Capital Medical Center

For Immediate Release

Date: June 27, 2011
Contact: Renee Crotty, Director of Marketing & Media Relations
Phone: (360) 956-1415
Fax: (360) 956-2538

Capital Medical Center’s Relay for Life Team Reports Huge Success

Capital Medical Center’s Relay for Life Team is pleased to report that this year’s event was a huge success. Capital Medical Center raised $24,805.20 to help fight cancer here in our community. Capital Medical Center’s Team was 2nd in overall fundraising at the Thurston County event for the second year in a row. The money that Capital Medical Center raised comes from various fundraisers, silent auctions, drawings, and other events that the marketing department coordinates throughout the year. Director of Marketing and Media Relations, Renee Crotty, notes, “I am truly grateful for all the support that we receive from hospital Administration, Capital Radiation Therapy and Dr. Randy Sorum, as well as our employees. The Relay is very important to us, and we are proud to be a part of such a noteworthy cause.”

Relay began in 1985 when Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon in Tacoma, Washington, ran and walked around a track for 24 hours to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Since then, Relay has grown from a single man’s passion to fight cancer into the world’s largest movement to end the disease. Each year, more than 3.5 million people in 5,000 communities in the United States, along with additional communities in 20 other countries, gather to take part in this global phenomenon and raise much-needed funds and awareness to save lives from cancer.

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