Media Opportunities at VA Medical Center include Visits by
Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders, Girl Scouts and Musical Groups Please Add the Following Events to your Daybooks
PHOENIX - Veterans at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center are not being forgotten during the holiday season, thanks to several Valley organizations and volunteer groups.
Many of these veterans are elderly or disabled patients who are residents of the VA Medical Center's Nursing Home Care Unit (NHCU). Hospitalized patients also will enjoy gifts and visits from community volunteers.
Media opportunities at the VA Medical Center during December include:
Dec. 11, 12:30 p.m. - Jewish War Veterans will distribute gifts in the NHCU
Dec. 11, 1:30 p.m. - North Phoenix Baptist Church Choir will sing for NHCU veterans
Dec. 13, 10 a.m. - USAA, a financial services company for active duty military and dependents, will distribute gifts in the NHCU
Dec. 14, 2:30 p.m. - The Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders will visit with veterans and sign posters in the NHCU Dining Room
Dec. 14, 3 p.m. - Students from Northwest Christian School in North Phoenix (43rd Avenue and West Bell Road) will deliver gift cards to residents of the NHCU
Dec. 15, 10 a.m. - Girl Scoutsfrom troops in Mesa will deliver stockings, ornaments and cards that they have made to veterans in the NHCU
Dec. 19, 1:30 p.m. - The Salvation Army Band will perform in the NHCU Dining Room
Dec. 20, 1 p.m. - VA Voluntary Services Committee, which includes representatives of several community organizations, will deliver gifts, accompanied by the VA Voices, a group of VA Medical Center employees and volunteers who bring the gift of song, to patients in the hospital and NHCU
Dec. 24, 4 p.m. - Operation Stocking Stuffer, a group that sends packages overseas to deployed military as well as giving to veterans locally, will distribute gifts starting in the NHCU
Contact Paula Pedene, APR, Public Affairs Officer, at 602-200-6279, to coordinate coverage. Media can enter the Nursing Care Unit of the VA Medical Center on the west side of Seventh Street, just north of Indian School Road.
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