Tom Urtz, vice president of human resources and community affairs for ShopRite Supermarkets Inc., presented a $62,000 check to Dr. Michael Gewitz, Maria Fareri Children”™s Hospital physician-in-chief, at the Westchester Medical Center June 27.
Throughout the Hudson Valley, ShopRites partnered together to raise funds by collecting donations from customers at checkout lines. Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, serves patients from the Hudson Valley region and Fairfield County, Conn. Through the campaigning and support of associates and customers, Urtz said that ShopRite is honored to stand by the hospital”™s mission to help others and plans to partner with them in the future.
ShopRite, owned by Wakefern Food Corp. in Keasbey, N.J., has about 250 grocery store locations that serve more than 5 million customers weekly. Since 1999, ShopRite has donated more than $30 million to 1,700 charities and food banks and more than $24 million for schools, hospitals and community groups in the country.
My daughter was born at 23 weeks last year and is doing great today because of the WONDERFUL doctors and nurses in the NICU at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital. It is a very special place to our family. We are so lucky that that my daughter Joy was there. They took the tiniest little life and safely grew her into a healthy baby. I wish other local businesses would follow ShopRite’s direction and donate as well! After she came home from 121 days in the NICU, I wrote a memoir called “From Hope To Joy” about my life-threatening pregnancy and my daughter’s 4 months in the NICU (with my 3 young sons at home), which will be published this summer. Please see my website:
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