Care Kids Deserve

Care kids deserve. 2008 ANNUAL REPORT 2008 ANNUAL REPORT President’s Message . .2 Message from the Chairman of the Board . .4 Care that Saves . .6 Care that Advances . .8 Care that Protects . .10 Care that Connects . .12 Programs & Offsite Services . .14 Connecticut Children’s Medical Staff . .15 Message from the Foundation Chair . .22 Honor Roll of Donors . .22 Statistical Report . .31 Connecticut Children’s Leadership . .32 On the cover: Five year old Rebecca Redman was born at only 24-1/2 weeks and soon after admitted to Connecticut Children’s NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). The NICU, one of Connecticut Children’s premier programs, admits approximately 500 babies each year, offering intensive medical, surgical, and nursing care, comprehensive diagnostic capabilities, and state-of- the-art bedside electronic monitoring, respiratory support, and radiology services. Care kids deserve. Each day across Connecticut, children and their families are faced with a wide range of medical illnesses and issues. Whether it’s setting a cast or treating cancer, Connecticut Children’s provides kids, from newborns to teenagers, the highly-specialized care they deserve. In fact, we are at the forefront of the latest pediatric research and surgical advances. Each day Connecticut Children’s doctors and medical staff work tirelessly to deliver the kind of medical care we expect for our kids and our communities. Care that makes kids better — care they deserve. CONNECTICUT CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER 2008 Annual Report 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE In 2008 Connecticut Children’s and Hartford Hospital’s integrated pediatric and adult trauma center, The Trauma Institute, received Level I trauma verification and designation from the American College of Surgeons and the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Pictured from left to right are Lenworth Jacobs, MD, Director of Trauma for Hartford Hospital and the Trauma Institute; Scott James, RN, MBA, Administrations Director for Trauma and Emergency Care Services at Connecticut Children’s; Martin J.Gavin, President of Connecticut Children’s; and Brendan Campbell, MD, MPH, Director of Pediatric Trauma at Connecticut Children’s. “I can’t begin to tell you how impressed I am with as possible. We do this with doctors and nurses Connecticut Children’s. I can’t say enough good who understand children best, because they treat things about it. Thank you for saving my son’s life.” only children. We do this by providing comprehensive care, ranging from pioneering advances s the President and Chief Executive Officer at in research to complicated surgical procedures. AConnecticut Children’s, I get to hear stories. Lots of stories, from parents to grandparents to “So I just wanted to send you a personal note telling friends of the many children we care for each year you that we are completely and truly satisfied with at the Medical Center. These heartfelt stories, from all we have endured in your hospital and have people who could not be more warm and gracious seen a lot of miracles happen.” with their own personal experiences, confirm what I believe every day — Connecticut Children’s In the past year, Connecticut Children’s is truly, one of a kind. provided care to a child over 240,000 times. Once Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is the again, the past twelve months were the busiest only academic medical center in western New yet in the history of the Medical Center. We also England that exists for one purpose only — to celebrated providing care to a child for the provide the highest level of care to as many children 2,000,000th time in our short history. 2 As the number of patients we care for each The mission that Connecticut Children’s has year continues to increase, we know that we have embarked upon for the past twelve years will march no choice but to continue to expand and broaden on as well. As we look forward, we realize that our capabilities to care for them as well. In 2008, there are challenges ahead. We are currently facing we increased our capacity in a number of new an uncertain economy that presents circumstances ways, including the following: that have not been encountered before. Yet the demand for pediatric health care is • Connecticut Children’s performed the State’s blind to these challenges. The reality is that in first Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium 2009, we expect to provide more care for more Rib surgery, a new technological procedure kids, in more ways than ever before and we to treat severe scoliosis in children; expect to do the same each year thereafter. Last year, in anticipation of this growing demand and • The Medical Center is now one of only two facing a constantly-changing environment, we hospitals in the State who have performed a developed a Strategic Plan to guide us through relatively new, minimally invasive procedure what we expect to be the next few tumultuous years. known as endoscopic third ventriculostomy Our Strategic Plan was built to position the (ETV) for children with hydrocephalus; Medical Center to best meet the increasing medical needs of the children and families we • Twenty-three new physicians joined the Medical care for. We remain committed to our plan and Center in thirteen different disciplines. This steadfast on meeting the demand for world-class includes the hiring of a second neurosurgeon pediatric care the same way we have been doing on staff, assuring that children referred to so since our inception — with a focus on family- Connecticut Children’s will receive the most centered care, clinical quality, research and our advanced treatment available; and most recently ability to perform the most advanced technological and surgical procedures. • Connecticut Children’s and Hartford Hospital’s Connecticut Children’s is integrated pediatric and adult trauma center, proud to be the region’s only The Trauma Institute, received Level I trauma hospital to provide care exclusively verification and designation from the for children. As such, our mission American College of Surgeons and the is really quite simple – to ensure Connecticut Department of Health. that every child receives the care they need to secure a bright While these achievements represent only a and healthy future – the care small sample of the steps we took in the past year, they deserve. they are a clear indication of our commitment to continue forward as a leader in advancing pediatric Sincerely, care at the highest level. “We do not know how long we will be on this journey with our baby, but from day one, everyone has been actively working to cure our little boy and for that mindset alone, I will be forever grateful.” Martin J. Gavin President and Chief Executive Officer Connecticut Children’s Medical Center CONNECTICUT CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER 2008 Annual Report 3 4 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS As the region’s only academic While we must evolve in these and other ways, medical center dedicated exclu- we will never lose sight of our single mission — sively to children, Connecticut to provide the highest level of care to as many Children’s is unique. It is this children as possible. This is the fundamental uniqueness that leads more principle of everything we do. We all share the and more families to turn to belief that the children we care for are the Connecticut Children’s each foundation for how everyone at Connecticut year for care. We know that in Children’s thinks about their work, each and the future we can expect this increased demand every day. for care to continue to grow. We accept this readily, Connecticut Children’s has a clear vision for because we know the responsibility of caring for success. Executing this vision will not only help children is neither small nor easy. the Medical Center prosper, but more importantly, This is why, though we now face a struggling it will improve our ability to excel at providing and uncertain economy, we move ahead boldly. great care and service for children and families in We move ahead, riding a sea of momentum that our region. has Connecticut Children’s uniquely positioned In a recent survey conducted on behalf of the to continue to be the leading provider of pediatric Medical Center, eighty-four percent of respondents care for the children and families of our region. believed that a child receives superior care at a We have thought very thoroughly and hospital that only cares for children, when compared deliberately about what it will take to compete to one that treats patients of all ages. We couldn’t and succeed in the future of health care, and we agree more. have shaped Connecticut Children’s in recent years On behalf of the Boards of Directors of the to meet these needs. Medical Center, it is our privilege to play a role in Continued new advances in technology and leading the future of Connecticut Children’s. We innovation will be needed to meet the changing are grateful for the opportunity to share in the requirements of providing pediatric health care in successes of today, and more importantly, the today’s sophisticated world. In addition, we must successes yet to come. continue to employ a high performing workforce that is built from the best and the brightest, from Sincerely, the surgeons in our operating suites to our facilities staff, who keep our patients’ rooms warm and friendly. Finally, it will also take the continued support of our partners in government, business and the communities we have come to count on and appreciate so richly. Thomas O. Barnes Chairman Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Board of Directors CONNECTICUT CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER 2008 Annual Report 5 Care that saves.

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