HosPAC Monthly News: November 2015

2015 HosPAC Fundraising Campaign Update

November has been a busy month for HosPAC! Though HosPAC has reached 77% of its overall goal having raised $312,055 YTD from our member systems, we can still raise funds. We are proud that we have had over 500+ individual donors! Your PAC contributions go a long way in helping to support the advocacy efforts that mean so much to you and your hospitals and health systems. Thank you!

Congratulations to our systems who have reached, exceeded or are near their goals: Augusta Health, Bon Secours Virgina, Carilion Clinic, Centra, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, HealthSouth, Inova Health System, LifePoint Inc., Mary Washington Healthcare, Mountain States Health Alliance, Riverside, Virginia Hospital Center, Valley Health, and Wellmont Health System .

HosPAC Annual Meeting: Golf and HosPAC Appreciation Luncheon The golf tournament and annual HosPAC Appreciation Luncheon were a great success! Spectacular weather made for a great day outdoors. The Aramark/Sentara Team was the tournament winner: Dave Bernd, Mike Gentry, Gail King and Tony Ware. Congratulations on winning the HosPAC Trophy sponsored by The Keith Corporation!

Andy Lawler & Alan Jenkins: Trophy Sponsor Jim Dunn-HosPAC Board Chair: Presenting trophy to Great day on the Old Course The Keith Corporation Mike Gentry, Sentara & Tony Ware, Aramark Not to be outdone, Thursday’s HosPAC Appreciation Luncheon had a great turnout with The Honorable Tom Davis as the keynote speaker with a presentation on political demography and American elections.

HosPAC annually acknowledges those systems that go above and beyond for the HosPAC campaign. The Skip Lamb Award is presented to the hospital or health system that most exemplifies a strong commitment to HosPAC. This year’s Skip Lamb Award was presented to Centra Health. Congratulations! Next, the Award of Excellence, which is given to HosPAC Board or VHHA Board members who set the strongest example each year, was also presented at the HosPAC Appreciation Luncheon. This year, there were four recipients for the 2015 Award of Excellence: E.W Tibbs-Centra, Kathryn M. Pumphrey- Centra, Mark H. Merrill-Valley Health, and N. Travis Clark-Valley Health. Fundraising campaigns are impossible without leadership, and this year we have been fortunate enough to have four members demonstrate exemplary leadership! Congratulations and thank you!

E. W. Tibbs, Centra Kathryn Pumphrey & E.W. Tibbs, Centra Mark Merrill & Travis Clark, Valley Health Receives the Skip Lamb Award Receive Award of Excellence Receive Award of Excellence

Earlier this year, a panel of HosPAC representatives identified four legislators have gone above and beyond for our industry. These legislators have been committed leaders in the Virginia General Assembly in support of the community-minded mission of VHHA and its members to promoting public health. For the first time ever, HosPAC will present the 2015 Healthcare Hero Award. Recipients of this award will be: Senator , Senator Richard “Dick” Saslaw, Delegate Terry Kilgore, and Delegate David Toscano. We look forward to thanking these legislators for their efforts and presenting the Healthcare Hero Award in their districts in the weeks to come.

2015 HEALTHCARE HERO AWARD RECIPIENTS

The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable Emmett W. Hanger Richard L. Saslaw Terry G. Kilgore David J. Toscano

Thank you to our all of our HosPAC sponsors: Aramark, Whiting-Turner, The Keith Corporation, HGA Architects, HKS Architects, MED3000 of the , NorthStar Anesthesia, VHHA Services, and Williams Mullen. Your support makes a difference!

HosPAC Political Update: 2015 Virginia General Election Recap Virginia held its off-off-off year legislative elections on November 3. After months of intense campaign politics, the overall numeric results were nearly identical to what they had been prior to the election. Republicans retained their narrow majority in the Senate, winning the same number of seats (21) they had entering Tuesday. Likewise, Democrats ended the campaign with control of the same 19 seats party representatives presently occupy. No Senate incumbent seeking re-election this year lost their seat and no seat held by one party was captured by the other.

Republicans also maintained a firm grip on power in the House of Delegates. Democrats made a net gain of one seat, reducing the GOP majority in the 100-member House from 67 to 66 seats. Both chambers will have some new faces due to incumbent retirements and the outcome of a few nomination contests back in June. Significant focus in these elections centered on the Virginia Senate because control of that chamber was at stake.

As a result, political parties, donors, and outside groups poured substantial sums of money (it is estimated the total eclipsed $43 million) into various Senate contests. While both sides invested significantly to influence the outcome, not every race was contested. According to the Virginia Public Access Project, 17 of 40 Senate seats were uncontested, and 62 of 100 House seats were uncontested. HosPAC made contributions this election cycle, providing support to several victorious candidates.

In Virginia Senate races, HosPAC gave to the following winning candidates:

• Sen. Emmett Hanger (24th District). Hanger, an Augusta County Republican, has strongly supported finding market-based solutions to coverage issues, helped him return to the Virginia Senate after surviving feisty primary challenges. • Sen. Frank Wagner (7th District, R-Virginia Beach). • Sen. John Edwards (21st District, D-Roanoke). • Sen.-Elect (10th District, R-Richmond). • Sen.-Elect Jeremy McPike (29th District, D-Prince William County). • Sen. (6th District, D-Accomack County). • Sen.-Elect (12th District, R-Henrico County). • Sen.-Elect Bill DeSteph (8th District, R-Virginia Beach). • Sen.-Elect (11th District, R-Chesterfield County). • Sen.-Elect (19th District, R-Roanoke County). • Sen.-Elect (36th District, D-Fairfax County).

In Virginia House of Delegates races, HosPAC gave to the following winning candidates:

• House Speaker Bill Howell (28th District, R-Stafford County). • Del.-Elect Jason Miyares (82nd District, R-Virginia Beach). • Del-Elect Mark Dudenhefer (2nd District, R-Stafford County). • Del.-Elect Mark Levine (45th District, D-Fairfax County). • Del.-Elect (86th District, D-Fairfax County). • Del.-Elect John Bell (87th District, D-Loudoun County).

Here’s some additional information about some key election outcomes. In the Senate, there are five new Republicans and two new Democrats. A headliner of the new Senate Republican class is Glen Sturtevant, a Richmond School Board member who won a Chesterfield County-centric district contest to replace retiring Sen. John Watkins, a Republican who advocated for the Marketplace Virginia plan to enhance health insurance coverage in Virginia. Sturtevant’s victory over Democrat Dan Gecker in a seat Democrats targeted as a potential steal scuttled the party’s hope of regaining control of the divided Senate. In the end, status quo won the day.

Other Senate Republican newcomers include Dr. Siobhan Stolle Dunnavant (the sister of Virginia Beach Republican Del. Chris Stolle – he is also a physician), who replaces retiring GOP Sen. Walter Stosch, another Marketplace Virginia champion, in a Henrico County-based district); Amanda Chase replaces departing GOP Sen. Steve Martin in a Chesterfield area seat; Del. Bill DeSteph handily won his bid to succeed departing retiring Sen. Jeff McWaters (R) in a Virginia Beach area district; and former Legislative Aide David Suetterlein succeeds his boss, Sen. Ralph Smith, in district near Roanoke. Among Democrats, Del. Scott Surovell of Fairfax County matriculated from the House to the Senate by succeeding retiring Democratic Sen. Linda “Toddy” Puller; and Jeremy McPike outlasted Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish, the Republican nominee, in a multi-million dollar race to replace long-serving Sen. Chuck Colgan (D) as the representative of a Prince William County-based district.

Both Republican and Democrat incumbents survived in several contested races. Among them:

• Incumbent Republican Sen. Dick Black fended off a challenge from Dr. Jill McCabe, the Democratic nominee, in a Loudoun County-based district. • Incumbent Republican Sen. Frank Wagner defeated Democratic challenger Gary McCollum after a bitter clash over representation of a Virginia Beach-centric district. • Incumbent Democratic Sen. John Edwards bested Republican nominee Nancy Dye, a retired surgeon, as well as a Democrat-turned-independent challenger, to hold onto a Roanoke-based seat. • Incumbent Democratic Sen. Lynwood Lewis won his first full-term in the Virginia Senate (he previously won a special election to fill an unexpired term) by defeating Republican nominee Richard Ottinger in a district that stretches from Norfolk to the Eastern Shore.

The new members-elect in the House of Delegates include seven Democrats and four Republicans. Democratic newcomers include Lashrecse Aird (Petersburg), Steve Heretick (Portsmouth), Paul Krizek (Fairfax County), Mark Levine (Fairfax County), and Marcia S. “Cia” Price (Newport News). Republican newcomers include Chris Collins (Winchester area), Nicholas “Nick” Freitas (Culpeper County), and Jason Miyares (Virginia Beach). The GOP claimed one House seat currently held by Democrats, while Democrats won two swing seats being vacated by Republicans. In each of those cases, the incumbent did not seek re-election to that seat this year. Both parties retained other open seats for which the party incumbent was not the nominee. Some of the key, contested races yielded these results:

• Republican Mark Dudenhefer is a past delegate returning to the legislature in a Prince William County seat that has been held by Democratic Del. Michael Futrell, who pursued an unsuccessful Senate bid earlier this year rather than seek re-election to the House of Delegates. • Democrat Jennifer Boysko defeated Republican nominee Danny Vargas in a contest to replace retiring Republican Del. Tom Rust in a Fairfax County area district. • Democrat John Bell prevailed over Republican nominee Chuong Nguyen in a Loudoun County- based seat now held by outgoing GOP Del. David Ramadan. • Incumbent Democratic Del. Kathleen Murphy won a rematch over Republican Craig Parisot – Murphy initially bested Parisot in a January 2015 special election to claim the seat – to represent a Fairfax County-based district. • Incumbent Democratic Del. prevailed over well-funded Republican nominee Lara Overy in a district that includes portions of Newport News and Williamsburg. • In a rematch from two years ago, incumbent Republican Del. Ron Villanueva defeated Democratic nominee Susan Hippen in a Virginia Beach-centric district. • On the Eastern Shore, Republican Del. Rob Bloxom won a full-term in the House of Delegates by defeating Democratic nominee Willie Randall, whom Bloxom previously defeated in a February 2014 special election for the seat.

Thank you again, for all of your efforts and for your support of HosPAC. Without leaders like you, VHHA’s advocacy efforts would have little merit

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