Patients and staff at Innovative Orthodontics in Jackson collected winter clothing to donate to cancer patients at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Tina Fowler, orthodontic assistant at Innovative Orthodontics, gives Dr. Krishnamohan R. Basarakodu, a hematologist/oncologist at the hospital, a box of hats, scarves and gloves for cancer patients. Fowler said this was the first year the office has collected items, "but we're hoping it will catch on because it's for a really great cause," she said.
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