Jamestown  (JRMC) — Challenging doesn’t even begin to describe the last year or so – especially for individuals battling cancer at Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

That is why the support for Golf “FORE” Good and the JRMC Cancer Center meant so much.

More than 100 golfers and volunteers raised $18,570 for cancer care in this region, said JRMC Foundation Director Lisa Jackson. The funds support this community on their cancer care journey. They also eliminate travel. Since the cancer center opened in 2019, it’s saved more than 500,000 miles for individuals from 35 communities.

“Despite the challenges of this year, never once did we close or quit caring for the region,” Jackson said. “The support from these golfers and our sponsors protected JRMC’s financial health while we cared for the community’s physical health.”

The JRMC Cancer Center opened in June 2019, in partnership with Sanford Health. The center offers chemotherapy and other infusions in its six sun-lit and spacious infusion bays. The space also includes exam rooms, a consultation area and space for nurses and staff. The community raised $1.7 million of the $1.9 million needed to build the space.

Thundering Saints of Valley City and the JRMC Orthopedics & Sports Medicine team served as the title sponsors for the event.

Rocky Gabel, Valley City, created the Thundering Saints motorcycle group in memory of his late wife, Debbie. Debbie died of ovarian cancer in 2009. She was 52.

“I want people to have care, close to home. I’m not sure people know — all of the charitable gaming from Thundering Saints in Valley City is given to organizations that help those battling cancer. I’m just so happy I can help,” Gabel.

Golf tournament winners include:

  • NET

1st Place – Great River Energy
2nd Place – First Community Credit Union

  • GROSS

1st Place – Orriginals
2nd Place – Hillerud Construction

  • Jerry Baenen Putting Contest – Rodney Roscoe

Other 2021 Golf “FORE” Good sponsors include:

Birdie: $1,000

  • Central Business Systems

Beverage & Social: $500

  • Compeer Financial
  • JRMC Auxiliary
  • Sanford Health
  • Vogel Law
  • Delta Dental of Minnesota
  • BCBSND

Hole: $300

  • Barb and Curt Togstad Continue Aiding Recipients Affected by Cancer Evermore (C.A.R.E.) Endowment Fund
  • The PixSquad
  • Dixon Golf
  • Northstar Buick GMC Dealers / Wilhelm Chevrolet Buick GMC
  • Ottmar & Ottmar P.C.
  • Sanford Health
  • The Medicine Shoppe
  • Vaaler Insurance, Inc.
  • i3G Media

Teams

  • Alerus Financial
  • Bank Forward / Insure Forward
  • BWBR
  • Central Business Systems
  • Champion Seed
  • Chip Squad
  • Dakota Plains Credit Union
  • First Community Credit Union
  • Gerlach Team
  • Great River Energy
  • Hart Counseling
  • Hillerud Construction, Inc.
  • JRMC Radiology
  • Layered
  • Lonnberg Team
  • Orriginals
  • Ottmar & Ottmar P.C./Enzminger
  • M. Stoudt
  • Sanford Health Equip
  • Schrader Farms
  • Scherbenske Inc.
  • Unison Bank
  • University of Jamestown
  • Woodley Wackers

 

For more information on the tournament, contact Jackson at (701) 952-4880 or ljackson@jrmcnd.com. For more information about the JRMC Cancer Center, visit www.jrmcnd.com/cancer.

About Jamestown Regional Medical Center

Jamestown Regional Medical Center in Jamestown, N.D. serves 55,000 people in nine counties. In 2021, the National Rural Health Association named it a “Top 100 Critical Access Hospital” for the eighth consecutive year. Modern Healthcare named JRMC a “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” each year from 2017-2020.  Specialty services include ear, nose & throat, gynecology, podiatry, orthopedics, urology and wound care. For more information, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call (701) 952-1050.

About the JRMC Cancer Center

Jamestown Regional Medical Center, in partnership with Sanford Health, opened the JRMC Cancer Center in 2019. The JRMC Cancer Center serves 100 people from Sanford and other healthcare organizations in the Jamestown area each month, saving more than 250,000 miles of travel each year.