2019 IMPACT REPORT Local Giving. Local Impact. BOARDS OF DIRECTORS 2019 CENTRA FOUNDATION BEDFORD Dear Friends, Mark D. Townsend, MD, Amanda N. Stanley, Chairman Chairman Janice Luth, MD, Vice Chairman George A. Hurt, MD, Michael I. Elliott, Secretary With deep gratitude, we are pleased to report on the myriad ways that your gifts made Vice Chairman Hilary F. Basham, DO an impact. Elizabeth A. Doyle, Executive Mary Jo Boone Vice President & Secretary Cynthia D. Gunnoe In 2019 your gifts provided the mobile neonatal intensive care unit ‘NEO ONE’, Michael V. Bradford, Treasurer Timothy L. Hayden Robert R. Chapman III W. Courtney Holdren enabling the highest level of transport care possible for babies in critical need. You Melanie F. Christian Jeffrey B. Hubbard provided support for 108 students to attend nursing school, helping to address a Theodore J. Craddock Michael J. LeMaster critical staffing need for trained nurses. Over $980,000 in life-saving medical care and Thomas J. Delaney, MD Andrew T. Mueller, MD Michael J. Diminick, MD Mary A. Zirkle patient support was provided to our neediest patients, even when MaryJane Dolan they could not afford it, thanks to your generosity. Paul F. Fitzgerald, MD Ex-Officio Member Robert H. Gilliam Jr. William L. Bass Jr. John J. Halpin, MD Private support helps us send patients home from the David A. Herrick hospital tomorrow, instead of weeks. It allows our Janet G. Hickman, MD providers to impact community health this year, not SOUTHSIDE Yuille Holt III someday. It drives cutting-edge treatments in our Andrew T. Mueller, MD Sharon L. Harrup, Chairman Augustus A. Petticolas Jr., DDS Francis E. Wood Jr., lifetime, not in our children’s lifetime. The impact Leroy O. Pfeiffer Jr. Vice Chairman of philanthropy is immeasurable. Amy G. Ray Leroy O. Pfeiffer Jr., Elliot S. Schewel* Secretary/Treasurer John H. Sorrells III Rhonda B. Algeier, MD Your gifts changed lives. Thank you. Bikram S. Bal, MD Ex-Officio Members William L. Bass Jr. Michael I. Elliott Kemper Beasley III Sincerely, R. Sackett Wood C. Scott Davis, LpD * deceased Michael I. Elliott Rev. Dr. Calvin L. Gray Harold M. Harris Jr. CENTRA William P. McGuire Amy G. Ray, Chairman Andrew T. Mueller, MD George R. Zippel, Vice Chairman Odessa H. Pride, EdD Mark Townsend, MD, MHCN Beth Doyle, CFRE Michael V. Bradford, Treasurer Timothy R. Tharpe Chairman Executive Vice President Peter A. Caprise, MD Patricia L. Tucker Julie P. Doyle Centra Foundation Centra Foundation Matthew R. Foster, MD Ex-Officio Members Harold M. Harris Jr. Thomas L. Angelo MISSION Sharon L. Harrup Kirsten Huber, MD Hylan T. Hubbard III To develop resources to D. Todd Irby support Centra in providing Andrew T. Mueller, MD excellent healthcare for the Thomas W. Nygaard, MD communities we serve, now Verna R. Sellers, MD and into the future. Amanda N. Stanley R. Sackett Wood Ex-Officio Members Shawn M. Hayes, MD Mark D. Townsend, MD YOUR impact: 2019 SUMMARY OF FUNDS DISTRIBUTED Your gifts to the Centra Foundation make a tremendous impact on the patients who trust Centra to provide skilled and compassionate care. Thank you from your entire community! TOTAL: $3,979,462 $1,061,893 $980,361 $733,103 $598,492 $605,613 Education & SCHOLARSHIPS PATIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS COMMUNITY HEALTH • Continuing Education • Assistance with Medical • Bridges Treatment Center • 3D Mobile • Community Health • Nursing Scholarships Bills • Brookneal Health Mammography Unit Initiative Grants (fully Navigator funded by Centra • Financial Assistance for • Cardiopulmonary Rehab Health) Guests of Dawson Inn • Chaplaincy Treadmills • Community Health • Free Health Screenings • Helping Hands • LGH Surgical Services Needs Assessment • Lynchburg Family Lobby Furnishings • Health Education & Medicine Residency • Neonatal Ambulance Outreach • VBH Nursing Museum • Neonatal Isolette • Women & Children’s Outreach 15% 25% 18% 27% 15% 3 | CENTRAFOUNDATION.COM DONOR SPOTLIGHT: PAT HARRINGTON Leaving a legacy of comfort and healing through art. “One of Pat’s goals was to highlight the artistic Patients, family members, and visitors to the Centra Alan B. Pearson Regional Cancer talent in our area. Center are surrounded by a message of strength and hope as they walk the hallways But even more lined with paintings, prints and sculpture — one of the only permanent collections of importantly, she local artwork in the community — thanks to the everlasting generosity of the late Pat wanted to enhance Harrington. the environment for patients undergoing Mrs. Harrington became interested in the planned cancer center when the project was treatment for cancer. announced in 2005 with her belief that it would help many people in the region who were She believed that undergoing cancer treatment. In June of that year, she made a major gift to the Centra being surrounded by Foundation’s capital campaign to name the cancer center lobby in memory of her late works of art uplifted husband, Donald Harrington, to whom she was married for 60 years. Her unrestricted gift the spirit and would was used for the building of the center. provide many benefits to both cancer patients “My parents were very close. This was her way of honoring him,” said their son, Mike as well as their families,” Harrington, chairman of Harrington Corporation, the Lynchburg manufacturing company said Pumphrey, noting The late founded by his father in 1966. “My father died of multiple myeloma. She understood the that research has shown that Pat Harrington vision and positive effect the cancer center would have on families dealing with cancer.” placing artwork in hospital or in her home studio clinical settings can greatly reduce An accomplished artist in both oil and watercolor, Mrs. Harrington was very active in stress and anxiety as well as help with Lynchburg art organizations and served in leadership roles and on boards, including the the healing process. Lynchburg Art Festival, Lynchburg Art Club, Roanoke Art Show, and the Roanoke Fine Arts Center. She received numerous awards from national art clubs and societies, exhibited In a letter dated March 27, 2009, former Centra President and CEO George Dawson her work in many one-woman shows, underwrote local art programs, and continued wrote in thanks to Mrs. Harrington for her inspiration and generosity, “Many patients studying art well into her 80s. and family members undergoing cancer treatment will be comforted for years to come.” Little did he know, he said recently, that he would be one of those patients after he was She assisted in founding the Virginia Watercolor Society and was accepted into the American diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in 2011. Watercolor Society (AWS), National Watercolor Society, and the Southern Watercolor Society. Her many awards included the Metropolitan Museum of Art award from the “As a patient, the art in the Pearson Cancer Center gave me an emotional outlet and a Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and the Saunders/Waterford award from the AWS. focus outside of myself and my diagnosis,” Dawson said. “I later learned from Pat that her large landscape, ‘Grandmother’s Garden,’ which is included in the collection, was In 2008, Mrs. Harrington made an anonymous gift to the Centra Foundation toward what inspired by a brief brush she had with a possible cancer diagnosis that turned out to would become the Centra Alan B. Pearson Regional Cancer Center Art Collection in her be good news when further test results came back. She expressed the emotion of that belief in the power of art to bring joy and respite as well as to uplift, strengthen, comfort experience in her painting.” and heal. That June, a juried art exhibition sponsored by the foundation brought together 131 works of art created by Central and Southside Virginia artists to form the collection. Dawson added, “Pat was a very generous and humble person with a deep appreciation for Since then, 33 works of art have been added to complete the collection. the arts and life. Most of her philanthropy was anonymous. The idea of incorporating an enduring collection of the best of local art into the cancer center was hers, but she did not “Pat Harrington’s monetary contribution that enabled the Centra Foundation to purchase want recognition for it and the gift agreement stipulated that her identity not be disclosed over 100 paintings from local and regional artists greatly enhanced the cancer center on so during her lifetime.” many levels,” said Kathryn Pumphrey, EdD, former executive vice president of the Centra Foundation. 4 | 2019 IMPACT REPORT As a patient, the art in the Pearson Cancer Center gave me an emotional outlet and a focus outside of myself and my diagnosis. I later learned from Pat that her large landscape, ‘Grandmother’s Garden,’ which is “included in the collection, was inspired by a brief brush she had with a possible cancer diagnosis that turned out to be good news when further test results came back. She expressed the emotion of that experience in her painting. — George Dawson, former president and CEO, Centra ” Along with her passion for the arts, Mrs. Harrington was an enthusiastic supporter of Lynchburg organizations that help make Lynchburg a better community, including Academy Center of the Arts, Amazement Square, Centra, The Salvation Army, and many others. Mike Harrington explained that it was only toward the end of her life that his mother agreed to be recognized for her gift of the art collection. Detail of “She and my father were humble,” he said. “She did not want to draw Pat Harrington’s attention to herself. In her last year, we spoke several times about revealing painting, herself so she could be an inspiration and example to others. She came “Grandmother’s Garden,” to understand that and began allowing her name to be listed with her which hangs in the Centra Alan B.