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THE FOUNDATION for BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL hank you for making 2018 our best year yet! As a donor to The Behind all of these milestones, there is one common thread that ties them Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, you’re doing more than all together: YOU! Thank you for making it all possible. making a gift—you’re creating a healthier future for all our friends and families. Every gift is truly changing lives by supporting: Last year, many thoughtful gifts were made to the Foundation to honor someone special. We want to honor them, too. Please see our tribute listing Vital research that leads to breakthroughs for better treatment and prevention on page 36 with our deepest gratitude for this heartfelt support. Medical education and nursing scholarships so the best and brightest nurses For so many of our donors, tribute gifts serve as a cherished way to are caring for our patients recognize life’s special moments. To give thanks to a compassionate caregiver…recognize 50 happy years of marriage…congratulate a special Patient services to enhance care in the hospital and at home niece on her sweet 16…thank a hospice nurse for making a grandmother’s last moments comfortable…or celebrate a friend’s successful kidney Outreach programs and screenings to improve the health of our community transplant. These are just some of the countless reasons why donors choose We feel so honored to have welcomed more than 3,300 of you as new to give to the Foundation in hopes of creating a healthier future for our donors to our family in 2018. Whether this is your first time making community and the world. a gift to the Foundation or you’ve been giving loyally for decades, you are making a significant impact. We continue to be inspired by the incredible stories behind this generosity and are so grateful to be a recipient of such thoughtful gestures. Thank Thanks to our donors, in 2018 we experienced another record-breaking you for partnering with us on this mission to enrich lives, save lives and year at the Illumination Gala to raise funds for innovative research at transform patient care. Siteman Cancer Center; offered more scholarship dollars to additional students at Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College; found an Susan Ell Richard H. Miles exciting new way to remember our most historic contributors by featuring Vice President & Executive Director Board Chair them on our donor wall; welcomed our first endowed distinguished chair The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital in an innovative partnership with Mid-America Transplant and Washington University School of Medicine; and so much more. 1 Gratitude for the Past, Hope for the Future A LEGACY STORY leaming panels of blue and white tell the stories of Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s founding families on the donor wall unveiled with the opening of the hospital’s new Parkview Tower. Each name, every family and every organization listed on the donor wall brings meaning to what we do. And each donor makes exceptional care possible with gifts that strengthen The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s mission to enrich lives, save lives and transform patient care. 2 In early 2018, Barnes-Jewish Hospital opened the As patients, families and visitors pass through the doors to the beautiful Parkview Tower, home to the hallway leading to Parkview Tower, they are greeted new Women & Infants Center and Siteman Cancer by familiar names and faces that were prominent Center’s inpatient services. The tower is literally on some of the hospital’s most significant buildings. standing on the foundation of the past; bricks Now, these family names are forever memorialized and concrete from the former Jewish Hospital of on our donor recognition wall. St. Louis were used as a base for the concrete poured for Parkview Tower. “The donor wall is an exceptional portrayal of the philanthropic spirit of St. Louis,” With the opening of Parkview Tower, The Foundation says Tony Russell, great grandson of David for Barnes-Jewish Hospital unveiled a brand-new and Carlyn Wohl, featured on the donor monument to all of the donors who continue to Across from the chapel on the first floor of Parkview Tower, make the hospital a national leader in medicine. a 16-foot wall features 3-dimensional names of donors. wall. “As a growing community, these great families knew it would take a grassroots From the families who established the roots of the For decades to come, the wall will pay tribute effort to build a world class hospital…this Barnes-Jewish legacy institutions, Barnes Hospital to the members of the Foundation’s Cornerstone wall offers a wonderful and moving story and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, more than 100 Lifetime Circle, the visionary patrons who have had years ago, to the donors who keep medical treatments a transformational impact on the hospital. It serves about their lifelong contributions to our moving forward today, and all the many in between, as recognition, remembrance and gratitude for the medical community.” the donor wall honors the most generous spirits in philanthropic spirit alive and well in St. Louis today. our community and beyond. The generosity of our donors, yesterday and today, create positive ripple effects in our community for generations. Donors like you ensure the Foundation is able to fulfill our mission to enrich lives, save lives and transform patient care. Thank you! The donor wall in the hallway leading to Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s Parkview Tower honors historic donors to Barnes Hospital and the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. 3 A Very Special Home SUE’S STORY ue Murphy was heartbroken when her father, John Murphy, passed away, but she found happiness knowing he spent his final hours in comfort and peace at Evelyn’s House. Inspired by the extraordinary care and concern offered by hospice staff, Sue gives back so that others can benefit from this very special home. 4 Age was only a number to John Murphy. In his last year. Sue says it was the first time she had ever late 70s and early 80s, he went on dates with his heard of the hospice home, which opened in June girlfriend, traveled, fished for trout, played golf and 2017 on the campus of Barnes-Jewish West County was a docent at the St. Louis Zoo. John was a people Hospital and provides specialized holistic care in person who seemed to know someone everywhere a comfortable, home-like setting. he went, recalls his daughter, Sue Murphy. Sue will always remember the moment she and her “He was always up for anything,” says Sue. “He was sister first entered Evelyn’s House. a fun dad. We really had a good time. He was my “It felt like such a loving and peaceful place. It was best friend.” a home. It was a family. As soon as we walked in, But then John developed prostate cancer that spread we were part of that family,” Sue says. “They said John Murphy enjoying one of his favorite hobbies: fishing at to his bones. He was living with Sue at the time, but they would take care of my dad and they would Missouri’s Bennett Spring State Park. eventually his illness became too advanced for her to take care of us, and they did.” manage. John then moved to a senior residential facility “It’s such a wonderful place. I had to start sending Her father was immediately given medicine to help and was placed on hospice. However, the institution’s donations because I want others to be able to have him breathe more easily, aides gently cleaned him staff was not trained in palliative treatment, according their loved ones spend their last days at Evelyn’s and a nurse held his hand. The look of pain on her SUE’S STORY to Sue, and his care and comfort were neglected House,” says Sue, who makes a regular monthly father’s face faded and he seemed to relax. and mismanaged. contribution to Evelyn’s House through The Evelyn’s House staff also comforted Sue and her Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She has Because of the situation, a visiting hospice nurse sister and helped them prepare for the next stages. also made a gift to the hospice home in her will. arranged for John to be moved to Evelyn’s House “I have to help, I just have to help. They made us “The way they treated us, I was finally able to feel so loved and special.” stop crying and be comfortable with myself John was 88 when he died last year. Although he about what was happening,” Sue says. had been a resident of Evelyn’s House for less than She remembers asking one of the aides if it was difficult 24 hours, Sue says every one of those moments to work there knowing the patients would pass away. counted thanks to the doctors, nurses and aides at the hospice home. He told Sue, “No, it’s a beautiful place to work. Family members tell us stories about the patients and we feel “People need to die with dignity and I can say like we know them. We’re glad we can be with them.” my dad did.” After her experience at Evelyn’s House, Sue says Sue and her father at Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. she understands the aide’s passion. 5 A New Beginning HUBBY’S STORY hen unexpected kidney failure forced Hubby Jackson into years of painful dialysis, he wanted to give up.