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lyn jurick:<br />
Supporting Boca Raton Community Hospital<br />
with passion and fire in her heart<br />
When Jim Morris, MD, medical director of the Lynn “There were so many good things happening at our hospital,<br />
Heart Institute, scheduled Lyn Jurick for her cardiac bypass I felt I needed to help spread the word.” With the assistance<br />
surgery, she told him “OK, I’ll be there. Don’t be late.”<br />
of her friend Mimi Leeds and several other neighbors at<br />
St. Andrews Country Club, Lyn organized a series of Town<br />
At age 80, Lyn Jurick is not about to let major heart surgery<br />
Hall Meetings with hospital physicians and administrators<br />
slow her down. She has a full roster of things she plans to<br />
to educate the residents about the hospital’s services and<br />
accomplish, and her top priority is promoting awareness<br />
programs.<br />
and appreciation for the services available at Boca Raton<br />
Community Hospital.<br />
Shortly thereafter, Lyn learned that her aortic valve had to be<br />
replaced and she had two blockages that required by-pass<br />
Lyn has been a passionate advocate of accessible, quality care<br />
surgery. Although her children implored her to return to<br />
all her life. In her early 20s, affected by<br />
New York for surgery, Lyn insisted<br />
a neighbor’s child who was mentally<br />
that she would have the surgery right<br />
retarded, she started the first auxiliary<br />
here. “I had just been researching the<br />
for the Association for the Help of<br />
Lynn Heart Institute for an upcoming<br />
Retarded Children in Nassau County,<br />
Town Hall Meeting, so I knew it was<br />
Long Island and eventually presided<br />
an exceptional program and I was<br />
over 30 auxiliaries. She also served as<br />
very impressed with Dr. Morris’<br />
chairman of the board and a leading<br />
credentials,” Lyn explains.<br />
fundraiser for the region’s United Way.<br />
After her surgery, Lyn was enthusiastic<br />
Because of her advocacy for families,<br />
about the comprehensive care she had<br />
Lyn was named a trustee of Long<br />
received as well as the speed of her<br />
Island Jewish Hospital in 1979, and<br />
recovery.<br />
had a major impact on the quality of<br />
care that continues to this day. She<br />
“Boca Raton Community Hospital<br />
was the driving force to build a Ronald<br />
McDonald House and she spearheaded<br />
LYN JURICK<br />
is an entire network of support and<br />
care. I was treated with sensitivity and<br />
a fundraising campaign to build the Monter Cancer Center at compassion in every aspect of my care. The staff explained<br />
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.<br />
everything to me and cared for me with assured, capable<br />
hands. I felt they were by my side every step of the way.”<br />
“I believed then, as I do today, that it is critically important<br />
that we have access to good health care where we live. I don’t Lyn brings the same energy and passion to supporting Boca<br />
want to have to travel to other parts of the country – I want to Raton Community Hospital as she did to her causes decades ago.<br />
be able to stay close to home when my family members and I<br />
need medical care,” she says.<br />
“Our Hospital is an incredibly valuable community asset. We<br />
need to raise funds and build awareness about the services<br />
Although Lyn and her husband Bob had been Boca Raton<br />
available, about the expertise of the physicians and staff, about<br />
snowbirds since the early 80s, they moved to Boca<br />
the quality of care we have right here in Boca Raton. We can all<br />
permanently several years ago. At the time, the news about contribute our expertise and support so that our community<br />
Boca Raton Community Hospital focused on the cancelled hospital continues to deliver life saving care for generations to<br />
teaching hospital and the financial losses, yet when Lyn spoke come.”<br />
to people connected with the hospital, she was impressed with<br />
what she learned.<br />
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