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Nominated by Governor Edward G. Rendell for the
Distinguished Service to State Government Award
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pat Halpin-Murphy, President and Founder of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, was chosen by the National Governors Association awards selection committee as a recipient of the NGA Distinguished Service to State Government Award in the private citizen category.
Ms. Halpin-Murphy is one of three winners chosen nationally in the private citizen category, and one of eight total NGA Distinguished Service to State Government Award winners. She was nominated to receive this award by Governor Edward G. Rendell in recognition for her work with the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition.
A breast cancer survivor, Halpin-Murphy founded the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition in 1993 to help in the search for a cure and to serve as a voice for breast cancer survivors in the state. Since founding the Coalition, she has led numerous state-wide efforts in the fight against breast cancer – convening a bipartisan coalition of state legislators to establish the Pennsylvania Breast and Cervical Cancer Research Fund and the Income Tax Check Off option for Pennsylvanians to donate a portion of their state income tax refund to cancer research. Halpin-Murphy has also fought hard for groundbreaking legislation requiring insurance companies in Pennsylvania to cover costs of reconstructive breast surgery and post surgical hospital stays.
“Few people have dedicated themselves as much to change scores of lives for the better more than Pat has. She is a true Pennsylvania hero,” said Governor Rendell.
The award will be presented as part of the National Governors Association meeting in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, July 16 during the meeting’s opening session. For more information, please visit the National Governors Association website at www.nga.org.
The Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, founded in 1993, is a non-profit organization and the only statewide grassroots organization that speaks to and for breast cancer survivors. This year, more than 12,000 Pennsylvania women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. More than 2,300 will lose their lives to the disease. The PBCC’s mission is to help find a cure for breast cancer and to improve the quality of breast cancer education, research and outreach in the state. For more information on the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition call 1-800-377-8828 or visit the website www.pabreastcancer.org.
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