FAITH&WORKFall 2021 We’re off to see the colors… FAITH&WORK StBarnabasHealthSystem.com St. Barnabas Health System Fall 2021 Contents 3 A Message from William V. Day 10 4 I am Brother Paul 5 Anyone, Anywhere… 6 Communities Dining Team 8 To Vape or Not to Vape, Not! 9 Matters of the Heart 10 The Gardner Way 12 Making Sense of the New Alzheimer’s Medication 4 13 Golf and 5K Success 14 Fall Charity Events 5 15 Windows to Their World 16 Donors Cover: We’re off to see the colors…the wonderful colors of fall. The Woodlands at St. Barnabas residents (l to r) Sandy and Jim Olsen and Barbara Tate with her five-year- old Morkie Bella Rosa follow their quiet neighborhood road enjoying the colors of autumn. 6 St. Barnabas Health System Board of Trustees John J. Curran, Chair Thomas M. Schmidt, Vice Chair William V. Day, Secretary Richard J. Andrus Walter DeForest Daniel S. Henderson Joseph C. Scaletta Sr. St. Barnabas Health System Officers William V. Day, EdD, President 14 9 Douglas W. Day, Senior Vice President Karen Tabacchi, Senior Vice President James D. Turco, Senior Vice President Margaret Horton, Assistant Vice President Faith & Work is published quarterly by St. Barnabas Health System Nancy Brem, Editor Donna Herrle, Designer Rick Armstrong and Alex Grant, Photographers Reed & Witting, Printer 8 The Official Registration and Financial information of St. Barnabas Charities may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, (800) 732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. young physical therapist is down on one It’s what lit that first torch 121 years ago when knee adjusting a knee brace on 78-year- St. Barnabas was founded in downtown Pittsburgh. old Anna. She is not happy. Chris teases The flame was tiny but steady in those early years. Aher about her new hairdo. Anna smiles just a little. But the flame began to wane and by the sixties, Chris tells her she is doing great, getting better it was fluttering. It was about to go out when every day. Anna grins and says, “I didn’t think I concerned trustees sought my help 54 years ago. had it in me.” St. Barnabas needed an oxygen boost — an injection of emotion and motivation backed up by hard work and a A Message from William V. Day practical business plan to set the torch ablaze — all this and heaven, too. For, without God, there would be They have an audience of one…me. no St. Barnabas. There would be no millions of dollars in free care for those in need…there would I take Chris aside and commend him for his be no circle of care providing secure, comfortable, patience, his caring, for his good work. His reply independent living, home care and living assistance, stuns me. long-term and hospice care…all tendered in beautiful surroundings with hope and love. “I’m just carrying on the torch you lit a long time ago.” Who is there to keep St. Barnabas’ torch burning, Who will carry the torch? to carry it forward into its 13th, 14th, 15th decade I am speechless — believe it or not. I put my fist and into the 22nd century? There is Chris. There is over my heart and thanked him. Karen. There is Douglas. There is James. Oh, so I can tell. He means it. It’s not just ‘buttering up many. And, God willing, more to come. I thank the boss.’ God for them and for letting me carry the torch for as long as I can. I will never forget that moment. The emotion I felt that day and the emotion that therapist Chris God bless, McClure must have felt to say those words are WVD what keeps all of us at St. Barnabas going. [email protected] I Am Brother Paul nd with these words began would soon lose his way in life, He The Brotherhood, which never a life-long commitment to became a lumberjack and later an numbered more than 10 at a time, St. Barnabas. odd-job man. In 1950 he found came to an end in 1969 and A his way to St. Barnabas, donning Brother Paul became Paul O. W. Brother Paul was Paul O. W. the rough brown robe of the lay Hopkinson. He married the home’s Hopkinson, administrator of St. Barnabas Brotherhood secretary, Viola Gregory, in St. Barnabas Free Home in Gibsonia, and taking the name of 1970 and Mr. and Mrs. PA and successor to the founder Brother Paul in honor Paul Hopkinson Gouverneur P. Hance, who died in of the apostle. moved to Corpus 1954. He was introducing himself Christi, Texas to William V. Day, the business Brother Paul after his retire- consultant called in to help decide was the Free ment in 1974. the fate of the struggling home. Home’s ‘Mr. Paul died Fixit.’ He March 13, Day was to become only the third could and 1985. CEO of the 100-year-old organi- did fix zation, now known as St. Barnabas everything, Brother Health System. using his Paul had inventive many But this is the story of Brother Paul, genius to accom- born Oliver William Hopkinson, a install an plishments direct descendant of Francis automatic as an Hopkinson, one of the signers of thermostat inventor, the Declaration of Independence to control the as a leader in 1776. heating of a charitable Almost from birth, Oliver was a system that home that maverick, roaring around the city marveled local never turned of Philadelphia, where he was born repair men. He away anyone in in 1916. He refused to attend also patented a need, and, surprisingly the University of Pennsylvania, number of inventions even to himself, as a originally the College of Pennsyl- assigning those patents and successful fundraiser on vania, where his famous ancestor their income to the Free Home. behalf of his beloved patients. had been the first to graduate. One of these inventions was for a He was above all, a proud patriot, Oliver chose Princeton University, spark plug gap adjustor, still used who carried a copy of the and unlike all male Hopkinsons in cars today. Declaration of Independence who became lawyers, he studied signed by his ancestor, every day Brother Paul was the glue that held physics. of his life. St. Barnabas Free Home together, He began his career as a research physically and literally. He called physicist for Westinghouse working the Bible, ‘The Manufacturer’s on cathode ray tubes. 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FAITH & WORK 5 COMMUNITIES DINING TEAM “ Go for Gold! very single day, 365 days a the freshest local vegetables, as more sophisticated items like year, the Culinary Crew at The fruits, cheeses, eggs and meats quail and steak au poivre; bistro Communities at St. Barnabas served with a smile and pride. bar bites in the Fox Place Pub; Estrive to win top scores from the casual choices in the Leisure residents. Led by Food & Beverage Director Lounge; sandwiches and salads in Jerome Jocuns, the team work The Country Store; and wine Team members know the residents’ together to provide a diverse pairings in The Wine Room. dietary needs, their likes and dislikes dining menu in multiple venues: – no garlic and onion, hold the The Village Restaurant serving “Our residents can enjoy and spicy seasoning, an extra helping comfort foods such as Yankee pot experience a wide range of foods of mac ‘n’ cheese…and always, roast and stuffed peppers as well and surroundings without ever leaving The Village,” Jerome said. 6 FAITH & WORK The Winning Village Dining Team: Left to Right by rows: Front, kneeling — Tanner Trebilcock, Pietro Porco, Joseph Baldauff, Camille Patrignani, Josephine Bagnato, Brian Schrecongost, and Matthew Pantoja; Second row — Patricia Zelinka-Boreing, Bryan deLeon, Linda COMMUNITIES DINING TEAM Heibert, Chef Eric Bagnato, Pamela Tift, Dana Welsh and Lauren Tassos; Back row — Linda Matecka, Jerome Jocuns, Kolton Ott, Denise Scanlon and Karen Ide-Heffley. “We are fortunate,” Jerome added, food.