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Every year, we are inspired by the outpouring of generosity that, YOU, our donors have provided to make a difference in our region. This past year, the McLeod Health Foundation received a record $5 million in Letter from the support of the compassionate care and medical excellence provided throughout the McLeod Health Chairman and system. As donors to the McLeod Health Foundation, YOU are vital to the work of McLeod and an important Executive Director member of our family. You help us fund the difference between operating dollars and the donations needed to achieve our goals of providing the highest quality patient care. This Annual Report highlights those individuals you have touched through your generosity. Thank you for believing in our mission and for helping us make an extraordinary change in the lives of thousands of patients and their families. Helen Keller once said, “Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Together, WE are changing lives and giving hope for a better tomorrow. With sincere appreciation, Jill M. Bramblett James M. Ivey, Jr. Executive Director Chairman, Board of Trustees ON THE COVER Amanda Allen and her daughter Olivia (at left), have been positively impacted by the legacy of hope gift from Amy and six-year-old Cate Urquhart (at right) to the McLeod Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The Urquharts’ support of “It’s Time,” a capital campaign for McLeod Health, enabled the McLeod Foundation to purchase 38 new NICU Monitors. Olivia was one of the first babies at McLeod to benefit from the advanced level of care provided by the new monitors. 2| 2016 McLEOD FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 4 INSPIRED TO SUPPORT THE CARE OF OTHERS Table of Contents 8 GIVING THE GIFT OF HOPE PAGE 12 10 HOPE FUND EXPANDS TO THE COAST McLeod Foundation Donor Profile: Beverly Hazelwood and Shirley Meiere 12 McLEOD FOUNDATION DONOR PROFILE 14 DONORS SUPPORTING COMPASSIONATE CARE 16 AMBASSADORS FOR McLEOD HEALTH 18 SUPPORTING THE MISSION OF McLEOD PAGE 4 Inspired to Support the Care of Others 20 VISIONARY CONTINUES TO TOUCH LIVES 22 EXPANDING THE SUPPORT OF THE FOUNDATION PAGE 16 24 EMPLOYEE GIVING SETS A NEW RECORD McLeod Fellows: Ambassadors for McLeod Health 26 ENHANCING EMERGENCY CARE IN CHERAW 28 OFFERING A NEW MODEL OF CARE 30 YEAR IN REVIEW PAGE 24 33 McLEOD NEWS Employee Giving Sets a New Record 34 2016 McLEOD FOUNDATION DONORS 59 BOARD OF TRUSTEES PAGE 34 2016 McLeod Foundation Donors 2016 McLEOD FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT | 3 Inspired to Support the Care of Others The McLeod Foundation has embarked on “It’s Time,” a capital campaign for McLeod Health. This continues a commitment to excellence inspired by Dr. F. H. McLeod in 1899 when his vision for the Florence Infirmary began. Support will help with the provision Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) In June of 2010, Amy’s daughter Cate possible in the McLeod NICU. of the latest technology with 3D Monitors arrived six weeks early, weighing only “Cate spent three weeks in the NICU, Mammography and Neonatal Intensive Time and again, grateful patients four pounds. Amy had been diagnosed and I know she would not have thrived Care Unit (NICU) Monitors in addition directly impacted by excellent health care with preeclampsia and was in danger of without this specialized care. The team of to funds to supplement costs of wish to give back so others can have the suffering a stroke because of extremely physicians and nurses wrapped their construction for a new Emergency same experience. For Amy Urquhart, high blood pressure. Understanding that loving, skilled hands around Cate and Department at McLeod Regional Medical the care given to her daughter in the delivering Cate early was the only way to helped guide us as new parents in how to Center. These important enhancements McLeod Neonatal Intensive Care Unit reduce her risk of a stroke, Amy and her care for our beautiful daughter,” said will ensure that McLeod Health offers the seven years ago inspired her to support husband Derick accepted the decision Amy. highest quality care to patients from the the McLeod NICU. knowing Cate would receive the best care midlands to the coast. 4| 2016 McLEOD FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT “Often people take for granted When Olivia was discharged two months what is important or what we have later, they really felt like an extension of access to in Florence. Derick and I never our family,” added Amanda. expected to need the NICU, but we are Through the generosity of donors like grateful that McLeod has a Children’s the Urquharts, the McLeod Foundation Hospital with this level of care. It was has purchased 38 new NICU monitors. wonderful and comforting to have these These monitors are capable of providing quality services so close to home.” more in-depth data on heart rhythm and Amy and Derick’s support of the oxygen flow as well as more accurate “It’s Time” campaign and the new NICU readings of a baby’s blood pressure. Monitors recently benefitted Amanda Additionally, the monitors feature the Allen’s daughter, Olivia. Like Amy, latest in pulse oximetry technology, Amanda had developed preeclampsia but which greatly aids in the prevention of in a more severe form. At 30 weeks into retinopathy, a cause of blindness and her pregnancy, Amanda was hospitalized other long-term health problems in for blood pressure monitoring and premature babies. testing. When she suddenly began Other advantages of the new NICU experiencing the beginning stages of liver monitors include: and kidney failure, the decision was to • Accurate, seamless data flows directly deliver Olivia early to save Amanda’s life. into the baby’s electronic medical “Olivia spent eight weeks in the record. McLeod NICU,” said Amanda. “I saw • In an emergency, the new monitors her for the first time 24 hours after birth, alert physicians by phone. They also and it was an overwhelming moment. alert nurses through their mobile She looked peaceful, but there were so phones, creating a quieter, more many machines, IV lines and monitors effective healing environment. surrounding her. I felt like there was • The neonatologists can monitor a nothing I could do for her, which is baby’s vital signs remotely if they are in difficult for a new mom.” another part of the Children’s Hospital. Amanda and her husband Harry quickly found comfort knowing Olivia was being cared for by a team of physicians and nurses who made them feel like family. “They shared in our jubilation when Olivia reached Amanda Allen and her daughter milestones, and they were a shoulder to Olivia (sitting) and Amy Urquhart and her daughter Cate (at right) are cry on when she experienced a setback. pictured with a few of the nurses who cared for Olivia and Cate in the McLeod Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 2016 McLEOD FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT | 5 3D Mammography believe divine intervention played a suspicious areas in two different Mammography to McLeod. Debi Kalaritis, a 16-year breast part in my diagnosis because not only quadrants of my left breast that “Panos and I believe that the cancer survivor, knows firsthand the did I schedule the test early, but I was were not detected on my previous technology in ‘first generation’ power of technology in detecting breast also told that since I was under 45 mammogram seven months earlier. mammography may have missed my cancer. In 2001, after accidently years old my insurance only paid for This was critical to my decision to have cancer; however, early, effective digital scheduling her mammogram five a mammogram every other year. a mastectomy and, after tissue analysis, detection was critical to my survival. months early, Debi learned she had I immediately made the decision that a third cancer was also detected.” We want to ensure that other women in breast cancer. I was already there so I would have the After a mastectomy and six months the region have an even better option “Luckily for me, McLeod was mammogram and pay for it myself.” of chemotherapy, Debi was cancer free. for early detection and treatment of in the process of installing digital Fortunately for Debi, she made the Today, she and her husband Panos are breast cancer,” added Debi. mammography and training the staff right decision to proceed with the test. supporting the McLeod Foundation’s 3D Mammography is a new at that time,” said Debi. “I sincerely “The new digital images identified two capital campaign to bring 3D screening and diagnostic breast imaging unit that improves the detection of breast cancer. Using 3D technology, an X-ray arm moves over the breast and takes multiple images in seconds. Traditional digital mammography takes two-dimensional images of the breast. With 3D images, the radiologist can examine the breast tissue one thin layer at a time, detecting invasive cancers at earlier stages and ultimately saving lives. Another advantage of 3D Mammography includes a 40 percent reduction in the call back rate, sparing women the anxiety, inconvenience and cost of returning for further imaging studies. 3D also provides a more precise identification of the tumor and its location. Debi and Panos Kalaritis pose for a picture before the annual McLeod Cancer Benefit, An Evening of Hope, at the Florence Little Theatre. 6| 2016 McLEOD FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT New Emergency Department The state-of-the-art Emergency The Rev. Marion D. “Luke” Lucas, III, Department at McLeod Regional and his wife, Ashley Clements Lucas, Medical Center will include 83 rooms were both born at the McLeod Infirmary designed to serve 102,000 patients a year. and have many ties to McLeod Health.

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