Lake Keowee Dealerships donate to OMH Breast Care Center

Tuesday afternoon, Lake Keowee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and Lake Keowee Ford Operating Partner and General Manager Mark Williams presented a $24,000 check to the Oconee Memorial Hospital (OMH) Foundation for the Breast Care Center. “I’ve said it several times, but if we can pay it back to our community, all this doesn’t mean anything. If we can’t be around to enjoy it and for all the women that go through this battle. Again it is my pleasure, I love paying it forward to something that is so close to my heart.” The Breast Care Center is near and dear to his heart as both his mother and sister are breast cancer survivors. JJ Thomas, Lead Imaging Technologist for the Breast Care Center calls him a champion. “I’m just completely overwhelmed by Mark’s generosity, time and time again, he has been just a champion for the Breast Care Center. He is a donor that came to us and sought us out to help us and he has just been unbelievably generous. He has really helped change the way we do mammography in our hospital. He has just been a champion for us.” Lake Keowee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and Lake Keowee Ford pledged to donate $100 for each vehicle sold in October to the Breast Care Center. This pledge was made in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in an effort to support neighbors who are currently battling breast cancer. Hunter Kome, President of the Oconee Medical Campus of the Greenville Health System, was also overwhelmed by the generous donation. “This is an amazing amount of money this year but Mark has been so generous now for some many years, since 2011, and as he said it takes a team, so we want to be sure to thank the whole team. It wouldn’t happen without him but it also wouldn’t happen if his whole team wasn’t out there at Lake Keowee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and Lake Keowee Ford selling these vehicles and buying into the vision of providing great care for women here in our community.” The donation will help the Breast Care Center purchase a new 3-D mammography unit. Cortni Nations, Manager of the OMH Foundation, was also impressed by the generous donation. “Wow, we are amazed at the generosity of both dealerships. We are just thrilled they have given so much over the years and they’ve given back locally to this community making a difference in the lives of women here locally and we are so impressed with that and so thankful for their generosity.” To date, Lake Keowee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and Lake Keowee Ford have donated $61,815 to the Breast Care Center at OMH.