Kay Days Covers 10,000 Parking Visits at UPMC Hillman in Memory of Cancer Patient Kay Boyd-Rowe
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Updated · CBS New York · Jun 23
Kay Days Covers 10,000 Parking Visits at UPMC Hillman in Memory of Cancer Patient Kay Boyd-Rowe
2 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Jun 23
Summary
Free parking greeted patients and families at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center on Tuesday, with the $5 daily fee waived through Kay Days.
Robin Rowe created the nonprofit after his wife, Kay Boyd-Rowe, died in 2023, fulfilling a wish she voiced after a stranger paid the couple's parking during her 1999 ocular melanoma treatment.
10,000 vehicles will have received parking help at Hillman by the end of this week, Rowe said, turning a one-time kindness into recurring support around select days and Kay's birthday week.
Kay Days has also expanded beyond Pittsburgh, providing gas cards and parking vouchers for patients at DuBois' Hahne Cancer Center who must travel to UPMC Hillman for higher-level care.