St. Francis Hospital staff donates 200 DVDs to military clinic in Iraq

The Indianapolis Star

While serving in Iraq, Army Staff Sgt. Andrea Cowden saw a need for a variety of DVDs to entertain military personnel awaiting treatment in a clinic at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad.

She contacted her mother, Kathleen Cowden, a Westside Indianapolis resident and staff dietitian at St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, for help.

Cowden's mother got the attention of hospital leaders. Staff at St. Francis' hospitals in Beech Grove, Mooresville and on Indianapolis' Far Southside then donated 200 new and used DVDs in the spring, and they were shipped to Cowden.

"It really meant a whole lot to us to have more than five movies to show," Cowden said Wednesday during a hospital visit, while she was on a two-week break from duty at Camp Liberty.