HCCS has teamed up with “Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon” and Nassau University Medical Center to boost morale of our deployed military units overseas.
One of the projects we just completed was to get 160 "colorful" scrubs for one of the hospitals in Kuwait. The chaplain reported that the brown scrubs they use are depressing and it would cheer up the troops to get colorful scrubs. The hospital staff will be thrilled to receive the colorful scrubs we are sending with NUMC. The soldiers will receive a friendly reminder that the people back home care about them.
"Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon" works with various deployed military units, sending care cartons and engaging in special projects with the goal of improving morale and letting the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen know that we care. Their website is http://www.adoptasoldierplatoon.org.
Teaming Up With Our Clients
The following individuals from Nassau University Medical
Center contributed to the success of this mission:
Walter Lazauskas, Laundry and Linen Services Manager
Paul Rowland, Chief Operating Officer
Mark Brody, Compliance Officer
Shelley Lotenberg, Public Affairs
In addition to NUMC, The Oregon Health and Science University Medical Group (OHSU) of Portland, OR, also donated scrubs. On Monday, July 17, a team at OHSU sent four boxes of scrubs to Kuwait (thanks to Kathy Wilke, Bobbie Clawson and team!).
We've just learned that The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA will be joining the donation program and sending a delivery of scrubs to the Middle East. Thanks to Sarita Cathcart and the folks at Morehouse!
Pictured (from left to right):
Ben Diamond (President of HCCS)
Walter Lazauskas (Laundry and Linen Services Manager)
Paul Rowland (Chief Operating Officer)
A New Mission
As other US Military hospitals and medical treatment facilities in the Middle East are learning about this mission, new requests for colorful scrubs are coming in. We've just received a request for colorful scrubs from the medical hospital at Camp Cropper (Theater Internment Facility) in Iraq. So keep those scrubs coming!
A Personal and Corporate Mission
In addition to this program, HCCS staff have even donated personal time in African farms and clinics. HCCS is fully committed to taking care of the world around us on both a corporate and personal levels.
If your healthcare institution would like to get involved in similar programs please contact Ben Diamond to share what is on your heart.
Troops in Kuwait wearing scrubs donated by OHSU
Habitat For Humanity
On Saturday, April 12th, 2008, five members of HCCS flew down to New Orleans, LA to participate in HCCA's project for Habitat for Humanity. We were assigned to various projects in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. These projects included hanging siding, painting, bricklaying, and completing roof-tops.
Michael Hill, Senior Sales Executive, frames out a window
Ben Diamond: President, prepares shingles for a roof
HCCS Team (left to right)
Josh Jenner, Michael Hill
Lise Rauzi, Bill Sacks
Lise Rauzi: VP of Content Development
Bill Sacks: VP of Sales
