NuHealth, HCCS Donate Scrubs to 'Adopt A Soldier Platoon'

HCCS has once again teamed up with "Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon" and Nassau Health Care Corporation/NuHealth System to help deployed military units overseas.

In 2008, HCCS and NuHealth sent hundreds of colorful scrubs for one of the hospitals in Kuwait. The chaplain reported that the brown scrubs they use were depressing and it would cheer up the troops to get colorful scrubs. The hospital staff were thrilled to receive the colorful scrubs.

Last week we received another request from Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon for regular scrubs from a forward military medical unit in Afghanistan. Walter Lazauskas, NuHealth’s laundry director, immediately answered the call and put together boxes of blue scrubs for the troops.

"Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon" works with various deployed military units, sending care cartons and engaging in special projects with the goal of improving morale and letting the soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen know that we care.

Submitted by Nassau University Medical Center