While working as a hospice nurse in Palm Beach County, Owen O'Neill regularly met families who wanted to donate medical equipment (wheelchairs, hospital beds and crutches) that their loved ones had used before they had passed away. Seeing how important it was to the families and finding no other agency, Owen formed Clinics Can Help in 2005 as a non-profit agency 501(c)3 to collect and donate surplus medical equipment. Originally, the plan was to support free clinics with the supplies but the need was so great that Clinics Can Help formed it’s own office and warehouse and now supports financially needy patients, clinics, programs and schools in need in Palm Beach County, Florida..

Dr. Faustino Gonzalez was born in Spain, and graduated from medical school in the Dominican Republic, where he worked in clinics much like the kind he is assisting today with Clinics Can Help. He is board certified from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Academy of Palliative Medicine. He has served as associate medical director for over eight years, and currently is the Vice President of Medical Affairs for Hospice of Palm Beach County. Dr. Gonzalez has also been named Head of Palliative Medicine at Wellington Regional Medical Center. In 2007 he published three essays on palliative medicine. When not relaxing with his family he enjoys practicing the art of Aikido.

Jim Sugarman, a non profit consultant, since 2009, has served as the CEO of the Child Life Institute, Chief Development Officer of Foundcare, for ten years was the CEO/Executive Director of the American Lung Association of Florida-Southeast Area and for ten years prior to the Lung Association was Executive Director of RSVP/NYC, the largest senior volunteer program in the country with over 10,000 active volunteers serving in over 800 agencies. Jim, a graduate of SSA, School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, has been in the non-profit world for over 35 years. He has been involved in developing senior volunteer programs in over 40 countries around the world as member of the board of RSVP International, has been a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters, is active as leader with the Rotary West Palm Beach, serves and served on numerous boards and is a past president of Leadership Palm Beach County.

H. Bryant Sims, Esq has been working as a lawyer in Palm Beach County for over 38 years. Seven of those were spent as a prosecuting attorney and Head of Capital Crimes. He has recently retired from general practice, but he still performs all legal work for Clinics Can Help. He has served on several boards, most notably the National Wheelchair Sports Fund, and the Mary Obolensky Leukemia Fund. He has also sat on the board for the Palm Beach Civic Opera, the Palm Beach Ballet, and the Florida Theatrical Association.

Sherry Eastwood, a Palm Beach County resident for 15 years, has degrees in engineering, business and project management. Vocational experience includes information technology management and corporate staff positions in hospitals and with manufacturing corporations whose products included aircraft, cosmetics and automobiles. Non-profit experience for the past ten years has focused locally on Rotary as a board member and past president of the Rotary Club of Palm Beach and as district chair of the Rotary Foundation’s Ambassadorial scholarship committee.