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Abramson Cancer Center’s Armenta Washington is named Philadelphia Magazine Healthcare Hero
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Congratulations to Philadelphia Magazine’s 2021 Be Well Philly Health Hero: Armenta Washington, a senior research coordinator for the community outreach and engagement program at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center. Recently, Washington and her team created a drive-through Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) service, so that at-risk community members had access to preventative care and could determine if they needed a referral for a colonoscopy.
You can watch that very special moment — along with the entire virtual Health Hero Challenge event —here. Congratulations again to Armenta Washington and Philly Fights Cancer thanks you for your incredibly important work at the Abramson Cancer Center.
For the full article from Philadelphia Magazine, read here.
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Congratulations to Philadelphia Magazine’s 2021 Be Well Philly Health Hero: Armenta Washington, a senior research coordinator for the community outreach and engagement program at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center. Recently, Washington and her team created a drive-through Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) service, so that at-risk community members had access to preventative care and could determine if they needed a referral for a colonoscopy.
You can watch that very special moment — along with the entire virtual Health Hero Challenge event —here. Congratulations again to Armenta Washington and Philly Fights Cancer thanks you for your incredibly important work at the Abramson Cancer Center.
For the full article from Philadelphia Magazine, read here.