IMA Urgent Care Collecting Back-To-School Supplies For Local Kids

PORT MONMOUTH, NJ — This August, IMA Urgent Care Centers will be hosting a very special Back-To-School Supplies Drive to benefit local children.

IMA Urgent Care Center has locations in Middletown, Hazlet and Shrewsbury and this drive will help needy families all over the Bayshore. IMA Urgent Care generously offered to host this particular drive after a social worker contacted the Middletown Patch, saying there was a single mother in need who lives in the Port Monmouth section. The woman's daughter attends Port Monmouth elementary and the woman cannot afford to buy her daughter new fall school supplies, or clothes.

The Back-to-School Supply Drive will run Monday, August 5 through Monday, August 19. All IMA Urgent Care locations will be accepting new and unopened school supplies such as water-based markers, pens, pencils, crayons, 3-ring binders, spiral notebooks and more. For this one particular girl, people can also drop off clothing: The Port Monmouth girl is average in size and height for a 10-year-old and wears sizes 11/12 in girls clothing. She has requested a few jeggings, legging and skinny jeans with a few matching tops and a new or gently worn pair of sneakers, shoes or boots; shoe size is 3.5-4.

You can also drop off pre-paid gift cards. The social worker ensured they will be used correctly.

“It’s important for children to start the school year off right. And helping them have the right tools to perform well in school is one way to kick off a great school year,” said Dr. Roger Thompson, IMA president who himself lives in Middletown. "At IMA Urgent Care we feel it is important to help those in our area."

IMA Urgent Care Centers will be collecting for the following:

IMA Urgent Care – Shrewsbury, 30 Shrewsbury Plaza, will collect for Lunch Break

IMA Urgent Care – Middletown, 363 Rt. 36, will collect for Ocean Avenue School and Port Monmouth Elementary

IMA Urgent Care/Hazlet Family Care – 3253 Route 35 North, will collect for The Raine Foundation

IMA Urgent Care and Primary Care has three urgent care centers and eight primary care offices located in eastern Monmouth County. IMA opened the area’s first medical walk-in clinic in Shrewsbury over 20 years ago and has since opened two additional walk-in clinics in Port Monmouth and Hazlet. Additionally, IMA operates a Cardiology and Diagnostics center which is located in Shrewsbury. IMA is owned and operated by local doctors.