Published March 16. 2021 01:46PM
PRESS PHOTO COURTESY Capital BlueCross Capital BlueCross donated 1,000 quarts of chicken noodle soup March 4, to frontline healthcare workers at St. Luke's University Health Network's Bethlehem Campus. Matthew Furlan, right, director of nutrition services at St. Luke's Bethlehem Campus, accepts the donation from Michele Reber and her husband Doug, owners of the Healthy You Café in Enola, Cumberland County. The café is housed in the Capital BlueCross Connect health and wellness center, and prepared and delivered the soup. From early February through late March, Capital BlueCross is distributing more than 5,300 quarts of soup to frontline workers at more than 20 healthcare venues spanning six Lehigh Valley and Central Pennsylvania counties. “Our frontline healthcare workers have given us so much, putting their own health and well-being on the line to help secure ours for more than a year now,” said David Skerpon, senior vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Capital BlueCross. “We felt it was only fitting we give them a little something to help nourish their bodies the way they've nourished our health and our hearts.” Capital BlueCross will donate an additional 500 quarts of soup to St. Luke's Allentown Campus March 23.