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MORGANTOWN – Representatives from Clear Mountain Bank came to Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center’s Zelda Stein Weiss Cancer Center Wednesday morning to deliver care packages to patients there.
Carmen Pennington, branch manager at Clear Mountain’s Pierpont and Suncrest offices, said they have a Clear Mountain Day every other year where employees vote on a service project. This year they chose the cancer care packs.
The big blue bags with the bank logo were filled with items intended to help the cancer patients be comfortable during treatment, she said.
The project had special meaning for her, she said, because she lost her mom to cancer six years ago. “Every item in there is an item she could use going through her treatment.”
The bags contained ChapStick, lotion, a neck pillow, a fuzzy blanket, tea, candy, coloring books and color pencils, and a word search book.
Clear Mountain delivered 250 bags in total – 70 at Mon Medical Center, 50 to Mon Health’s Preston Memorial Hospital, and to hospitals in Braxton and Harrison counties and Garrett County, Md.
Regan Siko, director of the oncology service line at Mon and Davis Health Systems, said, “We want to thank Clear Mountain. They are truly our partners in the community. It really goes to show that ours, as a community hospital, and community hospitals around the state – that our partnerships within the community mean the world to us and our patients. We would like to absolutely thank them for this very gracious donation, and it will really make impact to our patents across the system.”
