Page 2 - Jupiter Ocean Mile - March '23

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Golden Heart Luncheon from page 1 $170 million to date,
the foundation supports
attended the luncheon Nicklaus Children’s
as special guests, using Hospital, which has helped
their music and voices children from every state in
to help raise money the union and 119 countries.
for the foundation. The Nicklaus Children’s
The celebrity couple Health System includes
wowed the crowd after the main hospital campus
performing iconic in Miami, and 21 centers
music classics such as from Monroe County to
The Prayer and Glory Martin County, as well as
of Love, and For Just a Morgan Dillavou, Laura a pediatric partnership with
Moment from the movie Andrassy Jupiter Medical Center.
St. Elmo’s Fire.
However, 6-year- Photos by Tracey Benson
old Jaxon Budnick Photography The Budnick Family Luncheon table
stole the show and the
hearts of guests. Jaxon
was born with metopic
craniosynostosis,
a rare condition that
causes skull and facial
deformities. Shortly
after birth, he received Jaxon Budnick
one of the most complex
surgeries for children at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in
Miami. Jaxon is now living a happy and healthy life with
his family in Jupiter, Fla., and receives ongoing medical
treatment close to home at Nicklaus Children’s Palm Beach
Gardens Outpatient Center.
“I can’t thank the Nicklaus family enough for
everything they have done and continue to do,” said
Jaxon’s mother, Dara Budnick. “All the people and
lives they are able to touch … it’s something that’s
indescribable.”
“From an organizational perspective, what they’ve created Patti Patrick, Traci Simonsen, Patty Christina Strunk, Allison Nicklaus, Monique Brechter, Patty McDonald,
has made it so easy for Jaxon to be a patient,” continued Jaxon’s McDonald Casey Nicklaus Belinda Pike
father, Cliff Budnick. “It’s nice to have this extraordinary level
of care in our own backyard.”
Jack and Barbara Nicklaus founded the Nicklaus
Children’s Health Care Foundation in 2004 in an effort
to provide families access to the best level of pediatric
health care in Palm Beach County and beyond. Raising

Nan O’Leary, Kelly O’Leary Ashley Brown, Rhonda Titherington Kathy Mercen, Liz Sokol

Carol Ritchie, Kathy Theofilos, Rose Garrido

Jack and Barbara Nicklaus, Katharine McPhee, David Foster

David Foster and Katharine McPhee