Gilda's Club Quad Cities announces new clubhouse at Davenport's Genesis West | Local News

A cancer diagnosis is like a rock thrown in a pond. After the damage of the splash, there always are ripples.”That’s a good way to describe cancer. I’ve heard it said that the first place cancer spreads is to the family,” Gilda’s Club Quad Cities Executive Director Joy McKeenan said Wednesday after she helped announce a partnership with Genesis Health System to begin construction on an 8,500-square-foot clubhouse located directly above the Cancer Care Institute at the Genesis West Campus in Davenport.Gilda’s Club Quad Cities offers workshops, support groups, activities and social events at no charge to people whose lives have been impacted by cancer. It helps people with cancer, as well as their families and support systems. It’s named after Gilda Radner, the comedian in the founding years of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989.Gilda’s Club opened a new clubhouse at UnityPoint Health-Trinity, down the hall from the Cancer Center at their Moline campus in February 2021, after closing its former headquarters in a house on River Drive in Davenport. After construction at Genesis — which got underway two weeks ago and is slated to last four months — is complete, Gilda’s Club will have…
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