Back-To-School Drive To Help Local Middletown Kids

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — For the fourth year in a row, IMA Urgent Care & Primary Care Centers are hosting a back-to-school supply drive to benefit Ocean Avenue School and Bayview Elementary School in Middletown.

The drive will run from Monday, August 1 to Friday, August 15.

“Each year this drive helps our community immensely,” said Cynthia Wilson, the principal Ocean Avenue Elementary.

IMA has 10 locations in the Bayshore that are collecting new and unused school supplies such as markers, crayons, note cards, pens, marble notebooks and more. All donations will go directly to more than 500 local Middletown students.

“For four years, IMA’s patients have generously donated to help local Middletown students achieve academic success. These donations help students in need have the necessary supplies to start the school year off in the right,” said IMA president and Middletown resident, Dr. Roger Thompson.

IMA patients and the public can drop off new/unused school supplies to the following IMA locations:

• IMA Urgent Care – Middletown, 363 Route 36, Port Monmouth
• IMA Urgent Care – Shrewsbury, 1026 Broad Street, Shrewsbury
• Family Practice of Middletown, 18 Leonardville Road, Middletown
• Chapel Hill Family Medicine, 100 Village Court, Hazlet
• Hazlet Family Care, 3253 Route 35, Hazlet
• Red Bank Family Medicine, 35 Gilbert Street South, Shrewsbury
• Red Bank Medical, 175 Patterson Avenue, Shrewsbury
• River Road Primary Care, 569 River Road, Fair Haven
• Maple Avenue Medical, 231 Maple Avenue, Red Bank
• Shrewsbury Family Medicine, 655 Shrewsbury Avenue, Shrewsbury
• IMA Pediatrics – 3253 Route 35, Hazlet

Donations can be dropped off seven days a week to IMA Urgent Care Centers in Shrewsbury and Middletown and Hazlet Family Care.