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Milestone Foundation Executive Director Tom Allan accepts a check for $10,000 from Mercy Hospital President Nelson Toner to support the HOME Team (Homeless Outreach & Mobile Engagement Team).
From left to right: Doug Gardner, City of Portland, Peggy Lynch, HOME Team outreach worker, John Dana, outreach worker, Tom Allan, Nelson Toner, Eileen Skinner, Mercy Hospital CEO, and Melissa Shannon, Mercy Hospital's Director of Volunteer Services.
On November 10, 2010 the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services held their annual disease conference at The Augusta Civic center. The Milestone Foundation was presented with the Pump Handle Award.
This Pump Handle Award is dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Snow for his outstanding epidemiological contributions during the London cholera epidemic of 1854. Dr. Snow’s investigation implicated the Board Street pump as a source of Cholera- contaminated water in London’s Soho district. Since that time the pump-handle has come to symbolize much of what is important in epidemiology and public health.
Milestone’s Liz Beaudoin RN and Patricia Schmidt RN, accepted the award presented by Dr. Sears ,MD, MPH. The award was given to Milestone for its tremendous efforts in controlling TB among a very vulnerable population.
Foundations Support the HOME Team
Three foundations recently awarded Milestone grants to finance the work of the HOME Team:
Sam L. Cohen Foundation
Maine Community Foundation Rines/Thompson Fund
William and Joan Alfond Foundation