Operation Warm employees Kate Smith, left, executive assistant, and Christy Duncan, second from left, associate director of Development, provide Grant Gegwich, director of Public Relations and Marketing at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, with two of the more than 150 children’s winter coats that Operation Warm donated to Crozer-Keystone Health System to be distributed to patients in need.

KENNETT SQUARE – Operation Warm recently donated more than 150 winter coats in children’s sizes to be used by patients at Crozer-Keystone Health System hospitals. The coats will be distributed to children in need on a case-by-case basis by employees in the Pediatrics Unit at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the Ambulatory Services Department at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the Healthy Start program based at Community Hospital, and Social Work departments throughout the health system. 

Operation Warm is a non-profit organization based in Kennett Square that provides the one item most requested by schools and social service agencies – a new winter coat for disadvantaged children. Operation Warm works collaboratively with a range of organizations throughout the region, including Crozer-Keystone Health System, that are committed to helping at-risk children.

For more information about Operation Warm, call (610) 925-5700 or visit www.operationwarm.org.

With more than 1,100 physicians and 7,100 employees, Crozer-Keystone Health System is the largest health system and employer in Delaware County. The health System comprises a comprehensive physician network of primary-care and specialty practices as well as five hospitals: Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Springfield Hospital in Springfield and Community Hospital in Chester. For more information, visit www.crozer.org.