16th Annual SBYC Charity Regatta
Saturday, September 12, 2020
We are excited to announce that the 16th Annual Charity Regatta raised more than $102,000! Thank you to Santa Barbara Yacht Club, the SBYC Charity Regatta Committee, and all the donors for racing and raising funds to give back to VNA Health to help us sustain care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
While the public aspects of the Charity Regatta did not take place, 22 boats raced on September 12, 2020, a foggy, yet beautiful racing day. Congratulations to our WINNERS!
Overall Winner: Rock & Roll (Bernie Girod)
PHRF A: Rock & Roll (Bernie Girod)
PHRF B: Average (Kent Pierce / Eric Stokke)
J/70: Namaste (Thomas Tunberg)
CHRF: Skookum (George Brown)
To see the Full Results:
https://sbyc.org/documents/10184/157060/2020_09_12_Charity_Results-PHRF-Fleets.pdf
https://sbyc.org/documents/10184/157060/2020_09_12_Charity_Results-CHRF-PHRF-Overall.pdf
Thanks to the support from our amazing community, VNA Health is able to continue providing patient care services throughout the pandemic and maintaining all charitable, community care programs such as the Loan Closet, Community Palliative Care, Music Therapy, and Community Bereavement Care. The only way these charitable services have remained available to anyone in need in our community, regardless of fire, flood or pandemic, is because of the philanthropic support from our community.
2020 RAFFLE…AND THE WINNER IS…DAN SHIEH!
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAN SHIEH FOR WINNING THIS INCREDIBLE RAFFLE!
A Wine Basket from the SBYC Board including
-Lobster Dinner for 4
-Lunch or Dinner for 8 at SBYC
(Valid 1 year from when the Indoor Dining reopens)
One ticket for $15 OR 3 tickets for $30
(Raffle pick will be on September 12 at the Club)
Special thanks to Raan Parton & Apolis Global
for our Charity Regatta face masks.
2020 SPONSORS
“Thank you to Ann & Ed Brady, VNA Health Board emeritus member, for offering a gift of $15,000 for our Board to match with Regatta sponsorships…..we are proud to announce that in less than a week the VNA Health Board more than made the match! Thank you to the VNA Board of Directors and Emeriti for making our mission possible through this event!”
COMMODORE
Ann & Ed Brady
Sheila & Thomas Cullen
Roger & Sarah Chrisman
VNA Health Board of Directors
VICE COMMODORE
Mary & Dick Compton
REAR COMMODORE
Susie & Riley Bechtel
BP MosherTrust
Diana Katsenes
Mission Wealth
Gail & Bob Young
STAFF COMMODORE
American Riviera Bank
Brenda Blalock & Alan Porter
Louise & Tim Casey
Leslie & Scott Deardorff
Barbara & Shawn Fabian
John & Christie Glanville
Shari & William Guilfoyle
Nasif, Hicks, Harris & Co LLP (Jody Dolan Holehouse and Steven J. Hicks)
Price, Postel & Parma LLP, Pamela Dillman Haskell & Christopher Haskell
Christine & Michael Holland
Phil Hons
Karen & Ed Marini
Lil & Stan Nelson
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Seaside Wellness Gardens
Select Data, LLC
Kate & Mark Shevitz
Judy & George Writer
Karen Young
Gina & Alex Ziegler
SPECIAL RECOGNITION & GRATITUDE FOR OUR 2020 CELEBRITY SKIPPERS
Each year at the Charity Regatta, SBYC honors a group of people that have made a commitment to the wellbeing of our Community. This year for our Celebrity Skippers we honor the Palliative Care Consultants of Santa Barbara, the doctors who provide hospital, hospice and outpatient palliative care services to VNA Health’s patients with care and dedication, including during these challenging times of Covid-19. Meeting the complex, multifaceted needs of hospice patients and their families requires the teamwork of doctors, nurses, and many others. For more than 25 years VNA Health and this group of physicians have been teaming up to take great care of the Santa Barbara community, including during these challenging times of Covid-19.
Michael Bordofsky, MD
Michael Bordofsky, MD
Dr. Bordofsky practices Internal Medicine in Santa Barbara. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine as well as Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He has been the Medical Director for VNA Health since 1995 and helped create the very successful Palliative Care Consultation Service at Cottage Hospital. He has been honored for his teaching and is the managing partner for Palliative CareConsultants of Santa Barbara, a medical group that provides consultation, education, and clinical services in hospital, hospice, and community settings.
Michael Kearney, MD
Michael Kearney, MD
Michael Kearney, MD, has spent over thirty years working as a physician in end-of-life care. He trained and worked at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London with Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement, and subsequently worked for many years as medical director of Our Lady’s Hospice in Dublin, and later with Professor Balfour Mount at McGill University in Montreal. He is currently a medical director of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and an associate medical director at VNA Health, also in Santa Barbara. He teaches nationally and internationally and is the author of two popular books in the field, “Mortally Wounded” and “A Place of Healing.”
Natasha Marston, MD
Natasha Marston, MD
Dr. Natasha Marston is Board Certified in Family Medicine as well as Hospice and Palliative Medicine. After medical school at UCLA and eventually a Palliative Medicine Fellowship with the Cedars-Sinai-West Los Angeles VA program, she has been enjoying her work as an Associate Medical Director for VNA Health of Santa Barbara and Serenity House since 2012. In addition to this role she enjoys the important work of raising her young son and nurturing her family and community at UCLA.
Eric P. Trautwein, MD
Eric P. Trautwein, MD
Dr. Eric Trautwein practices Internal Medicine in Santa Barbara. In addition to this, he serves as one the associate medical directors of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and is an associate medical director for the VNA Health. He frequently serves as a clinical instructor with the Internal Medicine residency program at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He is married to a fellow physician and together they share the happy task of raising two young daughters.CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS FROM THE 2020 CHARITY REGATTA
Thank you for your support to make the Santa Barbara Yacht Club Charity Regatta another success!
For any other questions, please contact Lailan McGrath at Lailan.mcgrath@vna.health or 805-690-6218
2019 CHARITY REGATTA
VNA Health was once again honored to be the beneficiary of the 15th Annual Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) on Saturday, September 7, 2019. The Charity Regatta was an exciting day filled with competitive races, family fun and enthusiastic spectators and supporters coming together to sustain a worthy cause. Each year, racing boats invite “Celebrity Skippers” as guests on their boats, and this year we celebrated the VNA Health Rehab Team.
The VNA Health Rehab Team consists of a combination of more than 30 Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech and Language Pathologists. They work diligently to help patients enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments, disabilities, recover from surgery, or live with a chronic challenge. They give thoughtful treatments and care to over 2,000 patients, and make over 21,000 visits each year to help them live well. The Rehab Team also utilizes the VNA Health Loan Closet, which rents equipment free of charge to over 4,000 individuals a year, to aid in recovery or live independently. Scroll down to see our amazing Rehab Team!
Over the past 15 years, SBYC has raised more than $1.5 million to benefit VNA Health. With your support, VNA Health is able to provide compassionate and trusted care for patients and families at home, wherever home they reside and call home, regardless of their ability to pay.
Click here to view photos from the 2019 SBYC Charity Regatta!
2019 COMMITTEE
Nick Sebastian, SBYC Charity Regatta Chair
Francie Lufkin, SBYC Staff Commodore & Charity Regatta Co-Chair
Scott Deardorff, SBYC Commodore
Sammi Beach
Marilyn Goodfield
Shari Guilfoyle
Lailan McGrath
Lil Nelson
Suesan Pawlitski
Beverly Toole
Brittany Avila Wazny
Gail Young
2019 CELEBRITY SKIPPERS
VNA HEALTH PHYSICAL THERAPISTS
Kerry Chaput
AnnaMaria Colella
Kim Creps
Kathy Cummings
Tara Deyo
Shannon Dutter
Li Ching Feng
Alexis Hutchings
Karin Jones
Dusty Keegan
Ashley Marshall
Mary Moore
Roxane Olsen-Markee
Greg Perkins
Kendra Reid
Karen Seade
Laura Shaw
Rob Sparrow
Lindsay Wermers
Zach Wermers
Brian Wilson
VNA HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
Haley Dahlgard
Brandon D’Augustine
Sarah Hutchins
Leslie Lannan
Ryan Lewis
Mary McGregor
Dayna Olivo
VNA HEALTH SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS
Linley Berger
Ashley Garcia
VNA HEALTH PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSISTANTS
Michelle Leyva
THANK YOU TO THE 2019 SPONSORS
VNA Health is grateful for the Yacht Club’s ongoing support through the Charity Regatta for 15 consecutive years!
COMMODORE
Ann & Ed Brady
VNA Health Board of Directors
Sheila & Thomas Cullen
Leslie & Scott Deardorff
VICE COMMODORE
Hutton Parker Foundation
Impulse
Young Construction
REAR COMMODORE
Brown & Brown Insurance
Diana Katsenes
Mission Wealth
Karen Young
STAFF COMMODORE
American Rivera Bank
Brenda Blalock & Alan Porter
Karen & Jack Byers – Jack N’ ToolBox
Suzanne & Dan Durbeck
Don Galloway
Shari & Bill Guilfoyle
Jane & Norm Habermann
The Hallman Group – Morgan Stanley
Jody & Tom Holehouse – Nasif, Hicks, Harris & Co., LLP
Christine & Michael Holland
Dr. Barbara Hrach & Chris Heimlich
Phil Hons
Francie & Peter Lufkin
Karen & Ed Marini
Lil & Stan Nelson
Thomas Rollerson & Michael Erickson
Seaside Wellness Gardens
Seed Mackall LLP
The Shevitz Family
Judy & George Writer
Gina & Alex Ziegler
SBYC CAPTAIN’S PACKAGE
Michael Annese, Jr.
Sherrill & Peter Churchill
Deanna & Jim Dehlsen
Robin Donaldson
Barbara & Shawn Fabian
Anna & Dennis Friederich
Mr. & Mrs. Randall E. Greer
Marilyn & Llewellyn Goodfield
Carol Kallman
Teresa & John Koontz
Mimi Michaelis
Judith Muller
Kent & Jeanene Pierce
Lorraine & Keith Reichel
Al Salzer
Tracy & Ed Schifferns
Dale Zurawski & Geoffrey Slaff
SBYC ENSIGN’S PACKAGE
Rebecca & Jules Bender
Adrienne & Bernard Girod
Mary Shambra
SBYC DONORS
Duncan Abbott
Caron & John Berryhill
Bryant & Sons Jewelers
Diane & Christopher Gabriel
Mary & John Hoenigman
Loretta Hubbard
Melinda & Dean Mars
Susan & Tom Richards
Katina Zaninovich
MUSIC
David Gonzales
Michael Holland
Paradise Kings
RACE BOATS
Average White Boat
Bulldog
Bullish
Escape
Jib & Tonic
Mocos
Pleione II
Remedy
Rock & Roll
Sea Note
Sirocco
Skookum
Swift
Tachytoo
Top Shelf
Venom
Warrior
SPECTATOR BOATS
Aurora
Convivial
Encore
Favored End
Hatsumi
Hook 77
Isla
Lost in the Harbor
OtterSea
Sonador
Sugar
Torqua
X.TA.SEA
Yabsolutely
Zeeno
EXHIBITORS
SILENT AUCTION DONORS
Adam Fell
Breakwater Restaurant
BS Designs-Barbara Stoops
Carpinteria Valley Lumber Co.
Condor Express
Essie La Flamme
Evolution Spa
Fess Parker Wine Country Inn
Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara
Gina Hession
Glenn Annie Golf Club
GOLFTEC
Hannah Goodfield
Indian Summers Boutique
Island Packers Cruises
Land Shark
Lil Nelson
Los Padres Outfitters LLC, Graham Goodfield
Luca Belpietro
Madalena Fossatti
Margo Banick, River Blue Salon Spa
Matthew Kennedy
Olivia Fishlow/Ageless Fitness
Opera Santa Barbara
Page Bahura
Paradise Cafe
Porch
Rosewood Miramar Beach
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara Zoo
SB Buggie
Seaside Gardens
Segway of Santa Barbara
Sharon Ewins
The Salon
The Upham Hotel
Thomas Dabney
Toma Restaurant & Bar
Waxing Poetic Jewelry
Yoga Soup
Zookers Restaurant
Should you have any questions about this year’s event, please contact Lailan McGrath at 805.690.6218, or at lailan.mcgrath@vna.health.