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Holidays with heart

LCMC Health is supporting Second Harvest Food Bank and other giving initiatives for the holiday season

Caring for people is at the heart of what we do every day. LCMC Health and its hospitals are supporting our communities this holiday season with a systemwide Holidays with Heart campaign to raise money and boost food donations for Second Harvest Food Bank, in addition to several hospitals hosting their own food drives and donations.

One in six households in Louisiana is at risk of hunger. To combat this, Second Harvest provides food and support to over five hundred community partners and programs across 23 parishes, distributing the equivalent of more than 38 million meals a year. From now through December 12, LCMC Health is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank for a list of non-perishable food items that are in demand over the holiday season. These include canned vegetables, like green beans, corn and yams, cornbread mix, instant mashed potatoes and mac and cheese.

Learn more about donating to Second Harvest

Giving back this holiday season

In addition to LCMC Health’s fundraiser for Second Harvest, many of our hospitals will be organizing their own giveaways and holiday events.
Read more here.
East Jefferson General Hospital & Lakeside
Be a Santa to a Senior
  • Be a Santa to a Senior adopts senior citizens in nursing homes, assisted livings, and hospices around the Greater New Orleans area and provides them with holiday gifts on their wishlist.
Tulane Cancer Center Wave Makers 5K & Swell Kids Run
  • Make waves in the fight against cancer! Join us for the inaugural Tulane Cancer Center Wave Makers 5K & The Swell Kids 1/2 Mile Run on Saturday, December 6, in Audubon Park. Every step is more than just distance covered — it's a stride toward awareness, compassion, and a cure. Learn more and register here.
LOPA Tree of Life
  • Join us on December 11 at 11 am for a celebration of our donor heroes at East Jefferson General Hospital on the 2nd Floor.
Lakeview
The Holiday Gift and Toy Drive supporting the St. Tammany Project Christmas
  • Unwrapped toys and gifts will be accepted from November 17-December 5. Suggested donations include:
    • Art supplies and craft sets, books for all ages, board games, card games, chemistry sets, educational toys and kits, puzzles, bikes (all sizes), scooters or ripsticks, sports balls, kitchen play sets, trucks and cars, dolls and accessories, dress-up clothes and costumes, jewelry, hair accessories, nail polish sets, hair products, duffel bags, rolling overnight suitcases, pajamas, socks, winter clothing, bath toys and stuffed animals.
    • Please do not donate high-priced items such as iPads, TVs, computers, gaming systems, full-size basketball goals, or gift cards from big box stores (Walmart, Target)
Santa Breakfast
LCMC Health- Corporate
Be a Santa to a Senior
  • Be a Santa to a Senior is a program that allows employees to "adopt" a senior citizen and to fulfill their wishlist items. The Energy Centre and Westpark teams provided gifts for more than 160 seniors in the community this year!
Manning Family Children's
November Food Drive
  • The hospital held a food drive to support their food pantry in the month of November. Thank you for giving a little something to help support those in need this holiday season! See more.
Light up the Season
  • On December 3, the Delta Festival Ballet performed before one of our patients flipped the switch on the hospital’s holiday lights. Local first responders also attended to add their unit lights to the celebration. Patients inside the hospital were invited to watch the ceremony from the Child Life multipurpose space.
Light up the Season Radiothon
  • Tune into the Light Up The Season Radiothon to hear from our patients, providers, specialists, and more live on the radio! From December 3 - 5, WWL, B.97, Magic 101.9 and Bayou 105.7 will be broadcasting live from the Main Concourse.
Holiday Parade
  • Our family-centered Holiday Parade is back, and will be even bigger and better this year! The parade is December 6 and will start from The French Market with an extended route through Downtown. See the route.
Toy Drive
New Orleans East Hospital
Turkey giveaway
  • New Orleans East Hospital (NOEH) hosted a turkey giveaway on November 15, where turkeys were given to twenty raffle winners who attended their Night Out at NOEH event. The hospital also hosted its monthly Farmer’s Market on November 19. Community members were encouraged to come shop local, healthy produce to go along with their Thanksgiving meals.
Blood Drive
  • The Blood Center is hosting Blood Drive at NOEH on Friday, December 5 from 10 am- 2pm. See the schedule.
Touro
Holiday Toy Drive
  • Touro is partnering with Ozanam Inn for a toy drive from December 1-10 to collect new toys, clothes, and books for newborns and kids up to 14 years old.
  • See details.
University Medical Center
Thanksgiving giveaway
  • The University Medical Center Cancer Center hosted a Thanksgiving turkey and meal kit giveaway for their cancer patients.
Salvation Army Angel Tree
  • The Angel Tree program provides Christmas gifts to children in need by pairing them with anonymous donors. The program aims to ensure that children who might not otherwise receive gifts have a happy Christmas. UMC employees adopted 60 kids this year!
West Jefferson Medical Center
Food drive benefiting Gladewaves
  • West Jefferson Medical Center's Gladewaves donation drive is Nocember 10- December 10.
  • Donation boxes are located in clinics and at entrances to the hospital and cafeteria for people to drop off nonperishable food items. Gladewaves was formed to give direct aid to people who need it. This nonprofit works to bring resources to the Greater New Orleans area that are both useful and needed.
  • Learn more and see donation list
Caroling at Woldenberg Village
  • Team members from WJMC are visiting Woldenberg Village to sing carols with seniors on December 18 at 4:30 pm.