News : VLH Assisted Living passes on Ice Bucket Challenge to VGH

Ice Bucket Plunge at Lutheran Home: Todd Gloede and Jessica Rippel react to the cold water.

The staff of the Vinton Lutheran Home Assisted Living Center, with help from residents, accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from the Windsor Manor staff. Just before having the residents dump cold water on them, the Lutheran Home employees, through Jessica Rippel, issued the challenge to the Virginia Gay Hospitals, clinics and Home Health employees.

The participants in the Internet-based Ice Bucket Challenge make a donation to the ALS Association and then dump the cold water on their heads before issuing a challenge via Facebook to someone else to do the same.

See more photos HERE.

See more about the more than $60 million raised for the ALS via the Ice Bucket Challenge HERE.

Donations can also be sent to:

• ALS Therapy Development Institute

• John Paul II Medical Research Institute

• Midwest Stem-Cell Therapy Center