Shown are players and organizers of the 16th annual Pink Polar Bear Golf Tournament, held at the Chester River Yacht & Country Club.
CHESTERTOWN, Md. (September 30, 2026) – The 16th annual Pink Polar Bear Golf Tournament, held this August at Chester River Yacht and Country Club in memory of its founder, Jane Hukill, raised over $22,000 – the largest amount in the tournament’s history. The funds will be used to help improve access to state-of-the art breast cancer screening at the Eleanor and Ethel Leh Women’s Center at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown.
UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown is part of University of Maryland Shore Regional Health, which is a member organization of University of Maryland Medical System.
“We are deeply grateful for this generous gift in memory of Jane,” said Zack Royston, Vice President, Population and Rural Health, and Executive Director, UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. “Jane was a long-time member of the Chester River Hospital Center Auxiliary and a staunch advocate for women's health. Her commitment to increasing access to excellent women’s health services will be long remembered in our community. Since its inception, the tournament has raised over $80,000 for women’s health.”
The following families and businesses generously sponsored the event:
Angelica Nurseries, Animal Care Shelter For Kent County, Atlantic Security, Bespoke Chocolates, Biggs Fuel, Bill and Barb Knoll, Chester River Landscaping, Chestertown Lumber, CRYCC, Dawn and Tom Reilly, Dick Jones, Duke Law, Finishing Touch, Flying Decoy Restaurant, Gillespie and Sons, Great Grands, Elfenbein Funeral Home, Holman Building, Homeports, James Leyden, Karen Smith, Kat Conley, Long & Foster, Kay Valentino, Ladies 9-Hole Group, Legacy Mechanical, Luisa’s Cucina Italiano Restaurant, Massoni Art, Mimis Closet, MISGA, Park Row Floats, Pip’s Liquor, Play It Again Sams, Richard Keaveney – Cross Street Realtors, Sabina and Joe Baker, Still Pond Yacht Club, Sunrise Solar, The Hukill Family, The Mill, Todd and Ann Kellstrom, Todd and Diane Smith, Tracy Dougherty & Family, Twigs and Teacups, Welcome Home, Wooten, Rasin & Hurd, Yarrow & Wren, Zack & Jill Royston, and the18-Hole Women’s Group
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
A member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. UM SRH consists of approximately 2,000 team members, including more than 600 health care providers on the Medical Staff, who work with community partners to advance the values that are foundational to our mission: Compassion, Discovery, Excellence, Diversity and Integrity. For more information, visit https://www.umms.org/shore.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
