OCTOBER PUMPKIN CONTEST SPONSORED BY DCH HARRISON PHYSICAL THERAPY OFFICE

A tradition in Lawrenceburg has expanded to Harrison.  Dearborn County Hospital’s Physical Therapy Department is initiating a pumpkin contest this fall at its Cincinnatus Center location.  For every pumpkin entered, DCH will donate $10 to the American Cancer Society.

DCH Harrison Physical Therapy, located in the Cincinnatus Center at 1100 Harrison Avenue, Harrison, is sponsoring a pumpkin decorating contest on Wednesday, October 14.  Entries will be accepted on Tuesday, October 13, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and on Wednesday, October 14, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  Judging will take place on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.

There will be first place awards for each division.  Entries will be accepted in the following divisions:

• Second grade and younger

• Third through 10^th grade

• High school juniors and seniors and adults. 

In conjunction with the contest, DCH Harrison Physical Therapy is hosting an open house.  The Harrison PT facility will be open to the public on October 14 from 1:30 to 6:00 p.m.  Guests will be able to view the pumpkins on display while enjoying refreshments.  All children who stop by the open house will go home with a goody bag.

 “Dearborn County Hospital opened its Harrison physical therapy facility in October 2007.  It offers many of the same rehabilitative services as our main location in Lawrenceburg,” stated Ben Huber, MPT, DCH Physical Therapist.  “The open house is a way for the public to celebrate the facility’s second birthday and to learn more about its wide range of physical therapy services.”

 In addition to members of the DCH physical therapy staff, DCH magnetic resonance imaging technologists will be on hand to explain the Screening Breast MRI Clinical Trial currently being conducted at Dearborn County Hospital.  Through this project, DCH is creating and implementing a scientific clinical research study to determine if screening breast MRI is more accurate than screening mammography for the early detection of breast cancer.  This is the first known clinical study of its kind in the world.

Dearborn County Hospital’s Physical Therapy Department in Lawrenceburg started the decorating competition in 2002 to call attention to October being both National Physical Therapy Month and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  For every pumpkin entered, DCH donates $10 to the American Cancer Society.

After the pumpkin judging concludes, contestants may take their pumpkins home in time for Halloween.  Entries may be picked up on Wednesday, October 14, between 5:00 and 6:30 p.m. and on Thursday, October 15, between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.  All unclaimed pumpkins will be donated to area nursing and group homes.

For more information on the Harrison pumpkin contest, please call (513) 202-0518 or (877) 581-1494.  A second contest follows a week later, on Wednesday, October 21, at the DCH Physical Therapy Department, 600 Wilson Creek Road, Lawrenceburg.  For information on the Lawrenceburg contest, please call (812) 537-8144 or (800) 676-5572, ext. 8144.