Phelps’ First Of Its Kind Used Bra Drive For Breast Cancer Survivors
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Members of Phelps' Cancer Care Team distribute specialized bras. Pictured: Diana Loja, co-director, Community Wardrobe, and Community Liaison, Village of Sleepy Hollow; Amy Ferraro Martin, senior manager, Community Relations, Northwell’s Phelps Hospital
October 24, 2025
Out of this year’s annual American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Walk last Sunday emerged a first-of-its-kind bra drive, the creation of a team from Phelps Hospital Northwell. Starting with hundreds of gently used and new specialized bras, collected both at the walk as well as at the hospital before that, the Phelps team arranged to donate them to the Community Wardrobe of Sleepy Hollow.
Phelps’s Amy Ferraro Martin drums up business at the ACS Making Strides event
The donations included surgical bras, which are worn after breast surgery to provide support, compression and comfort to help minimize swelling, bruising, and discomfort, as well as to allow doctors easy access to the surgical site. Through Community Wardrobe, they will directly benefit women in underserved communities, helping them to navigate the physical and emotional journey of breast cancer treatment and survivorship.