“You Should be Dancing” Event Raises $462K for Women & Infants Hospital
Thursday, November 09, 2017
The “You Should be Dancing” event held at Cafe Nuovo in Providence raised $462,000 for Women & Infants Hospital’s Birth Center.
The event featured over 300 guests and featured a night of disco sounds and DJ Jaybeau Jones as well as live performances by the Boston-based band SoHo.
“We are honored to have the support of so many generous sponsors and donors who we thank for their commitment to Women & Infants and to the women and newborns of our community. The dedication of our event sponsors is essential in order for Women & Infants to continue its legacy of care and innovation,” said Women & Infants Interim President and Chief Operating Officer Diane Rafferty.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTClose to 9,000 babies are born each year at Women & Infants Hospital, most in one of 19 private rooms or one of three dedicated Cesarean birth rooms.
A team of nurses, midwives, physicians and other caregivers provides a wide range of services, ranging from a home-like experience in the Alternative Birthing Center to intensive monitoring by specialists for high-risk pregnancy and delivery.
The evening’s contributors included Presenting Sponsor CVS Health; Solid Gold Sponsors Cox Business, Women & Infants’ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Women & Infants’ Department of Pediatrics; Disco Ball Sponsors Malcolm G. Chace Jr., Women & Infants’ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hinckley Allen, Women & Infants’ Medical Staff Association, NOW Delivery, Cynthia B. Patterson, Jack and Judith Remondi, and Southern New England Healthcare for Women; Dance Fever Sponsors ABM, Atlantic Management, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Lisa G. Bisaccia and Robert P. Neparstek, MD, Bernie and Heidi Buonanno, Claflin, Joanna and Angus Davis, Women & Infants’ Department of Medicine, Hasbro, IGT, Nursing Moms, Etc., Sodexo, Anne and Michael Szostak, The Foundry, Verrecchia Family Foundation, and University Ob-Gyn, Inc.
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