Back-To-School Drive For Middletown School Students

PORT MONMOUTH, NJ – A chain of Middletown-area doctor's offices and urgent care clinics will be hosting a back-school supplies drive to benefit local children.

The clinics are IMA Urgent Care Centers & Primary Care and the drive will run Monday, August 9 through Monday, August 23.

Any supplies donated will be given directly to students at New Monmouth Elementary and Ocean Avenue Elementary in Middletown and The Raine Foundation in Hazlet.

IMA is now accepting new and unopened school supplies such as water-based markers, pens, pencils, crayons, 3-ring binders, spiral notebooks and more. The schools will set up “shopping” days for the students, who get to pick what they need before the first day back for Middletown schools, which is Sept. 8 this year.

Urgent Care Center & Primary Care has locations in Middletown, Hazlet, Shrewsbury and Red Bank.

“This year, more than ever, we would like to support local school children’s academic success with our Back-to-School Drive," said IMA President and Middletown resident Dr. Roger Thompson. "We had to suspend the drive last year due to COVID, and want to help children in our area start the school year off right."

Patients and the public are asked to kindly 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
• Chapel Hill Family Medicine – 100 Village Court, Suite 302, Hazlet
• Family Practice of Middletown – 18 Leonardville Road, Middletown
• Hazlet Family Care – 3253 Route 35N, Hazlet
• Red Bank Family Medicine – 231 Maple Avenue, Red Bank
• Red Bank Medical – 175 Patterson Avenue, Shrewsbury
• River Road Primary Care – 569 River Road, Fair Haven
• Shrewsbury Family Medicine – 655 Shrewsbury Avenue, Suite 206, Shrewsbury

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

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