Gurnee’s only free-standing memory care community, Gurnee Place Memory Care, is seeking donations for its Chemo Care Bags Service Project.

Gurnee Place Memory Care is partnering with the Lake County Tech Campus Certified Nursing Assistant Program to sponsor a Chemo Care Bags Service Project to benefit the Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital Breast Cancer Center in Lake Forest.

This resource treats patients undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. The organizations are partnering to gather bags of supplies and food to help ease the cancer patients’ treatment and lift their spirits during a difficult period of their lives.

Many of the items can be purchased inexpensively and are specific to these patients’ needs. The following specific donations for bags are accepted at Gurnee Place Memory Care until Thursday, Feb. 12:

• Starlite Mints: 6–16-ounce bag
• Lemon candies: 4–9-ounce bag
• Ginger candies: 3-ounce bags
• Gin Gins Ginger Chews
• Ginger tea (each bag individually wrapped/sealed in box)
• Large-print word search puzzle books
• Aquaphor Healing Ointment 1.75-ounce size
• Comfy soft socks

Gurnee Place Memory Care, located at 505 N. Hunt Club Road, Gurnee, is managed by Health Dimensions Group, a leading management and consulting organization based in Minneapolis serving senior living, post-acute, and long-term care providers, as well as hospitals and health systems, across the nation.