Camp Olympia Campers Gives $4K to Texas Children’s Hospital [Professional Services Close – Up]

Camp Olympia, a Texas summer camp for boys and girls ages 7 to 16 located on Lake Livingston in Trinity, Texas, announced that its new Philanthropy Club donated $4,000.00 this holiday season to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas.

The donation, given by kids to help kids, will be used to pay for up to 800 prescriptions and/or 125 home medical equipment devices (including nebulizers to administer mist inhaled medication into the lungs) for under-resourced families that turn to the Texas Children's Pediatric Associates' (TCPA) Ripley House for health care services, according to the group.

Several Houston-area Camp Olympia campers (Ally Myers, Hunter Runnells, Sam Worsham and Benjamin Allison) were on hand to proudly deliver a check that represented years of earning over 24,000 merits from 570 campers (merits are earned by doing good deeds and can be saved and spent in the Camp Olympia Country Store) to Texas Children's Hospital representatives, Seema Patel, Texas Children's Hospital Development Office and Dr. Jackie Ramchatesingh, a TCPA Project Medical Home practice physician.

"We are so proud of our campers," said Chris Gilbert, co-founder of Camp Olympia. "This donation was truly given from their hearts and minds, a quality that we consistently work to instill in our kids. To see the big smiles on their faces, as they handed the check to TCPA Ripley House representatives, brought tears to our eyes. This is the first year for the Camp Olympia Philanthropy Club and the kids were so supportive of the program. We are looking forward to the growth of the club in the coming years," he continued.

As part of its goal to build a community of healthy children, Texas Children's Pediatric Associates (TCPA) Project Medical Home (PMH) provides pediatric medical services for children who otherwise would seek care from emergency rooms or possibly go without care or treatment due to low family incomes and/or lack of health insurance.

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