HMHP Home Health Services donates coats

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Neighbors | Submitted.Volunteers (from left) Carole Pegues, Catholic Charities program assistant; Nancy Voitus, Catholic Charities executive director; and HMHP Home Health Services employees Nancy Sheehan, LeChelle Irizarry, Leslie Costlow and Rolande Robbins prepare donated coats to go to their new homes.

HM Home Health Services, a division of Humility of Mary Health Partners, recently presented Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Youngstown with more than 60 coats and dozens of hats, gloves, mittens and scarves for distribution to needy families throughout Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.

Employees of HM Home Medical Equipment, HM Home Care and HM Home Pharmacy donated coats and cash to buy coats, while management matched those donations. Collectively, they purchased 42 new coats for men, women and children.

The new coats were delivered to Catholic Charities on Dec. 22 along with 20 gently-used coats and “a huge bag full of new hats, gloves and scarves,” according to Leslie Costlow, who serves on the HMHP Home Health Services Employee Advisory Committee, which organized the coat drive.

The need for larger size coats for adults is greatest, Costlow notes, so committee members made a special effort to ensure those sizes were among those delivered to Catholic Charities. All the coats and jackets are machine washable, she adds, so recipients won’t incur expensive dry-cleaning bills to maintain the cleanliness of their new outerwear.

During the drive, employees of HM Home Health Services also collected gently-used clothing for distribution to needy families through a local church.