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Gloria Gemma seeks $500,000 to open state’s first comprehensive cancer survivorship center; survivors testify

2888910 · April 3, 2025
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Summary

The Gloria Gemma Foundation asked lawmakers to provide $500,000 to open a statewide cancer survivorship and rehabilitation center that will offer free counseling, rehab classes and complementary therapies to patients, survivors and family members.

The Gloria Gemma Foundation and multiple witnesses asked the House Finance Committee for a $500,000 appropriation to support a new statewide cancer survivorship and rehabilitation center set to open this summer.

Testimony included personal accounts from survivors and clinicians. Jennifer Ortiz and Jack Donnelly described the foundation's peer‑support,…

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