Sixth Annual Emerald Coast Duck Regatta

Get your ducks in a row and plan to attend the sixth annual Emerald Coast Duck Regatta benefiting the Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast Guild. On Saturday, Oct. 8, approximately 3,000 ducks will begin their race across the Lagoon at the Village of Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. Prizes will be awarded to the owners of the first ducks to cross the finish line, including a $5,000 first place prize!

The event features free fun activities for the whole family, including Abrakadoodle face painters, Nonie’s Ark Animal Encounters, crafts, a scavenger hunt, and the Baytowne Carousel for children 12 and under from 11 a.m. - 12 noon. Family events begin at 10 a.m., and the duck race will begin at 1:00 p.m.

Make a donation of $10 or more to the Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast Guild to adopt a duck. Ducks are available for adoption at the Sacred Heart Hospital Gift Shop in Miramar Beach, online at www.emeraldcoastduckregatta.com, or at Baytowne Wharf the day of the event. Adopt one duck for $10, three ducks for $27, six ducks for $50 or 12 ducks for $100. Prizes include a $5,000 first place prize. Additional prizes include a Yolo Paddle Board, Walt Disney World passes, Apple Watch, Go-Pro Camera, $500 Ruth’s Chris Gift Certificate, $400 dinner package, and more. You need not be present to win.
The Emerald Coast Duck Regatta is generously supported by many organizations in the community, including event sponsors; gift in kind sponsors and community sponsors. A full list of the sponsors and information about how to support this exciting event are available at www.emeraldcoastduckregatta.com.

Last year, the event raised more than $40,000 for the hospital. Proceeds from the Emerald Coast Duck Regatta benefit the Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast Guild. The Guild’s fundraising activities are used to fund medication assistance, hospital capital projects, and to award scholarships to nursing and healthcare professionals at Sacred Heart Hospital for continuing education.

For more information about Sacred Heart on the Emerald Coast, please visit www.sacredheartemerald.org.

About Sacred Heart Health System

Sacred Heart Health System is Northwest Florida’s leading provider of high-quality health care to children and adults. The hub of the Sacred Heart system is its 566-bed Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola that includes the region’s only Children’s Hospital, a Level II Trauma Center, a Cancer Center affiliated with MD Anderson Cancer Network and a Heart & Vascular Institute. The Health System also includes Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, a 58-bed community hospital near Destin, Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf, a 19-bed hospital, in Port St. Joe, and Sacred Heart Medical Group, a large regional network of primary care and specialty physicians with offices across seven coastal counties between Gulf Shores, Ala. and Apalachicola, Fla.  For more information, call 850-416-7000 or visit online at www.sacred-heart.org. 

About Ascension

 Ascension (www.ascension.org) is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system, Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2015, Ascension provided nearly $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Approximately 160,000 associates and 36,000 aligned providers serve in 2,500 sites of care – including 141 hospitals and more than 30 senior living facilities – in 24 states and the District of Columbia. In addition to healthcare delivery, Ascension subsidiaries provide a variety of services and solutions including physician practice management, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical engineering, clinical care management, information services, risk management, and contracting through Ascension’s own group purchasing organization.

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