"Camp Angel Wings is a free two day event for children and teens who have lost a loved one. Fun filled activities provide an opportunity for them to explore and express their thoughts and feelings in a healthy environment."
— Catherine Wrobel, Bereavement Coordinator Southcoast Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care & Infusion Services
| For Immediate Release | Contact: Joyce Faria Brennan |
| March 6, 2008 | 508-961-5270 |
| brennanj@southcoast.org | |
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MATTAPOISETT, Mass. — Southcoast Home Care, Hospice and Palliative Care and Infusion Services, in collaboration with the YMCA, will be hosting the sixth annual "Camp Angel Wings." This is an exciting, fun-filled, two-day camp experience for children and teens, ages 5 through 17, who are grieving the loss of a loved one. It will be held the weekend of July 26 and 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
"Camp Angel Wings provides interactive activities that include music, swimming, arts and crafts, rock climbing, and archery, designed to reduce the sense of isolation while improving self esteem for children and teens who share like experiences in grief.
Registrations are now being accepted. For more information, or to register, please call Catherine Wrobel at 508-984-0202 or visit www.southcoast.org/home/camp.html.
Southcoast Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care and Infusion Services, a department of Southcoast Hospitals Group, is a private non-profit agency that provides comprehensive, preventive and rehabilitative home health care to residents of the Greater New Bedford and Wareham areas.
About Southcoast
Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of advanced health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.
Southcoast has more than 40 ancillary facilities, including the Southcoast Health Van, home health care, hospice and infusion services, numerous outpatient medical services, an assisted living facility and a wellness center. For more information visit www.southcoast.org.
Southcoast is one of three community hospitals approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to perform open heart surgery and primary angioplasty beginning in Spring 2002.
Media Contact
Joyce Faria Brennan
Public Information Officer
Phone: 508-961-5270
Pager: 508-387-9605
Fax: 508-961-5876
brennanj@southcoast.org
