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Waymon Bell, General Manger of the Augusta Costco store; Georgia Health Sciences Children’s Medical Center patient Jemia Lewis, 9, of Augusta; Brandon Laughlin, Costco Assistant General Manager; and Teri Perry, Vice President of Adult Patient Care Services at Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center. |
Costco presented a check for $12,306.68 to the Georgia Health Sciences Children’s Medical Center today, funds raised through a six-week Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals campaign.
Costco generated the funds by asking members for donations at the registers and by hosting cookouts and other fundraising activities. Costco Wholesale, headquartered in Seattle, has been a national CMN partner since 1988, generating more than $137 million for CMN hospitals. However, since the Augusta store only recently opened, this is the first year the Children’s Medical Center has directly benefitted.
The 154-bed Children's Medical Center is the second largest children's hospital in the state, providing the highest level of pediatric critical care and neonatal intensive care, as well as a wide range of general and complex health care for children.