Geary Community Hospital has undertaken a number of efforts to give back to the community.
Every fall GCH participates in the annual United Way fundraising campaign as a Pacesetter organization…one of a handful of major donors. This year’s fundraising efforts, including ongoing employee contributions, will return $8,268 to the United Way over he 2016 year.
United Way – GCH employees l-r: Amanda Fitzgeralds, Caleb Long, Rachel Moore, Susan Braucher, Elaine Becker, Carissa Horton, Johna Ward, Deb Hull, Courtney Bevin, Rosie Smith, Angie Cyphers, Chrissy Fink, Taryn Day, Julie Vines, Nikki Davies and Teto Henderson.
GCH also supports the Salvation Army’s “Angel tree – Christmas is for Kids” project. At the beginning of the holiday season there is a Christmas tree decorated in the hospital lobby with ornaments – each representing a child in need for Christmas. Employees select an ornament from the tree and shop for the child’s requested clothes and gifts. The GCH Patient Access team collects the gifts and the Salvation Army delivers them to each child’s parlor home prior to Christmas Day. This year the hospital personnel were able to adopt 50 kids for the holiday.
Salvation Army – l-r: Danielle Tetteh, Salvation Army; and Shari Steadham, GCH Patient Access.
During the holidays Geary Community Hospital continues the giving theme with their own holiday program, “Operation Care,” a food and warm clothing drive.
MeriTrust Credit Union joined in the collection for “Operation Care.” MeriTrust donated a plethora of warm blankets along with hats and mitten sets.
Operation Care teamed up with Wheels of Hope,a local organization that fights hunger in the community. This year enough turkeys were collected to serve 210 people in 60 families a holiday meal. Hospital employees donated boxes full of canned food items along with winter weather clothing for children.