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Spring 2009 The Power of Your Gifts Rewards of Bedside Teaching Giving for FedExFedEx the Next ProvidesProvides Generation aa HavenHaven forfor RestRest A Magazine for the Friends of Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center of the Matter Le Bonheur president and CEO Meri Armour with Kamari Orange (left) and Jeremy Killingsworth Dear Friends of Le Bonheur, Building a new Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center is one of the single most important things this city will ever do. Without good health, kids can’t go to school. Without good health, children become disadvantaged in their ability to grow into productive, skilled and educated adults. Without good health for all our children, the potential of our community diminishes. None of us should take the role we play in Le Bonheur’s future for granted. What each of us does individually matters. It matters to our patients and their families and it really does make a diff erence for the children and families we serve. At Le Bonheur Children’s, we are attentive to all the problems aff ecting our patients, including poverty and societal issues that adversely aff ect children’s health. Every day our staff – over 1,900 professionals and 600 physicians – gives generously of themselves by doing whatever they can for the children in our care, giving back in wonderful, magical ways, making Le Bonheur Children’s better because of their eff orts. Kids can’t get this kind of total care just anywhere. To meet their needs, they need a children’s hospital. While construction continues on our new facility, it will take all of us – our staff , donors, friends, volunteers and the community – to ensure that when the building is completed in 2010, Le Bonheur can continue to advance the causes of pediatric care throughout our community. It will take all of us to be successful in our quest to rank among the best pediatric hospitals in the United States. e children of this community really need us. ey need you. You are making a diff erence for them. We thank you for joining us as we change the world, one child at a time. Warmest Regards, Meri Armour, M.S.N., M.B.A. President and CEO Le Bonheur • Spring 2009Le Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center 2 Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors David Stevens Chairman Larry Spratlin Treasurer Donna A. Abney Meri Armour Robert Baird Murray Beard Ron Belz Investing in It’s All About For the Love Larry Bryan Robert H. Buckman the Future the Kids of Le Bonheur Mac Carrier Russell Chesney, M.D. FedExFamilyHouse Bedside teaching is Giving for the Jill Crocker Debbi Fields-Rose answers a prayer. 4 rewarding for all. 9 next generation. 11 Glenna Flautt Susan Graf Gary Henley Denise Henning Hampton Holcomb Gail Kimball Lynn Listes William May, M.D. Landon Pendergrass, M.D. Michael Pera Dominic Pileggi Kim Pitts Richard Robinson Richard Smith Jean Tuggle Ronald Walter Steven Wishnia Meri Armour, M.S.N., M.B.A. President and CEO Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center Kavanaugh Casey Director, Le Bonheur Foundation Kini Kedigh Plumlee Editor, Le Bonheur magazine Le Bonheur Foundation Amy Mathews Art Director Larry Kuzniewski Photographer Kuzniewski Productions The Power of Around Scrapbook & Your Gifts the Halls Datebook How your donations Birthday girl gives her Donors, patrons and help Le Bonheur kids. 12 “gifts” to Le Bonheur. 14 fundraisers abound. 17 Clarion Awards 2007 Le Bonheur magazine is a 2007 Clarion Award winner. Presented www.lebonheur.org by the Association for Women in Communications, the Clarions honor excellence across all On the cover: communications disciplines and represent media companies large Emma LaCroix and small, leading corporations, with her father, Jason, small businesses and nonprofi t organizations and institutions. and grandfather, Le Bonheur magazine was the Bob Bennett only magazine to be recognized in the category of Best Internal Le Bonheur, the magazine of Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, is published three times a year for donors and Magazine and was chosen as the friends of Le Bonheur Children’s. To share your comments about Le Bonheur magazine, please write to Le Bonheur top in its fi eld. Foundation, P.O. Box 41817, Memphis, TN 38174-1817, call (901) 287-6797 or visit www.lebonheur.org. 3 Investing in Le Bonheur’s Mission South Elevation FedExFamilyHouse To Open in 2010 SOUTH ELEVATION A Home Away From Home came from outside Shelby County to receive member and Le Bonheur Club member. As Le Bonheur Children’s specialized treatment at Le Bonheur Children’s. “Due to the lack of a Le Bonheur–affiliated national reputation grows, so too Time and again, the number–one problem family lodging center, the hospital can only FEDEX FAMILY HOUSE - South Elevation Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0” 175 Toyota Plaza, Suite 600 does the number of patients who cited by these out–of–town families is the offer families minimum assistance.” Memphis, Tennessee 38103 Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare Memphis, TN Telephone 901 521 1440 01.08027.00 Fax 901 525 2760 December 16, 2008 travel a long distance to seek exceptional care absence of safe, affordable and conveniently Susan learned at a young age how Internet: www.lrk.com Celebration Dallas Jacksonville Memphis at our facility. Thanks to Frederick and Diane located lodging. When children are patients long–distance health care impacts a family.Nashville Princeton Rosemary Beach © 2008 Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Architecture Planning Interiors Graphics Urban Design Smith, Alan and Susan Graf and the generosity at Le Bonheur Children’s for long periods of When she was 9, her mother moved with of FedEx Corporation, a place for Le Bonheur time, their families are responsible for their her disabled brother to Philadelphia for his families to stay while their child is in the medical treatment while Susan and the rest hospital is becoming a reality. of the family lived in Boston. Her aunt came The FedExFamilyHouse will be the first “The generosity of FedEx, to live with Susan and her brothers. By age facility in Memphis to provide housing for its leaders and employees, is 10, Susan was cooking, cleaning and helping families of patients receiving extended care to run the household. at Le Bonheur Children’s. world-class and all of us at “It was so hard on my mother to go alone Financial support for the FedExFamilyHouse Le Bonheur are excited and and get an apartment in a strange city so will come from a $2.3 million donation from grateful for their commitment she could stay with him,” she recalls. “It was FedEx Corp. and personal donations from such a stressful time for her to begin with, Frederick W. Smith, chairman, president and to build the FedExFamilyHouse.” caring for a child undergoing neurosurgery CEO, and his wife Diane, and Alan B. Graf, in the ‘dark ages’ and also worried about her Jr., executive vice president and CFO, and his – Meri Armour children at home.” wife Susan.EAST ELEVATION President and CEO “For more than 50 years, children from Le Bonheur Children’s An Answer to Prayers around the world have received exceptional As hospital leaders develop plans for the care at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center,” new FedExFamilyHouse, the voices of parents Alan Graf says. “We believe this donation will are guiding the way. The 24–suite facility is improve the lives of children and their families own accommodations. Other similar residential scheduled to open around the same time as the and reinforces Le Bonheur as one of the leading facilities in Memphis are not available to new Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center – FEDEX FAMILY HOUSE - East Elevation Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. Le Bonheur patients. Many of these families summer 2010. The FedExFamilyHouse175 Toyota Plaza, Suite 600 Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0” children’s medical centers in the country.” Memphis, Tennessee 38103 Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare Memphis, TN must stay in hotels and this gets costly. will be a home away from home forTelephone families 901 521 1440 01.08027.00 Fax 901 525 2760 December 16, 2008 Long Overdue “Le Bonheur desperately needs who travel long distances to seek Internet:care atwww.lrk.com Celebration Dallas Jacksonville Memphis Last year, Le Bonheur Children’s provided comfortable and conveniently located Le Bonheur Children’s. Nashville Princeton Rosemary Beach © 2008 Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Architecture Planning Interiors Graphics Urban Design inpatient and outpatient services to more accommodations for parents who must stay Patti Reed, a member of Le Bonheur than 130,000 children from 50 states. overnight or for extended periods,” explains Children’s Family Partners Council, is part Le Bonheur • Spring 2009Le Approximately 30,000 of those children Susan Graf, a Le Bonheur Foundation board of the team that is helping to design the new 4 If you or your company would like to help, contact the Le Bonheur Foundation at (901) 287-6308. residential facility. For Patti, this is a special space for a crib and more. Additionally, tables that can be moved to accommodate way to share her experiences from years ago each family will have access to living and families that want to dine together. when she stayed at a similar facility when family rooms, a teen lounge and indoor Th e design team also took into her daughter needed surgery not available and outdoor children’s play areas. A special consideration the importance of outdoor space in Memphis. feature will be the kitchen with four to families who spend many hours in hospital Patti’s daughter, Jessica, was born without separate cooking areas, 24 refrigerators and rooms.