THE MAGAZINE OF COTTAGE HEALTH 2016 annual report issue SPRING 2017 Corby’s Story: iMRI technology opens new treatment options Moments Live On: Celebrating 125 Years Gratitude and thanks to our donors Cottage THE MAGAZINE OF COTTAGE HEALTH Moments Live On: Celebrating 125 Years 2016 ANNUAL REPORT ISSUE 2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS GRATITUDE AND THANKS TO OUR DONORS P. Steven Ainsley, Chair Gregory F. Faulkner, Vice Chair Dorothy Largay, PhD, Vice Chair Marshall “Chip” Turner Jr., Vice Chair Edward S. Bentley, MD, Secretary Jon Clark Susan Deacon Harry T. McMahon FEATURES Robert E.M. Nourse Ernesto Paredes Gamble Parks Corby’s Story: iMRI Richard S. Ponce, MD technology opens new Anne Rodriguez, MD 4 Mark Scott, MD treatment options Steve Zola CHIEFS OF STAFF Caring for caregivers Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital: 12 Kathleen Pojunas, MD Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital: Family Assistance Gerald Svedlow, MD Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital: Fund: Help when it’s 24 Roger Lane, MD needed most COTTAGE HEALTH President & Chief Executive Officer: Ron Werft Vice President for Advancement: David Dietrich Cottage Health Board of Directors (left to right): Jon Clark; Marshall “Chip” Turner Jr. (Vice Chair); Vice President for Marketing and Population Health: Gamble Parks; Edward S. Bentley, MD (Secretary); P. Steven Ainsley (Chair); Anne Rodriguez, MD; Katy Bazylewicz Dorothy Largay, PhD (Vice Chair); Robert E.M. Nourse; Gregory F. Faulkner (Vice Chair); Mark Scott, MD; Richard S. Ponce, MD; Steve Zola; Harry T. McMahon FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Cottage Health has adopted a financial assistance policy as part of our long history as a not-for-profit organization serving the health care needs of the greater community. All patients, whether seeking emergent or non-emergent care, are able to apply 2 Letter from our CEO 27 Remembering Dr. E. Scott Conner for financial assistance or discounts toward their Recognizing our donors: patient obligation. Visitcottagehealth.org/financial- 6 Moments Live On: 17 Alice Keck Park Society 28 Tiara Ball: An evening to assistance to learn more. Celebrating 125 Years support critical care 18 Cottage Founders Society COTTAGE MAGAZINE 7 Volunteer service at 30 Brain Care Bike Fair 21 Cottage 1888 Society Comments? Letters to the editor, address changes, Cottage Health 32 Remembering Elizabeth Mosher requests to be added or removed from our mailing 22 Santa Barbara Cottage list, or other magazine inquiries can be addressed to: 8 Building on the generosity of 34 SYVCH Health Fair Hospital Foundation Cottage Magazine Mary and Richard Compton 38 Children’s Miracle Network Partners Marketing Department, Cottage Health 31 Goleta Valley Cottage 9 Discovery through giving: PO Box 689, Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Hospital Foundation 40 Choosing nursing: Greg Shinn’s Story Research at Cottage Or emailed to [email protected] 33 Santa Ynez Valley Cottage 10 A new chapter with Hospital Foundation Cottage Health SAGE Medical Library PO Box 689 35 Cottage Rehabilitation 11 Population Health: Serving the Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Hospital Foundation 805-682-7111 community beyond hospital walls 36 Employee giving cottagehealth.org 14 Philanthropy at Cottage JUNE 2017 2016 Cottage Health by the numbers 513 19,525 90,124 12,603 LICENSED BEDS PATIENTS ADMITTED DAYS OF INPATIENT CARE NUMBER OF SURGERIES 1 | 2,571 78,074 116,007 3,120 BABIES DELIVERED EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISITS OUTPATIENT VISITS EMPLOYEES (FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS) 1,007 127,735 682 60 VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEER HOURS MEDICAL STAFF PHYSICIANS IN RESIDENCY PHYSICIANS PROGRAMS COTTAGE HEALTH 2016 ANNUAL REPORT REPORT ANNUAL 2016 HEALTH COTTAGE SELF PAY 1.4% HMO/PPO 2016 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 30.1% Revenue $746,000,000 Expenses (Before Depreciation) 780,000,000 MEDICARE/FEDERAL Operating Margin (34,000,000) 48% 19,525 Net Investment Income 31,000,000 PATIENTS ADMITTED Total: (3,000,000) MEDI-CAL/STATE 20.5% Dear community member, As we look back on 2016, we are particularly grateful 2 | to be a part of this generous community we call home. On December 8, 1891, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital opened its doors to provide the first inpatient services for those needing care in the region. Since then, the doors have never closed. While many things have changed, one thing remains the same today: Cottage continues to be a vital part of the Santa Barbara community, providing state-of-the-art compassionate care to people of all ages and all walks of life. During our 125th anniversary year, we honor all who have contributed to our progress in 2016 and COTTAGE HEALTH 2016 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL 2016 HEALTH COTTAGE throughout the years. Today we look back with admiration and gratitude to the women who founded the hospital and together with their neighbors raised the funds needed to create the hospital. We also take this opportunity to celebrate the succeeding generations of physicians, nurses, caregivers, volunteers, and partners whose contributions of time, talent and expertise have helped grow and sustain the excellence of our community’s health system. You are all part of this legacy. In 2016 Cottage Health marked important clinical, quality, community, and philanthropic milestones. Ron Werft, President & CEO; Steve Ainsley, Board Chair; and medical staff officers Kathleen Pojunas, MD, Roger Lane, MD and Robin Malone, MD Cottage Health launched a new electronic health record system that improves care documentation and enhances safety and communication. It includes MyChart, a secure tool that enables patients to see their test results. HUDDLE UP During our 125th anniversary year, we honor all who have contributed to our progress in FOR THE BEST 2016 and throughout the years. TEAMWORK Our health system’s commitment to quality has Concussion Clinic, the first specialty clinic of its kind in In a hospital, there’s no such thing as a routine resulted in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid the tri-county region, to provide outreach and care to day. There is, however, a routine meeting overall 5-star rating at Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley young athletes at risk for concussion. that helps to ensure safety at Cottage Health. 3 Cottage Hospitals for five consecutive quarters – It’s called a daily safety huddle. Our hospital These and many other vital programs were made | placing the hospitals among the top two percent in the teams gather at the same time every morning nation for patient experience, quality, and safety. Santa possible, in part, through generous philanthropic Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital received high honors as support. Among the many hundreds of meaningful to plan for the unexpected, to discuss potential well, with a 2016 Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence contributions received in 2016, an extraordinary gift areas of elevated safety concern and address Award for its sustained patient experience scores. commitment from Mary and Richard Compton deserves them in the moment. This quick transfer of special acknowledgment. When fully funded, their gift information, a sharing of known or potential Last year Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital marked the will create a $15 million endowment that will accelerate safety-critical issues, can involve anything opening of the new Breast Imaging Center, along with medical innovation and support patient care excellence the new Goleta Medical Building – now home to many at Cottage. To recognize and celebrate their visionary from slippery floors on a rainy day, ensuring physician offices and clinics, including the Grotenhuis generosity, we look forward to dedicating the Compton staff awareness of two patients with the same Pediatric Clinics. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Pavilion when the rebuilding of Santa Barbara Cottage name, identifying special family needs or celebrated the opening of the new SAGE Medical Hospital is completed in 2018. sharing protocols for a unique treatment. The Library – a resource for the continuing education of our meetings take just minutes, but they promote We are aware that nationwide, conversations about caregiving teams, and open to community members effective teamwork and immediate problem who have interest in health care issues. health care reform continue to generate debate, passion, and uncertainty. Thanks to sustained community solving to ensure everyone is focused on REPORT ANNUAL 2016 HEALTH COTTAGE Cottage Health’s Population Health Department leadership and support, we are confident Cottage Health Cottage’s culture of safety. completed a comprehensive regional health needs will continue to thrive and be able to meet and exceed assessment. Combined with a series of listening tours the needs of our patients and families. On behalf of throughout the community, this data has helped everyone at Cottage Health, we thank you for your identify needs and opportunities for new programs partnership and trust. It is an honor and privilege to and partnerships to improve the health of underserved serve this community. populations. Both the needs assessment and the 2016- 2019 Community Benefit Implementation Strategy are posted on the Cottage Health website. Life-changing clinical advances continue as the Cottage Ron Werft Heart and Vascular Center added the WATCHMAN President & CEO, Cottage Health procedure for minimally invasive treatment of atrial fibrillation, and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital opened the region’s only intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) suite for complex neurosurgery. Cottage Children’s Medical Center launched the Cottage Cottage 4 | Health saved COTTAGE HEALTH 2016 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL 2016 HEALTH COTTAGE my life About 10 years ago, doctors found The advanced imaging system provides Corby had a lemon-sized brain tumor and neurosurgeons with the clearest images Corby Fleming has always treated her with surgery and radiation. during brain surgery, helping them Then, five years later, doctors found she remove brain tumors that were previously been a hiker. She loves had another brain tumor—this one was considered inoperable. identified as difficult to treat, so they seeing where a path leads recommended a new procedure using The iMRI technology at the Santa and what new things the intraoperative magnetic resonance Barbara Neuroscience Institute is imaging system known as an iMRI.