It All Begins with Caring 2015 Gifts and Grants Report
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It all begins with caring 2015 Gifts and Grants Report Office of Resource Development 100 North Academy Avenue Danville, Pennsylvania 17822-2576 570-271-6461 geisinger.org/foundation 2015 Gifts and Grants Report 2 Message from our President and CEO 5 Message from our campaign co-chairs 6 Building bridges 8 Forgoing the distance 10 From the hospital room to the living room 12 Easy pill to swallow 14 Making a connection 16 An ounce of preventio n… 18 Seeing the whole picture 20 Performing miracles 22 Life’s work 24 In a class of their own 26 Enhancing our services, expanding our reach 29 Donor giving Care close to home, with a worldview From our President and CEO When those of us at Geisinger Health System — doctors, nurses, administrators, support staff and so many more — look out of our windows, we do not see just what is right in front of us . We Geisinger president and CEO David T. Feinberg, MD, see the world and how we can change it for the better through our compassion and innovation. takes time to visit with a patient. Our founder Abigail Geisinger had a simple decree: “Make my hospital right; make it the best.” We are taking these words to heart more than ever before as we move into our second century and beyond. The “beyond,” to us, is a place where there are no boundaries to care. By using innovative methods, technologies, and approaches that step outside the traditional, we are able to see Seeing the whole picture and experiencing the person in front of us, and not simply a list of their symptoms. Seeing the whole picture and experiencing the Geisinger Health System President patient’s world is what will take us into our next century. the patient’s world is what will take us into and CEO David T. Feinberg, MD, MBA our next century. We are looking at ways to treat people close to home, if not in their homes, so they may have a patient experience free of additional fear and stress. Our generous donors and partners are essential in creating programs that enable us to erase these barriers to treatment. It is one way we are looking at the larger, changing picture of how we provide care and ensure better patient outcomes. Providing the best patient care possible, as close to home as possible, to those in need is important to us. But we also know the world is more connected than it was 100 years ago. We are thinking regionally, nationally and globally with our research and in our efforts to aid population health. We are erasing the boundaries to education, health and wellness. We are looking to today and to the future, and at how Geisinger Health System will impact the world of tomorrow. Through you and your generous support, we are able to take Abigail Geisinger’s directive — “make it the best” — Geisinger President and CEO David T. Feinberg, MD, to the rest of the world. And because of you, we know it all begins with caring. visits with new parents and their baby while participating in Leadership Rounding. 2 2015 Gifts and Grants Report: A Message from our President and CEO 2015 Gifts and Grants Report: A Message from our President and CEO 3 Making a world of difference From our campaign co-chairs Throughout our centennial campaign , Redefining Boundaries , your generous gifts have given us at Geisinger Health System the tools1 to make powerf0ul impressions on the pe0ople who come to us seeking care. We heard stories of how we have altered their lives, their families or their worlds in ways they did not think was possible. Geisinger is continuously building a bridge to a world of hope and healing on a personal and grand scale. Geisinger is continuously building a bridge We strive to aid population health, grow our cutting- to a world of hope and healing on a edge approaches to education, treatment and care, personal and a grand scale. and help those who are the most vulnerable among us. We aim to better a person’s health, but also to change the larger world through better health. The first words of every personal triumph came because of your philanthropic giving. We thank you We hear how Geisinger made someone stronger, their for joining us on our journey of discovery, research, life healthier and the world around them one where growth, challenge and, most importantly, change. they can thrive. Without your generosity, none of It has taken us further than any of us could have these stories of caring would ever have been told. imagined and we are thrilled to write the next chapter. Centennial Campaign: Redefining Boundaries Co-Chairs (l-r) Robert L. Tambur and Frank M. Henry 4 2015 Gifts and Grants Report: From Our Campaign Co-chairs 2015 Gifts and Grants Report: From Our Campaign Co-chairs 5 Building bridges ProvenWellness ® Neighborhood’s network of caregivers and community and social service agencies closes the care gap in northeast Pennsylvania. Jenny* felt helpless when her daughter, Leia*, was diagnosed with cancer. The tumor would take her girl’s eyesight or, worse, her life. Surgery was the only option. The road from Leia’s diagnosis to recovery was full Seeing an opening of pitfalls. ProvenWellness® Neighborhood (PWN) Care gaps, like the one that almost shattered Jenny navigated each obstacle through its network of more and Leia’s lives, are on the rise. PWN, which covers than 140 healthcare providers and community and Lackawanna, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming social service agencies dotting northeast Pennsylvania counties, examines every angle of the big picture, that strive to meet needs that have slipped through makes connections and fills the voids left when the the cracks and hindered proper care. These range social and medical essentials are lacking. Geisinger Stephanie Gerkovich (right), community health from getting a walker for a patient or, in Jenny and Health System and PWN’s consideration of every assistant with ProvenWellness Neighborhood, laughs with her client, Ruth. Leia’s case, getting insurance. facet of a patient’s life is defining a new wave of PWN connects people to agencies, social workers, medication to behavioral health issues. The Weinberg “health” and “care.” therapists and others that are close to home to get the Foundation’s grant, along with charitable gifts, has Medicaid’s approval arrived in 24 hours after a PWN services and items many take for granted, from a ride launched a website, with online health tutorials, and Wayne County Community Health Assistant (CHA) Geisinger’s rethinking of what “health” and “care” to a doctor’s appointment to a hot meal. In the two increased staffing to reach as many people as possible. Geisinger Health System and advocated for Jenny’s application. Leia’s surgery means to a person is a radical step beyond traditional Geisinger and PWN are throwing a years the program has been in existence, PWN has PWN’s consideration of every was days later. The CHA connected the two to the healthcare. It is a futuristic vision shared by The Harry closed more than 17,000 care gaps and helped more PWN’s network of support shows the world that when lifeline of optimism to thousands of facet of a patient’s life is defining American Cancer Society, which houses families while and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc. and other than 12,500 people. a care gap closes, a new life opens up and people like loved ones seek treatment, and an online support people who believed there was Jenny and Leia — uninsured, living in a rural county a new wave of “health” and “care.” donors. Each noticed a chasm between what an group for the time during and after the surgery. individual and their family needs to handle a problem nowhere to turn. Rising to the challenge and struggling with a terrifying situation — no longer and how or what they can do to solve that problem. Geisinger and PWN are throwing a lifeline of optimism need to live in fear that they will not receive the help A week and one successful operation later, the future This care gap, if left to fester, will have a devastating to thousands of people who believed there was they need. looked bright for mother and daughter. Without PWN effect on population health. nowhere to turn. The challenges a CHA uncovers and her CHA, the outcome could have been tragic are far-reaching, from homelessness to unaffordable *Names changed. for Leia. 6 2015 Gifts and Grants Report: Building Bridges 2015 Gifts and Grants Report: Building Bridges 7 Many patients must make decisions at the crossroads of care — the intersection of time, distance, what is needed and what is possible in a person’s life. Each pulls a different way and one wrong turn can have devastating results. Geisinger Health System is, once again, making the impossible possible for its patients through its groundbreaking use of telehealth. Geisinger’s mix of live audio/videoconferencing and store-and-forward sharing, which sends digital data like X-rays to physicians, is redefining how specialists connect with patients, especially in rural and remote locations. Health checks and balances Telehealth is a wellspring of comfort to people living in remote or rural areas who have difficulty getting to specialists in larger hospitals, such as the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville or Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes- Barre. When a specialist visits a county with thousands of residents, that doctor’s Lisa* was one such patient who desperately needed to see an MFM.