Knowing the stressful demand that front line clinicians and support workers have been under since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boca Rio Golf Club and The Barry Family Foundation wanted to show their unwavering support. The decision was made to deliver 250 meals twice a week for six weeks. The first meals were delivered Wednesday, April 22, 2020 and they have continued since then. Today’s delivery brought their total to 2,000 meals served.

 

“This is such a generous initiative and is so welcomed by the staff,” explains says Mark Larkin, President of Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation. “Working long shifts, often 12 hours a piece, the nurses, physicians and technologists have little time to take for breaks. Knowing that a nice meal is coming gives them one less thing to worry about.”

 

Boca Rio Golf Club and The Barry Family Foundation have been long-time supporters of Boca Regional. In the past, they have hosted many Golf fundraisers to support patient care initiatives at the hospital. Boca Regional is very grateful for the philanthropic spirit that Boca Rio Golf Club and The Barry Family Foundation has always shown to our organization.

 

“Being able to support the hospital staff during such trying times has been a pleasure,” say Luciano Farias, General Manager of Boca Rio Golf Club. “The hospital and its clinicians plays such an important role in the health and well-being of our community, to thank them with this gift of fine food is an honor.”