PHILADELPHIA --
WHAT: The 18th Annual Jerry Segal Classic to benefit patients of Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., is a major fundraising event that directly benefits individuals with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, stroke, and other disabilities. Over the past 17 years, the Jerry Segal Classic has built a reputation of greatness and broken golf-event fundraising records, raising more than $6.2 million-including $1 million last year-for patients of Magee.
The Jerry Segal Classic, which has more than 350 golfers at two locations and 500 dinner guests, includes celebrities and distinguished individuals such as Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (honorary chairman), NBA Hall-of-Famer Billy Cunningham, Philadelphia Flyers' legendary goalie Bernie Parent, and more.
WHO: Jerry Segal is an amazing person. Following unsuccessful surgery on his neck in 1988, Jerry was admitted to Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. At that time he had no movement below his shoulders. Before coming to Magee, the prognosis was that he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. But Jerry, a successful attorney in Philadelphia, vowed to walk again, and after much hard work, he did indeed, at his discharge, walk out of Magee Rehabilitation Hospital-despite his quadriplegia and having no feeling below his neck.
He helped organize the golf event that bears his name to give back to Magee and assist others with physical and cognitive disabilities. "Through the dollars we raise at this outing, maybe other Magee spinal cord injury patients can be where I am today, walking, working, living independently," says Jerry. "Maybe, with the extra support, they can accomplish what I have accomplished."
WHEN: Friday, September 28, 2007
WHERE: ACE Golf Club & Green Valley Country Club
Both located in Lafayette Hill, PA
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, a founding member of the Jefferson Health System and ranked among U.S. News and World Report's top rehabilitation hospitals in 2006, is the Philadelphia region's original provider of physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. The non-profit healthcare organization is a partner with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of Delaware Valley, one of 14 federally designated spinal cord injury systems of care. Magee provides lifetime wellness programs for individuals with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, amputation, orthopedic injury, geriatric illness and work injury.
