SPRING 2016 PHOENIX CHILDREN’S Banding HOSPITAL FOUNDATION Together Arizona businesses are uniting employees and customers to support our patients. Find out how. LETTER FROM STEVE Dear Friends: Each year we care for more than 150,000 patients — lives that are touched by the care we give at Phoenix Children’s. It’s part of what motivates so many of our community’s businesses to give back to the hospital. Many of them have employees and customers who have experienced firsthand what it’s like to have a sick child, and how imperative it is to receive expert care in a place where every single person is fighting for that child as if he or she were their own. From icon and bracelet sales, grants, golf tournaments, bake sales, employee giving campaigns, event sponsorships, days of giving, outright gifts, in-kind donations, and more, our corporate friends find unique and rewarding ways to “Band Together” to support our patients. In fact, these invaluable partnerships account for nearly one-third of all funds donated to Phoenix Children’s. Their culture of giving has enriched our hospital in countless ways. But it also brings their employees together, and shows the community that they care deeply about the lives and well-being of kids in our state. In this issue of Hopes and Dreams we wanted to share their stories, and those of the patients near and dear to their hearts…the ones who have inspired them to take our hospital under their wings. To all of our corporate partners, we thank you for your time, your efforts, and your extraordinary commitment to the lives entrusted in our care. You inspire us. Sincerely, STEVE SCHNALL Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer Hopes and Dreams is published by the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation. To share your comments call (602) 933-2668 or email [email protected]. If you no longer wish to receive copies of Hopes and Dreams please call (602) 933-4483 or email [email protected]. “ We are keenly aware that having a world- class children’s BOARD MEMBERS Chairman: Scott Rehorn, hospital in our RED Development, LLC state is key to Past Chairman: Larry Clemmensen, the life and Community Volunteer well-being of Vice Chair, Board Secretary: Sheila Zuieback, our daughter.” Halle Family Foundation PAGE 22 PCH President and CEO: Robert L. Meyer PCH Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer: Steven S. Schnall Michael Bill, MJ Insurance Scott Bindley, Screenwriter Taylor Burke, Rainy Partners Kevin Czerwinski, Merit Partners, Inc. Jeffry King, Pete King Construction Mark Love, LKL Partners, LLC Jonathan Pinkus, Arizona Nutritional Supplements David Ralston, Bank of Arizona J. Paul Rhodes, Vestar Alexa Schneider, Kimbell, Inc. Chris Stamets, Western Retail Advisors EDITORIAL Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer: Steven S. Schnall Director of Communications, Foundation: Cheriese Chambers Editor: Laura Jobke Contributing Writers: SPECIAL FEATURE Banding Together Stephanie Conner, 8 Elizabeth Gonzalez How you can get involved Photography: Corporate partners teaming up with Phoenix Tim Lanterman Photography; Children’s, and the kids who inspire them to do so Elaine Kessler Photography Event Photography: Ben Arnold Photography DEPARTMENTS 2 In Brief: News and notes from around PCHF Printing: OneTouchPoint-CCI 6 Doc Talk: Dr. Robin Blitz discusses important Design: Casual Astronaut issues with volunteer Julia Banahan casualastronaut.com 28 Your Donations Matter: Stories demonstrating the impact of your donations 38 Upcoming Events: Dates you won’t want to miss SPRING 2016 HOPES & DREAMS 1 in BRIEF NEWS & UPDATES FROM PHOENIX CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL 1928-2016 Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Herbert J. “Tim” Louis A caring friend of the Hospital, renowned pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, and true champion for children. That’s how we’ll remember Dr. Herbert J. “Tim” Louis. Dr. Louis was an advocate for pediatric care in the Valley for more than 50 years. He arrived in Phoenix to practice pediatric orthopaedics in 1961. In the 1980s, he was appointed to the Blue Ribbon Committee to explore the development of a freestanding children’s hospital, leading to the opening of Phoenix Children’s Hospital in 1983. As Phoenix Children’s continued to grow, Dr. Louis, his wife Julie (below), and their family were stalwart supporters. Their charitable gifts established an endowed chair of pediatric orthpaedics, helped build a state-of-the-art Newborn Intensive Care Unit and enhanced the hospital’s research and educational opportunities. Dr. Louis’ vision was to create a hospital that would attract top pediatric talent to Arizona, evolve programs and expand training. To honor the Louis’ enduring commitment to Phoenix Children’s, the Dr. Herbert J. and Julie Louis “Spirit of Hope” Award was named in their honor and is given each year to a Hospital friend and philanthropist who carries on their legacy. Passionate about pediatric orthopaedics, Dr. Louis served as the Director of the Phoenix Combined Orthopaedic Residency Training Program for 20 years. His dedication to the patients and families of the Hospital was so strong that even after his retirement he’d be seen walking the halls of Phoenix Children’s, volunteering in the Animal- Assisted Therapy program with his faithful Labrador retriever Bainbridge. Dr. Louis was a tremendous healer, an outstanding teacher, an inspiring leader and a friend to all he met. Setting an example for us all, he lived a life dedicated to helping others and has left behind a lasting legacy at Phoenix Children’s. 2 HOPES & DREAMS SPRING 2016 Heart to Heart Four-year-old Jordan, who received a heart transplant at Phoenix Children’s in 2013, met the mother of her heart donor in January. The emotional reunion celebrated Jordan’s renewed health and honored the 7-month-old donor, Lukas. Jordan presented Lukas’ Jordan and her mom Esther with Heather and the transplant team mom Heather with a special teddy bear that included a recording of her heartbeat so that Heather could once again listen to her son’s heart beat. CUTTING-EDGE CANCER TREATMENTS Each year about 300 children the collection and analysis are newly diagnosed with cancer of genomic and proteomic at Phoenix Children’s. Thanks information gathered by to two partnerships, they have prestigious children’s hospitals access to more innovative across the nation, the real time treatments than ever before. data sharing makes Phoenix The Chan Soon-Shiong Children’s a true leader in this Children’s Precision Medicine fight that will forever alter the Institute at Phoenix Children’s course of cancer care. Hospital serves as the epicenter Patients at Phoenix Children’s of the nation’s largest childhood also have access to cutting-edge cancer initiative - the Cancer radiation therapy through our MoonShot Pediatrics Consortium. collaboration with Mayo Clinic The pediatric arm of Cancer Arizona. Recently Mayo Clinic’s MoonShot 2020 is committed Phoenix campus opened Arizona’s to applying next generation only proton beam therapy sequencing and leveraging program, providing targeted promising immunotherapies radiation with greater control over WINNING BIG to treat pediatric cancer and doses, shorter treatment times Race car driver and “The Bachelorette” other diseases. As the hub for and fewer side effects. contestant, Arie Luyendyk, Jr. (above left), appeared on a special Bachelor Fan Favorites Week of the game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” Selecting Phoenix Children’s as his charity of choice, Arie won $100,000 for the Hospital. Senator John McCain, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and Mayor Greg Stanton at the press conference announcing the Cancer MoonShot Pediatrics Consortium. SPRING 2016 HOPES & DREAMS 3 Riding for PCH Bike enthusiasts and music lovers revved it up during the 4th Annual “Renee and I believe Bob’s Biker Blast. The morning began with more than 500 bikers rumbling that every child into the Hospital parking lot for the deserves access to “I Ride for PCH” kickoff ride. Patients outstanding medical waved from their windows as the organization. “Bob’s Biker Blast is an care, and Phoenix bikers rolled out to Harley-Davidson epic celebration of motorcycling and Children’s Hospital of Scottsdale for the grand opening of the riding community, but it’s also provides the the world’s largest Harley dealership. about helping those in need,” said Bob Parsons. “Renee and I believe absolute best.” Later that evening the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald that every child deserves access —BOB PARSONS performed before a crowd of 10,000. to outstanding medical care, and Event host Bob Parsons also took Phoenix Children’s Hospital provides the stage, pledging that The Bob & the absolute best in terms of staff, Renee Parsons Foundation would quality care and pediatric specialties.” round out funds raised during the Citing their commitment to event to make a $1 million donation philanthropy and community to the Hope Fund and Crews’n support, the Governor of Arizona and Healthmobile, breaking a Hospital Mayors of Phoenix and Scottsdale record for the most money brought in also proclaimed November 7, 2015 during an event hosted by an outside “Bob and Renee Parsons Day.” 4 HOPES & DREAMS SPRING 2016 FIRST RESPONDERS HELP PCH BREAK GROUND Phoenix Children’s honored the Valley’s emergency first responders and donors to the Condition Critical campaign at the groundbreaking for the new Emergency Department and Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center that will open in late 2017. Chandler firefighter Bubba Cox recalled the day his son Cooper was airlifted to the Hospital’s Trauma Center after he was crushed by a utility vehicle, saying, “As a parent, I pray that your child never comes here. But as a first responder, I pray that if your child needs to be treated in a hospital, that they’re treated here.” For more information or to help visit ConditionCriticalPCH.org.