On Monday, May 19th, Jamaica and Flushing Hospitals held their 16th Annual MediSys Golf Classic at the Old Westbury Country Club. The event was attended by 118 golfers and nine tennis players.
After a day of golfing and tennis, participants attended a cocktail/dinner reception, where remarks were made by Mr. Bruce J. Flanz, President and CEO of the MediSys Health Network and the event’s honorary chairman, Dr. Cono Grasso, Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology. Prizes were awarded to the highest scoring players/foursomes and a wide variety of raffles prizes were given away.
The highly anticipated raffle drawings included about $13,000 worth of prizes donated by various benefactors, as well as several departments at Jamaica and Flushing Hospitals. Some of these prizes included a waterproof digital camera, AMEX gift cards, an Apple TV gift package, Mets tickets, an iPad mini, a Geek/Techie basket of gadgets, which included a BestBuy and iTunes gift card and iPhone accessories, and much more. The grand prize was two Jet Blue tickets, a TUMI luggage gift card, and a Visa gift card.
Over $170,000 was raised, which will be used to benefit Jamaica Hospital’s Gastroenterology Department and Flushing Hospital’s Cardiac Care Unit.