If you live on the Central Coast, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is a fixture of February. The energy around town shifts. Traffic patterns change. Visitors fill restaurants and hotels. For a few days, the world watches our stretch of coastline.
But beyond the competition and the scenery, there’s a story worth knowing.
The Monterey Peninsula Foundation, host of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and PURE Insurance Championship Impacting First Tee, channels millions back into local nonprofits each year. Central Coast VNA & Hospice is proud to be among them, and the Foundation is one of our largest supporters.
For most people, the connection between a golf tournament and a home health nurse knocking on someone’s door isn’t obvious. So let me draw the line. Last year, our clinical teams made more than 84,000 home health and hospice visits across four counties. Those visits brought specialty cardiac, diabetic, orthopedic, and palliative care directly into people’s living rooms, to patients who were too sick or too frail to get to a clinic. We held more than 60 off-site vaccination clinics in fall 2025, reaching communities that might otherwise go without. Our staff traveled nearly 800,000 miles to show up for our neighbors.
None of that happens without funding. And funding like the support we receive from Monterey Peninsula Foundation doesn’t just cover costs. It gives us the stability to plan, to hire, to say yes when a family calls.
This year, VNA is celebrating 75 years of service. That’s three quarters of a century of showing up at bedsides, in living rooms, and in communities across the Central Coast. We’ve been successful because people and organizations in this community have chosen, year after year, to invest in compassionate care. Monterey Peninsula Foundation’s partnership
has been a vital part of that story.
So this tournament week, I’d encourage our neighbors to get out and enjoy the event. Grab your tickets, soak in the views, and cheer on the competition. When you do, you’re not just watching great golf, you’re helping fuel the kind of care that keeps our community strong. On behalf of our patients, their families, and our dedicated board and staff, thank you.
— Jessicah Hartley, director of Philanthropy and Communication of Central Coast VNA & Hospice.
