Lexington Medical Center Beats Out 139 Competitors in National Effort to Raise Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention
MUNDELEIN, Ill., Oct. 28, 2011 — Featuring hospital CEOs with “moves like Jagger,” a dancing janitor, and octogenarians popping wheelies in their wheelchairs, Medline Industries, Inc. today announced the winners of the company’s first national Pink Glove Dance video competition.

With more than half a million votes in and counted, Medline announced that Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, S.C., won first place with 61,054 votes — more than four times the population of their entire city (14,061). Their creative video features a dancing environmental services assistant, as well as hundreds of hospital staff, including a number of breast cancer survivors, all dancing in pink gloves to Katy Perry’s hit song “Firework” – all in the name of breast cancer awareness.

A very close second place was captured by Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., with almost 58,000 votes, followed by Victoria Hospital, Prince Albert Parkland Health Region in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, who took home third place honors with more than 38,000 votes.        

In all, 139 teams from hospitals, nursing homes, schools and other organizations in 40 U.S. states and Canada participated in the three-week competition. Sponsored by Medline — the world’s leading manufacturer of...