 

Doty Education Center

Building #6 

5121 South Cottonwood Street (5300 S. State Street)

Murray, Utah​​