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A SAFE PLACE
FOR BABY TO SLEEP

Above: Jacob Settle, a former Children's
Center student, entertains the crowd at
Soirée by the Sea.

the First Mate sponsor. Excursion sponsors included Allender & Allender PA
and Port Commissioner Jerry & Judy
Allender; Boggs Gases; Cocoa Beach
Hospitality/Transportation Association;
RUSH Construction Inc.; TD Bank; A1
Productions and Touring;* N. Christine
Sylvester; Susan Morse, senior vice president of UBS Financial Services; Florida
Today Communications;* and Zumpano
Patricios & Winker PA. Anchor level sponsors included The Broome Law Firm PA
and Chris & Kelley Broome; Canaveral
Port Authority; Coastal Ambulance
Service; Florida Cardiovascular
Association; GT USA LLC; Hamlin Capital
Advisors LLC; Industrial Steel Inc.; Itani
Family Pharmacy and Basil & Dania Itani;
Nabil Itani, DO, Internal Medicine; Jaguar
Land Rover Merritt Island; Kindred; Bob
& Jessie Kirk and Kirk Realty Inc.; Loyd
Contracting Co. Inc.; Mr. & Mrs. George
Mikitarian; Precision Shapes Inc.;

Parrish Medical Center (PMC) was the
Above: Melinda Hodges, center,
a registered nurse at Parrish
first organization in Brevard County to
Medical Center, thanks the Jess
partner with the Healthy Start Coalition
Parrish Medical Foundation board
and the Florida Department of Health to
of directors for their generous
support of the Baby Box program.
provide newborns a safe place to sleep.
Thanks to a generous donation by the
Jess Parrish Medical Foundation (JPMF), through this partnership,
Baby Boxes are given to mothers of newborns as part of a safety initiative addressing common high-risk behaviors associated with sudden
unexpected infant death. The boxes function as a bassinet, complete
with a sheet and a firm mattress, to help keep the baby sleeping on his or
her back and away from toys and stuffed animals. More than 1,000 newborns have received Baby Boxes since the program was implemented at
Parrish in 2016.
"Thanks to our community's generous support, we are able to fund
lifesaving programs such as these," says Gene Sego, JPMF board chair.

GIVE

You Can Help!
Make a gift to the foundation and save lives. Call 321-269-4066
or visit parrishmedfoundation.com/donate.

Ron Norris Buick, GMC, Honda &
Ford; SBC Marketing;* Sodexo; Tanya
Taival, DO, Obstetrics & Gynecology;
TeamHealth Anesthesia & Parrish
Anesthesia Specialists; and TeamHealth
Southeast. Other generous sponsors
were recognized at the gala.
The event was co-chaired by Judy
Allender, Holly Carver and Heather
Loyd. Committee members were
Richard Boggs, Ginny Bradford,

Winnie Brewer, Kelley Broome, Mary
Coleman, Amy Craddock, Lori Duester,
Voncile Franklin, Dawn Hohnhorst,
Melissa Lugo, Christina Morrison, Susan
Morse, Candi Neuweiler, Elana Pitcher,
Leigh Spradling and Tanya Taival, DO.
Event lighting was done by A1 Productions and Touring. Event photos were
taken by Cuebas Digital Photography. ■
*In-kind sponsors

SPRING 2018

http://www.parrishmedfoundation.com/donate

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