Chariho High School club donates
fun hot-cold packs for kids to Wood River Health Services
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Wood River Health Services Medical Director Dr. Chris Campagnari
accepts children’s gel packs donated by the Chariho High School
Interact Club,
Jillian Delasanta (center), president.
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By David Henley
HOPE VALLEY, RI – The Chariho High School’s Interact Club
recently donated $390 raised through its spring floor hockey tournament fundraiser to Wood River Health Services in
Hope Valley to purchase gel packs for children.
The colorful, cartoon shaped gel packs,
in the shape of a penguin for medical or a tooth for dental patients, can be
frozen or heated as needed to help relieve a child’s pain in a fun way.
Wood River
Health
Services is the Federally Qualified Community Health Center for southwestern
Rhode Island, providing medical and dental care and social services to over 7,000
area residents.
The non-profit
health center is supported through revenue from services, state, federal and
local municipal grants, and foundation and private donations. For information
on supporting Wood River Health Services, call Development Coordinator David
Henley at (401) 539-9628.
Wood
River Health Services is located at 823 Main St., Hope Valley (on Route 3 south
of the village, just off Route I-95 at Exit 2). For more information, call (401) 539-2461 or visit www.wrhsri.org.
