SHC in the News

A host of theatre actors will be part of Summit Health Cares' Broadway Rocks Cancer concert December 16 at the Tower Theatre in Bend, Oregon. The 7 PM performance, which will raise funds to help provide comfort to patients and their families fighting cancer, will be hosted by Christopher J. Hanke (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Cry-Baby). Hanke will be joined on stage by Alex Ellis (Catch Me if You Can, Titanique), Colin Hanlon (Falsettos, Rent), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hair, On the Town), Natalie Joy Johnson (Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), Tamika Lawrence (Caroline, or Change; Come from Away), Julia Murney (Wicked, The Wild Party), Joe Aaron Reid (Catch Me if You Can, Chicago), Conrad Ricamora (The King and I, Little Shop of Horrors), Adam Roberts (Pippin, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), and Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill, On the Town).

The best way to get into the holiday spirit is by enjoying holiday classics performed by Broadway's hottest stars. And now you can! Summit Health Cares is proud to present Broadway Rocks Cancer, a benefit performance raising funds to help provide comfort to patients and their families fighting cancer. This year's event is on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 7pm (PST) in Bend, OR, and will be hosted by the one and only, Christopher J. Hanke.

A team of 10 from Union High School raised over $1,500 last weekend participating in the Summit Challenge for Summit Health Cares an organization that offers multiple resources, providing comfort and easing stress and anxiety - all in an effort to increase quality of life and chances of survival. Union High School social studies teacher Nicholas Ferroni said the high school team raised more than $500 over this year’s goal of $1,000.

Summit Health Cares (SHC) and Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey (GSHNJ) have partnered to ensure people are educated about sun safety so they can safely spend time outdoors. The two organizations created a patch that Girl Scouts can earn by completing the Enright Sun Safety Certification™ - a program proudly run by SHC designed to help educate children about proper skin care and protection from the sun.

About a year removed from breast cancer, Michelle Perry will compete in the Summit Challenge on June 5th at The Park in Berkeley Heights. It's a 2½-mile run dotted with five obstacles. Summit Challenge is a fundraiser for Summit Health Cares' Cancer Comfort Project, which provides non-medical resources to patients and families undergoing cancer treatment.

Summit Health Cares is hosting its first annual Summit Challenge, June 5 at The Park in Berkeley Heights. This fun event will help raise funds for Summit Health Cares’ Cancer Comfort Project. Whether you’re a seasoned athlete or a beginner, all are invited to join in on the fun and help raise funds for Summit Health Cares’ Cancer Comfort Project.  The Comfort Project offers multiple resources, from one-on-one patient navigation services helping access community resources to movement and mindfulness classes, therapeutic music and more – everything is aimed at providing comfort and easing stress and anxiety for patients and their families fighting cancer.

SHC and the City of Plainfield have joined forces to host a free Health & Wellness Fair on Saturday, April 23 at City Hall (515 Watchung Avenue, Plainfield) from 11 am to 3 pm. The free Health & Wellness Fair will offer COVID-19 vaccines, access to health screenings, diaper & menstrual hygiene products, colorectal cancer education and colorectal screenings, supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP), free sunscreen, and more!

Summit Health Cares (SHC) is excited to announce the availability of two scholarships for students who are passionate about helping others and are pursuing a career in health care. Applications are now available for the 2022 Next Generation Scholarship and the Dr. Marcia Sherman Scholarship - programs designed to ease the financial burden for tomorrow's health care leaders.  Applications are due June 30, 2022. To learn more, visit www.sh-cares.org/our-impact/give-back/scholarships/.

For the past five years, SHC has filled backpacks with donated supplies, distributing them to local children in need at the start of each school year. Working together with the Boys & Girls Clubs and local food banks, the backpacks include essential items like pens and pencils, notebooks, folders and glue sticks. But this year, more than 100 of those backpacks will include an exciting surprise – a laptop! The gently used laptops, donated by Summit Health, were collected and securely wiped by Liquid Technology.

Former Summit Medical Group Foundation unveils new name

Under its new name, Summit Health Cares, the former Summit Medical Group Foundation will expand its geographic reach to include the greater New York metropolitan area and Central Oregon, in the surrounding areas where it provides health care.

It's never too early—or too late—to learn about the potential damage that the sun can do, and what you can do to prevent it. That's the impetus behind the Enright Sun Safety Course™ introduced this week by Summit Medical Group Foundation (SMGF). This engaging, informative online program for ages five and over emphasizes that proper skin care and protection from the sun should start early, and that it should be top-of-mind for everyone, not only as a "summer thing," but every day, every season, all year long.

With the need for local evidence and the desire to truly understand and respond to community needs, SMGF funded a Vaccine Hesitancy Study to better understand COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among the Black and Latinx communities they serve that are experiencing poverty and are disproportionately impacted by the virus.

Vaccine rollout in the United States in January 2021 marked hope for relief to the impact of the COVID-19 virus on our well-being. Recovery hinges on vaccination uptake among all populations. However, initial data from six surveys conducted in summer 2020 seemed to indicate the potential for lower uptake among Black and Latinx communities across the United States.

Summit Medical Group Foundation announces Next Generation Scholarship for 2021.

Summit Medical Group Foundation announces Julienne Cherry as the new Executive Director to lead the organization. Cherry joins Summit Medical Group Foundation (SMGF) with more than 20 years of experience as a nonprofit director working within underserved communities. She officially began her new role on January 19, 2021.

Ever sing the ABC song while washing your hands to ensure you've sanitized for long enough? The original cast of Broadway's Legally Blonde - The Musical created a better ditty to sing in their PSA reminding people how to properly sanitize during COVID-19. This video helped raise funds for SMGF's COVID-19 Relief Fund. Bravo to our Broadway friends!

Steve Adubato goes on-location to the Father English Food Pantry in Paterson to speak with Director of Food Pantries, Carlos Roldan; Development Director Chris Brancato; the CEO of the Community FoodBank Carlos Rodriguez; and our very own Anna Trautwein, Clinical Director of Programs to discuss how FHH is helping to combat diabetes by providing free medical screenings, healthy food and diabetes education to change behaviors.

A talented lineup of stars will take part in Broadway Beats Hunger, a charity event set for December 4 at 7:00pm at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ.

Masks are to be distributed to Summit Medical Group employees away from the front lines, hospital patients not infected with COVID-19 who want extra protection, and food pantry workers across the region.

Broadway's brightest stars will take the stage for an inspiring evening of holiday classics to benefit the Summit Medical Group Foundation's Patient-in-Need Fund.

More than twenty Broadway stars will take the stage for an inspiring evening of music at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on Monday, November 18, 2019, for the Summit Medical Group Foundation (SMGF) Broadway Rocks Cancer concert.

Join 20+ shining Broadway stars for an inspiring concert to benefit Summit Medical Group Foundation’s Cancer Comfort Project.

FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Heather O'Rourke, Eyewitness News' morning traffic anchor, is warming hearts around New Jersey with her four-legged sidekick, Rocco.

On Monday the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn will host its second annual Broadway Beats Hunger event. All proceeds from the event – featuring Broadway’s own – will go directly to Food, Health and Hope: An Answer to Diabetes, a joint initiative between Summit Medical Group Foundation and Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

The Provident Bank Foundation has announced the recipients of its Second Cycle 2018 Major Grants, and SMGF is proud to make the list!

The Summit Medical Group Foundation has received a $100,000 grant from The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey to support Food, Health and Hope: An Answer to Diabetes (FHH Diabetes), a collaborative program with The Community FoodBank of New Jersey (CFBNJ). FHH Diabetes focuses on reducing the impact of diabetes in New Jersey urban municipalities in Essex, Passaic and Union counties, where adults with diabetes account for up to 10.6 percent of the population.

Summit Medical Group Foundation has received a $50,000 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation to fund its Food, Health and Hope: An Answer to Diabetes, or FHH Diabetes, initiative.

SMGF’s Annual Gala & Auction raises critical funds to ensure the Foundation can continue to offer access to high-quality care, education and mentorship without the burden of cost to the disadvantaged. Seth Meyers, host of NBC’s "Late Night with Seth Meyers," was recently a special guest at Summit Medical Group Foundation's (SMGF) fifth Annual Gala & Auction, where a record-breaking $1.35 million was raised.

Seth Meyers, host of NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, was recently a special guest at Summit Medical Group Foundation's (SMGF) 5th Annual Gala & Auction where a record-breaking $1.35 million was raised.

Summit Medical Group Foundation (SMGF) is pleased to unveil details about their Fifth Annual Gala and Auction on Saturday, May 12, at 6 p.m. at The Grove, 691 Pompton Ave. in Cedar Grove. Established in 2013 by Summit Medical Group (SMG), the largest and oldest physician-owned multi-specialty medical practice in New Jersey, the Foundation is dedicated to offering free wellness screenings to neighbors in need, mentorship programs to medical students and scholarships to students pursing careers in medicine.

Summit Medical Group Foundation (SMGF), in partnership with the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, has announced the inaugural Broadway Beats Hunger holiday performance to benefit the “Food, Health and Hope: An Answer to Diabetes” initiative and broaden awareness about the direct link between access to nutritious food and this widespread health epidemic in New Jersey.

Summit Medical Group Foundation (SMGF), in partnership with the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, is proud to announce the inaugural Broadway Beats Hunger holiday performance to benefit the “Food, Health and Hope: An Answer to Diabetes” initiative and broaden awareness about the direct link between access to nutritious food and this widespread health epidemic in New Jersey.

New York Giants great Justin Tuck joined the Summit Medical Group Foundation to collect turkeys for residents in need the Friday before Thanksgiving.