FAYETTEVILLE – The Cohen Veteran’s Network has donated $5,000 to the Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation to assist with health system employee needs following Hurricane Florence.
The funds will be allocated to the foundation’s Lighthouse Society Fund. The charitable reserve was created to help employees in times catastrophe, including serious illness, financial distress or major loss of property.
Sabrina Brooks, Health Foundation Director, said the foundation is grateful for the Cohen Veteran’s Network generosity in the wake of Hurricane Florence. The deadly hurricane brought historic flooding and property damage to much of southeastern North Carolina.
Numerous Cape Fear Valley employees worked tirelessly through the slow-moving storm, only to find devastation at home upon arrival.
“Cape Fear Valley Health employees demonstrated unsurpassed dedication in providing care to those who needed it during the Hurricane Florence,” Brooks said. “Cohen Veteran’s Network is demonstrating an equal dedication to help healthcare workers in need as they try to rebuild following the storm.”
“We are happy to help support the effort to get people back into their homes and back into their normal routines,” said Dr. Anthony Hassan, Cohen Veteran’s Network President & CEO. “Our commitment to Fayetteville is very strong and our local clinic is there for any veteran or military family member in need of mental health care services in these difficult circumstances.”
The Cohen Veteran’s Network, Inc., is a not-for-profit philanthropic organization created to improve the quality of life for post-9/11 military veterans and their families by providing high-quality, accessible and integrated mental health care. The network’s local clinic, the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Cape Fear Valley, is located 3505 Village Drive in Fayetteville.
Launched in 2016, the organization committed $275 million to launch a network of mental health clinics across the U.S. Cape Fear Valley Health partnered with the network to open the Cohen Clinic at Cape Fear Valley in 2017. The clinic’s mission is to provide no- or low-cost mental healthcare to area veterans, their family members and care providers.