BKB Memorial Golf Outing
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Toad Valley Golf Couse, 237 NE 80th St., Pleasant Hill, IA
10 a.m.: 18-hole, 4-person best shot, $80 per person, $300 per foursome (includes carts).
2:30-5 p.m.: Dinner, raffle, drinks and fun
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Join us for the 20th Annual Bailey Katherine Bryant (BKB) Memorial Golf Outing on Saturday, September 30, 2023 at Toad Valley Golf Course starting at 10 a.m. All proceeds benefit MercyOne Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Since 2004, the event has raised more than $245,000 for MercyOne Children’s Hospital’s NICU. See photos from the 2022 event.
From the event organizers:
In 2003, our daughter, Bailey Katherine Bryant, was born with a variety of medical conditions. She was a patient in the MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The care and overwhelming kindness that the staff and hospital extended during that period of time touched our hearts forever.
In memory of our daughter, to help other families facing similar situations, and to say thank you to the NICU staff, we established the Bailey Katherine Bryant Memorial Golf Outing. Proceeds are used to purchase car seats for the NICU babies. This is an item that the NICU does not have a budget to support, therefore anytime they purchase a car seat for a family, it comes from donations. Presently, there is only one car seat on the market for babies less than five pounds, and only a few that have the strap placement short enough for a small baby. Families often have a larger car seat that was given to them as a gift, but this seat is too big for the baby. The NICU cannot discharge a baby home in a seat that is too big, so waiting until the family can afford the appropriate car seat could increase the length of stay.
Since 2004, with the generosity of our family, friends and local businesses, we raised over $205,000 in proceeds for the MercyOne NICU. This money has enabled them to purchase hundreds of these special car seats for the benefit of the babies and their parents. They are called the “Bailey Seats.”
Items like these car seats are something that most people probably wouldn’t think about until they are in that situation. We ask you to think of the babies and families affected by the NICU when considering your sponsorship. We hope that you will join us in giving the gift of life a safe ride home and a brighter future.
Sincerely,
Steven and Kimberly Bryant
Event Chairs
Learn more about Steven Bryant and the Bailey Seats:
For questions please contact Steven Bryant at (515) 975-3635 or stevenbr@mchsi.com.