Lights of Love Milestones
Today LAHAS has nearly 135 members whose mission is to maintain a viable membership in the organization, act as ambassadors to the community, and engage in fundraising to provide support for Latrobe Hospital and the broader community.
Mrs. Donna LAHAS workedMcClure, to raise funds to helpPresident, build the first suggested the Lights of Love project. Latrobe Area hospital in the area. They called themselves Hospital The Executive A. Clark TuesdayDirector Club butDouglas changed their name to Latrobe HospitalaAid Society in 1910 when believed the it would “become lasting tradition.”
1910 to the Latrobe Hospital Aid Society when the hospital was completed.
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ights of Love is a heartwarming LAHAS project, LAHAS provides Hygiene Kitsa to students the Greater because it provides way for you toinremember Latrobe, Derry Area and Ligonier Valley School Districts; and honor the special people in your life the Comfort Care Closet with hygiene items, during the holiday season when loved onesphone chargers and more for Latrobe Hospital patients; and items are especially cherished.
for the Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit Each light on the outdoor Lightsin of 1983 Love tree, whichmembers is at Latrobe Hospital. Beginning LAHAS located on the plaza near the Excela Health Latrobe hosted the Children’s Health Fair for third graders in HospitalDerry main entrance, signifiesata family friend Latrobe, and Ligonier whichmember Societyor members provide stations where students learn who holds a special place in someone’s heart.lifetime Names ofhealthy all habits. donors and those they remember and honor are listed in the Honor Roll Book inJunior the Hospital lobby. In addition, loved to LAHAS awards Volunteer Scholarships ones’ names will adorn indoor Lights of Love trees outstanding hospital volunteers. Students 16trees. and All older may calland Volunteer (724.537.1024) to throughout learn more.the the HonorServices Roll Book will be displayed holidays and until early January. Funds raised by LAHAS have been used to purchase equipment for will Latrobe for the Light Up Night include Hospital a Ceremony patients, of Remembrance Latrobe Family Practice Residency Program and Honor, musical entertainment, the illumination of theand the Surgical Institute at Latrobe Hospital. In 2025 LAHAS outdoor Lights of Love tree, and a reception in the donated $50,000 for the modernization of the Hospital lobby. Independence Health System Latrobe Hospital The LatrobeDepartment Area Hospital Aid grateful for support the Emergency and Society has isprovided projects theofdedicated of made Latrobe Hospital, faithful for support many peoplestaffs who have Lights of theLove Square at Latrobe and the Laurel Surgical Center a Latrobe tradition for several decades. We wish them in recent years. and their families happy holidays and the very best in the new year.
LAHAS will continue to grow its mission by finding new and creative ways to support the people we serve.
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All donors, honorees and families of the being are Thepeople Latrobe Area remembered Hospital Aid Society invited welcomes to Light new Up members. Night the first Tuesday in December at 6:30 p.m. in To learn more about LAHAS the Excela Latrobe Hospital Auditorium. or Lights of Love, call the LAHAS Office at 724-537-1733.
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Today LAHAS 200 members Bonniehas D.more Harr,than Latrobe Hospitalwhose RN, mission it is towrote act as and ambassadors to the community and provide performed “Light a Light of to Love” financial support for at Excela Health Latrobe Hospital. Light Up Night. Lights of Love is one of LAHAS’s many projects. Since its inception in 1988, proceeds raised via it and other LAHAS ofpurchase Remembrance and of Honor projectsThe haveCeremony been used to a wide range equipment becamepatients; a part of Light Up for Latrobe Hospital to renovate theNight. Mammography Suite and Emergency Room; and to benefit the Family Medicine education program and Excela Latrobe patients.
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Names of those remembered and honored LAHAS also recognizes theLights importance of health adorned indoor of Love trees.education.
Beginning in 1983, Society members provided the Children’s Health Fair to third graders in Derry Area, Greater Latrobe, and Ligonier School Districts, and in for the the Valley School DonorsValley participated electronically first of Ligonier. time The Fair, held early in May every year, provides in the Lights of Love project. twelve stations at which students learn the advantages of healthy habits for a lifetime.
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2020 and 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a Virtual LAHAS awards scholarships to outstanding Excela Latrobe Light Up Night and at anthe online Honor Roll Book. Hospital junior volunteers end of their senior high
school year. Call the Volunteer Services Office (724-537-1024) to learn more about the junior volunteer program for students 16 and older. Nearly 35,000 loved ones were
1988 - 2025
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of Love inof the past 38 years. LAHASLights is always in the light process developing and embarking on new community projects. The good we are able to do for Latrobe area residents excites and motivates us.
1988 - 2025
Lights of Love proceeds totaling nearly three quarters of a million dollar The Latrobe Area Hospital Aid Society have benefited Latrobe Hospital patients and programs welcomes new members. and the Latrobe community. To learn more about LAHAS or to ask questions about Lights of Love, please call the LAHAS Office, Lights of Love celebrates its 724-537-1733. 39th Anniversary!
2026
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