MARIETTA COUNTRY CLUB LAUNCHES TOURNAMENT Proceeds Benefit WellStar Cancer Network

WellStar Foundation received a Christmas gift this week from a Marietta Country Club golf tournament. Marietta Country Club & Friends announced a gift of $18,300 benefitting WellStar Cancer Network from the inaugural Thanksgiving Golf Classic.

“It is only fitting that we honor the WellStar Cancer Network,” said Tom Roberts, Marietta Country Club president. “Cancer has touched the lives of many members of the club as well as the community at large. Many among us have benefited from the care that WellStar and the other cancer treatment facilities provide this community.”

Prior to Jack A. Miller’s death in 2013, the Marietta Country Club member envisioned a tournament honoring WellStar Cancer Network, an organization that aided and cared for him in his fight against cancer. The tournament was organized by Steve Fisher, Micky Blackwell and Jerry Mann in Miller’s honor.

Marietta Country Club sponsored, hosted and took on the fundraiser as an annual golf tournament to recognize and support caregivers and charitable organizations in the community.

WellStar Health System provides cutting-edge cancer treatments for patients in metro Atlanta. WellStar Cancer Network helps patients navigate through the cancer journey physically, emotionally and spiritually with the most advanced cancer treatments available.

From initial diagnosis through treatment, WellStar’s integrated, multidisciplinary team of highly skilled surgeons and radiation oncologists provides cancer patients with compassionate, superior care in a supportive and respectful environment. Because of WellStar’s membership in the Mayo Clinic Care Network, patients with complex cases and their physicians can receive specialists’ reviews and case evaluations without travelling and at no additional cost.

Becker’s Hospital Review named WellStar Kennestone Hospital to its “100 Hospitals with Great Oncology Programs” list earlier this year for the second consecutive year. It is one of only two hospitals in Georgia to make the list.

WellStar Foundation raises community support and funds to help accomplish WellStar Health System’s mission to create and deliver high quality hospital, physician and other healthcare-related services that improve the health and well-being of the individuals and communities WellStar serves. To learn more about the WellStar Foundation or to make a tax deductible donation before the end of the year, please visit www.wellstar.org/give or call 770-956-GIVE (4483).

Photo caption: Left to right: Jerry Mann, Steve Fisher, Carolyn Miller (the widow of Jack Miller) and Micky Blackwell pictured at the Marietta Country Club’s inaugural Thanksgiving Golf Classic.