{"id":279150,"date":"2026-09-04T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:48:11","slug":"henry-schein-inc-helps-children-start-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279150\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Schein Inc. helps children start the school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several hundred students are starting the new school year a little bit better prepared. That\u2019s thanks to the efforts of employees at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryschein.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Schein Inc.\u2019s<\/a> distribution center in Denver, Lancaster County.<\/p>\n<p>Team Schein Members at Henry Schein recently packed more than 300 backpacks filled with school supplies to help underserved children across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The backpacks were filled with folders, notebooks, pencils, rulers, and other classroom essentials, according to a press release. The backpacks were donated through Henry Schein\u2019s \u201cBack to School\u201d program to children served by the <a href=\"https:\/\/choryfs.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Children\u2019s Home of Reading (CHOR)<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that provides residential, educational, and community-based programs for children and families.<\/p>\n<p>The donation continues a nearly 20-year partnership between Henry Schein and CHOR, which serves children and families from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, with offices in Berks and Bucks counties, and the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, Henry Schein\u2019s \u201cBack to School\u201d program has allowed company team members to make a difference through hands-on volunteerism, the company said in the release. The program has grown to a global scale, benefitting more than 80,000 children across the communities Henry Schein serves. This year, team members at 40 company locations participated in the \u201cBack to School\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>This year also marks the 25th anniversary of Henry Schein Cares, the company\u2019s global corporate citizenship program.<\/p>\n<p>With its headquarters in Melville, NY, Henry Schein Inc. is a products, services, and technology platforms company for healthcare customers. With more than 25,000 employees worldwide, the company provides more than 1 million dental and medical customers with more than 300 solutions that help improve operational success and clinical outcomes. Henry Schein Inc.\u2019s sales reached $13.2 billion in 2025, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several hundred students are starting the new school year a little bit better prepared. That\u2019s thanks to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,60,182,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-279150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}