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Exclusive Interview Caroll Spinney Beyond Feathers and Fur Winter 2009 Exclusive Interview Caroll Spinney Beyond Feathers and Fur Walking Tall Again Partial Implant Puts Patients on the Go HealthWise News You Can Use For Your Good Health Photo Credit: Victor DiNapoli Welcome to… 2009 Magazine WINTER Trinitas Regional Medical Center begins 2009 with a commitment to providing outstanding health care services to the community even as our organization is experiencing the stresses of the difficult economic climate. Our long history of health care services for citizens of Elizabeth, Union County and the entire Central New Jersey region continues to energize us. Our new name sends a powerful message as we move forward with a committed work force of medical, nursing and health care professionals and an array of exemplary services at our 10 Centers of Excellence. This year, our medical staff is welcoming new members in the specialities of oncology and urology. In addition, our investment in the most advanced tools for surgery — the DaVinci Robotics system and RapidArc - the newest development in radiation therapy — makes it clear that we intend to create an environment rich in cutting-edge technology. We plan to make prudent fiscal decisions to maintain our position as a thriving health care organization in a climate in which other facilities are experiencing dramatic changes and closures. In keeping with our redefined identity as a regional medical center, there will be additional exciting developments throughout 2009. We’re building on past successes of this decade and look forward with anticipation to celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2010. Enjoy this issue of HEALTHYEDGE which provides a glimpse of the novel and innovative surgical procedures and state-of-the-art treatments that we offer. There is also upbeat coverage about how we encourage and support women who are facing the challenge of cancer. And, if you’ve ever wondered about the heart and soul of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch of Sesame Street, you'll meet the human beneath the feathers and fur in our exclusive interview. On behalf of our entire organization, I wish you good health in 2009. But rest assured that if you need medical care Trinitas Regional Medical Center is here with quality care for body, mind and spirit. Sincerely, Gary S. Horan, FACHE President & CEO WINTER 2009 1 CONTENTS WINTER 2009 FEATURES 3 Beyond Feathers and Fur Interview with Caroll Spinney of Sesame Street 10 Walking Tall Again Innovative Appliance Supplies Relief for Knee Pain 13 HealthWise News You Can Use for Your Good Health 26 Nursing Care in the Battle Against Addictions 28 Advanced Images Help Improve Cardiac Diagnoses 30 Sisters of Charity Bring Thoughtful Caring to Special Ministries 33 Singing the Praises of Trinitas Regional Victor M. Richel Medical Center Chairman, Trinitas Health & Hospital Board of Trustees 38 Cancer Survivors Put Best Foot Forward Gary S. Horan, FACHE President & CEO, Trinitas Hospital IN EVERY ISSUE HEALTHYEDGE STAFF 24 Community Calendar Executive Editor. Doug Harris Director of Public Relations and Marketing 34 Foundation Focus: Editor . Kathryn C. Salamone News of the Trinitas Health Foundation Manager, Public Relations and Marketing Contributing Writers . Bob Badner, 40 Hospital Beat: Julie Jacobs, Rena Sandberg, Judith Trojan People and Events of Note Contributing Photographers . Doug Harris, Al Kruper, Kathryn C. Salamone, 42 Vital Signs: Paul Schneck Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center News The HEALTHYEDGE - Winner of Graphic Design . Jama Bowman 44 News of the City of Elizabeth the 2007 NJ/IABC IRIS Award! ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: Rob Rubilla (908) 337-3276 Trinitas Hospital is a Catholic Teaching Hospital sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth in partnership with Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Healthy Edge HEALTHYEDGE Magazine is published quarterly by Trinitas Hospital and Trinitas Comprehensive Public Relations Department Cancer Center, 225 Williamson Street, Elizabeth, NJ, 07207. Trinitas Hospital This is Volume 2, Issue 4. This material is designed for information purposes only. None of the 225 Williamson Street information provided in Healthy Edge constitutes, directly or indirectly, the practice of medicine, the Elizabeth, New Jersey 07207 dispensing of medical services, a professional diagnosis or a treatment plan. The information in Healthy Edge should not be considered complete nor should it be relied on to suggest a course of If you are not interested in your copy of treatment for a particular individual. You should not rely on information provided in Healthy Edge HEALTHYEDGE which is sent to you free of as a substitute for personal medical attention, diagnosis or hands-on treatment. You should never charge, please feel free to pass it along to disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read in Healthy someone else. Edge. If you have any health care related concerns, please call or see your physician or other qualified health care provider. 2 HEALTHYEDGE HEALTHYEDGE EXCLUSIVE Beyond Feathers and Fur CAROLL SPINNEY BRINGS HUMANITY TO BIG BIRD AND OSCAR THE GROUCH by Judith Trojan Master puppeteer Caroll Spinney has been the spirit and spine of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since Sesame Street‘s premiere episode on November 10, 1969. But it is as Big Bird that Spinney has encouraged four generations of children to be patient and kind from the vantage point of a fellow six-year-old, and also taught them the alphabet, their numbers and what it means to be a friend. Source: NARA Compassionate and gracious, not unlike the Bird he cohabits, Spinney has also loved working “off the Street.” Big Bird has traded quips on 146 episodes of Hollywood Squares; hit the road to China with Bob Hope; danced with the Rockettes and prima ballerina Cynthia Gregory; and conducted 70 symphony orchestras throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia. En route, Big Bird has been fêted with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and celebrated with his likeness on a U.S. postage stamp. Spinney’s prized mantelpiece, once owned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is also chockablock with awards of all shapes and sizes. As Big Bird, Spinney was named a “Living Legend” in 2000 by the Library of Congress and takes great pride in his 2006 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, his five other Emmys, two A year after the debut of Sesame Gold Records and two Grammy Honors. He’s the 2003 recipient of the “Legacy Street, Big Bird visited the White for Children Award” and the 2004 James Keller Award, the latter from The House and met then First Lady Christophers for his lifelong contributions to the craft and spirit of children’s Pat Nixon. television and puppetry. Interviewed by phone from his country home in Connecticut, Spinney at times choked with emotion as he recounted his passion for puppetry that began at age “I’m certain that being five and continued throughout his innovative work with Muppet visionary Jim a bird has made me a Henson on Sesame Street and beyond. better person.” — Caroll Spinney INTERVIEW Big Bird debuted on the very first The scripts led me to feel that Big ‘A Poem by Big Bird.’ At that point, installment of Sesame Street. How Bird would be more useful if he were a I decided he was six years old because have you fine-tuned his character surrogate child, not a big goofy guy he could read pretty well. over the years? hanging around the kids. This way he could learn the alphabet along with Big Bird’s compassion has endeared CS: Big Bird is a child who never the kids at home. I thought, ‘I won’t him to audiences of all ages. Didn’t grows up, which is a delightful charac- do it overnight, but I’m going to your encounter with an old man ter to play. But he didn’t start out that lighten up his voice.’ It just got higher one snowy night during Christmas season inspire that trait? way; originally, he was a country yokel and higher. and not very bright. That was Jim He also couldn’t read or write at CS: Yes. Around 78th Street, I Henson’s original concept. Big Bird first, so I figured he’s four or four-and- passed an elderly man shuffling his feet even looked terrible. He hardly had any a-half. Within two years, Big Bird was at the edge of the sidewalk, taking tiny feathers above his eyes. quoting a little four-line poem, Continued on page 4 WINTER 2009 3 A New Smile… A New You! Letter in hand, IMPLANTS & Big Bird helped to COSMETIC DENTISTRY educate millions of children for four Personal encounters decades, providing many with their first Start With a Smile… exposure to the Sometimes Nature alphabet and set them on the road Needs A Little Help to lifelong reading. • Implant Placement/Resortation • Invisalign • Veneers Photo credit: www.seedgivethtree.wordpress.com • Periodontics - Orthodontics • Bonding • Crowns/Re-Construction steps but not moving past the curb. You recently turned 75. How do you Something told me to look back at manage to stay so in tune with your All Phases of General Dentistry him. He was still in the same place, young audience? Nitrous Oxide Analgesic looking bewildered and upset. EMERGENCY SERVICE AVAILABLE CS: I remember my childhood very I returned to ask him if he was all clearly. I actually remember being toilet right. He said he was afraid of falling trained, and it wasn’t just last year! Center of on the wet pavement, that he lived Remembering my childhood has helped alone and if he got hurt no one would me live out Big Bird’s childhood. He’s DENTAL SERVICES look after him. All he needed was a kind of like my child, and I get to play little help, and here I thought he was my child.
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