Red Wagon Society Announces Membership DriveOctober 19, 2006Augusta, Ga.

Looking for a cause that helps children and lets you play? Then the MCG Children’s Medical Center Red Wagon Society is looking for you.

The reconstituted society (formerly the Sandcastle Society), a group of volunteers interested in supporting the MCG Children’s Medical Center, will hold a membership drive on Wednesday, November 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the main conference center in the MCG Children’s Medical Center (BT 1810).

Members will have the opportunity to plan fund-raisers, volunteer at special events and play with children who are patients at the MCG Children’s Medical Center.

Membership fees are $50 a year. For more information, call 706-721-4004.

MCG Health System is composed of three separate organizations -- MCG Health, Inc. and the clinical services offered by the faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the members of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation. The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians, faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia, or employees of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation, not employees of MCG Health, Inc.  MCG Health, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCG Medical Center, MCG Children’s Medical Center, the MCG Sports Medicine Center, MCG Ambulatory Care Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center and related clinical facilities and services. MCG Health, Inc. was formed to support the research and education mission of the Medical College of Georgia and to build the economic growth of the CSRA, the state of Georgia and the Southeast by providing an environment for faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation and community physicians to deliver the highest level of primary and specialty health care.  For more information, please visit www.MCGHealth.org.

Danielle Wong MooresMedia Relations ManagerMCG Health, Inc.(706) 721-9566dwong@mail.mcg.edu

Last Modified On: 10/19/2006