Help Our Military Heroes
Take an exercise class at Slash Fitness (290 SE 6th Ave. #2, Delray Beach) on Oct. 30, and all or a portion of what you pay for the high-intensity workout will go to support the nonprofit Help Our Military Heroes organization.
Slash raised more than $19,000 during the same event last year and hopes to top that amount in 2015. The way it works is Slash will donate 100 percent of proceeds from new clients and a portion of those from current Slash customers (including personal training sessions.)
(Photo courtesy of Slash Fitness)
Founded in 2009, Help Our Military Heroes helps provide amputee veterans who sustained injuries while on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan with fully equipped, adaptive minivans.
“Slash Fitness is dedicated to giving back to our local community, and we have a big heart for the veterans of America,” says Slash co-owner Andy Sziraki in a press release. “Our mission is to improve the strength of each one of our customers – either through group fitness classes or personal training sessions – and who better to set an example for strength than our military heroes. We are proud to support ‘Help Our Military Heroes,’ especially considering each one of our owners comes from a military family.”
The cost for a new client to join a class Oct. 30 will be $25. Slash workouts combine body-weight exercises with traditional weight training, high intensity interval training and functional training, which incorporate flexibility, core, balance and range of motion, according to the press release.
For more information or to register for the Help Our Military Heroes event, click here or call 561/865-5716.
In other news…
Bethesda Health and Baptist Health South Florida join forces
Bethesda Health in Boynton Beach and Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida announced in October that the not-for-profit organizations have signed an agreement to merge.
There’s strength in numbers, according to Bethesda Health President and CEO Roger L. Kirk.
“While significant challenges are ahead in healthcare, it is essential to forge partnerships that can ensure our organizations remain on the leading edge as providers of quality medical care,” Kirk says in a press release. “As not-for-profit hospitals, we share similar missions and a common vision for improving the health of our respective communities that can be significantly strengthened by this affiliation.”
Baptist Health is a dominant health system in the region, with seven hospitals (Baptist Hospital, Baptist Children’s Hospital, Doctors Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital, South Miami Hospital and West Kendall Baptist Hospital) and nearly 50 out patient and urgent care facilities in the tri-county area. Bethesda Health has two hospitals: Bethesda Hospital East, at 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., and Bethesda Hospital West, 9655 W. Boynton Beach Blvd.
While both organizations will be working together during the next two years, the full partnership won’t be in place until Oct. 1, 2017.
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