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Contents Nurses and Physicians Letter from the Presidents 3 of the Year 8 Rehabilitation Services 4 Palomar Health by the Numbers 9 Emergency Department 5 Recognizing our Most Forensic Health Services 6 Generous Supporters 10 Nursing 7 Philanthropy Report 13 Donor Profi le 14 Then and Now Palomar Health Foundation Impact Report 3 Medical journeys and “the hospital experience” are frequently used words today. Across our nation, access to healthcare, top physicians and premier hospitals or medical centers are prime conversation starters often discussed between family, friends, colleagues and neighbors. Even social media is fi lled with daily healthcare news and suggestions for healthier living. We are feeling the sea change of fi nding (or keeping!) the best medical providers to keep us healthy, vital and active. When a medical situation affects us or loved ones, we want to be cared for with an emotional connection. Whether it’s a routine visit, emergency, trauma, birth, death or an unexpected diagnosis, we want to see, hear and feel that there is a complete readiness to our needs. Patient First. At Palomar Health, these words guide our daily work. They represent our organizational commitment toward making a profound and important difference at the bedside and beyond. We believe that by enabling our patients to become active participants in their treatment and by learning about each person’s preferences and choices, we are able to deliver excellence. Palomar Health Foundation is a natural partner in this effort. Through the acceptance of philanthropic gifts of all sizes, the funding of innovative programs and services, newer technology and advanced treatment plans can be pursued with rigor. We are touched by the caring compassion shown by all our amazing donors and additionally honored by past patients who have become generous benefactors. As our front line caregivers have made an impact in their lives, they are now ‘paying it forward’ to ensure excellence—a Patient First Experience—is sustained by Palomar Health for days, years and decades to come. Within the pages of this annual Impact Report you will fi nd information about some of our important and historic milestones. We hope you fi nd our ‘Then and Now’ edition informative, inspiring and a poignant reminder of all the lives that have been touched, changed and bettered through more than fi ve decades of Palomar Health's Patient First focus. Together, with you, our generous supporters and hospital family, we are making a remarkable and profound difference every day. With our most sincere thanks, Robert A. Hemker Jean Larsen President and CEO President and Chief Philanthropy Offi cer PALOMAR HEALTH PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION Rehabilitation Services Palomar Health Rehabilitation Services is proud to offer a comprehensive What makes program of diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic services to maximize Palomar Health’s physical and cognitive functioning and return patients to their physical rehabilitation best following illness, injury or surgery. With nationally recognized services unique? programs and a record of success that's unequaled in North San Diego County, we are dedicated to providing the most complete and effective We offer more than rehabilitative services available—from the emergency room to home. one therapy service under one roof, which Paying it Forward: A Patient's Story to Palomar Medical Center where means patients don't have to drive to As the granddaughter of immigrants doctors, nurses, specialists and staff multiple locations. who escaped the Russian revolution in reassured Jacke they would take 1921 and arrived at Ellis Island, by way care of her and her husband’s needs Our comprehensive of Jerusalem, Jacke Goldberg learned despite his grave diagnosis. services include from an early age to value a hard work Their medical journey took them through occupational therapy, ethic. When she met her husband, J.’s initial life-saving care through to speech, swallow, Joel “J.” Goldberg, she realized recovery and then rehabilitation. hand, lymphedema, incontinence, cardiac, she’d met someone who equally Five years ago, Jacke worried day and pregnancy/post- valued the same things and had a night he might not make it. And then partum pain, sexual strong desire for success. there was all the anxiety, apprehension pain and osteoporosis. Both active and in good health, and stress about how much of his body they were taken by surprise when and mind would recover. J. suffered from an overactive Today, he is able to walk with a cane heartbeat, which caused him to lose and drive himself places, living each his balance. He fainted, striking his day thankful for his beautiful and head on the pavement and suffering devoted wife, and the excellent care Outpatient Stats a major cerebral injury. He was taken he received at Palomar Health. for 2015 39,559 visits 4,961 new referrals Then and Now Palomar Health Foundation Impact Report 5 Emergency Department Atrium As we are “getting older, we are going to need more care—not less ” Research has confi rmed what many gift arrangement, the atrium now bears people have intuitively known all along: the name of the two physicians who serene light, visual beauty, green plants provided excellence in medical care. and comfortable surroundings ALL “As we are getting older, we are going contribute to the healing process. to need more care—not less,” Jackie The Emergency Department’s interior said, “and I’ve experienced a lifetime Atrium Garden has been soothing, of medical treatment fears. I wanted nurturing and uplifting to hundreds to give something back to others of individuals on a daily basis since who may have endured those same its opening in 2012. The atrium, apprehensions, which might give them honoring Dr. Keyvan Esmaeili and Dr. a sense of calm.” Robert Stein, was named by generous Palomar Health deeply appreciates philanthropists, J. and Jacke Goldberg. Jacke and J. for their generosity In 2012, the Goldbergs were moved and foresight of wanting to comfort to make a gift to the Palomar Health individuals who arrive at our Foundation in gratitude for the care J. Emergency Department feeling received fi ve years earlier. As part of their anxious and distressed. Forensic Health Services Forensic Health Services offers a safe place where a victim's story is fi rst heard and documented. It’s where kind, highly- trained staff handle the delicate task of interviewing children and adults who are often stunned, traumatized and scared. In 1984, the city of Escondido, Palomar Health’s Forensic Health professor Dr. Mary Spencer, Services has not made a profi t Palomar Health and the since its inception 30 years ago. In Escondido Police department late 2013, budget cuts at Palomar created a forensics program. Health nearly led to its closure. Over the years this program has Thanks to an article written by evolved to encompass three Logan Jenkins for the San Diego critical areas: Union-Tribune, the community rallied and raised the funds to 1 Child Abuse Program This picture of a small boy and a (CAP). The CAP team keep these services available. fearsome dragon was drawn during conducts forensic interviews Today, this program relies a forensic interview. The boy bravely faces down the dragon while the sun with alleged victims of on contributions from generous shines. It has become a well-known sexually molested and donors in our community. Most representation of facing fear from abused children from recently, the Golden Door Spa abuse—and the abuser. birth to 13 years old and and San Diego County donated developmentally disabled funds to renovate the building Just over thirty adults of any age. The with new paint, carpet, furniture “years ago, there team also interviews young and storage cabinets. was a unique witnesses to murder In 2015, Palomar Health’s or violence. Forensic Health Services convergence of 2 Sexual Assault Response program interviewed 275 dedicated people, Team (SART). This team is abused children, performed visionary ideas and made up of specially trained medical evaluations on 175 nurses who perform forensic sexually assaulted adults, and new opportunities medical examinations at the provided medical assessments which helped establish request of law enforcement for 438 children who were a forensics program on alleged victims 14 placed into foster care. Sadly, years and older under the full scope of this problem at Palomar Health. I the direction of a nurse is unknown as many victims of am proud of how it supervisor and physician abuse do not come forward. has become the gold- medical director. standard of forensic 3 Foster child assessments. A nurse practitioner performs services in North medical evaluations on San Diego County. children prior to placing them Dr. Mary Spencer in foster homes. Co-Founder of Forensic Health Services” Then and Now Palomar Health Foundation Impact Report 7 Nursing Florence Nightingale. Her name immediately brings to mind an iconic image of a nurse. It was 156 years ago when Nightingale laid the foundation of the nursing profession by establishing a nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London. In recognition of her pioneering work, the Nightingale Pledge— updated into a modern version called the Practical Nurse Pledge—is still taken by new nurses today. While technology today He or she will see you in the has added state-of-the-art most diffi cult and undignifi ed of equipment and heightened circumstances and will become safety procedures, each day as familiar with your body as nurses are centered on caring for you are. They will know what people who are suffering, much medicine you need, how you as they did in the 19th century. are responding to treatment and Driving, biking, hiking or every piece of equipment, tube, household accidents regularly needle or button you require bring trauma to our door.

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