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April 30, 2013
The 7th-Annual Super Cooper 5K Run was a major success.
And the patients of Terrebonne General Medical Center will now reap the benefits.
The Cooper Life Fund presented a check for $16,750 to TGMC this week – proceeds from the race, which took place on March 23 in Houma.
The funds will go to the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It will be used to provide medical and social care needs to the infants and families of infants admitted in the facility.
Cooper Life Fund co-founders John and Ashley Fontenot presented the check to TGMC President and CEO Phyllis Peoples last Tuesday.
The family was joined by sons Remy and Cooper.
The foundation bears Cooper’s name because he was born in 2004 with a congenital heart defect, undergoing open-heart surgery when he was just 9-days old.
“Each and every year, Ashley and I look back at our accomplishment with the Super Cooper race. It truly touches our hearts to know that because of our son’s medical condition at birth, we are able to help so many others in the same situation,” John Fontenot said.
Since the race’s inception in 2005, all of its proceeds have gone to TGMC’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
In total, the Cooper Life Fund has raised just less than $100,000 for the unit of the hospital.
The proceeds raise provide families with a care package filled with necessities useful for caring for infants in need of the special care. The money has also been used to give gas cars, phone cards, car seats, strollers, lodging vouchers and other items to families with a baby in intensive care.
“We are so thankful for the Fontenot’s continuous support of TGMC,” Peoples said. “The Fontenot’s have an unwavering sense of generosity. These funds will greatly benefit many families of our tiniest patients in the NICU.”
The Fontenot family poses with Terrebonne General Medical Center officials after they donated $16,7500.00 to the hospital following the Super Cooper Race in Houma. The family gave the money on behalf of the Cooper Life Fund, which annually donates funds to the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care.
