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IN THIS ISSUE: From Bagpipes to Basketball, Sports Medicine Is a Winner A Higher Level of Care

oday’s hospitals, St. Joseph’s included, are showcases Contents for every sort of health care technology you can imagine. All of it is aimed at improving the quality Up-to-Date ...... 3 of care we offer our patients. St. Joseph’s New President TIf you sense a “but” coming, you’re right. is a ‘Country’ Girl—and While each of us at St. Joseph’s recognizes the power of Collaborator—at Heart ...... 6 today’s medical technology, we must also understand that the His Full-Time Quest Is overall quality of our patient care depends on the simple things the End of Pain ...... 8 we do every day. Sports Medicine Isn’t For example, take a look at the way we wash our hands. Just for ‘Athletes’ ...... 10 Did you ever stop to question “why”? Those Treating Student Athletes The answer is alarming. On a national basis, more than Stand Ready at the Sidelines . . . 11 1 million hospitalized patients this year will acquire “nosoco- Physicians and Patients Are mial” infections. These are infections acquired in a hospital, in It Together ...... 14 regardless of why a patient was there in the first place. As if Back to Playing the Pipes . . . . . 16 Kathryn H. Ruscitto that is not worry enough for patients who come to our hospital to be healed, they must also be on guard against the spread New Mother-Baby Unit of the so-called MDROs (multi-drug resistant organisms)— Pampers Families ...... 18 bacteria that have developed immunity to many common Your Valve’s in the Right Place . . . 20 antibiotics. Although hospital-acquired infections are cause for alarm, study after Our Foundation Report ...... 22 study has proven that the most effective way to prevent these sometimes fatal infec- Donor Listing ...... 27 tions is by having all employees follow a simple protocol of hand hygiene. St. Joseph’s has long recognized the importance of such hand care. As a result, Front Cover: we have a lower than average infection rate when compared to other hospitals both When Tom Parlato, a teacher at Madison-Oneida in New York state and nationally. Despite that record, we view even a single patient BOCES, tore his distal biceps tendon lifting a 700- hospital-acquired infection as one too many. That’s why we’re stepping up an already pound cast iron radiator, one of his greatest fears robust effort aimed at informing all employees—not just nurses and doctors—about was the loss of his ability to play the highland bagpipes. He turned to the expertise of a sports the vital importance and correct procedure for keeping hands clean. Not only is there medicine physician for help. inservice training about proper handwashing, but there also is on-the-job observation to make sure we’re doing it correctly. Since part of my job involves visiting a few patients every day just to chat and see how they think we’re doing, I have had to relearn how to wash my hands correctly Our Mission with soap and water. And, I am now trained to apply an alcohol-based gel whenever We are passionate healers dedicated I enter a patient’s room and again when I leave that room. I may do this a dozen times to honoring the Sacred in our sisters a day. It is that important! It is so important we have begun educating the public about the importance of and brothers. hand hygiene when they enter the hospital to visit relatives or friends. We have kiosks at every entry point urging visitors to use the gel when they enter and leave a patient’s Our Vision room and also to use facemasks when they have a cough or cold. My point is that St. Joseph’s is committed to taking quality in all its forms— To be world-renowned for passionate including infection control—to the highest level. The only way we can succeed is patient care and outstanding clinical by focusing intently on whatever needs to be done. We have appointed Dennis outcomes. Ehrich, MD, as the hospital’s chief quality officer to guide us in the effort, and working with him is St. Joseph’s new director of quality resources, Dorothy Haag, MS, RN. They have a daunting job, but it is made easier by the more than 4,000 St. Joseph’s Our Core Values employees who share the common understanding that quality is really measured by In the spirit of good Stewardship, how well we care for our patients and their families. If you’d like to learn more about St. Joseph’s efforts to improve quality for its patients we heal by practicing: Compassion and their families, I encourage you to visit my blog on line at kathrynhruscitto.blogspot. through our kindness, concern and com. We’ve also included a brief article about proper handwashing techniques on page 4 genuine caring; Reverence in honoring of this issue of the Caring Connection. the dignity of the human spirit; Sincerely, Excellence by expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity by being and speaking the truth.

Kathryn H. Ruscitto President

2 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l SPRING 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org up l to l date Franciscan Companies Appoints Timothy Scanlon Executive Vice President ranciscan Companies, a member of the FSt. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center network, has appointed Timothy Scanlon to the position of executive vice president. Scanlon has served Franciscan Companies for the past 20 years, first as operations manager of Franciscan Health Support Inc. and most recently as vice president, a position he has held for the past decade. Prior to join- ing Franciscan Companies, Scanlon was director of respi- ratory care at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. Timothy Scanlon Investing in Our Community Scanlon received his bachelor of science degree in respiratory therapy from SUNY Upstate Medical Center art of St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center’s and his master of science degree in health services management from the $220 million expansion project, construction of P New School for Social Research in New York City. St. Joseph’s new emergency services building (far left) He sits on a number of local and regional boards of directors and is a is well underway. The three-story structure will house member of the American Association of Health Care Executives and the the emergency department on the first floor; emergency American Association of Respiratory Care. psychiatric services and clinical observation/chest pain With services covering 16 counties in Upstate New York, Franciscan unit on the second floor; and central sterile and “green” Companies is a member of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center network. data center on the third floor. The emergency services It provides a variety of ancillary health care services to St. Joseph’s patients as building is anticipated to be completed by year end. It well as those referred by physicians and other health care facilities. will be joined to the main hospital by an addition that will house a patient tower with private rooms, operating room suite and intensive care units. Once completed, St. Joseph’s expansion of services will create approximately 200 highly skilled health care positions.

A Higher Level of Care he following organizations have acknowledged the National Research Corp. TSt. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center network with l 2010/2011 Consumer Choice #1 Award for highest national recognitions and awards: overall quality and image in the Syracuse area American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Excellus BlueCross BlueShield l Beacon Award for excellence in critical care nursing l Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac and American Hospital Association Orthopedic Care (Hospitals & Health Networks magazine) Outcome Concept Systems l One of nation’s “100 most-wired” hospitals l St. Joseph’s Home Care and Hospitals Home Health American Nurses Credentialing Center Care included on the HomeCare Elite Top 500 List l Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Press Ganey (2007-2011) l Outpatient surgery centers received Summit Award DNV Healthcare Inc. for patient satisfaction l Accreditation for St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Society of Chest Pain Centers HealthGrades 2011 l Accredited as a Chest Pain Center with PCI l Five-star rated for coronary interventional procedures—nine years in a row (2003-2011) l Five-star rated for treatment of heart attack— two years in a row (2010-2011) “Heart Attack? Every Second Counts,” St. Joseph’s public l Joint Replacement Excellence Award™ service advertising campaign l Five-star rated for joint replacement—five years in a to educate the public about row (2007-2011) the importance of seek- l ing help fast if someone is Ranked among the top 5 percent in the nation for ? joint replacement HEART ATTACK experiencing heart attack EVERY SECOND COUNTS. symptoms, was a Silver The Joint Commission CALL 9-1-1. Award winner in the 2010

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Your Mother Was Right: Please Wash Your Hands andwashing is the best way to prevent health Hcare-associated infections. It is also the best way to keep yourself healthy outside of a health care facility. To help protect you and your loved ones from infection, the handwashing techniques used at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center appear below. For more information about efforts to protect St. Joseph’s patients from infections, see hospital President Kathryn Ruscitto’s letter on page 2 of the Caring Connection. Use Soap and Water When hands are visibly soiled or thought to be contaminated, use soap and water. 1. Wet hands with water using a temperature that is comfortable. Water that is too hot or too cold can affect skin integrity. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy allows patients to breathe 100 percent oxygen, which aids 2. Apply appropriate soap and wash hands and wrists in wound healing. Nurses are able to communicate with patients during treatment, and vigorously for 15 to 30 seconds, covering all surfaces televisions help patients pass the time. of hands and fingers. 3. Rinse hands under running water, allowing water to Center for Wound Care and drip from fingertips in a downward fashion. 4. Thoroughly dry hands and wrists with paper towel. Hyperbaric Medicine Expands 5. Turn faucet off using a dry paper towel to touch t. Joseph’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric the handle. Also, use a clean paper towel to open SMedicine has added 1,500 square feet of space in bathroom doors before exiting. an expansion that aims to accommodate the growing Use Alcohol-based Products need for wound care as well as improve current clinic Alcohol-based products are the preferred method of flow and scheduling demands. The center is located in disinfecting hands provided they are not visibly soiled the Northeast Medical Center, in Fayetteville, NY. or thought to be contaminated. “We now have the appropriate space to accommo- 1. Apply product to palm of one hand and rub hands date the growth we have continued to experience each together covering all surfaces of hands and fingers year since our program opened in 2004,” says Barbara until hands are dry. Simonian, program director. The center can see 20 to 30 additional new patients and increase the frequency of visits of existing patients. “For the most part, wounds require treatment on a weekly basis to promote more rapid healing,” Simonian says. “Outside of that, the risks may increase.” In addition to featuring the latest in advanced wound care treatment for wounds caused by diabetes, circulatory problems, radiation damage and many other conditions, the center has four state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers. The program is one of only 97 in the country to be accredited by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and one of only two in New York state that is accredited with distinction. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a treatment in which the patient breathes 100 percent oxygen inside a pressurized chamber thus allowing oxygen to reach the areas of the wound that have been oxygen deprived and St. Joseph’s College of Nursing welcomed unable to heal. HBOT is effective in fighting certain types Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle to its campus of infections, stimulates the growth of new blood vessels on Feb. 2. The Congresswoman is a 1972 graduate of and improves circulation. The treatment also is used to St. Joseph’s and visited the college to see the tremendous growth to the school since she attended, meet and greet treat crush injuries, bone infections and compromised administrators and college of nursing students, as well skin grafts. as tour St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center’s expansion project and changes in the North Side neighborhood. Congresswoman Buerkle worked as a nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center prior to attending the Syracuse University College of Law and beginning her political career.

4 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org Here We Grow: St. Joseph’s Dr. Seth Greenky Honored Acquires North Medical, PC with Dr. Pease Award t. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center acquired North rthopedic surgeon Seth SMedical, PC (NMPC) in December 2010, creating one OGreenky, MD, who prac- of New York state’s largest health care networks. With tices with Syracuse Orthopedic more than 450 professional and support staff, including Specialists, was honored in nearly 80 physicians and mid-levels, North Medical, PC January with St. Joseph’s Hospital serves more than 320,000 patients annually through its Health Center’s 3rd annual five practices located at North and Northeast Medical Roger W. Pease PEER (Physician centers. The five practices include Family Physicians, Urgent Exemplifying Excellence and Care, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, The Women’s Place Reverence) Award. and Living Proof Longevity Centre. St. Joseph’s made this Named for Roger W. Pease, strategic business decision to help stabilize its network and MD, a humanitarian who served ensure it has enough primary care physicians, which are as St. Joseph’s first surgeon, the essential as health care reform is implemented. award is presented annually to a physician who embodies leader- Bloggers ship, clinical expertise and social responsibility. Winners of the Upon receiving the Roger W. Pease PEER Award, t. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center President Kathryn award are nominated by their Seth Greenky, MD, is congratulated by St. Joseph’s SRuscitto is now blogging at kathrynhruscitto. peers or fellow physicians. medical staff President Marya Gendzielewski, MD. blogspot.com. Community members are encouraged Dr. Greenky was cited for his to follow her blog and comment. “outstanding ability to be a visionary for his program,” Orthopedic surgeons Seth Greenky, MD, and having “the most outstanding results and commitment Brett Greenky, MD, are blogging about orthopedics at to excellence” and being “on top of his profession and stjosephsortho.blogspot.com. Their blog includes com- generous with his time.” mentary on the latest orthopedic research innovations Dr. Seth Greenky is St. Joseph’s chief orthopedic and news. surgeon. He and his brother, Brett Greenky, MD, also an orthopedic surgeon, are co-directors of St. Joseph’s Total Joint Replacement Program. He also is a faculty member E-Commerce Site for Medical of the SUNY Health Science Center/ Upstate Medical Supplies Launched Center Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program. ranciscan Companies, a member of the St. Joseph’s FHospital Health Center network, has launched AHA Book Recognizes www.CNYMedicalSupply.com, a new way to buy medical supplies. The site enables people in Central New York— St. Joseph’s for Its Community and across the country—to order a variety of medical Revitalization Efforts products conveniently and securely online. he American Hospital Association (AHA) has recog- On the website, customers may buy: T nized St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center’s work to l mobility products, including rollators, canes and walkers help revitalize Syracuse’s North Side by including the hospi- l respiratory items such as nebulizers tal’s efforts in the 6th edition of Community Connections: l wound care products Ideas and Innovations for Hospital Leaders. The book l diabetes management products highlights hospitals that are meeting the needs of their l daily living aids, including power seats, benches and community’s social and basic needs, promoting community other comfort and safety devices health, improving access and coverage, and enhancing the l specialty items such as designer canes quality of life for the people they serve. The AHA hopes “Franciscan Companies has been providing medical that by sharing such case studies hospitals will benefit products and services to hospitals, medical profession- from the examples and find new strategies for community als and the Central New York community for more than partnerships and programs. More information is available 25 years,” says Frank L. Smith Jr., president and CEO of at www.caringforcommunities.org. Franciscan Companies. “This is the next step in utilizing technology and innovation to cater to our customers and patients by enabling them to order needed products from the comfort of home.” The website www.CNYMedicalSupply.com will be joined by convenient kiosk ordering locations in pharma- cies, hospitals and physician offices throughout Central New York.

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St. Joseph’s New President Is a ‘Country’ Girl—and Collaborator—at Heart

athryn Ruscitto, St. Joseph Hospital Health profit agency supplying elder care services to hundreds Center’s new president and chief executive of Central New Yorkers. Loretto also lost power to many officer, may describe herself as a country girl of its facilities that night, but within less than 24 hours at heart, but she’s come a very long way from most of the aging residents being cared for within the Kthose days when she wrapped rubber bands around system once again had light, refrigeration, climate control bunches of asparagus on her grandfather’s farm on and communications as flatbed trucks hauled generators Syracuse’s northern outskirts. up to their doors. Oddly enough, the generators were Take, for example, the church-sponsored committee stenciled with names like “Fishkill State Prison” or “Attica she headed to bring relief to desperate earthquake victims State Prison.” Ruscitto may not have known the ins and in Haiti. outs of providing a temporary power source, but she had Chances are good that the Congressmen, retired “reached out” to a friend who got in touch with another generals and CEOs of international companies on that friend in the state prison system who did. committee she “commanded” a year ago had no inkling These are but two examples of the many Ruscitto of her rural background. Although they never met in can recite that illustrate her ability to bring people person, the committee raised more than $2.5 million in together to solve problems far beyond her own knowl- cash and supplies for Haiti. Finding, gathering, moving edge. She is a generalist, as well as a bit of a general. and distributing that aid was accomplished through “I may not be an expert in a certain area,” Ruscitto international conference calls originating in Ruscitto’s says, “but I know how to find the people who are. I’m office every Monday for four months. a hometown girl with a lot of deep connections within And when the cargo containers meant to aid the the city from having been here a long time.” sick and injured were lassoed by red tape in a Haitian After graduation from Le Moyne College with her port, a few strategic calls to committee members bachelor’s degree in political science and economics, familiar with the military got them on their way to and before she earned a master’s in public administra- the quake victims who needed them. tion from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, Ruscitto When the infamous Labor Day storm struck Syracuse says that as a 21-year-old she realized the importance of in 1998, thousands of area residents were left without forming strong networks and circles of friends and men- power for more than a week. Ruscitto was then working tors. Those “circles” adopted her, she says, and steered as senior vice president of strategy for Loretto, the not-for- her in the ways to effect change. Even the informal book group she joined contributed to her growth. “In fact, we only occasionally read a book, but we spent a lot of time talking about community and world issues. “My parents didn’t have much, but they taught us the importance of hard work. They also taught us that success isn’t about what you have, it’s a matter of what you do with what you have.” Perhaps with her parents’ teachings in mind, Ruscitto says she grew up wanting to “change the world.” She describes herself as “advocacy oriented and socially conscious.” She tried to find ways in which she could create change, always seeking the advice of others along the way. At Catholic Charities, her work centered on devel- oping resources for those in poverty. As administrator for human services for Onondaga County, she oversaw the development of the county’s 911 Emergency Com- munications System. She also was instrumental in reforming the Department of Social Services and Children’s Division, trying, as she says, “to humanize and solve some of its problems.” She joined St. Joseph’s as senior vice president for strategic, development and governmental affairs in 2001, and became executive Photographed at a Missioning Ceremony to mark and celebrate the transition of leadership to Kathryn Ruscitto and to confirm the new president’s commitment to the mission and vice president in 2009. culture of St. Joseph’s network are (from left to right) Elizabeth, Kathryn and Daniel Ruscitto. St. Joseph’s 4,000 employees are liable to see more of The ceremony was held at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in January 2011. the collaborative spirit she has demonstrated throughout

6 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org her career. They also will experience a CEO that seeks to turn the traditional pyramid-shaped organizational chart on its head—literally. She calls it the “servant-leader” model and admits that “it’s very Franciscan.” “I have always said that the organizational chart is upside down,” Ruscitto says. “The point should be at the bottom. It should be me down there serving and supporting our employees, so they can do their best to serve our patients. At the same time, I also have to be a leader, set some standards and goals, and help people stay focused so they can do the best they can for our St. Joseph’s President Kathryn Ruscitto speaks to a patient’s father at St. Joseph’s Westside patients and each other.” Family Health Center. Located on Seymour Street in Syracuse, the Westside Family Health Center serves a large number of people who have come to the United States from other countries, including the Sudan, Bosnia and the Ukraine. Eighty-five percent of patients do not speak English or have limited English proficiency. At a Glance Kathryn Howe Ruscitto I’m making a conscious effort to talk to families and Birthplace: Syracuse patients in their rooms, the elevator, the cafeteria, even Husband: Daniel Ruscitto, high school sweetheart, photographer and retired lieutenant from the walking up the hill. I’ll be asking how we’re doing, and Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department what we could be doing better.” Daughter: Elizabeth Ruscitto, Syracuse University iSchool master’s degree candidate and coach for —Kathryn Ruscitto Syracuse Student Sandbox, a business incubator that mentors student entrepreneurs It’s not unusual, she says, to hear frequent examples Other Family Members: Ashley, a yellow Labrador, of employees going out of the way for patients. A nurse and Shadow, an abandoned black cat that had took money out of her purse so a patient who didn’t lost its ears to frostbite have cab fare could get back to her home in Oswego. Pastime: Gardening, especially hummingbird gardens A nurse in the emergency department gave his shoes to a patient who walked into the hospital barefoot. Exercise: Kayaking and hiking in the Adirondacks “We don’t tell people to do this,” Ruscitto says. “They just do it. It’s a matter of living our values without even thinking about it.” So some things won’t change at St. Joseph’s, Ruscitto vows, but some things, at least for her, are already Regardless of how the organizational chart looks, changing. Ruscitto pledges not to change the values that have She estimates receiving about 200 emails a day, brought the hospital to where it stands today. Every- not to mention the old-fashioned phone calls. The thing the hospital staff does, she says, revolves around technology is great, she says, but only if it doesn’t get values of integrity, reverence and respect for patients in the way of working with people face to face. Right and the coworkers who serve them, as well as a pas- now, she spends about half of her time doing what an sion for providing good care while acting as stewards of administrator does—returning those emails and phone the hospital’s resources. Being out in the community as calls, looking at contracts, and doing what she described much as she is, talking with everyone from patients, to as “nudging things along that need nudging.” Her intent physicians, to peers at other hospitals locally as well as is to reduce the administrative load in favor of spending around the country, she has come to the conclusion that more time with patients and their families, hospital St. Joseph’s is unique. Others, she says, openly envy the employees and those within the broader community. hospital’s culture. She has already blocked the roaming-around time Part of it, says Ruscitto, is the clarity and certainty into her schedule, calling it “rounding,” the term used with which the Sisters of St. Francis, sponsors of by physicians and nurses to describe the time spent St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, have expressed checking up on their hospitalized patients in person. the values. “I’m not going to let email rule my life anymore,” “It is very clear that they hold the hospital’s leader- Ruscitto says with a smile. “I’m making a conscious ship accountable for preserving the values with which effort to talk to families and patients in their rooms, the the hospital has served the community,” Ruscitto says. elevator, the cafeteria, even walking up the hill. I’ll be “But they don’t tell us how to do it. Their presence is asking how we’re doing, and what we could be doing just wonderful. As a result, the people who work at better.” St. Joseph’s, regardless of what they do, believe in the When Ruscitto recently visited a friend hospitalized values and live them.” at St. Joseph’s, she also made it a point to introduce

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herself to the patient in the other bed. She asked if the His Full-Time Quest Is the End of Pain hospital was doing a good job of taking care of him. He t’s a worn-out old joke, but how fortunate we smiled, gestured at the nurses, one on each side of his bed, are when the punch line, “Take two aspirins and said, “You see this? Don’t screw it up.” and call me in the morning,” is all we need to “That’s the fun part of the job,” she says. “Patients are rid ourselves of pain. Unfortunately, for many, really grateful for good care. And you can hear about prob- Ipain is an unwanted companion that seems to never lems, too. By getting out and talking with them, you learn go away. things that are impossible to learn sitting in your office.” What’s the good news? It doesn’t have to be Toward the end of 2010 before Ruscitto had officially that way. Just ask St. Joseph’s Hospital Health taken over the reins, she asked St. Joseph employees four Center’s Jason Lok, MD, one of relatively few physi- questions: What do you hope I do as CEO? What do you cians who have made the alleviation of pain their hope I don’t do? What are you most proud of at St. Joseph’s? full-time quest. What are you most concerned about at St. Joseph’s? After earning his medical degree from SUNY Once again, she was using the skills honed throughout Upstate Medical University in 1994, Dr. Lok was college and her professional life to gather data and insights board-certified in anesthesiology in 2005 and pain that would help clarify the hospital’s path as it, like every medicine in 2006. The proportion of his time spent other hospital in the country, begins to deal with a series on anesthesiology gradually decreased until he made of difficult challenges in the way American health care is pain medicine his full-time practice last year. delivered. We all suffer pain of one sort or another, and “There are many things we’re going to have to do that, Dr. Lok says, is good. If you touch something differently as the health care model changes,” Ruscitto hot or sharp, pain is what makes us get out of the says. “Medicare is demanding changes. Our patients are way—quickly. If you feel pain for no apparent demanding change. We have to be open to new ways of reason somewhere in your body, it could be a sign working with our medical and nursing staffs. that something is wrong and you’d better get it “We don’t have all the answers, and I know I can’t do it checked out. alone. All I can do is make sure that the right systems, the That, in 60 words or so, is a very, very simple right processes and the right resources are available to the look at pain. Chat with Dr. Lok for an hour or so people who can do it—our clinical staff and the people who and you’ll realize that pain, and the alleviation of support them for the benefit of our patients.” l pain, are extremely complex topics. There is little wonder it requires a year-long course of intense study and practice to earn certification as a fellow in pain medicine. Ruscitto Named One of Top ‘52 Women There are, Dr. Lok says, two primary types of pain—nociceptive and neuropathic. Nociceptive Hospital & Healthcare Leaders’ pain is caused by the stimulation of pain receptors t. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center’s President and Chief Executive —nerves throughout the body whose only purpose S Officer Kathryn Ruscitto was included among the top women leaders is to warn you that you’re being hurt by something in the hospital and health care industry in Becker’s Hospital Review’s annual sharp or hot, or you’re being squeezed or twisted, list, “52 Women Hospital & Healthcare Leaders” released in November 2010. or you’ve broken a bone. Neuropathic pain, on the Members of the list were selected for their accomplishments in leading other hand, mainly originates in the brain, spine or health care and hospital organizations, including improvement of patient any part of the nervous system. Patients may feel care, development of relationships between providers and facilitation of the pain in the spinal cord itself or the pain may be organizational growth. radiated to other parts of the body. To complicate To create the list, the editorial team at Becker’s Hospital Review matters, in some cases like cancer, the pain sources accepted nominations for the most influential women in health care are mixed. Some pain is described as burning, some through the Becker’s Hospital Review website and weekly online news­ as stabbing, some as achy and some as electric. letters. After several months of collecting nominations and researching the Acute pain may last anywhere from a few seconds background of each nominee, the editorial team narrowed the contenders to an hour. Chronic pain lasts for three months or to a list of the top women leaders. Becker’s Hospital Review repeats this more in varying levels of intensity. process annually to ensure an up-to-date compendium. Leaders do not And just as there are many types of pain with pay and cannot pay to be included on this list. a variety of symptoms, there are as many, or more, Becker’s Hospital Review is a Chicago-based publication focusing on ways to treat the pain, Dr. Lok says, and what works hospital and health care news and business advice. The primary audience for on one type of pain, won’t work on another. the publication is hospital executives and health care industry leaders. l “My single goal is to improve my patient’s quality of life,” Dr. Lok says, “to get them back to what they like to do—whether it’s going back to work, or just

8 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org His Full-Time Quest Is the End of Pain doing things they enjoy like playing a round of golf or picking up a grandchild—anything I can do to improve their functionality.” It’s a common misunderstanding, Dr. Lok says, that a pain specialist’s primary function is to solely prescribe narcotics. The fact is, he says, patients should expect to be treated with the most conservative drugs, first—like well-known anti-inflammatory drugs available over the counter in your local drugstore. These non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (aspirin is among them) reduce swelling and inflammation. Steroids also reduce swelling and inflammation to reduce pain, and both, Dr. Lok says, should be considered by a patient’s primary care physician before turning to more drastic treatments like narcotics or surgery. “One St. Joseph’s surgeon who had a patient referred to him for back surgery to reduce pain contacted me, along with the man’s family physician, and said this patient wasn’t really ready for surgery until some more conservative steps like physical therapy had been tried,” Dr. Lok recalls. During a follow-up office visit, Jason Lok, MD, explains to his patient, Eddie Thornton, the location of the medial branch nerves responsible for his facet joint pain. “But the patient was in too much pain to endure the physical therapy. I treated him with non-narcotic medications along with carefully placed (using X-ray) Thornton had tried medications and physical therapy, steroid injections that allowed him to exercise. He was but his pain continued for years. When Dr. Lok met and then able to strengthen his lower back enough through diagnosed Thornton last summer, he discovered that physical therapy that the muscles were able to support two pairs of small joints in the lower spine called facet the compressed disc that was causing the original pain.” joints were inflamed and probably causing the pain. He Dr. Lok says that patients can often use over-the- convinced Thornton to try a treatment called a medial counter drugs for the short term to alleviate pain without branch block in which the signals going from the in- resorting to narcotics or even surgery—even without flamed joints to the brain would be interrupted when seeing a pain specialist. But when the pain is extreme, medications were injected into the area of the facet joints. complex, goes on for long periods, or is difficult to locate “Before the treatment, when I was standing, sitting, in the first place, pain medicine specialists have both the twisting, bending—whatever—I would have sharp pains training and the experience to find the cause and then and spasms that immediately stopped me from doing treat the pain, although not necessarily the cause of the what I was doing. It took my breath away—really got pain, as in cancer patients. my attention! Compared to what I could do before, the “In cancer patients, we sometimes cannot treat the improvement has been great. I’m able to do my physical cause of the pain, but we may be able to reduce or alle- therapy better, too.” viate the pain being caused by the cancer,” Dr. Lok says. The “stable” pain that Thornton felt he had to live “With terminal patients we have techniques to improve with the rest of his life was corrected by a relatively their ability to function as they near the end of their lives simple treatment that Dr. Lok felt had been overlooked. without resorting to narcotics that essentially make them The majority of Dr. Lok’s patients are not suffering unconscious and unable to communicate with friends from cancer or other life-threatening illnesses, but the and loved ones.” pain they suffer can still be devastating. In some cases, as It is possible, Dr. Lok says, to increase the efficiency Dr. Lok says, the pain itself has become the disease. In of pain medicines and reduce their side effects by deliv- many cases, along with the original physical pain, comes ering them directly into the area around the spine. depression, disability, drug abuse, the loss of job and “In other cases, we can sometimes eliminate pain income, anger, and even possible suicide. by injecting chemicals directly into specific nerves that “It doesn’t have to be this way,” Dr. Lok says. destroy their ability to transmit ‘messages’ to the brain,” “Patients and their primary care physicians need to Dr. Lok says. Take the case of Eddie Thornton who was understand that relief from both acute and chronic pain, injured in a truck accident in 1998 that resulted in almost regardless of the cause, is possible. It may be complex, continuous pain in his lower back that radiated down his but it is no longer something we have to grit our teeth left hip and thigh. against and ‘struggle through.’” l

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Sports Medicine Isn’t Just for ‘Athletes’ here is no easy definition for the term “sports medicine.” It conjures many meanings and is prone to more than a few misconceptions. You don’t have to be a high-level athlete (or even an occasional jogger) to be treated by a physician who specializes inT sports medicine. The fact is that many of the injuries associated with sports may also happen on the job or even working in the garden. Even most physicians who specialize in sports medicine tend to treat more injuries and illnesses that are not sports related. Many believe that all sports medicine physicians are orthopedists dealing only with injured joints, muscles and bones. But, says Seth Greenky, MD, medical director of St. Joseph’s orthopedic­ services, the fact is that only about 10 percent of sports-related injuries require the specialized skills of orthopedists like St. Joseph Hospital Health Center’s Glenn Axelrod, MD, Alfred Moretz, MD, Irving Raphael, MD, or L. Ryan Smart, MD. St. Joseph’s family medicine physicians like Michael Kernan, MD, Jennifer McCaul, MD, and James Tucker, MD, who serve as sports team physicians, treat by far a greater number of sports-related injuries and illnesses than their orthopedic counterparts. “Sports medicine is one spoke of St. Joseph’s orthopedic service line,” Dr. Greenky says. “The other spokes include fracture care, hand care, spine care and joint replacement. But it’s different in that it’s the only spoke that includes the surgical and medical (non-surgical) side of things.” One thing does appear to be common among those at St. Joseph’s who are involved in sports medicine: They seem to have a passion for it. Dr. Raphael, who has his own orthopedic practice, also serves as director of sports medicine and as team physician for Syracuse University. In 19 years with SU, he has missed only three football games. He works closely with Drs. Tucker, Kernan and McCaul who handle the non-orthopedic side of sports medicine for the university. Dr. Tucker, who started working with SU teams in 1987, says he spends between eight and 10 hours a day at St. Joseph’s and about eight to 10 hours a week with SU, and he never tires of it. Dr. Axelrod gained an interest in sports medicine when he was learning about arthroscopic surgery and saw the potential it offered for young people with sports-related injuries. Dr. Smart, who earned a fellowship in sports medicine before coming to Syracuse, started out on the other side when he was injured as a member of Cornell University’s hockey team. What could have been a professional hockey career when he was drafted, ended up as a career in sports medicine. This issue of the Caring Connection takes a look at the many facets of sports medicine. l

10 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l SPRING 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org Those Treating Student Athletes Stand Ready at the Sidelines Syracuse University head team physician Irving Raphael, MD, examines SU basketball center Arinze Onuaku at the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center. Dr. Raphael’s practice focuses on athletes of all ages and levels of competition.

or someone who has missed only three no different than what the rest of us may face, treating Syracuse University football games in 19 years, those injuries requires a different outlook, Dr. Raphael whether at home or on the road, it seems odd says, primarily because those athletes and the teams for when Irving Raphael, MD, says he doesn’t which they play have different expectations than the reallyF enjoy the games all that much. general public. You can see him along the sidelines pacing as much “You don’t treat elite athletes the same way you treat or more than the coach. He paces because he knows non-athletes,” Dr. Raphael says. “Their bodies do things what can happen in a high-speed contact sport like that our bodies won’t do. Our job is to get them back to football. He appreciates all the kinetic energy that is doing things at a much higher level than any of us func- built up by solidly muscled players racing toward tion in our daily activities. each other at full speed. He also understands the “If you or I went out and got a pretty bad sprain, fragility of even well-conditioned players’ muscles, I’d send you to a physical therapist two or three times joints and bones when collisions happen and all a week, ask to see you in a month and we’d probably that energy is released. So he paces, hoping he won’t have you running by then. If someone on the SU basket­ be called into action. ball team had a similar sprain, they may work with “My friends say they’ve never seen me enjoy a foot- trainers two or three times every day getting every ball game when I’m on the sidelines,” Dr. Raphael says. opportunity to get better as quickly as possible. “That’s because I understand what can happen and I “Their job is to get better, and they expect that.” just don’t want anyone to get hurt. Dr. Raphael should know about the rigors of college “I love for us to win, but I don’t worry about the sports. In his college days he earned a dozen varsity score or celebrate until the game is over.” letters in basketball, tennis and sailing while earning his As director of sports medicine and head team undergraduate degree in naval architecture and marine physician for SU, Dr. Raphael, an orthopedic surgeon engineering at Webb Institute in 1967. He earned his who also has a private practice, is responsible for MD from Yale University’s School of Medicine in 1971 making sure that all of the hundreds of student athletes and then served an orthopedic residency at Upstate competing for SU in 21 sports have the best chance of Medical Center. Dr. Raphael admits to being “smitten” not being injured and the best medical or surgical care by the possibilities of arthroscopic surgery for his if they are. patients in the mid-1970s when the use of a lens to It’s far more complex than it sounds, and it’s a year- look inside a joint was in its infancy. round job for Dr. Raphael and the team of other doctors “This was before the days of fiberoptics and and trainers who look after SU athletes. Even though miniaturized surgical instruments, so we could look the injuries to which serious athletes are subject are inside a knee joint to see what the problem was, but

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there wasn’t much we could do about it. We’d take Throwing athletes show up with shoulder and elbow out the scope and then do traditional open surgery,” problems. That’s why there are national regulations on Dr. Raphael recalls. how many throws a little leaguer can make in a game.” Arthroscopic surgery has advanced greatly The more Dr. Raphael talks about his long involve- since the mid-1970s and has become the core of ment in sports medicine, the more excited he gets. He Dr. Raphael’s practice—at least with college athletes charts the new treatments—new arrows in his quiver— in need of surgery. that were unheard of 20 years ago, such as injections Hospital stays used to be required, but Dr. Raphael of an athlete’s own platelet rich plasma that triggers the says he was the first orthopedist in Syracuse to operate release of the body’s growth factors that speed healing. on a patient using arthroscopy in an outpatient setting, A lacrosse or basketball player who tears the anterior so they didn’t have to stay overnight in the hospital. cruciate ligament in her knee after making a sudden What was rare is now common. Dr. Raphael performed stop or sharp turn may shorten her healing time more than 350 surgeries (including arthroscopies) last significantly. year alone at St. Joseph’s, many of them on athletes. “Our job as sports medicine specialists is to make He was also among the first in Central New York to sure we deliver these athletes the best and latest treat- perform arthroscopic hip surgery on athletes. ments we can,” Dr. Raphael says, “and that means that this job—a passion, really—never becomes boring.” The same is true for the rest of the other physicians and trainers on the SU sports medicine team. That fact is, Dr. Raphael admits, the expertise of Drs. Michael “When you have to tell them they can’t play, you feel Kernan, Jennifer McCaul and James Tucker is called like the worst person on earth. There can be tears or they upon more often than his in the case of medical, rather than strictly orthopedic, concerns. might slam something because they love their sport. They Dr. Tucker, who is residency director for St. Joseph’s family medicine program, as well as in a private practice really love it and want to go ahead and play and you’re that includes sports medicine patients, smiles when he the one who’s telling them they can’t. They’ll beg, plead, recalls an anonymous quip made years ago describing sports medicine as “orthopedics in sweaty people.” promise to do anything, but we have to look at them and “Whoever said that was wrong because obviously there are more medical concerns in any college sports their illness objectively and treat them appropriately.” program than there are strictly orthopedic concerns. In —jennifer mccaul, MD Division 1 college athletics, 70 to 90 percent of what phy- sicians treat are medical rather than orthopedic problems.” Dr. Tucker started seeing sports medicine patients in 1979 and served as school physician for Jamesville- DeWitt and Bishop Grimes high schools, and as team While orthopedic surgery involving college and physician for Onondaga Community College. He professional athletes is covered widely on the sports joined the Syracuse University medical team in 1986, pages and national broadcasts, there is far more to operating weekly clinics for athletes who were sick or modern sports medicine than orthopedic surgery, had other medical problems. He still smiles when he says, Dr. Raphael says. Years of experience getting to know “Dr. Raphael lets us do most of the medical stuff and we each sport and the typical injuries they generate, he certainly recognize his expertise in orthopedic matters.” adds, is what separates a sports medicine specialist Essentially all family physicians, Dr. Tucker says, from a general orthopedist. handle their share of sports medicine cases. Virtually “We have to view each athlete differently,” all are called on to handle pre-participation evaluation Dr. Raphael continues. “It’s not just knowing what physicals on a high school kid who wants to play sports, sport they play, we also have to know what position someone in Pop Warner football who sprained their they play and what their training schedule is like. ankle, or a 60-year-old who has decided to run the Knowing all this tells me what the injury is likely to be. Boston Marathon. “For instance, the backstroke and butterfly are more But sports medicine at the SU level is far different. likely to injure a swimmer’s shoulders. In volleyball, It can come close to being a full-time operation. At ‘spiking’ will cause hand and wrist injuries. Long distance SU, there are five, two- to three-hour medical clinics runners are more prone to shin splints or stress fractures each week that are covered by Drs. Tucker, Kernan and whereas sprinters more often suffer from tendonitis. McCaul. Three orthopedic clinics occur on weekdays, in

12 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org St. Joseph’s family medicine physicians James Tucker, MD, Jennifer McCaul, MD, and Michael Kernan, MD, provide medi- cal care to Syracuse University athletes at five medical clinics each week. Most of the care required by college athletes is the same as non-athletes— illnesses such as coughs, colds, fever, bruises and stomachaches. addition to the weekend clinics. The time commitments Concussions are another hot topic in the sports are greater than that, however, since all contact sports world and it affects the college athlete—and St. Joseph’s have one physician on site for home games and football sports medicine doctors, as well. has two physicians for all home and away games. The “We have learned more about the biology and SU trainers are full-time employees who cover other potential outcomes of concussions in the past five years athletic events and know that the team doctors are on that we did in the preceding 150 years,” Dr. Tucker call at all times. They are also highly praised by the says, “and that’s been good for us.” team physicians. Adds Dr. Kernan, “With the National Football In many ways, the conditions that the medical team League paying more attention to it, and when the public physicians encounter from SU’s student athletes are sees people like Troy Aikman retiring because of it, it’s a essentially the same as any non-athlete student group lot easier to convince a parent that their child shouldn’t of the same age—coughs and colds, fevers, diarrhea, play in the next game.” stomachaches, urinary tract infections, cuts, bruises, One thing that isn’t often mentioned as part of the a poke in the eye going up for a rebound, blisters, sports medicine realm is the diagnosis and treatment infectious mononucleosis, eating disorders…. The list of emotional elements like depression among young keeps going and there can be significant differences. student athletes. Dr. Tucker describes athletes who may “A lot of kids get skin infections like folliculitis, but come in complaining of headaches, not sleeping well, if a wrestler gets it and it can’t be completely covered, being tired, or saying that his coach made him come they can’t compete because it could be spread to their because he’s not the same anymore. It’s the sports medi- opponents,” says Dr. McCaul, the newest member of cine physicians who must root out the possibilities— the SU team. “Because they’re stuck in a bus together, have their grades fallen, did they just breakup with or in the locker room, the closeness of the team can their girlfriend or boyfriend, are they overtraining—and predispose them to communicable illnesses like then, following this emotional triage, suggest they might mononucleosis. see a clinical psychologist within the university. “While ‘mono’ is fairly common, it can cause a “I have a tremendous amount of respect for student patient’s spleen to swell and if the athlete were playing athletes,” Dr. Tucker says. “They have two full-time, a contact sport and it were hit, it might rupture and that demanding jobs. The crew team is out on the water at could be fatal. 5:30 in the morning. The field hockey team may be in “When you have to tell them they can’t play, you feel the weight room at 6:00 in the morning, and yet these like the worst person on earth. There can be tears or they are students who are carrying a full academic load, and might slam something because they love their sport. They some are carrying full academic loads in majors that really love it and want to go ahead and play and you’re would scare the heck out of me. the one who’s telling them they can’t. They’ll beg, plead, “It is physically and emotionally demanding, and promise to do anything, but we have to look at them and that’s why we’re here.” l their illness objectively and treat them appropriately.”

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Physicians and Patients Are in It Together

uppose you’re a 4.5 tennis player with a terrific practicing for nearly 30 years, sees sports medicine as serve and you’ve torn the rotator cuff in your a philosophy rather than strictly a specialty. All three serving shoulder. You’re not a level 7.0 touring St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center orthopedic surgeons pro, but still you love the game and can’t raise agree that amateur and non-athletes shouldn’t be fright- yourS racket hand more than a few inches. ened away by the sports medicine title. Do you need a doctor who specializes in sports “A lot of sports medicine-type surgeries are done medicine? You certainly do! for regular people who were not injured playing a Now suppose you’re a lifelong mason used to lifting sport,” Dr. Axelrod says. “The surgery I perform on a Many sports medicine- 80-pound bags of concrete for a living and have torn homemaker who has torn the meniscus in her knee type surgeries are performed on people your rotator cuff, too. by stooping and picking up something beside her on who aren’t athletes, say Do you need a doctor who specializes in sports the kitchen floor may be the same surgery I’d give to orthopedic surgeons medicine even though your most strenuous pastime an elite athlete who turned his knee when his foot was Glenn Axelrod, MD, may be a few hands of cards? You bet! planted.” (left) and Ryan Smart, A person’s rotator cuff (or knee, or hip, or ankle or The difference, Dr. Axelrod says, is how the patient MD. The body doesn’t know if it was injured elbow) doesn’t know whether it was hurt on the job, may be treated after the surgery. playing a sport or just playing amateur tennis or competing in the Olympics. “You don’t want to be treated as an elite athlete going about the activi- The injury is the same, and it still hurts. if you aren’t an elite athlete,” Dr. Axelrod continues. ties of daily living. Drs. Glenn Axelrod, MD, has been treating sports-type “Most people don’t have the time, or money, to afford Axelrod and Smart are injuries for 28 years—almost before the term “sports the kind of rehab an elite athlete requires. They are in an operating room at St. Joseph’s Northeast medicine” was coined. Ryan Smart, MD, completed doing conditioning and physical therapy for hours a Surgery Center in an intense, yearlong fellowship in sports medicine in day under the auspices of a trained physical therapist Fayetteville, NY. 2010. Alfred Moretz, MD, an orthopedist who has been and conditioner. “Professional and college athletes are different people. Ordinary people like you and me get back to what they consider to be a normal functional level for them, and not have the same postoperative treatment a professional would want. But we’re both happy and it’s been a successful surgery because the patient under- stands what they really wanted out of the whole thing.” It’s very important to remember, Dr. Axelrod says, that sports medicine treatments often demand a great deal of patient involvement for total success. “Patients must understand that they are not Peyton Manning or Serena Williams,” Dr. Axelrod says. “They must understand the postoperative plan and this is what they have to do to get the outcome that they want. I tell my patients, ‘We’re both in this together.’” Dr. Smart, who understands how his patients feel by having sustained three ice hockey injuries himself while working on his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, says most of his patients also are in their teens through their 60s, and otherwise healthy and pursuing active lifestyles. “Most sports medicine doctors will admit that most of their patients are regular people who are getting hurt just by living life or working on the job or at home,” Dr. Smart says. (See cover story on p. 16.) All three agree it’s a fact that there are relatively few elite college or professional athletes out there. The vast majority of athletes who play high school sports, even the best ones, are finished after high school because they recognize that the commitment to even college- level sports is excessive, and the chances of a profes- sional career may be as remote as winning the lottery. But there are many “weekend warriors” who still need good care because they want to stay active as long as possible.

14 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l SPRING 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org Dr. Moretz, who practices in Utica but performs all of his arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgeries at St. Joseph’s North Surgery Center in Liverpool, NY, treats his patients as if they were athletes, even though they may not be. “Sports medicine is a philosophy to me rather than a specialty,” Dr. Moretz says. “I could have a badly sprained ankle myself, stay off of it for three or four weeks, undergo some physical therapy and be fine, but if you’re a high school football player who has only seven weeks in his season, time is very important. In those cases, our philosophy is to do everything we can to get them back to their original level of activity as quickly as we can as long as there is no increased risk of further injury.” That philosophy applies to non-athletes—such as a self-employed carpenter who is unable to work—as well as athletes. For these people, “no work, no pay” is a powerful incentive, so Dr. Moretz treats these patients like athletes, as well. The rest of us who may eventually need the care of a sports medicine doctor for whatever reason are fortu- nate to live at a time when the science is leapfrogging itself with one advancement after another. Drs. Axelrod and Moretz came to sports medicine at different times and through different pathways than in its earliest stages and fellowships in sports medicine Dr. Moretz reassures Dr. Smart. When Dr. Axelrod and Dr. Moretz com- were not yet offered. The miniature instruments and his patient prior to sur- pleted their residencies, arthroscopic surgery was closed-circuit television cameras the size of a soda gery to repair an injury to his right knee. In straw had not been invented yet, but as they were, addition to his private Dr. Axelrod and Dr. Moretz seized every opportunity practice, Dr. Moretz to polish their operative skills with the new technology is a team physician at over the years. Utica College. Dr. Smart, on the other hand, entered a one-year fellowship in sports medicine at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston following his orthopedic internship and residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. That consisted, he says, of practically a whole year doing little else besides arthroscopic surgery on all the body’s major joints, but primarily on the most often injured knees and shoulders. Part of that involved working with a sports team, in his case, the Boston Celtics and Harvard’s athletic teams. All three surgeons continue to be challenged by fast- moving changes to equipment and techniques. “The concepts and equipment we use in shoulder surgery today are totally different than they were only three years ago,” Dr. Moretz says, “so staying current is a real challenge.” But talk to any orthopedist and you’re liable to hear the same thing when you ask them how they like their jobs. They are virtually all happy, they say, because their patients have very definable problems with very specific solutions, and they get better quickly. The Surgeon Alfred Moretz, MD, performs arthroscopic surgery on a patients are also motivated to work with their physicians. patient who tore his meniscus while playing high school soccer. At some point, they even have to be “reined in.” He is looking toward a monitor that visualizes the knee. That, all three admit, is fun and very satisfying. l

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Back to Playing the Pipes Specialist in Sports Medicine Was Just What the Doctor Ordered

ow do you connect sports medicine, an old amiss, but I had a physical coming up in a few weeks, 700-pound cast iron radiator and a beloved so I decided to ice it and take it easy.” set of highland bagpipes? For Tom Parlato As soon as she saw the arm two or three weeks and Ryan Smart, MD, the fit was easy. later, Parlato’s family physician sent him straight HFirst, comes the radiator that Parlato planned to to an orthopedic surgeon for diagnosis and possible make part of his home heating system. treatment. Parlato figures he now has one of the most expen- Ryan Smart, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with sive old cast iron radiators in existence, even though Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists, specializes in sports it started out as a 700-pound piece of scrap. The medicine and diagnosed the injury as a badly torn distal 47-year-old heavy equipment operation teacher at biceps tendon—the tendon that connects the lower Madison-Oneida BOCES and his two teenaged sons had end of Parlato’s biceps muscle to the radius bone, the successfully moved the radiator down a flight of stairs smaller bone in the lower arm. Without that connec- and were trying to maneuver it onto a hand truck when tion, or with a badly compromised connection like Parlato felt something in his left arm give way. Parlato’s, the arm’s major muscle has nothing to pull “I just felt something tear,” Parlato says as he against and is nearly useless. recalls that late summer day last year. “There was some Like the majority of Dr. Smart’s patients, Parlato pain and immediate weakness. I knew something was was not an athlete, but the injuries are the same

Preparing to perform on his highland pipes, Tom Parlato rewraps his tuning pin to tighten up the pipe’s drone. Before surgery to repair a torn tendon in his arm, Parlato was unable to hold his pipes and told his surgeon, Ryan Smart, MD, before surgery that his biggest fear was that he would be unable to play. Part of the Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band, Parlato says the pipes are a passion of his.

16 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org whether earned on a football field, a tennis court or The pipes are a passion I picked up later in life. Playing while moving an old radiator. They are, he says, “just serves as a catharsis for me.” ordinary active adults who are living life or getting hurt So dedicated is Parlato to piping that he postponed on the job. his original surgery date, so he could play the pipes at a “Whether I’m operating on a college football player friend’s funeral. with a damaged knee, a high-level amateur tennis “I could still play, but it was uncomfortable, and player with a torn rotator cuff, or a mason who earns whatever was wrong wasn’t getting right again just by his livelihood lifting heavy weights, it’s the same,” laying off and letting it try to heal,” Parlato says. Dr. Smart says. In fact, postponing his original visit to his primary Dr. Smart would learn that Parlato earned his care physician and “letting it heal” had made things bachelor’s degree from SUNY Oswego in industrial arts worse in that the damaged tendon was forming scar education, but when he graduated, there were few, if tissue in places where it wasn’t wanted. any new jobs in his field. With neither he nor his wife Dr. Smart, with Parlato’s fears in mind, performed wanting to relocate from Upstate New York, Parlato the surgery at St. Joseph’s Northeast Surgery Center in fell back to an earlier talent—horseshoeing—to earn Fayetteville over 90 minutes. It sounds easy enough his living for nearly 20 years in Onondaga, Madison, when Dr. Smart describes it: Oneida, Cayuga and Tompkins counties. He missed “You find the tendon still attached to the lower teaching all along, he says, and would give presenta- biceps and then put stitches in it. Meanwhile, a hole is tions on various aspects of equine husbandry to pony drilled through the upper end of the radius bone and clubs and 4-H groups. He earned a part-time job as a the tendon is passed through the hole to the back of teacher’s assistant for BOCES, before becoming a full- the bone and attached to what we call ‘a button.’ The time faculty member three years ago. As Parlato likes to bone then grows around the button and the tendon is say, he spends his days teaching industrial equipment secured.” operation to 45 young men “who are just dying to push dirt around and burn diesel fuel.” While teaching is his full-time profession, he still shoes a few horses and harvests firewood from his “Whether I’m operating on a college football player with property—neither of them easy tasks. As a result of a damaged knee, a high-level amateur tennis player with his active lifestyle, the 6-foot-1-inch Parlato maintains broad shoulders and, as Dr. Smart describes, “massive a torn rotator cuff, or a mason who earns his livelihood forearms and biceps,” at least until he tried to move a 700-pound radiator. lifting heavy weights, it’s the same.” When Parlato held his arms out with his palms —Ryan Smart, MD up for Dr. Smart, the difference was obvious with the biceps on his left arm sagging to one side like a loosely filled sausage casing. Dr. Smart told Parlato that some men his age or older with an inactive lifestyle might The surgery started on a Friday at 11 a.m. and choose not to have surgery, but that with Parlato’s Parlato was in the postanesthesia care unit by 1 p.m. active lifestyle he’d definitely recommend it. He was soon asking when he could go home and even Following Dr. Smart’s advice, Parlato scheduled his when he could go back to work: “It’s just a little cut. first surgery ever. It was then that the sports medicine I’ve been kicked worse than that by a horse!” Although doctor learned about another facet of Parlato’s active he was expected to be away from BOCES for two life—the highland bagpipes. He’s been playing the weeks, he was back in the classroom on Monday, three highland pipes for about 10 years and plays regularly days later—his arm in both a sling and a brace. It was with the Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band. He even plays in swollen at the end of the day, but with several days of the BOCES parking lot occasionally during lunch—to icing “the swelling began to subside and it didn’t look the amusement of most. like my arm weighed 800 pounds anymore.” “I told Dr. Smart the day we scheduled the surgery It was eight weeks, just before Christmas, that that I didn’t want to put any more pressure on him than Parlato first tried playing the pipes. He used small he already had as a surgeon, but I wanted him to under- “parlor pipes” to begin with, but soon graduated to stand that not being able to play the pipes was one of the “great pipes” around which so much Scottish lore my biggest fears. is woven. And how was it? “The horseshoeing I’m doing I am getting a little old “I couldn’t turn my wrist very well, but I just had for, so I’m going to have to give that up anyway. I don’t to try it. The fingers still move and it’s happening,” says necessarily need my physical nature to teach. It’s more Parlato. “It’ll come, and I’ll be back on the street playing intellect and using my educational skills. But, if there in no time.” l were one thing I would miss it would be the piping.

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New Mother-Baby Unit Pampers Families t’s amazing what can be done with a little love as “The nurses knew what they wanted and we talked opposed to a lot of money. to mothers for their ideas,” Lynne Ponto, RN, nurse Just ask the women (and their families) whose manager, says. “This is a place built for women, and eyes light up in amazement when they first see some of the concepts were different, so it took awhile ISt. Joseph Hospital Health Center’s new mother-baby to get these ideas across to the designers, most of whom unit. It may be a hospital, but the atmosphere in the were male; but, when they understood what we wanted mother-baby unit is like that of a small boutique hotel and why, they were very enthusiastic.” with private rooms, a comfortable couch that opens The men even admitted they liked the color selected out to a bed for fathers or other family members, room for the walls—peach instead of hospital green or linen service and an open kitchen. white. Said one visitor: “This is like the Taj Mahal.” The previous unit, built in exactly the same space, St. Joseph’s new postpartum unit has attracted had 26 beds in 14 rooms so only two rooms were enough attention within the hospital that staff from private. Today, each of the 20 rooms in the area is other floors have been stopping by to see in person what private. Walk into the room and there’s a genuine they’ve heard so much about through the grapevine. feeling of tranquility not likely to be experienced in Perhaps the area is attracting so much attention most double rooms in which the mothers and babies because the mothers who would be staying there and are not necessarily on the same schedules. “I really felt the nurses and doctors who would be working there loved and cared for,” says one mother who had deliv- essentially designed it. During the design phase, nurses ered in both the former and the new unit. contributed their ideas to architects about what would The rooms are, to a degree, customizable, as well. make the mother-baby unit a more welcoming place Beds and cribs can be arranged according to the moth- for mothers and their new infants and a better place in er’s wishes. And each room also has its own 32-inch which to work for nurses and doctors. digital television and DVD player if mom craves some diversion. There is a hanging wardrobe closet, and pri- vate bathrooms with showers that are larger than most. Instead of rolling a computer into each room on a St. Joseph’s Is a ‘Baby-Friendly’ Hospital cart, each room now has its own laptop to keep patient t. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center is designated a “Baby-Friendly” hospi- records up to date, and a wireless scanner system that Stal by the World Health Organization through its Baby-Friendly Hospital reads barcodes on the mother’s and infant’s wristbands Initiative. It is the only Central New York hospital to receive this designation to make sure the right medicines are being adminis- and one of only 105 in the country. New York state has just three other hos- tered to the right patient at the right time. pitals with the distinction. The rooms are designed for mothers and their The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global program sponsored families, but a great deal of thought was given to work by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s areas, as well. Instead of one central nursing station far Fund (UNICEF) to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers away from some rooms, the mother-baby unit now has that offer an optimal level of care for lactation. The BFHI assists hospitals in smaller pods located near the rooms. Each pod has its giving breastfeeding mothers the information, confidence and skills needed to own printer, fax machine and copier. Physicians have successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies and gives special their own dictation rooms for privacy. Old-fashioned recognition to hospitals that have done so. “white boards” that listed the names of each patient According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, research have become electronic—again for privacy. Thought shows that what happens in the hospital or birth center plays a crucial role was even given to electrical outlets. Instead of being in establishing breastfeeding and helping mothers to continue breastfeeding on the floor and requiring a lot of unnecessary back after leaving the birth facility. bending, they now are located at waist level. Through the BFHI, St. Joseph’s promotes, protects and supports breast- And, there is room service. Patients can order their feeding, guided by the 10 steps outlined by UNICEF/WHO. These steps include own meals from a menu that offers an assortment of everything from training both at the hospital and at home, to specific prac- food anytime between the hours of 6:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. tices to help encourage mothers who want to breastfeed their infants. A full There also is a 24-hour kitchen on the floor stocked with list of the steps may be found at www.babyfriendlyusa.org. sandwiches, snacks and beverages for patients. St. Joseph’s lactation (breastfeeding) consultants visit with mothers while Richard Waldman, MD, chair of St. Joseph’s they are in the hospital, and are available to assist moms whenever needed. obstetrics and gynecology department, said the staff Each breastfeeding mom receives a phone call after she goes home and is was tight-fisted when it came to controlling costs. also encouraged to feel free to call anytime—24 hours a day—if she has “We proved that we could come up with something questions. If additional help is needed, breastfeeding moms may come back different and something better for the patients without to St. Joseph’s breastfeeding center at no charge after leaving the hospital. l spending a lot of money,” Dr. Waldman says. “You really can say it’s been done with love, not money,” echoes Ponto. l

18 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org St. Joseph’s new mother- baby unit features all private patient rooms with individual showers, a pull-out couch for fathers and other family members, 32-inch digital televisions, and medical supplies that are kept out of sight. Mothers may order their own meals anytime between the hours of 6:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., and a kitchen on the unit is stocked 24 hours a day with sandwiches, snacks and beverages. Mother-baby nurse Gladys Cornish, RN, delivers flowers to a mom and her newborn son.

And There’s More…

ith a philosophy that centers on family-centered care, a l St. Joseph’s state-of-the-art intensive care nursery (ICN) for W renovated mother-baby unit is just one of the many ways babies who need special care. Equipped and staffed 24 hours a St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center cares for its new families. day to provide newborn critical care, about 350 newborns from 16 St. Joseph’s also features: counties receive care each year in St. Joseph’s level III, non-regional l Labor/delivery/recovery (LDR) rooms where mothers stay in ICN. The ICN is fully staffed with registered nurses, neonatal nurse one self-sufficient room throughout the entire birth process. practitioners and board-certified neonatologists trained in the care The LDR unit includes a whirlpool tub, two operative delivery rooms of infants born prematurely and/or with special needs. for cesarean births, and a nine-bed triage room for testing during l Many classes to prepare families before the arrival of baby pregnancy and evaluation of labor. A full bathroom with a shower and to provide support after families go home. Classes is shared by each pair of LDRs. After delivery, mother and baby are include: fit and healthy pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor preparation, taken to the nearby mother-baby unit. One nurse cares for both, newborn care, sibling class, and stay in touch for breastfeeding and 24-hour rooming in with baby is encouraged to promote bond- moms who return to work outside the home. ing. Breastfeeding consultants are available seven days a week. For more information about St. Joseph’s family-centered care, visit l Syracuse’s only Birth Place where low-risk mothers deliver www.sjhsyr.org or call 315-448-5515. l in a homelike setting with minimal medical intervention. Mothers and babies typically go home 24 to 36 hours after birth, and they receive a home visit from a Birth Place nurse within 48 hours of discharge. Moms labor and give birth in a queen-size bed in one of three “bedrooms,” where families bond throughout their stay. Kitchen facilities and a lounge are available for families. While in labor, moms may take a warm bath in a whirlpool tub or shower in a private bathroom. Mothers are free to wear their own clothes and eat and drink as they please. Friends and families, including baby’s siblings and grandparents, are welcome. Mom’s support person may spend the night with her and baby, and every room is equipped with a television, VCR and DVD. A room service menu is available from 6:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., and there is a fully stocked kitchen available at other times.

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Your Valve’s in the Right Place ow could anyone say that hearing you need The options are many, both Dr. Marvasti and car- to have the valve in your heart repaired is diac surgeon G. Randall Green, MD, agree. Mechanical good news? To Robert Brewster, a librarian valves are usually used in young patients. The drawback from Scarsdale, NY, it was. to replacement of the patient’s own mitral or aortic HValve replacement started in the 1960s, but it is still valve with a mechanical valve was, and still is, the serious surgery that carries significant risk. The good requirement that patients take anticoagulants—blood news, however, is that cardiac surgeons today have so “thinners”—like warfarin for the rest of their lives to many options at their command that they can provide prevent blood clots. almost “tailor-made” repairs or replacements for a wid- “We’ve tended away from mechanical valves,” ening group of patients. Dr. Green says, “using bioprosthetic valves made from The numbers, at least at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health pig or cow tissue almost exclusively. Repair is better Center, confirm the increasing possibilities of surgery than replacement theoretically because it preserves for cardiac valve disease, according to Mehdi Marvasti, heart function. That said, a mitral valve replacement MD, a St. Joseph’s cardiac surgeon with years of experi- performed in a certain way will also retain optimal heart ence performing both coronary artery bypass surgery function, although it’s more technically challenging. and cardiac valve repairs and replacements. “There was a period of time when our hubris got “The numbers are interesting,” Dr. Marvasti says in the way. We wanted to feel we were capable and in his slow, measured voice. “In the year 2000, we creative enough to repair every valve, but that’s not did 1,081 heart procedures at St. Joseph’s and 665 appropriate for everybody. Sometimes in a 65- or of those—61 percent—were coronary artery bypass 70-year-old patient who has a particular pathology, it grafts. In 2010, we did essentially the same number of might be better, faster and easier—and perhaps even surgeries, but only 50 percent of them were coronary more durable—to just replace the valve.” artery bypass grafts. St. Joseph’s cardiac surgeons also have the ability “Some of that is due to more angioplasty and to perform “minimally invasive” valve replacements, stenting, but what has happened is that we are seeing but, again, it’s an individual matter for each patient. and treating more patients at an advanced age with Dr. Marvasti does both whenever one is called for over significant aortic or mitral valve disease.” the other, but takes a long hard look before proceeding with the minimally invasive technique. It is, he said, a misnomer in that there is no such thing as a minimally invasive heart surgery. Dr. Marvasti thinks the proper term should be “smaller incision surgery.” “Any heart surgery is invasive when you can still have serious complications like death or stroke,” Dr. Marvasti says. “You can still have those complica- tions with minimally invasive techniques, but there are some advantages.” Drs. Marvasti and Green both say that performing the surgery through a smaller incision has less risk of infection, less risk of bleeding, and perhaps a shorter stay in the hospital. A younger patient still in the work- force also may be able to return to work and resume normal activity sooner. “The most important thing that patients and physi- cians have to realize when it comes to heart surgery is to fix the heart the best way you can,” Dr. Marvasti says forcefully. “It has to be the right technique, and you should not hesitate to tell the patient that a minimally invasive approach is not good in her or his situation.” In the case of Robert Brewster, a minimally invasive approach by Dr. Marvasti worked very well. Brewster, who was 40 at the time of his surgery in 2009, lifted weights and was an active runner for years, averaging seven or eight miles three times a week. He Running several times a week and lifting weights, school librarian Robert Brewster didn’t didn’t know he had a valve problem until his primary know he had a leaky mitral valve until his primary care physician detected a murmur and care physician heard a telltale murmur during a routine referred him to a St. Joseph’s cardiologist. Brewster later had surgery to repair the valve physical. before his condition worsened.

20 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org Robert Brewster’s cardiac surgeon, Mehdi Marvasti, MD, (left) speaks will fellow cardiac surgeon Randall Green, MD, in St. Joseph’s main operating room.

Brewster and his physician followed the mitral valve “The TEE helps us make a whole lot of educated anomaly as it worsened over the course of a few years guesses,” Dr. Green says, “about what we’ll find once until Brewster’s physician referred him to a cardiologist we’re inside the heart. We can see in real time where in Syracuse. Following a transesophageal echocardiogram and how the valves close and what the valves’ leaflets or TEE that confirmed the mitral valve disease in look like. It’s more confirmation than anything.” April, Dr. Marvasti repaired Brewster’s mitral valve Even with reams of information beforehand, the in July using minimally invasive surgery. Instead of situation can still change once the surgeon is actually approaching Brewster’s heart through a larger incision looking at the stilled heart and its valves in person. in the center of his chest, Dr. Marvasti used a smaller That’s why Dr. Green and Dr. Marvasti are prepared for incision between two ribs in the right side of his chest anything as the surgery begins. without sawing through any bones. “I never want to get into the position of putting a “I was in some pain after the surgery until they square peg in a round hole,” Dr. Green quips. “I may removed a drain on the second day, but after that I felt have planned on repairing the valve, but if I discover a like a new person.” Brewster says. “The surgery was whole lot of calcium on the mitral valve that I didn’t see on Monday and I went home on Friday. If my doctor during the echo, I may think twice about repairing it. hadn’t been watching my heart and referred me when I may just say, ‘This patient is 70 years old, I’ll just de- he did, the valve would have worsened and might have calcify the area and put in a replacement bioprosthetic changed the shape and structure of my heart. As it is, valve,’ because at the end of the day what the patient I’m back to running and lifting weights.” really wants is a valve that doesn’t leak and that opens As an example of how often minimally invasive and closes properly. They don’t really care whether techniques are employed at St. Joseph’s, of all the heart it was a repair or replacement. They just want to feel surgeries performed in 2010, 127 used minimally better.” invasive techniques and 81 of those were valve repairs Just as treatment for valve disease has changed in or replacements; 46 of them were coronary artery the last 50 years, the technology continues to advance, bypass grafts. Dr. Green says. The U.S. Food and Drug Administra- Regardless of what heart surgeons like Dr. Green tion is currently evaluating a new procedure in which and Dr. Marvasti believe, they’ll find once the surgery a patient’s aortic valve could be replaced during a has begun, they are always prepared for, and capable of, catheter-based operation in which only a tiny incision changing course. Valve replacements typically take two would be required and the heart would not have to be to three hours, but, Dr. Green says, he and Dr. Marvasti stopped, as it is now, to thread the new valve into posi- spend another two or three hours outside the oper- tion. St. Joseph’s, Dr. Green says, is preparing for the ating room before the surgery starts looking at studies new technique by creating a hybrid operating room in and reviewing the patient’s overall condition. The final which both robotic surgery and fluoroscopy (moving check is often a TEE, in which a probe is maneuvered X-rays) could be combined in the same space. to a spot in the patient’s esophagus directly behind the Such foresight, Dr. Green says, is one of the reasons heart. Sending out sound waves, the TEE helps the sur- that St. Joseph’s is one of top cardiac valve replacement geon gauge the size and shape of the heart, blood flow centers in the United States. That’s good news. l patterns and, most importantly, the condition of the heart’s four valves.

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Our Foundation Report

Dear Friend of St. Joseph’s, “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” —Leonard I. Sweet, theologian, author, scholar

s we pass from the end of a successful year and into the promise of a brilliant new one, let me begin by extending a warm welcome to Kathryn Ruscitto as she begins her tenure as president and chief executive officer of ASt. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. Because the past and present influence the future, last December was a month of celebration. As an organization, we applauded Margaret Martin the 36 years of dedication and outstanding leadership provided to St. Joseph’s by Theodore Pasinski, who retired as the hospital’s president and CEO at the end of 2010. While it goes without saying that we will miss Ted immensely, Kathryn’s vision and strategic leadership will continue the path set forth for St. Joseph’s during her predecessor’s time in office. St. Joseph’s will continue to invest in the Central New York community and its resi- dents. Progress will continue on the hospital’s facility expansion and renovation. This project is not only one of the largest green health care construction projects in New York state, but also one that will help revitalize Syracuse’s North Side neighborhood as well as generate 600 long-term construction jobs and 200 permanent health care positions. St. Joseph’s many donors help to build the foundation of that future through their generous contributions. The generosity they extend to the hospital is passed on to the patients we are proud to care for through St. Joseph’s many programs and services. In 2010 alone, donors to St. Joseph’s capital campaign—Generations of Compassion F 973 James St., Suite 250 Healing F Innovation—contributed more than $3 million toward the hospital’s facility expan- Syracuse, NY 13203 sion, including a recent $272,500 gift from M&T Bank to name the hospital’s new North Phone: 315-703-2137 Garden. As of March 2011, the Generations Capital Campaign has raised more than Fax: 315-703-2139 $6.7 million and it currently has another $10 million out in requests for support. Email: [email protected] Moreover, nearly $1.6 million in revenue was raised by St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation in Donate Online: www.sjhsyr.org/foundation 2010 through its various fund-raising programs, including a $50,000 award from St. Agatha’s Foundation to increase access to St. Joseph’s breast cancer services. Contributing to the fund- raising successes of 2010 were the annual gala and golf tournament which, thanks to the community’s generosity, netted nearly $530,000 in revenue with proceeds from both events supporting St. Joseph’s nationally recognized programs and services. Because their gifts help to make quality care possible, we would like to recognize our 2010 donors on pages 27 through 37 in this issue of the Caring Connection. It is my honor to extend my own most sincere thanks to these individuals, foundations and corporations as we move into a bright future filled with optimism for the residents of our community. As poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning so aptly stated, let us “light tomorrow with today!”

Sincerely,

Margaret Martin Vice President

22 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org Helping to fund the largest expansion in St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center’s history is the Generations of Compassion F Healing F Innovation Capital Campaign. At an estimated cost of $220 million, the project includes a new emergency services building with new, larger medical and psychiatric emergency departments as well as an observation/chest pain unit, data center and kitchen. The second stage will include a new surgical suite, a patient tower with private rooms and new intensive care units, Because access to natural light has been shown to have a positive influence on the body’s physiological comfort as well as a greenway corridor to North Side businesses. There are many and psychological well-being, leading to shorter hospi- opportunities for giving at any level, and all gifts are truly appreciated. tal stays for patients and greater productivity for staff, St. Joseph’s new emergency department has been This issue of Caring Connection profiles recent gifts from a few of our designed with skylights. The skylights will let in natural light, brightening the healing atmosphere and creating generous contributors. For more information about how you can join a sense of spaciousness for patients, families and staff. St. Joseph’s in enriching health care in our community, please visit www.generationscampaign.org.

M&T Bank Commits $272,500 to Generations Campaign

or M&T Bank Regional President Allen Garden area of St. Joseph’s facility expansion—a Naples, the bank’s donation of more $272,500 gift. It was not a decision made lightly; than a quarter of a million dollars in sup- all of M&T’s contributions greater than $20,000 port of St. Joseph’s facility master plan must go to M&T Chairman and CEO Robert wasF equal parts charitable intent and rigorous Wilmers and President Mark Czarnecki for final business decision. approval. “St. Joseph’s is an outstanding hospital that The size of M&T’s donation is a deeply provides tremendous services, so certainly a char- appreciated affirmation of St. Joseph’s own stra- itable commitment is appropriate,” Naples says. tegic direction. “The value St. Joseph’s delivers in “At M&T, however, we evaluate these decisions health care is first rate,” Naples says. “In addition, based on outcomes: we carefully assess the value decision-making from the hospital’s management of the organization to the larger community.” is very systematic and well-structured, which pre- In that regard, M&T does a lot of detailed serves the organization’s financial integrity. study and a lot of charitable giving. One of the “Beyond that, St. Joseph’s reinvests in the country’s 20th largest banks, it donates more than community—what CEO Kathryn Ruscitto and the $15 million a year throughout its 15 regions to leadership team have done to revitalize neighbor- benefit 2,900 not-for-profit organizations. M&T M&T has donated $272,500 to name hood housing and commercial development is employees log 333,000 hours of volunteer work the North Garden area of St. Joseph’s spectacular.” annually, and the company requires its officers to Hospital Health Center’s expansion. Naples has significant insights into the hospi- be involved on community boards and with other Allen Naples is M&T regional presi- tal’s management and direction, as M&T and charitable endeavors. dent, Central New York. St. Joseph’s have enjoyed a successful business “Fundamentally, we believe if our communi- relationship stretching back more than 50 years ties are not strong and vital, our business and our to the days of one of M&T’s earlier acquisitions, employees will not be strong and vital,” Naples says. “In Central Merchants Bank, which was founded in 1850 in Syracuse, a city New York alone, we donate more than $1 million annually and incorporated just two years prior. support about 200 different organizations.” A 39-year veteran of the banking industry, the last six with To enable those decisions, Naples chairs the bank’s local com- M&T, Naples is enthusiastic about his organization’s decision to munity relations committee, coordinating closely with Alissa Viti, support St. Joseph’s Generations Campaign. “We have studied and vice president of charitable and community relations. The bank’s believe in the mission of the hospital and the value it delivers to the and the committee’s strategic shift from organizational sponsorships community,” he notes. “What the hospital is doing matches up with to community outcomes drove the decision to name the North our own philosophy.” l

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IBEW/NECA Members Give Back to the Community s construction proceeds on Phase II of “This project is good for this community, and our St. Joseph’s facility master plan, members members support it,” says Don Morgan, business manager of IBEW (International Brotherhood of for IBEW Local 43. “We really believe in giving back.” Electrical Workers) Local 43 and the NECA Marilyn Oppedisano, executive manager for NECA’s A(National Electrical Contractors Association) Finger Finger Lakes Chapter, reinforces that commitment. Lakes Chapter are devoting their skills and hard work “Together, IBEW/NECA does so much in the commu- to make sure the largest construction project in the nity to improve the quality of life where our members hospital’s history is of the highest quality. And they’re live and work,” she says. “We have a long history of devoting something above and beyond that—$75,000 charitable support, and it keeps growing.” to the Generations Campaign in support of the project. IBEW, established 114 years ago, represents As a result, St. Joseph’s new elevator lobby will be approximately 1,200 electrical workers locally, and named in appreciation of IBEW/NECA. NECA, founded 110 years ago, represents more than 50 contracting firms in the area. Working together, they sponsor the Central New York Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee to provide skills training in energy efficient technologies, such as solar photovoltaic systems and other green innovations, which are intrinsic to St. Joseph’s plans. Each has a long relationship with the hospital, and bases its charitable donations on hours worked. “Our revenues are based on hours worked, and our monies to charities derive from that,” Morgan says. “The more we’re able to put our members to work, the more we are enabled to support worthy charitable initiatives, and we believe strongly in what St. Joseph’s is doing throughout Central New York.” St. Joseph’s is privileged to join a number of other health and human service organizations that benefit from IBEW/NECA’s community focus, including their Red Hat Sponsorship of the American Heart Association, the United Way of Central New York, the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Hospice of Central New York, News- papers in Education and Habitat for Humanity. When visitors to St. Joseph’s walk through the Inside the construction site at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center new lobby to ride in the elevators, they can feel good are (from left to right) IBEW/NECA employees Todd Naramore, knowing that IBEW/NECA made them work…in more Mike Freund, John Tacklyn, Marilyn Oppedisano, Jacob Kelly ways than one. l (behind Oppedisano), Robert Prince, Don Morgan, Jeremy Hildreth and Paul Skeval.

24 caring Connection l St. Joseph’s hospital Health Center l Spring 2011 l www.sjhsyr.org Brown & Brown Empire State Names North Café Landing n organization founded on the brokerage responsible for the Eastern Syracuse’s North Side many half of Upstate New York in 2005. He and decades ago thrives there still, Kevin Delaney, vice president of Brown & with a family atmosphere and Brown Empire State’s commercial lines, are Aa long legacy of community service. This the organization’s primary consultants to description applies not only to St. Joseph’s St. Joseph’s. —it also fits Brown & Brown Empire State, Recently, Brown & Brown Empire State a long-time business partner and supporter hosted a “Spotlight on Success” luncheon for of the hospital. the hospital’s executive team, expressing ap- Indeed, while the insurance broker and preciation for the relationship, and unveiling the hospital obviously provide different a lobby showcase featuring St. Joseph’s facility services, their histories have remarkable master plan and key service lines. “It’s truly similarities and the relationship between been a privilege to work with St. Joseph’s,” them has been mutually supportive for Dereszynski says. “We have learned from nearly 45 years. Recently, Brown & Brown their leadership, and certainly wish to sup- Empire State added to this shared history port all the good they do in our community.” with a $50,000 gift to the Generations As both Brown & Brown Empire State Capital Campaign to name the North Café and St. Joseph’s continue their successful Landing in the hospital’s expansion. growth into a new century, Schunck recalls Brown & Brown Empire State President an unusual encounter in 1966 that eventu- Nick Dereszynski says that the company’s ally entwined their histories. “My phone unique position is that of a long-term, com- rang on a Monday, and it was the head of munity-based business that is successfully the hospital, Sister Patricia Ann Mulherin,” Brown & Brown Empire State has made a $50,000 transitioning to a business with an ever- he says. “She asked—well, really, she told— gift to name the North Café Landing, part of expanding reach. Based in Daytona Beach, me to be at her office at 2:00 the next after- St. Joseph’s expansion. Nick Dereszynski is Florida, Brown & Brown (NYSE Symbol: noon. So I met her there, and found her sit- president of Brown & Brown Empire State. BRO) is a billion-dollar organization, with ting behind a small kneehole desk that was operations in 38 states, that looks, acts and bare except for a large stack of insurance feels like a hometown business. Seeking policies and a calculator on it. qualified and successful insurance broker- “She said, ‘I want you to examine all ages across the country, Brown & Brown our coverage and figure out how we can has grown rapidly both organically and do it better through your firm,’ which I through acquisition. did, and the relationship has strengthened In Central New York, they have written and grown ever since,” Schunck continues. a model success story through the 2001 “She had done her homework about our acquisition of the Young Agency, founded firm and moved decisively—she was a very in 1905 in a building on North Salina Street gentle lady, but she knew her business and by George Young. His grandson George she let you know she knew her business. Schunck, now senior vice president for “I admired her so much, as I do her suc- Brown & Brown Empire State, made the cessors, Jim Abbott, Bill Watt, Ted Pasinski strategic decision with his five shareholders and Kathryn Ruscitto; working with them has to become part of Brown & Brown to form meant a lot to me and my own development.” the current organization, which combines From an out-of-the-blue phone call to the hometown knowledge and experience a local insurance broker more than four of the Young Agency with the greater decades ago to a much more complex stra- resources and decentralized operating tegic partnership in the 21st century, Brown philosophy of Brown & Brown. & Brown Empire State and St. Joseph’s “Family, tradition and service to the Hospital Health Center continue to share community are the values that built this an ethic of commitment to the community. company,” says Dereszynski. “The future Thanks to Brown & Brown’s generous gift is about maintaining those core values to the Generations Campaign, future genera- while providing additional benefit to our tions of patients will experience the benefits customers.” An 18-year veteran of Brown of that shared commitment. l & Brown, Dereszynski became president of

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Sisters of St. Francis Honor Ted Pasinski Through Naming Gift mong the tributes and honors presented to former St. Joseph’s President and Chief Executive Officer Ted Pasinski upon his retirement was a particularly meaningful Agift: a room. The Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Com- munities, founders and sponsors of the hospital, have made a $25,000 naming gift to the Generations Capital Campaign, establishing the Theodore M. Pasinski Family Consultation Room to be built in the new section of the hospital. According to Sister Patricia Burkard, general minister, the room will serve as a permanent reminder of Ted’s exemplary service in carrying out the mission of the Sisters of St. Francis and St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. “We thought it fitting that this naming gift would be for a family consultation room,” Sister Patricia says. “Ted is such a caring family man, and has been so devoted to the Sisters’ mission of helping families in times of sickness and need.” The room will be used for private meetings among hospital staff and patients’ families, providing an extra measure of welcome and comfort. Sister Patricia became head of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities in 2004 and was chair of Sister Patricia Burkard presents St. Joseph’s former President Ted the hospital’s Board of Trustees in 2009 and part of 2010. Pasinski with a plaque that will be displayed in the room named She noted that Ted helped her get acclimated to her new in his honor. It includes the words of the Greek philosopher duties, showing great interest in the vision and direction Pericles: “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” of the Franciscan Community. “It was a mutually helpful experience,” she says. “I learned about the hospital’s operations, while Ted kept the Order informed on a changing health care environment.” Ted, she empha- hospital strategy and direction.” sizes, didn’t shrink from considerable challenges, and Sister Patricia said that Ted helped the religious understood deeply how the whole organization must community as the hospital’s sponsors recognize the major continue to serve in the future. shifts that were to come in health care, and led them to “Ted is a genuinely good person—what you see necessary changes so the Order and hospital would not, is what you get,” Sister Patricia observes. “His non- as she put it, “miss the future.” His vision was enabled by anxious presence and unswerving loyalty to duty have a constancy of purpose and fidelity to the mission of the enabled St. Joseph’s to address today’s challenges and Sisters and St. Joseph’s. position the organization for the years ahead.” Future “Ted is very attuned to the mission, and he’s genial visitors to the room named for him will appreciate and compassionate, but he also has a great sense of the services made possible by Ted Pasinski’s, and the the business we’re in,” Sister Patricia says. “He and the Sisters’, leadership. l board took on the big challenges of modernization in

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In 2010, donors to St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Foundation Dr. Robert Constantine $500–$999 Mr. W. Carroll Coyne Dr. Anwar S. Ahmad contributed generously to help physicians and nurses make a Dr. DeAnn Cummings Dr. Samuel S. Badalian Dr. John Dale Ms. Rebecca Bender difference in our community. Listed are cash donations received Dalpos Architects & Integrators Dr. and Mrs. Frank Bersani Dewald Roofing Co., Inc. between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2010. We are truly grateful for your Mr. George Betts Dr. and Mrs. Edward T. Downing Ms. Mary Bishop Ms. Catherine Dukat-Wilson support of St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. Ms. Elisabeth M. Bolduc EBS-RMSCO, Inc. Joseph R. Bonacci D.D.S., PC Eclipsys Build.Com, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Ehrich Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burrows Endodontic Associates, P.C. $300,000 and up St. Joseph’s Medical Staff Gastroenterology & Hepatology of Ms. Patricia A. Calpeter Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Falter St. Joseph’s Pathology, P.C. Central New York, P.C. Dr. Donald Calzolaio Auxiliary of St. Joseph’s Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fennell Susan G. Komen for the Cure Dr. Pam Horst and Mr. Gary Carlston Health Center, Inc. Dr. Joseph F. Finelli Sysco Syracuse, LLC Dr. Tom Dennison Mr. Peter F. Carranti Josephine Eagan Trust – Bequest Fisher & Paykel Healthcare United Way of Central New York Ikon Office Solutions, Inc. Catholic Charities of Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Friedman Upstate Surgical Group, P.C. Dr. and Mrs. Randy J. Kalish Onondaga County Drs. Carolyn and Paul Frymoyer $40,000–$299,000 Young & Franklin Inc. Kopp Billing Agency Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Corp Mr. Douglas Fye Anesthesia Group, P.C. Le Moyne College – Arts & Sciences Mr. Paul Costello Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Garner CNY Infusion Services, LLC Loretto Curbside, Inc. $5,000–$7,999 GE Foundation Mr. Timothy Conan Magnetic Diagnostic Resources Mr. and Mrs. Keith R. Cuttler Alesco Advisors LLC Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. 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St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Foundation presents: Green & Silver Gala: An Eco-Chic Evening Friday, June 3, 2011 Turning Stone Resort & Casino St. Joseph’s Foundation’s annual Gala Dinner Dance will celebrate the first stage of one of the largest “green” building projects in Upstate New York—St. Joseph’s emergency services building—as well as the 20th (Green) anniversary of successful galas held to support the hospi- tal’s many programs and services. Sponsored by Central New York Infusion Services, 19th Annual Golf Classic 2011 LLC, the eco-chic evening will take place in hues from emerald green to pearl gray, featuring sumptuous dining Friday, Sept. 9, 2011 and dancing to live music by Atlas. Cocktails will begin Turning Stone Resort & Casino at 6:45 p.m. in the event center atrium, with dinner and Try your swing on one of three unique courses at dancing following at 8 p.m. in the main ballroom. Black St. Joseph’s 19th Annual Golf Classic, the region’s tie is optional. Overnight accommodations are available at largest and most anticipated charity golf event. a discounted rate by calling 1-800-771-7711. Choose from three outstanding courses: Shenendoah, The Gala will feature Kaluhyat and the famed Atunyote, site of Turning Stone’s Champagne “On Ice” during PGA Tournament. (Please note that an additional $125 which one lucky guest will take per person premium will be charged for the Atunyote home a pair of 1-carat total PGA course, where players will play their own ball.) weight diamond stud earrings. Afternoon tee times only are available, and format will Raffle prizes for the evening be announced during the event registration period. include: a Ford Mustang Coupe Sponsored by Franciscan Companies, the event summer rental donated by includes lunch, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, golfer gifts and AmeriCar, a Turning Stone an awards ceremony. Overnight accommodations are Resort Putt & Pamper Package, available at a discounted rate by calling 1-800-771-7711. a custom closet makeover from Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are avail- California Closets, and a private dinner party package for able. Sponsorship levels begin at $500, and program ads 10 people from Karen’s Catering/Julie’s Place. start at just $100. Co-chairs of this year’s Gala are Susan Merola- McConn, MD, Mark McConn, MD, Alan Simons, MD, and Deborah Simons. For more information about Tickets are $200 per person or $300 per patron. either the Green & Silver Gala A patron table of 10 is $3,000. Gala sponsorship and or the Golf Classic, visit advertising opportunities are available. Sponsorship levels www.sjhsyr.org/foundation, begin at $300, and program ads start at just $100. call 315-703-2128 or email [email protected].

In 2011, net proceeds from St. Joseph’s Gala Dinner Dance and Golf Tournament will benefit St. Joseph’s comprehensive (including mission- based) services, which provide compassionate care and state-of-the-art technology to meet the health care needs of our community.

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t. Joseph’s College of Nursing at “Latest statistics show that by 2025, SSt. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center our country could experience a shortage of has received a $1 million gift from the 260,000 registered nurses,” says Marianne estate of alumna Josephine Mastrangelo Markowitz, dean of the college. “This gen- Eagan. The unrestricted gift represents the erous gift enables St. Joseph’s College of largest bequest from Eagan’s estate and Nursing to build upon its already competi- the largest donation ever received by the tive and innovative nursing programs as we college of nursing. prepare students for the future.” Eagan was born in Rome, NY, and Appreciation for the education graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital provided by the college stretches across Josephine Mastrangelo School of Nursing in 1954. She then generations of students who have gone on Eagan, St. Joseph’s received her bachelor of arts degree from to serve the nursing profession all over the College of Nursing class Boston College and practiced nursing in world. That appreciation is exemplified by of ’54, left $1 million to California before marrying and moving to this momentous gift from a student who her alma mater. Detroit, where she lived for the remainder graduated from St. Joseph’s more than of her life. half a century ago. l

Recent Grant Awards We thank the following foundations and agencies for their support of St. Joseph’s mission and services:

Bank of America Charitable Foundation has patient’s electronic medical record at the bedside as awarded $35,000 toward the Green Construction well as enter the patient’s vital signs into the record Pre-Apprenticeship Job Experience—a transitional job and dispense patient-specific medication. experience for graduates of the North Side “Green Train” Supporting some of the most frail infants in our commu- program, a hands-on job training program developed nity, the Fidelis Care Community Grant Fund awarded by the Northside Urban Partnership and CenterState St. Joseph’s intensive care nursery (ICN) a grant of CEO. This grant will enable participants in the program $10,106 for two nutritional warmers and supplies. to work on St. Joseph’s expansion—including green com- Commonly recognized as the standard of care for nutri- ponents of the project such as carpentry and the green tional warming in ICNs, this equipment will be used for roof—gaining valuable work experience with a local con- heating baby feedings to body temperature, which is tractor. This pilot program is being viewed as a model for optimal for helping these tiny bodies maintain an ideal replication in other Syracuse city neighborhoods. body temperature range. An award of $25,000 from KeyBank Foundation will The Auer Family Foundation has awarded $3,800 to help provide a simulation mannequin for the clinical purchase audiovisual equipment for the classrooms and learning lab at St. Joseph’s College of Nursing. High- clinical learning lab at St. Joseph’s College of Nursing. This fidelity simulation provides an experiential learning equipment will enhance educational opportunities at the opportunity in which nursing students can apply their college as well as support clinical simulation technology. skills and decision-making abilities without risk to human beings. This “dress rehearsal” with a high-tech “patient” Target Stores awarded $2,000 for books for the children’s mannequin allows students to hone skills they will need reading program at St. Joseph’s Maternal Child Health when faced with real patients in critical situations. Center pediatric office. St. Joseph’s participates in the national Reach Out and Read program, providing books An award of $17,500 from the Flora Bernice Smith for youngsters to take home with them. Reach Out and Foundation will provide bedside mobile workstations Read provides ongoing support to the children’s reading (BMWs) for the clinical observation unit/chest pain center, program at St. Joseph’s, contributing $1,636 in books to be located in the new emergency services building. during 2010. These computers-on-wheels allow nurses to access a

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