The Joy of Giving The Comprehensive Cancer & Research Center Upcoming Events | CEO Roundtable | Celebrity Classic | Miracle Child | Stars Over Macon Ball Spring 2012 | www.medcenfoundation.org Medcen Community Health contents Foundation Board of Trustees 2012 Officers Danny Gibson, Chair Scott Seigel, Vice Chair Kenneth Banks, Corporate Secretary Rhonda Perry, Corporate Treasurer 7 8 10 15 20 Trustees Timothy Andrews Jeff Rutledge Kent Baldschun Warren Selby Jr. Gene Battles, MD Lamar Sizemore William Baxley, III R. Earl Smith Features Rick Bonfim Karen Smith Cyndey Busbee Dan Speight 4 CCRC Rendering/Houser Focus Harriette Carter Jeff Thompson Kenneth Clark, Ex Officio Betty Treadwell, Ex Officio 6 Peach Regional Medical Center Linda Clay, Ex Officio Matilda Walker, Ex Officio John Draughon Pam White-Colbert J. Doug Dunwody Thomas J. Wicker A. Don Faulk, FACHE, Ex Officio Happenings Witt Gaither, Ex Officio Emeriti Members Freddy Gaton, MD Pamela C. Chapman 8 Grateful Family – May & Jim Davis Bent Gay, RPh Virgil Cooper Jr. Thomas Gibbons, Ex Officio Mary Eva Dubose Chris Greene A. V. Elliott 9 Major Gifts Luncheon Duke Groover John G. Etheridge, MD Cal Hays Patsy Fellows 9 CEO Roundtable Angela Hicks Alan D. Kirsh, MD Dottie Houser W. J. O’Shaughnessey Jr., MD 10 TCH Golf Classic Emory Johnson, MD Donald I. Rosen James Manley William H. Somers, MD David Rozier Oscar S. Spivey, MD MCHF Board Retreat 11 William H. M. Weaver, MD 12 20th Anniversary CMN Broadcast Medcen Community 13 MCCG: A Wise Investment Health Foundation Staff Carolyn Mitchell, Executive Assistant Debbie Schuchmann, Sr. Development Officer Major Gifts Gala (Donor Appreciation Party) 16 Ellen Terrell, CFRE, Sr. Development Officer Kathy Tolbert, Development Officer, The Children’s Hospital 18 Wine Pairings Shirley Tucker, Administrative Assistant Susan Watkins, Development Officer 19 Hospice Partner Reception Brianne Huie, Development Officer 20 Planned Giving: Why Choose Medcen? ESTABLISHED MAY 2002 Publisher Photographers Medcen Community Ken Krakow Departments Health Foundation, Inc. Debbie Schuchmann Ellen Terrell 3 Message from the Chair Printer Kathy Tolbert Susan Watkins Proforma Ascension 15 Carlyle Place: Pease of Mind is Priceless Contributing Writers Carolyn Mitchell Medcen Community 15 HEAT Spring Special Event Debbie Schuchmann Health Foundation, Inc. ® Ellen Terrell 858 High Street 19 Pediatric da Vinci Robotic Surgery System Macon, GA 31201 Kathy Tolbert Missi Upshaw 478-633-1555 Upcoming Events www.medcenfoundation.org 21 Susan Watkins 22 Tid-Bits Medcen Happenings is published by the Medcen Foundation Staff. Gifts, Memorials, and Honorariums Inquiries regarding this publication may be directed to Carolyn Mitchell at 24 478-633-7395. (February 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012) Corrections It always our most sincere intent to provide accurate information in our Medcen Happenings publications; unfortunately, we overlooked a crucial piece of information in our last issues’ story, Miracle Child Amare Threatt. We inadvertently left out Dr. Lane, the pediatric anesthesiologist who was a vital part in the medical team that was comprised to take care of Amare Threatt and his mother during the delivery process. Please know that this mistake does not undermine the important role he played throughout the delivery and subsequent surgery. We are sorry for the omission! 2 Medcen Happenings SPRING 2012 department A message from the chair Changing Times Our investors can feel comfortable that the investment they make in our community through their gifts to the Medcen Foundation of There is a time to plant and a time to harvest. And as the sands Central Georgia makes a difference —not only for today but for pass through the hourglass, so time marches on. all of posterity in the lives of the citizenry of Central Georgia and the entire region. Your contributions help foster new growth that With the passage of time, change inevitably takes place. It’s elevates the standard by which we all live. a peculiar phenomenon. Change can raise the anxiety level in the human mind, but on the other hand, change can serve Our campaign to raise monies to fund Medcen’s commitment as a catalyst for all things good. Change is essential to life, to and contribution to the Comprehensive Cancer & Research remaining viable. Center continues to hit the mark. This facility will set us apart from even the most elite of health care providers. The center will After 25 years of extraordinary leadership, Ethel Cullinan has become the backdrop for positively changing the lives of many of entered into a well deserved retirement. With Ethel’s departure our loved ones and families throughout our region. from our foundation some level of trepidation will set in as we anxiously await the identity of her replacement, vetted, appointed Additionally, we have begun the early construction phase of and beginning his or her tenure of leadership. My intent and a new hospital in Peach County — an exciting project for the purpose during the next few words is to help set your mind at Foundation which proves we are connected and reaching out to ease. our regional family. The hospital will bridge us with surrounding areas and expand the absolute highest level of health care I have served on the foundation board for eight years and as throughout the region. chair during the past 19 months. During this tenure I have had the wonderful experience of seeing the internal workings of the It is indeed a pleasure to let you know that, yes, change is in the foundation and getting to know the Medical Center of Central air, but it is change for the better —the betterment of all of our Georgia up close and personal. I can assure you — supporters, families and friends. I am privileged to stand on the shoulders benefactors, staff, board, and friends — that you have nothing to of my successors, to support this board and the facilities that it fear. In fact you have much to look forward to as we move into supports. this new phase. Your Foundation stands poised for the greatest, most productive endeavors thus far. I want to continue to thank our Board, volunteers, supporters, and our staff for continuing to carry the torch. If you too would At the time of this writing, I assure you that the members who like to become a part of this positive and exciting change, please make up the Board are the best schooled in our mission and contact with our staff. We would welcome you aboard. purpose than at any point in my memory. We have dedicated volunteers excited about working hard to accomplish our mission. - Danny Gibson, Chair Our well-managed Foundation remains financially secure. Medcen Community Health Foundation Board of Trustees www.medcenfoundation.org Medcen Happenings 3 feature The Joy of Giving BY: DEBBIE SCHUCHMANN John, Madelyn, and Dottie Houser Have you ever wondered about Medcen’s Board of Southern Trust, comes into the picture. On a beautiful Trustees? They’re listed inside the front of each one of evening in May 2011 they opened their home to over the Medcen Happenings publications and they’re listed 50 party goers. Not only did they host the party and on Medcen’s website, but what do they really do for the enthusiastically endorse the campaign, they joined the foundation? This article is going to tell you about one Callaway Society themselves by making a major gift in of our board members in particular, Dottie Houser, and support of the new Comprehensive Cancer & Research what she’s doing for the foundation and in turn for the Center (CCRC). patients and families served at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. Dottie and John’s reasons for donating of their time, talent, and treasure are varied and personal. For Dottie About two years ago John Draughon, an attorney with it’s a mission and a passion to make sure the highest Sell-Melton, LLC, and a past president of the Medcen quality cancer care is available to all patients and families Foundation, approached me and said there was a new right here in Central and South Georgia – close to home. couple in town I should meet, Dottie and John Houser. Dottie witnessed the pain and suffering her own parents He particularly wanted me to meet Dottie. He told me endured while her younger brother, diagnosed at the being new to Macon, she was anxious to get involved in tender age of 12 with a rare form of bone cancer, was something worthwhile and that she might be interested being treated at a cancer center far from home. Dottie in helping the Foundation. So we set about having lunch vividly recalls how terrible it was for her parents as they and taking her on a tour of the Hospital, telling her about tried to navigate his cancer care without the help of a the Foundation and our mission to raise philanthropic nurse navigator, as they tried to coordinate their young dollars for the good of the community and then we invited son’s care with physicians who didn’t communicate, all her to join the Medcen Board. in a large, crowded city far away from their support base of family and friends. She humbly accepted the role, jumped in feet first, took on the job of chairing the Callaway Society and has made John, on the other hand gives because of an experience a giant impact in a relatively short period of time. One 10 years ago where for the first time he was able to give a of her first goals was to host a party with the purpose very generous gift and learned what it was to experience of educating our community (potential donors) about the “joy of giving.” After raising five children, he and the new Comprehensive Cancer & Research Center.