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Each summer — on the third Monday in July — the Crouse Health Foundation hosts the Crouse Classic Golf Tournament, a premiere social and sporting event that supports infant services at Crouse Hospital.
Tournament proceeds have purchased much-needed equipment for the hospital's Kienzle Family Maternity Center, including the Baker Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a New York State regional referral center for premature and critically-ill infants for the 15-county region it serves.
2012 Crouse Classic Golf Tournament - July 16
Crouse Health Foundation’s 11th annual Crouse Classic Golf Tournament will be held Monday, July 16 at the beautiful and challenging Bellevue Country Club, Syracuse. Both morning and afternoon shotgun starts will be offered in a Captain and Crew format. The day will conclude with a reception, dinner and awards presentation.
Proceeds from the event support children’s services at Crouse Hospital. Tournament proceeds will purchase equipment for the hospital’s Kienzle Family Maternity Center, including the Baker Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a New York State regional referral center for premature and critically-ill infants for the fifteen-county region it serves.
All foursomes will be placed in three flights, based upon team handicap, for the overall tournament awards. Skill contests with prizes (Closest to the Pin, Closest to the Line and Longest Drive) for men and women will be featured. Hole-in-One contests will be offered as well as a Putting Contest.
Foursomes and individual golfers are welcome with registration costs including greens fees, cart, breakfast buffet, barbecue luncheon, on-course snacks and beverages, reception, dinner, golfer gift, golf contests and awards. For more information about the 2012 Crouse Classic, contact Phyllis Devlin at 315/470-7008.
2011 Crouse Classic Golf Tournament
Crouse Health Foundation’s tenth annual Crouse Classic Golf Tournament was held on Monday, July 18, for the fifth consecutive year at Bellevue Country Club. The tournament featured two sessions with sold-out morning and afternoon fields. The day ended with a social hour and awards dinner.
Monies from this year’s fundraiser benefited children’s services at Crouse Hospital with the 2011 tournament netting over $94,000. Proceeds from the 2011 Crouse Classic Golf Tournament will be used to purchase two state-of-the-art interactive newborn simulators. These simulators have realistic newborn traits and provide lifelike clinical feedback. They will be used for the continuing education of the staff at Crouse Hospital's Kienzle Family Maternity Center and for staff training at the referral hospitals in the fifteen-county area served by Crouse’s Regional Perinatal Center. Additionally, therapeutic instrumental music CDs will be purchased for the Baker Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, extending Crouse's Healing Environment initiative to provide soothing sounds for our tiniest patients.
Stephen Barker, MD, Crouse Classic Golf Tournament Committee Chair, noted several milestones were celebrated with this year’s tournament. It was the 20th annual Crouse Health Foundation sponsored golf tournament; the 10th annual Crouse Classic Golf Tournament which emphasizes support of children's services at Crouse Hospital; and the 5th year the tournament was held at Bellevue Country Club.
Dr. Barker enthusiastically announced that the 2011 tournament, with net proceeds of over $94,000, pushed total net proceeds for the tournaments held these twenty years to over the $1 million mark. These tournament proceeds have purchased everything from specialized patient stretchers and hospital beds to outfitting the in-hospital chapel. In the past ten years, the tournament focus has been on supporting the Kienzle Family Maternity Center, including the Baker Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Recent tournament proceeds have purchased specialized incubators, specially-adapted isolettes and oxygen delivery systems.
Winners of the 2011 Golf Tournament
Captain & Crew A Flight
Tony Bova, Pat Costello, Marilyn Oppedisano
Captain & Crew B Flight
Scott Meriwether, Dennis TenEyck, Charles Usherwood, Lou Usherwood
Captain & Crew Morning Flight (15 holes due to inclement weather)
Rich Irvine, Ron Napiorkowski, Scott Harte, Jeff Purdy
Special Thanks to Our Major Sponsors in 2011
Neonatal Associates of CNY, P.C.; Buffalo Hospital Supply, Co.; IBEW Local 43 Syracuse NY/
NECA Finger Lakes Chapter; KeyBank Real Estate Capital – Healthcare Group;
Usherwood Office Technology; Crouse Hospital Medical Staff; The Hayner Hoyt Corporation;
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.; Practice Resources, LLC; PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP;
and Wilson Elser, LLP.