Redding Kindness Klub Donates Warm Hats for Preemies to Western Connecticut Health Network Foundation Kids Care Club

The Kindness Klub at Redding Elementary School has donated handmade hats for preemies to the Spratt Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Danbury Hospital. The donation was part of a project the club completed called, “Warm Hats for Preemies.”

The Kindness Klub expressed an interest in the NICU and wanted to do something that would benefit the community’s premature babies. Club members hoped this donation would brighten the day of the families and loved ones of the Hospital’s tiniest and most fragile patients. Executive Director and Vice President of the Foundation, Grace Linhard stated, “we are so grateful for the thoughtfulness of this group.”

As a result of their efforts, the Kindness Klub at Redding Elementary has been inducted into the Western Connecticut Health Network Kids Care Club at Danbury Hospital, a philanthropic organization for children and young adults under the age of 18.

For more information on the Kids Care Club, please call the Western Connecticut Health Network Foundation office at 203.739.7227 or 860.210.5270.

About The Kids Care Club

The Kids Care Club at Western Connecticut Health Network encourages children under the age of 18 to make donations in support of pediatric programs and services at Danbury Hospital and/or New Milford Hospital. Donations help purchase toys, videos/movies, video games and systems, and more to make children’s hospital stays more comfortable. Children raise funds in many ways, including: asking friends and family for donations; organizing penny drives, lemonade stands, or other events; raising funds in lieu of birthday gifts; or donating a portion of their allowance.

About Western Connecticut Health Network

Western Connecticut Health Network is the region’s premier, patient-centered health care organization serving residents of Western Connecticut and adjacent New York. The organization is anchored by two nationally recognized hospitals, Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital, as well as their affiliated organizations. In addition to the two hospitals, the continuum of care offered includes the following affiliates:

·       Western Connecticut Medical Group, an integrated physician practice with primary and specialty care expertise

·       Western Connecticut Home Care, an agency for home care and community health services

·       The Western Connecticut Health Network Foundations

·       emergency medical and Level II trauma services

·       an occupational wellness and medicine program, providing services for business and industry

·       a nationally renowned Biomedical Research Institute

Western Connecticut Health Network has centers of excellence in women’s health, cardiovascular and cancer services; minimally invasive joint and spine surgery; digestive disorders, weight-loss (bariatric) surgery, and radiology and diagnostic imaging. It also offers specialized programs for neonatology with a Level IIIb neonatal intensive care unit and accredited sleep disorder centers.  Both hospitals also maintain active clinical research programs, offering clinical trials for patients with cancer and other health concerns. Danbury Hospital was named a Top 100 Hospital by US News and World reports in 2012; a  and a Top 100 for Value by Cleverly and Associates. New Milford Hospital is well known as a Planetree hospital and for its Plow to Plate, farm to table food program. For more information, visit WesternConnecticutHealthNetwork.org, DanburyHospital.org; NewMilfordHospital.org and share your comments with us www.facebook.com/DanburyHospital or www.facebook.com/NewMilfordHospital.

Imagine Build Transform: The Campaign for Western Connecticut Health Network

Western Connecticut Health Network is conducting a capital campaign to meet patients’ changing needs with next generation facilities, resources, talent, and technologies. Our priority areas are the Patient Tower, Emergency Department, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Danbury Hospital, the Emergency Department at New Milford Hospital, and the Biomedical Research Institute. To learn more, please call the Foundation office at (203) 739-7227 or visit us at http://www.thecampaignforwcthn.org.

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