Event

9:00 am – Registration Begins
10:00 am – Brief Program and Walk

On Ostomy Awareness Day, to raise awareness of ostomies and increase national visibility for those living with ostomies, CBMC’s Ostomy Nurses invite staff, patients and community members to an educational fair and outdoor walk around the CBMC Walking Trail.

Ostomy surgery is a life-saving procedure. There are approximately 100,000 ostomy surgeries performed annually in the United States. Such reasons for surgery include: bladder and colorectal cancer, abdominal trauma, complications from Crohn’s disease, ulcerated colitis and diverticulitis as well as congenital diseases. Those living with ostomies along with their families and loved ones demonstrate strength and resilience every day and today we gather to celebrate this community.

Registration and Event Day Details:

• Please let us know you are coming to the walk by using this site to register.
• On the day of the event, please park in the Visitors' Parking Lot and meet us behind the parking garage. Employees should park in their regularly assigned lot.
• There is no fee to participate.
• In the event of bad weather, the event will be held indoors.
• Join our CBMC Race Group Team! 

Attention CBMC Nurses: Nurse volunteers are needed, and clinical ladder points will be awarded. To learn more and sign-up, please contact the Ostomy Nurses at 973-322-5480 or email Stacy Krakower at stacy.krakower@rwjbh.org.

Learn more about joining the Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center’s United Ostomy Association of America (UOAA) Team and making a direct donation to UOAA. With your donation, you will receive a T-shirt. UOAA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports, empowers, and advocates for people who have had or who will have ostomy or continent diversion surgery. Their mission is to promote quality of life for people with ostomies and continent diversions through information, support, advocacy, and collaboration.