More than 50 million Americans, including 300,000 children, have arthritis – and more than 994,000 live in Louisiana. On Oct. 18, the Arthritis Foundation’s First Bone Bash in Baton Rouge invites locals to dress up in their spookiest attire and spend the evening at L ’Auberge to raise awareness and funds for arthritis.
Tickets cost $100 each and include an open bar, dinner, a live band, live and silent auction, and a costume contest. All proceeds will support the Arthritis Foundation’s mission to find a cure for arthritis – which impacts one in four U.S. adults – and champion the fight against arthritis with life-changing information, advocacy, science, and community support.
“While the purpose of the Arthritis Foundation’s Bone Bash is to raise awareness and funds to find a cure for arthritis and support our local and national arthritis community, it’s also an important moment to celebrate the strides we’ve made towards a cure,” said this year’s Bone Bash Event Chair Dr. Marcus Wallace. Wallace is the senior vice president of medical affairs at Louisiana Healthcare Connections and is a hospitalist at St. Tammany Parish Hospital. He also sits on the Baton Rouge Arthritis Foundation leadership board.
This year’s Bone Bash is sponsored by Abbvie, Medac Pharma, Novartis, Bone and Joint Clinic, Louisiana Healthcare Connections, Flexion Therapeutics, Motus Group, Ochsner Baton Rouge, STAT Home Health, St. Elizabeth Hospital, and UCB.
For more information or tickets, visit https://arthser.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/2018BoneBashBatonRougeLA.