Swim Across America Nantucket’s event in August raised nearly a quarter million dollars for cancer care on Nantucket. On Thursday, December 4, the Nantucket swim Co-Event Directors Jim Pignato and Jill Roethke presented the checks to NCH President & CEO Dr. Margot Hartmann, and Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket (PASCON) program director Charlene Thurston.

Swim Across America Nantucket, now preparing for its fourth year on the island, is a fun and active family event at Jetties Beach that benefits the Mass General Hematology/Oncology Service at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, as well as PASCON‘s programs and services.

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Phil Stambaugh had been waiting 40 years for the shot.

In September 2014, it finally happened – a hole-in-one on the sixth hole at the Sankaty Head Golf Club. And the shot just happened to come during The Swing for Nantucket Cottage Hospital, winning Stambaugh a brand new 2015 Jeep Wrangler courtesy of the hole sponsor, Don Allen Ford.

“It was more disbelief than anything else. I’ve come close in the past but to have it go in at the hospital tournament and have everyone around was special. Everyone on the course in the near vicinity knew what happened (because of the cheering),” Stambaugh told The Inquirer and Mirror.

Driving away with the new Jeep, Stambaugh decided to take his good luck and pay it forward. Stambaugh generously donated his Acura MDX to Nantucket Cottage Hospital for use by visiting staff and physicians.

“We are so thankful to Phil Stambaugh for this gift, which will be extremely helpful to our visiting doctors and clinicians,” said Courtney O’Neill, the executive director of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Foundatoin. “What a wonderful gift.”

“Cape Cod Five recognizes the profound importance of having a high-quality medical facility available to the local community. With caring and expertise, Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been an essential resource for the collective health of Nantucket residents for generations. (more…)

“Most of us have had a member of our family or someone we know who was helped in a serious medical situation thanks to our Nantucket Cottage Hospital. I’ve said this before, but really try it: imagine Nantucket without our hospital. Whether it was $10, $20, $5,000 or $10,000, your involvement and donations make a big difference to Nantucket Cottage Hospital this year and will continue to do so in the future.”

– Roy Flanders

Roy is a longtime island resident who made a successful $250,000 one-to-one matching pledge to Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s 2013 annual appeal, via The NCH Fund. 

For Jill and Stephen Karp, being the presenting sponsors of the Boston Pops on Nantucket concert is about far more than simply supporting the primary fundraiser for an island non-profit.

The event represents the one summer gathering for the entire community, with world-class entertainment in a setting – Jetties Beach – that is second-to-none. And it supports Nantucket Cottage Hospital, the one island institution that, sooner or later, will touch the lives of every person who calls Nantucket home, as well as those who are just visiting. (more…)