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Pardee Hospital Foundation to receive $25,000 from Rug & Home

By Nancy Waclawek, Published: July 8, 2017

Pardee Hospital Foundation has announced that Rug & Home founder and chief executive officer Rakesh Agarwal will present the final $25,000 of a $50,000 gift to the Foundation at a ceremony on Wednesday, July 12 at Rug & Home’s Asheville store, located at 799-B Brevard Road, Asheville.

The check will be presented by Sherry Page, Rug & Home’s regional manager, to James M. Kirby II, president and chief executive officer of Pardee UNC Health Care and Kimerly Hinkelman, executive director of the Pardee Hospital Foundation. The donation is part of a $50,000 pledge the Agarwals made in support of the Pardee Hospital Cancer Center capital campaign.

"Rakesh and his wife Dolly responded to our community campaign, ‘Right here. Right now,’ a $6 million capital campaign to bring advanced cancer care closer to home, with a generous donation toward the Cancer Center,” Hinkelman said. “Their financial support means that many people in our community will no longer have to travel to receive the care they need. They are now receiving it right here in Henderson County.”

“We feel fortunate enough to be in a position to support Pardee and to have a facility like the Pardee Cancer Center – to have it all under one roof is very comforting to the families undergoing cancer treatment,” Agarwal said.

The Agarwals and Rug & Home recently raised nearly $28,000 for Selah Grace, the 5-year old Henderson County girl who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer in early 2016. Selah and her family brought the need for the Cancer Center “home” for the Agarwals, and they pledged to help in any way they could.

Rug & Home has 3 locations – in Asheville and Kannapolis, North Carolina and Gaffney, South Carolina. The company has always believed in giving back to the communities they trade in. From giving the elderly a smile with their flower deliveries to local nursing homes, donating lifesaving vests to the local police departments, giving $100,000 to Flat Rock Playhouse and $100,000 to Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative care and $50,000 to Pardee, supporting local causes is very important to them.

For more information on other ways Rug & Home has become involved in the community, locally and around the world, visit www.rugandhome.com/pages/giving-back or contact Megan Flatman at (828) 667-4585.

To learn more about giving opportunities and ways you can improve health care in Henderson County, visit www.pardeehospitalfoundation.org or call 828-233-2700.