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First Choice Emergency Room teams up with the Greater Houston YMCA

Published 07/18/2014

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas - With back-to-school right around the corner, First Choice Emergency Room today announced that all 15 of its facilities across the Houston, Texas area including its Woodlands location on Kuykendahl Rd will serve as YMCA Operation Backpack drop sites. First Choice Emergency Room, the nation’s leading freestanding emergency room system, will be collecting backpacks filled with school supplies through August 10, for children in the Houston community.

First Choice ER – Woodlands location to Serve as Operation Backpack Drop Sites


“Parents want to be able to give children the tools they need to start the year off right, but this can be a major expense that many families cannot afford,” said Jamie Clark, YMCA Chaplain. “Not being able to get their children the appropriate supplies can be disheartening to the parent, and it can also be life changing to the child. The YMCA is here to assist those families and help children have a successful year.'

The YMCA Operation Backpack is Houston’s largest school supply drive and is geared up to help over 75,000 Houston-area children start the school year off prepared. Since its inception, Operation Backpack has served more than 323,000 children.

“The success of the YMCA Operation Backpack depends on the support from local communities and we are proud to be supporting this initiative for the third year in a row,” said Graham Cherrington, Chief Operating Officer, Adeptus Health. “We have opened five new facilities in Houston since the last school year and with that, we hope to help the YMCA exceed their goal of collecting 75,000 backpacks.”

YMCA asks that backpack donations are brand new, for any age, and include brand new un-opened school supplies such as pencils, pens, glue, markers, tissue boxes, folders, erasers, loose leaf notebook paper etc.

First Choice Emergency Room facilities are open 24/7, making it even more convenient for community members to give back and drop off their backpacks. For a full list of First Choice Emergency Room drop off locations, visit https://www.ymcahouston.org/operation-backpack/drop-off/firstchoiceer/.

For more information contact Claire.Gibson@FCER.com.

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