Thursday, December 2, 2021
NEW LONDON, CT (December 2, 2021) - The Auxiliary of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital has kicked off this year’s “Lights of Hope” fundraising campaign which invites members of the community to make gifts of any amount in honor or remembrance of a loved one.
Lights will adorn a tree which will be on display on L+M Hospital grounds beginning the evening of December 14.
For information or to request a donation form for the Lights of Hope campaign, email Kathryn Greene at [email protected].
Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, a member of Yale New Haven Health, is a non-profit, 308-bed general and acute care hospital providing patient care to medical, surgical, pediatric, psychiatric and obstetrical patients in southeastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island since 1912. Lawrence + Memorial offers cardiac acute, step-down and rehabilitation programs and is the only eastern Connecticut hospital that performs emergency and elective angioplasty. www.lmhospital.org
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