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VOLUME 19 | APRIL 2014 SPECIAL ISSUE CAMPAIGN KICKOFF CONTINUING THE INNOVATION LEVEL 4: Family Medicine Residency LEVEL 3: Room to Grow LEVEL 2: Heart & Vascular Institute LEVEL 1: Susquehanna Health OB/GYN and General Surgery Health Innovation Center at Williamsport Regional Medical Center Innovation has brought us to where we are today. Look back only a few years and you’ll HEALTH INNOVATION CENTER see just how much our technology alone has advanced. But we can’t stop here. Providing the highest quality healthcare depends on continuous innovation. Family Medicine Residency Our residency program is nationally recognized for providing top- quality care to local families in need. The Center will provide a space where we can educate and train Susquehanna Health Foundation’s Continuing these physicians, many of whom the Innovation Capital Campaign will will then return to practice here. bring the best technology, most advanced facilities and top healthcare providers to our community. But as with all innovation, it takes a cooperative eff ort. We need our community’s fi nancial support to keep pace. Room to Grow When the Health Innovation Center opens, this fl oor will be vacant. The available space will be room for the new technologies and services that arise as our community needs continue to change and grow. Heart & Vascular Institute Collaboration and effi ciency are key when it comes to conditions of the heart and vascular system. This new space brings together specialists in vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, electrophysiology and cardiology to enhance patient experiences and outcomes. Susquehanna Health OB/GYN and General Surgery The modern facility will provide a comfortable space to put patients at ease during consultations, routine exams and diagnostic tests. The facility’s central location allows easy access to other service areas when needed. In the ever-changing world of healthcare, the need to keep pace with medical advancements is great. Plans HEALTH INNOVATION CENTER 1 to build a Health Innovation Center on the Williamsport Regional Medical Center campus will help us do just that. The outpatient, four-story addition will complement YOUR DONATIONS MEAN: the surgical and emergency • a modern outpatient facility designed to improve patient access facilities within Susquehanna and to enhance physician collaboration for improved patient Tower, expanding our ability outcomes to provide comprehensive, • expanded cardiovascular services including the addition of an amputation prevention clinic advanced patient care. The • Increased attraction and retention of new physicians and family Health Innovation Center will medicine residents continue to attract talented physicians and specialists to the area. as our community grows, our healthcare services need to grow too. Over the past EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AT MUNCY VALLEY HOSPITAL YOUR DONATIONS MEAN: 2 fi ve years, patient visits have • Increase from fi ve curtained bays to 14 private rooms increased from 11,000 to equipped with modern technology and designed to: 16,000 per year. The current • enhance patient privacy facilities were originally built • Improve infection control to treat only 6,000. • Reduce noise and other stressors • New, specialized areas for trauma, decontamination and behavioral health evaluation • easy access to support services such as radiology and lab • enhanced security and visibility through a more functional fl oor plan and design To make orthopedic care more effi cient and eff ective for our patients, we’re bringing multiple BONE & JOINT INSTITUTE 3 specialists together under one roof. The new facility will provide a central location where patients can be cared for by orthopedic surgeons, rheumatologists, podiatric surgeons, sports medicine YOUR DONATIONS MEAN: specialists and occupational and physical therapists. • a centralized hub where patients can have access to multiple orthopedic services in a single visit • a nurse navigator to coordinate patient care • concussion clinic and impact testing YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT will help make the Continuing the Innovation Capital Campaign projects a reality. 3 WAYS TO GIVE: 1. Donate online at SusquehannaHealth.org/Donate 2. Call the Susquehanna Health Foundation at (570) 320-7460 3. mail the envelope included in the magazine along with a check to Susquehanna Health Foundation development teams Join together for the april 2014 | Benefi t of our donors Foundation FoCuS 1 CONTACT INFORMATION Susquehanna Health Foundation • 1001 Grampian Boulevard • Williamsport, pa 17701 • fax: (570) 320-7467 Vice President of Development Development O cer Business Giving & Grants Coordinator Sherry Watts Melissa Coolidge Valerie Trego [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (570) 320-7464 (570) 723-0506 (570) 320-7465 Major & Planned Gifts O cer Annual Giving Coordinator Special Events Coordinator Thomas M. O’Connell, CFP® Amanda Wallace Kristen Lorson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (570) 320-7612 (570) 326-8687 (570) 320-7463 SusquehannaHealth.org/Giving SusquehannaHealth.org/Giving Susquehanna Health Foundation is allows us to thank and recognize our Tioga County donors pleased to announce that the laurel more consistently with greater visibility. We’ll also be able to share expanded opportunities for making gi s including a Health System’s comprehensive planned giving development offi ce program. april 2014 | OUR MISSION has joined the With no sta ng changes, you Connecting the generosity of a caring Foundation team. will continue to receive the same community with opportunities to improve personalized attention from With this issue of the Foundation the lives of others through better health. familiar faces at each of our Focus we welcome donors who WHO WE SUPPORT locations. Just as all donations have supported Laurel Health and pledges are certain to be used System while introducing changes Susquehanna Health Foundation is the as they were directed, you will Foundation FoCuS that re ect the united e orts philanthropic arm of Susquehanna Health. have the assurance that all future of our Susquehanna Health as such, the Foundation accepts and donations can directly bene t the Foundation o ces in Tioga and distributes gifts to support the mission department or hospital of your Lycoming Counties. of Williamsport regional Medical Center, 2 divine providence Hospital, Muncy Valley choice. Over the next year you will notice Hospital and now Soldiers + Sailors For a nonpro t organization changes in the magazine as we Memorial Hospital, along with the Green serving a larger community, the grow together. e Foundation Home and the laurels. importance of your continued Focus will recognize donors support has grown and so too and report the many ways your has the impact that your gi contributions support our shared can make to improve the lives in our region through better mission. You’ll learn how your contributions are making a healthcare. Just as past gi s have helped make today’s care di erence with recruiting new specialists as well as providing possible, your support today will touch the lives of patients and new treatments, equipment and facilities that are improving their families now and in the future. We are thankful to all access to high-quality care for our communities. who support our united Susquehanna Health Foundation and e transition provides broader representation to the look forward to accomplishing great things together. Susquehanna Health Foundation Board of Directors and SUSQUEHANNA HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS President, Steven P. Johnson Douglas Doherty Rich Michael Development Associate Chair, John M. Young Mary C. Fish Geneva Peck Sara Bacher Vice Chair, Keith S. Kuzio Paul Heise Joseph Reighard [email protected] (570) 320-7460 Secretary, Donna L. Bastian Barbara Hudock Paul H. Rooney Jr. Treasurer, Rodney N. Bailey Mark Huff man Charles J. Santangelo Development Associate John C. Becker, DO Roger D. Jarrett Marvin H. Staiman Helene Messineo Robert P. Crockett Stephen D. Keener Jerry Wertz [email protected] (570) 723-0494 Timothy J. Crotty Lynda Livingston Soldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital’s Building for the Future Capital Campaign as Soldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital (SSMH) adapts to Soldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital’s Emergency department the ever-evolving fi eld of healthcare through cutting-edge currently treats more than 18,500 patients each year. Close technology and procedures, it remains committed to its goal to 3,000 of those patients are brought to the Emergency of providing the highest level of department through paramedic care possible. When the previous “The number of patients our and ambulatory services, Emergency department began to Emergency Department treats is highlighting the importance of exceed capacity with even larger adding a separate ambulance increases in visits than forecasted, still increasing, and this expansion entrance and paramedic garage SSMH determined expansion was was imperative to providing the through the expansion. necessary. the hospital enhanced its facility through a two-story highest quality emergency care.” the Building for the Future Capital expansion housing new emergency Campaign has been launched —JaniE HilFiGEr, prESidEnt oF SSMH and surgical care units—the largest to raise $5 million to assist with addition in SSMH’s 70-year history, guided by long-term planning fi nancing the newly constructed Emergency department