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Nursing Home Residents Care For The Poor
 | Delivering the gifts of food to staff at Hudson River HealthCare are (left to right): Elizabeth Hoffman, Elizabeth Malacarne, Emily Hannigan and Fedora Filoseta, assisted by Health Center staff member, Willie Mae Jackson.
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For the second consecutive year, residents of the Field Holy Comforter Nursing Home made the Thanksgiving Holiday brighter for needy families of Peekskill and surrounding communities. Once again, they provided baskets and packages of food for the holiday meal which are distributed through Hudson River HealthCare/Peekskill Community Health Center.
The entire project was initiated last year, and this, from their own sense of altruism. Seniors of the Nursing Home organized and promoted the food drive on their own, collecting from families of residents, visitors, staff and staff themselves. In addition, they donated their own money so that the packages could include gift certificates from the Grand Union supermarket. Upon completion, they put the baskets together and included decorations to make their gift more festive.
The residents conduct this drive twice each year - at Thanksgiving and at Easter.
Hudson River HealthCare is a not-for-profit community health center that has provided high-quality health care services to uninsured and underinsured needy families since 1975. It is a network of community health centers with locations in Peekskill, Beacon, Poughkeepsie, Goshen, New Paltz and Walden. For more information about this project, the address and/or telephone number of a particular Center, or the programs and services available, call 845-734-8736.
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