LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Patients and families battling cancer are spending Thanksgiving in the hospital.

On this Thanksgiving, Michael Hungerford brought a special delivery to UofL Brown Cancer Center. Hungerford is chef partner at Bucca di Beppo and for the last five years he’s been making this delivery to UofL Hospital. Hungerford has brought a full turkey dinner, with all the sides and pumpkin pie for patients undergoing treatment and unable to spend the holiday at home.

“It’s just the most important thing. You saw how gracious they were for us to come in and be able to feed them. They work so hard for us, it’s the least we can do to work hard for them,” Hungerford told Spectrum News.

The catered dinner is made possible by the Mary Jane Gift Quality of Life Fund, a Louisville-based nonprofit supporting patients and their families during cancer treatment.

The Gift family is doing their best to bring the comforts of home to these patients. “We lost our mom to a 28-year fight with breast cancer, 14 years ago, so we started a fund in her name. Mary Jane Gift Quality of Life Fund which we run through the Brown Cancer Center,” Tommy Gift told Spectrum News. Tommy and Alex Gift have been raising money for cancer patients for more than 10 years.

Their organization provides apartments for family members during treatment, transportation, scans and other necessities a hospital may not be able to provide. And on Thanksgiving they provide a turkey dinner.

“I wouldn’t be anywhere else. Like, this is why we do what we do. We provide the little things that unfortunately doctors and of medicine can’t really help. So, we all have something to be thankful for. This is just our little token of appreciation for people that are in here,” Gift said.

Little or not, the gesture goes a long way.