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8 HEALTH • Fall 2018 { Pictures of Health } Backpack bounty Gardner's Heywood Healthcare teamed up with Cushing Academy students, who volunteered with the healthcare organization's Weekend Backpack Program, stocking backpacks to go home from school with food-insecure children each week. The group loaded items like cereal and pasta sauce into a Heywood van at a local supermarket and dropped some staples at area schools, before filling the backpacks. More than 250 backpacks were filled in all. A home of healing Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group's charitable arm donated $51,360 to drug- addiction recovery organization Advocates. Funds will be used to renovate Channing House, a Worcester home for men. From left, Beth Helenius of the Reliant Foundation; Noel Dennis, Channing House; Diane Gould of Advocates; the foundation's Kelsa Zereski; Elizabeth L. B. Greene, foundation trustee; and Jessica Genna of the foundation. People, places and happenings in Central Massachusetts Skilled renovation Leominster-based Green Leaf Construction completed renovations to Christopher House of Worcester, a 150-bed rehabilitation and skilled-nursing center. Green Leaf expanded the nurses' station, added a new open-concept lounge and dining areas, upgraded the occupational therapy area and created a new kitchenette. Construction was phased to allow the nursing center to continue to serve patients throughout the project. AFFORDABLE AMBULANCE & CHAIR VAN SERVICE Serving Central MA Don't Tie Up Emergency Ambulances for Non-Emergency Transport WE PROVIDE PATIENT TRANSPORTATION FOR ALL NON EMERGENCY TRANSPORT Most insurance companies accepted K's Ambulance In business since 1985 508.987.2254 • 1.800.461.2822 Patients have rights... the right not to go broke. Their price round trip: $3,844 Our price: $150