Remembering from the Heart
Monday, April 22
Bolingbrook Golf Club
Let’s start the conversation! Joliet Area Community Hospice is hosting “Remembering from the Heart” Annual Dinner Fundraiser on Monday, April 22 beginning at 5:00 p.m. at Bolingbrook Golf Club, 2001 Rodeo Dr., Bolingbrook, IL. The public is invited to the dinner, presented by Signature sponsors: Busey Bank, D’Arcy Buick GMC, The Horton Group and Kurtz Ambulance and Emergency Services.* Tickets are $75 per guest, with tables of 10 available. Dinner, cash bar, raffles, auction and other fun activities will fill the evening. All proceeds benefit Joliet Area Community Hospice adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care programs and community bereavement services.
JACH will honor this year’s Heart of Hospice Award recipients: IL Representative Natalie Manley (D-Joliet) for envisioning a better hospice future and improving access to quality
end-of-life care through legislation and Margaret and Bill Benoit for unwavering support, love and advocacy for JACH with gifts of time, talent and treasure.
Joliet Area Community Hospice has served the community for 37 years, now in the counties of Will, Grundy, Kendall, Livingston, LaSalle and parts of DuPage, Kankakee and Southern Cook. Pre-registration is required and can be made at lightways.org under events or call 815-740-4104. Pre-registration required by April 12, 2019.
* To date, other event sponsors include, Medline, Silver Cross Hospital, Elite Therapy, Edward Jones/Ed Dollinger and Mark Karner, Financial Advisors, and AdvaCare. Joliet Area Community Hospice, a not-for-profit United Way Agency and this community’s choice for quality end of life care.
Joliet Area Community Hospice provides compassionate, professional hospice and palliative care to over 32,000 terminally ill patients and their families since 1982. In the past two years alone, Joliet Area Community Hospice provided over $1.55 million in charity care, community bereavement programs, unreimbursed pediatric hospice and palliative care, and community outreach. We are a not-for-profit corporation, state licensed, Medicare/Medicaid certified and supported by United Way of Will and Grundy Counties. We serve patients in greater Will, Grundy, and Kendall, LaSalle, and Livingston counties along with portions of Cook, DuPage and Kankakee counties.
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