2016 Annual Report
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Ronald McDonald House Charities® of the Intermountain Area 2016 Annual Report Ronald McDonald House Charities® of the Intermountain Area surrounds families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children. We provide a home-away-from-home to ease daily burdens and empower families of hospitalized children with meaningful experiences and quality time together. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. — Henry Ward Beecher This annual report is dedicated to the 20 precious angels our Ronald McDonald House Family lost in 2016. They will forever remain in our hearts. Sean • Alanya • Jake • Hayden • Rochelle • Lanaya Dallin • Rebecca • Temperance • Derek • Jaqueline Wesley • Aiden • Jody • Genesi • Abigail Colton • Jaxscen • Canyon • Ayden Letter from the BOARD CHAIR & CEO Dear Friends, Thank you for your truly inspiring love, care and kindness in 2016. With your time, talents and generosity 11,225 pediatric patient families were positively impacted by Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC) of the Intermountain Area during the year! Because of your shared dedication to our mission, we surrounded a record number of families with the support they needed to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children. We provided a home-away-from-home to ease daily burdens and empower families of hospitalized children with meaningful experiences and quality time together. Our Ronald McDonald House® welcomed 3,827 guest families, with 13,277 individual family members that called our House their ‘home’ for 21,467 nights. We offered needed respite for 7,400 families, with 21,836 individuals that visited our Ronald McDonald Family Room® within Primary Children’s Hospital 81,312 times during the year! Remarkably, 1,038 meals were lovingly prepared and served to families by volunteers at both the House and Family Room, and 23,080 volunteer hours were contributed during the year. Thanks to charitable funding through Rocky Mountain Power’s (RMP) Blue Sky Program, a new 180-panel solar power system was installed at the House in 2016. This exciting program will save charitable dollars and help reduce our Because of your shared dedication to carbon footprint. We were also grateful and thrilled to surpass our initial goal for the Honorary Grandparents Fund our mission, we surrounded a record to help create memorable experiences for families of children with life-altering diagnoses. In preparation for building demolition, we closed the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Ogden Regional Medical Center. We are truly grateful number of families with the support to all those who made the Family Room possible and we’ll continue to focus our charitable resources to create they needed to be near and care for the greatest and most positive mission impact possible. We are excited to announce the launch of a new Ronald their seriously ill or injured children. McDonald Hospitality Cart Program inside ORMC and Shriner’s Hospital for Children in 2017. Lastly, we were absolutely delighted to welcome a new staff member to our RMHC team, our Chief PAWSitivity Officer! Ollie is a chocolate labradoodle and certified facility therapy dog, whose job is to offer comfort to children and their families (and plenty of wet kisses). Thank you for your generous support and shared commitment to our mission. Together we are keeping families close when they need it most. With hearts filled with gratitude, Lynnie Zimmerli, Board Chair Carrie Romano, Chief Executive Officer 2 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016 Jody Heximer Community Volunteer BOARD VOLUNTEER Matt Gabrielson OF THE YEAR Connect Your Home Laura Nell Hodo, M.D. Tom Sherry Primary Children’s Hospital We were delighted to Don Lewon recognize Tom Sherry as Utah Metal Works our 2016 Board Volunteer Marianna Mavor Uintah Consulting of the Year! Tom has been a dedicated and effective Jeffrey Mark Miller leadership volunteer for Executive Committee Tom Sherry, Programs Chair Mark Miller Subaru Sherry Consulting LLC RMHC since 2014, joining Mark Nichols Lynnie Zimmerli, Chair our board in the thick of our campus expansion Community Volunteer Charles P. Williams, Jr. Pricewaterhouse Coopers Marketing/Public Relations Chair project. Tom skillfully led our Program Committee Community Volunteer Tom Pierce P. Matthew Cox, Esq., Chair-Elect as we expanded our programming to meet the Legal Counsel, Snow Christensen Pierce Sorenson & Martineau Gayle Everest, needs of far more families, while also significantly Community Volunteer Alan Regal, PE improving the quality of our programming. Tom Lori Teske Hudson, Development Chair Psomas – Civil Engineering Aspen Consulting Carrie Romano has invested in growing RMHC’s talent. He RMHC Chief Executive Officer Chris Sparrer-Baer understands that leadership is about engaging Peter M. Johnson, Finance Chair McDonald’s Owner/Operator Sinclair Oil Corporation people in meaningful work around shared Members at Large Curtis Trader, CPA purposes and goals. Tom and his wife Gayle Paula Green Johnson, Greg Bailey Trader Roberts & Spangler PLCC Nominating/Governance Co-Chair generously support our mission, events, staff and McDonald’s Owner/Operator Paige Walton Community Volunteer fellow board members. We thank Tom for sharing Joel Deaton AQS Environmental Pamela Larsen, Esq., Secretary his time, talents and treasure. His demonstrated Community Volunteer Monica Whalen Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators MSEC leadership has left an indelible mark on our (DMBA) Alison Flynn Gaffney Charity and the families we serve. Sounding Board 4 Life Cheri Wood Mary Schubach McCarthey, Moroch & Associates, Inc. Nominating/Governance Co-Chair Emmie Gardner, MSW Community Volunteer Intermountain Healthcare Non Voting Members Marc Rasich, MaryEllyn (Mimi) Gilfeather, M.D. Community Engagement Chair UofU School of Medicine, Mike Luedy, President Stoel Rives Radiology Young Leadership Board 2016 ANNUAL REPORT RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 3 2016 HIGHLIGHTS TheS PAW itivity Pack Arrives at RMHC n May of 2016 there was an exciting new I addition to RMHC’s staff – and in this case, the team member had been intensively training BEFORE he ever came on the job. Meet Ollie, a certified facility therapy dog and our Chief PAWSitivity Officer! Born December 29, 2015, Ollie was destined for greatness practically as soon as he opened his eyes. At just a few months old he was put into Ultimate Canine’s highly-respected training program, and came to We’re not kidding – this is an EXTREMELY us nine weeks later with a brain full of social puppy! He loves to say ‘hello’ every day commands and a heart full of love. to staff members and families, and everyone is ready to stop and cuddle. Ollie is a chocolate- brown Labradoodle, who doesn’t shed and is almost entirely hypo-allergenic. Kids who have never been able to play with dogs before can socialize safely with this friendly bundle of fluff! Starting at a mere 35 pounds when he first came to the House, Ollie has grown into his Thank You long legs and is nearly up to his estimated full growth of 70 pounds. He is groomed weekly to stay as clean and beautiful as possible for 4 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 2016 ANNUAL REPORT THE FAMILY ROOM AT ORMC The Ronald McDonald Family Room® at Ogden Regional Medical Center (ORMC) was closed in 2016 in preparation for demolition of the Medical Tower at ORMC. Opened in 2009, the Family Room was the first in Utah and positively impacted more than 1,000 pediatric patients and families. We look forward to young patients and their families, and enjoys to keep Ollie healthy, fed, exercised, and on his reaching even more families with our new regular outings in public (for practice) as well as best behavior while on the job. He turned one in Ronald McDonald Hospitality Cart program swimming sessions. December 2016, and we can barely remember inside ORMC and at Shriner’s Hospital for the House without him! As he gets a little older We are so grateful to Keller Williams Salt Lake (who Children. The cart and its hospitality volunteers he’ll also take up visiting duties at local hospitals, generously helped us get Ollie in the first place), will bring comfort and love to pediatric patient where he’ll be able to bring even more love, Willow Creek Pet Center, Dr. Rick Campbell, families – along with a selection of healthy snacks, comfort, snuggles, and ‘knuckles’ (Ollie’s favorite drinks, activity kits and other comfort items. Hill’s Pet Nutrition, and our wonderful PAWSitivity trick is the ‘fist-bump’) to kids and families in the Council members Joe Vervaecke & Dave Smith, as Salt Lake Area. We love you, Ollie! well as an amazing team of volunteers who help 2016 ANNUAL REPORT RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 5 2016 HIGHLIGHTS Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) Blue Sky Solar Panels Honorary GRANDPARENTS FUND NEW SOLAR PaNELS 2016 saw some exciting pilot programming as we began offering families specially-tailored, meaningful experiences through the Honorary Grandparents Fund (HGF). In partnership with Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital Foundation, the permanently endowed fund will generate an annual grant With charitable to RMHC to help create unique excursions and memory-making activities for funding through families of children with life-limiting or life-altering conditions. Inspired by the Rocky Mountain HGF, there were three children and their families this past year who received Power’s (RMP) Blue memorable experiences facilitated by RMHC. Sky Program, a ALANYA new 180-panel, ALANYA, who courageously battled cancer, was a sweet four-year-old solar power system who loved princesses and pampering. During her final visit to the was installed at our Ronald McDonald House Ronald McDonald House she received a private princess visit and through the last months of 2016.