On Dec. 22, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center is celebrating its 30-year anniversary. For the facility's 30,000 can-food drive, the timing couldn't be better, as EIRMC has just cleared its 30,000-can goal.
Canned goods were collected through physical donations at the hospital, and through a virtual canned food drive at EIRMC30Years.com. Visitors to the site were able to participate once each day and each time they did EIRMC committed to purchase canned goods on their behalf.
The canned food drive will continue through the end of the year. At that point the final count will be calculated, EIRMC will arrange to purchase cans generated by the virtual canned food drive, and preparations will be made to distribute the cans to 11 area food banks throughout EIRMC’s service area.
The 11 area food banks are Community Dinner Table (Blackfoot Community Pantry), Community Food Basket (Idaho Falls), Cornerstone Pentecostal Food Bank, Family Crisis Center (Rexburg), Idaho Falls Soup Kitchen, Jefferson County Food Bank, North Bingham County Community Food Bank, North Fremont Food Pantry, Salvation Army (Idaho Falls), St. Vincent de Paul, and Teton Valley Food Bank. EIRMC anticipates that the cans will be distributed in mid-January.
Source: Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center