Chatterton Family Supports Pediatric MRI Cinema System
The Chatterton family was recently honored for funding a Pediatric MRI Cinema System, a state-of-the-art audio-visual system for the pediatric MRI room, at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital.
The hospital has a new, dedicated Pediatric MRI which uses a powerful magnetic field and computer to produce detailed pictures of a child’s body to diagnose or monitor treatment for a variety of conditions. Our Child Life team works with children to prepare them for the procedure and alleviate anxiety, but tests can be lengthy and noisy, and often still stressful for the patients.
The Pediatric MRI Cinema System is an immersive entertainment and communication system that has proven to make the MRI scanning process safer, more accurate, and more pleasant – often reducing the need for sedation – for our small patients while providing no interference with the machine signals. And thanks to Cammie and Jim Chatterton’s generous donation, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital now has its very own system for its pediatric patients.
“Children are a focus for our family, and what St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital does for the children in Tampa Bay is a miracle,” said Cammie. “We are so proud to be a very small part of giving children who need MRIs a better experience that can make it fun for them.”
Meet the Chattertons
Cammie Chatterton is the president and owner of Bay Food Brokerage, and was named Tampa Bay Businesswoman of the Year for 2019, an award presented by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. She was also recently named the winner of the Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine’s 2024 Apogee Award in the Founders category for large businesses. Bay Food Brokerage also won the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award for mid-size business in 2020, and Cammie won the Small Business of the Year award for Leader of the Year in 2022.
Originally from West Virginia, Cammie and her business partner, Mark Woolever, founded Bay Food Brokerage in Tampa in 1993. Cammie started the business with $5,000 she borrowed from her parents. The competitive food brokerage industry was changing, and they recognized an opportunity to concentrate on the perishable retail market. Opening Bay Food Brokerage made Cammie one of the first women to own a retail food brokerage company in the country.
In 2015, Mark Woolever retired, and Cammie became the outright owner of Bay Food Brokerage. The company expanded beyond the perishable market to also serve the center store retail market in 2019. In 2011, her son, Chris Chatterton, joined the family business, and in 2021, became a minority owner of the company. As executive vice president, he works closely with his mother on key initiatives and will carry Bay Food Brokerage forward after Cammie retires. Chris graduated from Jesuit High School in 2005 and the Wharton School of Business in 2009. With a background in the food service industry in his early career, Jim Chatterton has also served as a retail supervisor for the company.
Bay Food Brokerage is now in eight states with an office also in the Charlotte market. The company has experienced year-over-year organic growth since it launched, thanks in part to staying true to the core values it was founded on: Client Satisfaction, Hard Work, Family and Giving Back.
“These beliefs have always – and will always – drive us daily and help us keep focus on our customers and our clients,” Cammie said. “We are proud to be able to give back to our community through wonderful organizations like St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Foundation.”
We are grateful for the support of the Chatterton family, and thank them for their generosity on behalf of the young patients of St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital.