Employees star in Pink Glove Dance competition
WORLAND, Wyo. (Sept. 9, 2011) The Pink Glove Dance is spreading…to Washakie Medical Center.
John Bramble, MD, radiologist at Washakie Medical Center, brought the idea and enthusiasm for hospital staff to star in their own Pink Glove Dance video to help spread the word about breast cancer awareness and prevention and show support for survivors.
Teresa Seidel, lead mammography technologist, helped Dr. Bramble with organizing and spreading the word to employees about the dance competition made famous on YouTube®. YouTube® has numerous videos showing hospital staff around the nation dancing and wearing pink surgical gloves. They are all for one purpose: to create awareness about breast cancer.
It didn’t take long for lab, surgery, rehabilitation, family practice, nursing, administration and other departments to start choreographing video segments.
The video will be submitted to a national competition to determine the best Pink Glove Dance video. The competition is sponsored by Medline Industries, Inc., manufacturer of the gloves and producer of the original Pink Glove Dance video.
“Once I showed imaging staff videos on YouTube®. of other hospitals participating, we immediately wanted to get involved to help make a difference at our hospital, in Worland, in our community and even around the country,” Bramble said. “Our staff is so excited and inspired to be part of our own Pink Glove Dance. It was not only a lot of fun to participate, but shows our support for the many families who have been affected by breast cancer and the video brings awareness and discussion, which is the real satisfaction we’re hoping to take away from this experience.”
As part of the contest, Washakie Medical Center’s video was posted on pinkglovedance.com along with the videos of the other participants to be viewed by the public. Viewers voted on their favorite video (voting required a Facebook® account). The top three winners will receive a donation in their name to the breast cancer charity of their choice, such as the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
The original Pink Glove Dance video premiered in November 2009 and featured 200 Portland, Ore. hospital workers wearing pink gloves and dancing in support of breast cancer awareness and prevention. Today the video has more than 13 million views on and has spawned hundreds of pink glove dance videos and breast cancer awareness events across the country.
