Big Turnout for First Fundraiser at the Revel

The Revel's first fundraising event brought with it a massive turnout.

Almost 1,100 people showed up for the AtlantiCare Foundation's 53rd annual Century Club Gala last Saturday, May 12. As part of the event, Roy Goldberg, of Margate, and Ira Stein, of Northfield, received the Edward R. Knight Award. The award, named for the chairman emeritus of AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC), was established in 1998 to honor those who contribute to building a healthier community.

Goldberg, president of Gold Transportation Group, started the Gold Invitational Golf Tournament in 1988. In 2002, as part of the Gold Foundation, he established The Shirley Mae Breast Cancer Assistance Fund in honor of his mother, a breast cancer survivor. During the past 24 years, $2,600,000 has been donated as a direct result of the Gold Invitational Golf Tournament, and various other charities Goldberg initiated. He is the vice chairman of Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation in Galloway and is a board member of the AtlantiCare Board of Trustees. He is chairman of The Gold Foundation and a board member emeritus for The ARC of Atlantic County. He previously served on the boards of Seashore Gardens and the Jewish Community Center in Margate.

Before recently moving to Fort Meyers, Florida, cared for his community for more than 30 years as a physician. He moved to Florida to follow his dream of providing primary and geriatric care with the Veterans Administration.

He was most recently associate program director, ARMC’s Internal, Medicine Residency Program; lead physician, AtlantiCare Clinical Associates and medical director, the Leonard B. Erber Medical Center, Atlantic City. He was actively involved in many ARMC committees that contribute to patients’ and staffs’ safety and well-being and the professional development of physicians and staff.

He was co-chairman of ARMC’s Institutional Ethics Committee; a collaborating physician for ARMC’s Palliative Care team and a member of the hospital’s Institutional Review committee. He also served on the AtlantiCare Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

AtlantiCare President and CEO David Tilton announced AtlantiCare will be dedicating the Michael J. Neustadter Mind, Body, Spirit Institute at the AtlantiCare Cancer Care Institute, a Fox Chase Cancer Center Partner, later this year. Neustadter joined AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center's Board of Governors in 1995, and was president from 1999-2003.

The late Neustadter was chairman of the AtlantiCare Board of Trustees from 2003 until January of this year. Under his leadership, AtlantiCare opened the $35 million dollar expansion of the Pomona Campus in 2005; the $128 million Atlantic City Campus expansion in 2007; and the $32 million AtlantiCare Cancer Care Institute, a Fox Chase Cancer Center Partner, in Egg Harbor Township in 2009. The Atlantic City expansion was the largest expansion in the history of the hospital.