Cottage Children’s Medical Center Hosts Holiday Toy Drive

Cottage Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) is hosting its annual holiday toy drive to bring some extra joy to pediatric patients during the holiday season and throughout the year. The community is encouraged to participate in the toy drive by donating new, unwrapped toys, games, and supplies for activities.

There are three ways to participate in the holiday toy drive:

1. In-Person Drop-Off: Purchase toys and drop-off the unwrapped gifts at the front entrance of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (400 West Pueblo Street) on Tuesday, December 5 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm and Wednesday, December 20 from 2 pm to 4 pm.

2. Contactless Delivery: Purchase toys, supplies, and gift cards through a wish list at MyRegistry.com by searching for Cottage Children’s Medical Center.

3. Donate: Make a monetary contribution to help purchase toys by visiting www.cottagechildrens.org/cmn/donate.

For gift ideas, please see CCMC’s wish list at www.cottagehealth.org/childrens/toy-drive. For more information or questions about donations, please contact Ann Peyrat at apeyrat@sbch.org.

The not-for-profit Cottage Health is the leader in providing advanced medical care to the Central Coast region. Specialties include the Cottage Children’s Medical Center, Level 1 Trauma Center, Neuroscience Institute, Heart & Vascular Center, Center for Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Hospital. The Cottage Health medical staff is comprised of more than 700 physicians, many with subspecialties typically found only at university medical centers. Last year, the Cottage Health hospitals in Goleta, Santa Barbara, and Santa Ynez Valley provided inpatient care for 19,000 people, treated 81,000 patients through their 24-hour emergency departments, and helped deliver 2,000 newborns.