The season for giving is here, and MCG Health System’s Volunteen Board is asking for donations of new children’s books, word puzzles and teen magazines to distribute to hospitalized children and adolescents. The Board will collect the items during the Columbia County Christmas Tree Lighting, December 1, 2007, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Columbia County Memorial Garden and Amphitheatre.

The Volunteen Board is composed of high school students from Columbia, Richmond and Lincoln County public schools as well as private school students, all of whom served in the health system’s six-week Volunteen summer program.
 
MCG Health System is composed of three organizations - MCG Health, Inc. and the clinical services offered by the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia and the members of the MCG Physicians Practice Group. MCG Health, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCG Medical Center, MCG Children’s Medical Center, the MCG Sports Medicine Center, MCG Ambulatory Care Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center and related clinical facilities and services. MCG Health, Inc. was formed to support the research and education mission of the Medical College of Georgia, and to build the economic growth of the CSRA, the state of Georgia and the Southeast by providing an environment for delivering the highest level of primary and specialty health care. For more information, please visit www.MCGHealth.org.