Aromatique™ Gifts Raise $57,000 for UAMS
| LITTLE ROCK — The seventh annual winter AromatiqueT benefit sale at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) yielded almost $57,000 for patient needs, equipment, and research at Arkansas’s only academic health center.
The Heber Springs, Ark., company donates merchandise to UAMS each year for sale at a discount to employees. Hundreds of UAMS employees delight in stocking up on the company’s popular potpourri, candles, and decorative items. The University Hospital Auxiliary gives proceeds of the sale to projects around the hospital.
AromatiqueT donations to UAMS have had a cumulative value of almost $500,000. The university has used the funds for a wide variety of special projects, including prescriptions, transportation, toiletry articles, and food for needy patients; free coffee in hospital waiting rooms; testing of a possible vaccine for cervical and uterine cancer; an ophthalmic laser; fetal monitors; and a stereo unit for MRI patients.
Patricia and Richard Upton of Heber Springs are owners and founders of AromatiqueT. Mr. Upton is a past president of the UAMS Foundation Fund Board.