Press Release
December 4, 2009 Contact: Frank Murray, 542-4835
The Columbia Basin College Autobody program will unveil the new Kadlec Regional Medical Center inpatient rehabilitation vehicle at a ceremony Monday, Dec. 7th, at 1 p.m.
CBC received a donation of one of the Pasco Auto Wrecking’s Cash for Clunkers vehicles. The former SUV will be used to help patients rehabilitating from strokes and other disabilities to enter vehicles, adjust mirrors, put on seatbelts, and other procedures often taken for granted by most people operating a motor vehicle.
Seventeen CBC Autobody students worked on the project for about two weeks. The vehicle will be transported to Kadlec on Monday, disassembled outside the medical center, and then reassembled inside the rehabilitation gym.
A CBC Autobody Advisory Board member told CBC Instructor Rhody Hayes of the Kadlec request and Hayes contacted Pasco Auto Wrecking which generously donated the vehicle.