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Cotton States Donates $20,000 to Sumter Regional Hospital

Contribution to Keep Hospital Operating
Cotton States Insurance recently donated $20,000 to Sumter Regional Hospital to help aid the organization after last month's storm.

Sumter Regional was destroyed after a deadly tornado and high winds swept through the area March 1.  Patients were evacuated to hospitals in other communities and many physician offices near the hospital were destroyed.  Since then, a field urgent care center has been set up in the hospital's employee parking lot to offer basic triage and urgent healthcare services.

“Cotton States is proud to be helping in the recovery effort,” says Local Americus Agent Mill Simmons.  “Many of my clients work at that hospital or benefit from the services it provides.  This hospital is the heart and soul of this community.”

The contribution will help the hospital offset operating expenses while officials decide how to begin the rebuilding process.

“This money will help keep us afloat,” says Stephen Machen, Chief Operating Officer of Sumter Regional Hospital.  “We are proud to be associated with a company which has given us so much support.”

W. Michael Cook, Chief Operating Officer of Cotton States Insurance, came down from the corporate office in Atlanta to present the check.  He then took a tour of the temporary field hospital across the street from the damaged building.

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