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May 30, 2011 — CharterCARE golf tournament raises $200,000 for cancer program
On May 9, more than 260 golfers teed off at three separate courses in the first-ever CharterCARE Health Partners Golf Classic. The tournament raised more than $240,000 for cancer care services across the CharterCARE system, including funding for outreach, treatment and advocacy for the Alice Viola Breast Care Center at Fatima Hospital, as well as the continued expansion of the Adele Decof Cancer Center at Roger Williams Medical Center.
The tournament was sponsored by Universal Ambulance Service. John Mathews, President of Eident Sports Marketing in Providence, was the chairman of this year’s event.
“We are so grateful for the tremendous response and support from local companies, vendors, physicians and friends who all made this event so successful,” said Kenneth H. Belcher, President and CEO, CharterCARE Health Partners. “While it was a great gathering and day, the true beneficiaries are thousands of cancer patients who will have even greater access to enhanced services across our system thanks to everyone’s involvement and generosity.”
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The CharterCARE Health Partners Golf Classic, held on May 9, netted close to $200,000 for cancer programs across the CharterCARE system including funding for the Alice Viola Breast Care Center at Fatima Hospital and the Adele Decof Cancer Center at Roger Williams. Pictured at the tournament from left to right: CharterCARE President and CEO Kenneth H. Belcher, event chair John Matthews from Eident Sports Marketing, Al Barbery, Jr. from tournament sponsor Universal Ambulance, and Edwin Santos, CharterCARE board chairman. |
Special thanks to our Tournament Sponsor Al Barbery of Universal Ambulance, our volunteers and to the
following sponsors:
| Bottom Line Solutions LLC | Med Tech Ambulance Services |
|---|---|
| New England Anesthesiolgists Inc. | Pannone Lopes Devereau & West LLC |
| Delta Dental of Rhode Island | EOA Healthcare Solutions LLC |
| Adler Pollock & Sheehan | Alert Ambulance Service |
| Cavanagh Company | Claflin Company |
| Eident Sports Marketing | KPMG, LLP |
| Normand Law, Ltd. | ProMutual Group |
| Roger Williams Medical Staff | University Pathologists LLC |
| Advocacy Solutions LLC | Angell Pension Group, Inc. |
| Bank of America | Bay Area Mobile |
| Bayer HealthCare | Beacon Mutual Insurance |
| Kenneth H. Belcher | Chace Ruttenberg & Freedman, LLC |
| Income Research Management Inc. | Littler Mendelson, PC |
| William Loehning | Donald C. McQueen |
| Navigant Credit Union | Neighborhood Health Plan of RI |
| NES Healthcare | Orthopaedic Associates, Inc. |
| RICOH Business Solutions | RI PET Imaging |
| Roberts Carroll Feldstein Pierce | RGB Architects/NE Medical Design |
| Sodexo | Southern New England Neurology |
| Starkweather & Shepley | 21st Century Oncology |