2022 United and Kelsey Golf Day

You can help us put gas in the tank!

Lack of transportation can be a massive stressor for patients of United and Kelsey Hospitals. Sometimes an emergency-room patient arrives in an ambulance, but has no way to get home. Miranda, one of the social workers in the emergency department, says, "Patients are usually struggling emotionally, so they feel stranded here at the hospital. Their night is already traumatic and the last thing they should be worrying about is transportation home." Other times patients may need to transfer to Grand Rapids for specialty or psychiatric care. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the development of virtual care, but these services are often not viable, due to the area's poor Internet coverage, so patients must visit an office for their appointments. Compounding patients' difficulty to sometimes pay for transportation is a shortage of available transportation services for smaller communities.

The 2022 Spectrum Health United and Kelsey Hospitals Golf Day will raise funds to provide access to free transportation services for qualifying patients at United and Kelsey Hospitals, giving them access to medically necessary, life-prolonging
treatments they might otherwise forgo because of inadequate transportation.

Please consider participating in Golf Day 2022-as a sponsor, golfer, or both-and join us in providing access to critical transportation services to those who need them most.

For more information contact

Careena DeMull-Hillard

at

616.391.2021 or [email protected].