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Jupiter Medical Center Raises Nearly $1.8 Million

For COVID-19 Relief Fund

Support from donors is needed to sustain Jupiter
Medical Center at any time, but it is particularly critical in
times of crisis. In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation received nearly $1.8
million in philanthropic donations.
“We are extremely grateful for the generosity of the
community and our donors during this uncertain time,”
said Liv Vesely, president of Jupiter Medical Center
Foundation. “Gifts received are helping to offset losses
due to decreased volumes, and have allowed us to purchase
additional medical equipment to address the hospital’s
highest priority needs.”
The hospital received multiple donations as the than $250,000 for Jupiter Medical Center Foundation’s Photos by Andrew Ray
community rallied to support Jupiter Medical Center COVID-19 Relief Fund. The foundation also received
Foundation’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. Through ClubsHELP, an interfaith donation from JupiterFIRST Church, St. needed for FDA-approved rapid molecular testing. Jupiter
an organization that connects golf organizations with local Peter Catholic Church and Temple Beth Am of more than Medical Center was also able to acquire a telehealth cart
communities to provide critical resources in times of need, $45,000. Additional generous donors contributed funds for intensive care unit physicians to communicate with
Jupiter Medical Center was “adopted” by the Seminole through #GivingTuesdayNow and through other efforts,
Golf Club. Members stepped up collectively, raising more which enabled the medical center to purchase equipment Jupiter Medical Center on page 6
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Secures Lifesaving

$2 Million Matching Gift From Cornelia T. Bailey

Foundation To Propel Campus Expansion

Supporters Can Double - The recurrence of
deadly red tide
Their Financial Impact And The center ’s
Help The Center’s Sea Turtle current water system
cannot properly
Patients Receive Clean Ocean screen these toxins
out of the hospital
Water For Recovery water, harming their
patients’ chances for
In partnership with the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, recovery. With its
Loggerhead Marinelife Center is proud to announce a two- world-class mission
million dollar-for-dollar matching gift towards their Waves of of sea turtle and ocean
Progress campus expansion. This lifesaving matching gift will conservation, the
help the center raise critical funds to deploy the world’s most LMC Aerial Rendering Center has worked
advanced clean-water filtration system at a sea turtle hospital. Photo courtesy of LMC with global water
The leading filtration system will provide quarantining, filtration, quality experts to
heating, and chilling for each individual hospital tank and patient Since opening its facility in 2007, the center has treated blueprint, design, and
regardless of water quality or environmental conditions. and released thousands of threatened and endangered sea install the world’s
turtle patients back into the most advanced sea
ocean. However, the current water filtration system
hospital water system does ensuring its mission Lynne Wells (LMC Board Chair)
not provide inbound water will move forward and Jack E. Lighton
filtration for its patients. Over uninterrupted. Photo by Tracey Benson Photography
the past decade, Florida’s In addition to
coastal waters have suffered providing state-of-
from dangerous levels of: the-art patient protection and redundancy, the system
- Blue-green algae will provide guests, students and collaborators with an
- High bacteria counts from
watershed Loggerhead Marinelife Center on page 4