UNC Health Southeastern Every Breath Counts 5k & COPD Awareness Walk

Event: UNC HEALTH Southeastern Every Breath Counts 5K Run & COPD Awareness Walk Saturday, November 6, 2021 Come and run, walk, or stroll with us at Luther Britt Park.  You can participate in this year’s Every Breath Counts COPD 5K on November 6, 2021. Click on the event above for more details!   RACE MAP  Luther Britt Park 5K Map - 671 Branch Street, Lumberton, NC 
We hope you will also participate in the FREE Awareness Walk and help raise funds for COPD awareness in our community.     Walk, Run, Fundraise! Up for a challenge?  Want to help raise funds for COPD Awareness?  Sign-up for the FREE Awareness Walk and help raise funds for COPD Education Awareness in our community.  You can also "Become a Fundraiser" and create your own page in support of UNC Health Southeastern COPD Awareness!  Under the Donate Option above you will find "Become a Fundraiser!"    Click below to read the story behind the cause and how two co-workers joined forces for COPD Awareness!  Story Behind the Cause - Co-workers Join Forces to Raise Awareness
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT EVERY BREATH COUNTS Event Purpose: Every Breath Counts will serve to highlight community-wide awareness and education for patients, families, and caregivers about living with COPD. Focus will be on awareness, education and early detection.  This will enable the community to acquire better self-management skills and aid in the reduction and severity of exacerbations, prevent hospitalizations, reduce emergency department visits and, most importantly, improve health-related quality of life. Funds raised through Southeastern Health Foundation for COPD Awareness help purchase items like interactive educational devices such as pulse oximeters, all-in-one COPD resource pocket guides, as well as Empathy Lung Simulators, and Bio Quest Inflatable Lung Comparison Kits.  Funds from the event will also go towards expanding education for COPD awareness. Included, but not limited to, ipads for virtual educational opportunities for patients and caregivers, a Spirometry System, Incentive Spirometers, Spacer Masks, and Acapella Devices.  Goal: Our event goals are to have a successful 5K Run & Awareness Walk, saturate our community with awareness information via health messaging and have multiple informational events.  These events will be held at the Community Health Education Center (CHEC) and Southeastern Lifestyle Fitness Center Lumberton, giving COPD Awareness the same level of support and effort we give all major health observances (i.e. Breast Cancer, Diabetes Awareness, Heart Health Awareness, etc.). Our hope is that Every Breath Counts will continue to be an annual community event. Our fundraising efforts last year provided the opportunity to offer Pulmonary Rehabilitation Scholarships to multiple people who were unable to afford the program, which made a positive impact in their treatment of COPD.