05/20/2025
We are greatly indebted to the continued generosity and graciousness of the Greenville Service League, and for its most recent gift to our HealthAssist program.
Becki Orr, left, Chair of the Service League’s Laughinghouse Fund, is here seen presenting Shantell Check, Director of the HealthAssist Uninsured Network, with a check for $25,000.
The endowment comes specifically in support of HealthAssist’s work on behalf of eastern North Carolinians living with diabetes, with $15,000 toward providing personal medical equipment to help cope with the pervasive disease, and $10,000 toward enabling patients to meet copays in order to see local medical specialists.
Beyond the nearly 90-year-old Laughinghouse Fund’s higher-profile endowments -- to the local hospital and larger medical community, and to tuition and scholarship programs for local medical, dental and nursing students -- the fund also aids less visible programs and projects like HealthAssist’s diabetes outreach, which benefit local residents who have no health insurance, and who receive no public or federal assistance.
