For More Information Please Call:
Marge Sullivan, Palm Healthcare Foundation, 561.833.6333
Melanie Otero, The Waters Pelton Organization, 561.626.0026 ext 11
Jennifer Abbott, The Waters Pelton Organization, 561.626.0026 ext 19

Who:   Palm Healthcare Foundation, Palm Beach County’s leading public healthcare foundation. The Foundation’s funding priorities—access to healthcare, healthcare quality and safety, healthcare technology, healthcare policy and healthcare workforce—are designed to empower non-profit healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals to create programs and services that improve the quality of life for Palm Beach County’s underserved citizens. 

What:   5^th Anniversary “Together We Can Do More” Celebration with Keynote Speaker Lieutenant Colonel Consuelo Castillo-Kickbusch, who overcame the fierce challenges of poverty, discrimination and illiteracy in childhood to become the highest ranking Hispanic woman in the Combat Support Field in the U.S. Army.

Where: Kravis Center, Cohen Pavilion

When:  11:30 a.m. Thursday, December 14, 2006

Why:    1. Celebration of Palm Healthcare Foundation’s significant milestones during its first five years, and recognition of its community partners who have collaborated with the Foundation to achieve success across a broad range of healthcare initiatives.

2. Presentation of Palm Healthcare Foundation’s 2006 Commitment to Community Honorees who have made significant contributions to strengthen healthcare in Palm Beach County.

3. Unveiling of Palm Healthcare Pavilion plans, a state-of-the-art $12 million project that will transform care for local children with special healthcare needs.

            4. Attendance of 300 Foundation Trustees, community leaders, Palm Healthcare 
            Foundation’s Nurse

Distinction Winners, grantees, volunteers, donors– all of whom have worked with and supported the Foundation to help provide solutions to unmet healthcare needs for the community, especially for the underserved.

In the past five years Palm Healthcare Foundation has distributed more than $14 million to over 70 non-profit organizations in Palm Beach County operating over 130 programs that met its funding goals.

FOR INTERVIEWS WITH CONSUELO CASTILLO-KICKBUSCH PLEASE CONTACT JENNIFER ABBOTT JENNIFER@WATERSPELTON.COM OR (561) 626-0026, EXT. 19