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Blessing Bags Donated to Women & Infants' Cancer Patients

Release Date: 07/30/2018

A group of women from Pampered Chef and Gentry Moving and Storage delivered more than 500 gift bags to the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital. The bags, containing socks, lip balm, nail products, Pampered Chef items, and words of inspiration, will be distributed to patients in the Women & Infants infusion centers at Women & Infants, Kent, and Westerly hospitals.


The group, led by Christine Soave Crum, owner and president of Gentry Moving and Storage and a Pampered Chef representative, held a fundraiser with the intent of purchasing items to create 100 bags for patients. The response was amazing, with people contributing products, making monetary contributions, and donating personal care items to make the bags as individual as possible.  

 

“This is a wonderful, thoughtful donation, and it will be greatly appreciated by our patients and staff. The bags go a long way toward making our patients feel supported in the knowledge that people are thinking of them and are in their corner during a very challenging time in their lives,” said Dana D’Alessandro Haseotes, MSW, LICSW, MPH, clinical social worker and patient advocate at the Breast Health Center.

 

About Women & Infants Hospital 

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiography; a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group and the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network.