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In 2012, Susan Mountain-Morgan decided she would do something to make herself happy \u2013 and she did.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t head to the salon for a manicure or treat herself to a nice dinner. Instead, she gave to others \u2013 locks of her hair for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and blood to save the lives of the injured and infirm. To those basics, Mountain-Morgan added food.<\/p>\n

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Susan Mountain-Morgan, business support specialist with the Colorado Genetics Lab, is spearheading a fifth annual \u0093Food Fight\u0094 to benefit people in need.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That same year, Mountain-Morgan, a business support specialist with the CU School of Medicine Department of Pathology\u2019s Colorado Genetics Laboratory<\/a>, launched a drive to collect non-perishable food items and other everyday necessities like toiletries and diapers for donation to food banks around the Denver metro area. It began as a friendly competition between the lab and the Girl Scouts. The lab came out ahead, but the real winners were those in need: The two organizations collected some 600 items and donated them to Sanctuary Christian Fellowship and Anchor of Hope Church.<\/p>\n

The drive had staying power. Mountain-Morgan has renewed it each year, bringing in new participants, each of whom chose recipients to receive and distribute the donated items. In 2016, the collection count rose to 1,549, with a half dozen organizations benefiting.<\/p>\n

The \u201cFood Fight,\u201d as Mountain-Morgan likes to call it, is on again for 2017, with collections taking place all of January. As of Jan. 19, participants had already collected nearly 2,000 items.<\/p>\n

Several UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital clinics have joined the fray. For example, A.F. Williams Family Medicine Clinic, Internal Medicine Lowry and Internal Medicine Anschutz will donate items to the Dayton Street Opportunity Center in downtown Aurora. The center is home to the DAWN Clinic, which is staffed by students from the University of Colorado Health Sciences schools, and provides free health care to the indigent.<\/p>\n

Autumn Kuehl, LCSW, social worker at A.F. Williams and Internal Medicine Lowry, said the university\u2019s presence at the Opportunity Center and the DAWN Clinic \u2013 UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital also contributes discounted and donated lab and imaging services \u2013 made it a natural selection as a drive recipient. The center has a food bank that relies entirely on donations, Kuehl said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were ecstatic to get the help,\u201d Kuehl said. She noted that the number of children living in poverty in Arapahoe County rose precipitously in the first decade of the 2000s, and the Opportunity Center serves one of its poorest pockets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Opportunity Center and the DAWN Clinic serve a population that is vulnerable and lacks resources,\u201d Kuehl said. \u201cA partnership with them made sense.\u201d As of Jan. 19, A.F. Williams and Lowry had combined to collect 850 donated items.<\/p>\n

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One of the food drive donation boxes at the Internal Medicine Lowry Clinic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It also made sense to Kuehl to spur broader interest in the Food Fight among her colleagues. She said she first learned of it from Cindy Connor, a patient access representative with A.F. Williams. Kuehl reached out to Mountain-Morgan to suggest including the Lowry clinic in the drive, then used her monthly social work meeting to inform all the UCH clinics of the drive and explain how they could participate in 2017.<\/p>\n

Hunger is more than an abstraction for Kuehl and other clinic providers. \u201cFood insecurity is very prevalent with our patients at A.F. Williams,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s important for multiple clinics to take part in the drive and help to make a bigger impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mountain-Morgan handles boxing and delivery of all the donated items. That\u2019s on top of her full-time job, but she sees the work as a blessing, not a burden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not rich, but this is a way for me to give back and turn around and pay it forward,\u201d Mountain-Morgan said.<\/p>\n

Memories of a couple of years of hard times in the mid-80s after what she admits was an ill-advised move from Colorado to Tennessee help spur her to action. \u201cI\u2019ve eaten in soup kitchens and had pieces of dry, hard bread and mystery meat,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

After more than 20 years with the Genetics Lab, Mountain-Morgan lives a stable life, but she hasn\u2019t forgotten that experience. \u201cRight outside my door there are many people who have it worse than me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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