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We'd like to introduce you to Janelle, one of the patients who received life-saving care.

Janelle’s health story begins in 2019, when she felt pain in her chest. As the sole parent of two daughters — working hourly jobs to support her family — Janelle had no health insurance and no resources to address her health concerns. But over the next year, her pain intensified, and she knew she needed help.

She went to the Emergency Department, where she received X-rays, a diagnosis of pneumonia and instructions to follow up with HealthPoint, her community health center. At that follow-up appointment, Janelle learned that the X-rays revealed a breast nodule and buildup of extra fluid between her lungs and chest wall. She needed immediate specialty care.

That’s when donors like you saved Janelle’s life. After expedited advanced imaging revealed that Janelle had breast cancer, she received life-saving surgery and chemotherapy — at no cost to her. Project Access Northwest partnered with a wide range of specialists at Pacific Medical Centers to make sure Janelle had the best chance of surviving cancer and being there for her daughters as they grow up.

“I don’t know what I would have done,” reflects Janelle, when asked how she could have handled a health crisis without your support. “I would have ended up at great risk, and something worse could have happened. I didn’t have money or insurance. It would have been chaos for me. I could have died.”