Campaign Bro - Jameson Health System

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B U I L D I N G
T O G E T H E R
C A P I T A L
C A M P A I G N
1211 Wilmington Avenue
New Castle, PA 16105
724.658.9001
Hospitals
Diagnostic Centers
Senior Living
Jameson Hospital – North Campus
Jameson Lab & X-Ray
Jameson Care Center
Jameson Hospital – South Campus
Jameson Mohawk Community Health Center
Jameson Place
Jameson New Wilmington Community Health Center
Jameson Shenango Community Health Center
Specialty Services
Lawrence County MRI & Diagnostic Imaging Center
Children’s Advocacy Center of Lawrence County
Jameson Diagnostic Center at Mayzon
Jameson Center for Cardiac Health
Jameson Hospital Center for Wound Healing
Learn More at:
www.jamesonhealth.org
Schools
Jameson Rehabilitation Center
Jameson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Jameson Women’s Center
Jameson School of Radiography
UPMC/Jameson Cancer Center
Writing & Design:
Third Planet Global Creative
Printing:
Commercial Printing Company
P R O M I S E
B E L I E V E
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e’re asking for your help in building not just a stronger health system, but a stronger Lawrence County. Jameson Health System is a
vital source for emergency and surgical care within the region. It’s also Lawrence County’s largest employer and economy driver, touching the
livelihoods of more than 1300 families. And it delivers over $20 million in charitable healthcare every year. Several years ago, our Board Leadership
identified the crucial need for a new Emergency Department and Surgical Suite to sustain Jameson’s ability to fulfill this critical role.
The new Emergency Department will provide the space and work flow needed to meet the patient volumes of today and tomorrow. For many years,
our resilient and committed staff have been saving lives and meeting patient needs in spite of, not because of the conditions in our current
facility. Our community deserves better.
The new Surgical Suite will replace a 1971-era facility with the infrastructure to support the next generation of surgical equipment and
technology. It will enable our aging population to get the advanced care they need, right here at home in Lawrence County. It will also provide the
level of medical technology preferred by the newest generation of doctors, and will help us continue to recruit the best and brightest
medical talent.
In 2005, our “Joining Together” campaign began the work of communicating Jameson’s need to grow and to evolve. This project is now becoming
a reality, and it’s an exciting time for me personally to be here.
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Building Together is “Joining Together” live. With construction under way, your continued support is absolutely vital to finishing
the project, and in the following pages you’ll understand why. You’ll meet people whose lives have been saved, whose families have
been held together, whose contributions to the community have been held up through the heroic efforts of the doctors, nurses
and staff at Jameson.
That’s why I’m asking for your support. The good things we’re building are in turn building a better future for all of us.
Douglas Danko, FACHE
President/CEO
Jameson Health System
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Amy & Addison
you care for others, too
Watching the countdown on New Year’s Eve 2009, time was not on
Amy Rodwell’s side.
She was relaxing in the living room with a holiday gathering of family
and friends when she suddenly fell against her husband, unconscious,
a victim of a near-fatal stroke.
With her brain starving for oxygen, every second that passed threatened to take Amy farther away from her family, her friends, her career,
and her lively, curly-haired daughter Addison.
“I remember my husband calling an ambulance,” Amy recalls. “Then it
gets fuzzy. Thank God there was a great neurologist on duty at the
Jameson ER who recognized immediately what was going on and
jumped into action. I have no doubt that Jameson saved my life.”
The team that made the time-critical decisions that night had the joy of
seeing Amy come back to the hospital a short time later, under her own
power, with hugs and thanks. Today, she is back at her job, an aide at a
local youth correction center in New Castle. She spends the rest of her
time with her husband and Addison. And she counts every moment a
precious gift.
because ...
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Sometimes I won’t think about it for a while, and then
all of a sudden I’ll realize just how blessed and lucky
I am. A stroke is pretty devastating ... and yet here
I am. I still get to be mom to my daughter.
SECONDS MATTER
Adding telemedicine equipment to our Emergency Department
will back up the split-second life saving decisions our staff
makes everyday, with real-time access to the country’s most
highly specialized medical centers.
Dr. David Anderson
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Dr. Paul Wawrzynski & Dr. Conrad Smith
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Chuck & Marjorie
everyone deserves to get
back to their lives
Not every heart attack knocks you down like a blow from a sledgehammer. Chuck Dugan’s heart attack snuck up on him over a couple of
days, a feeling of growing pressure in his upper body. On October 5, it got
to the point where, he says, “I felt like my arms were going to explode.”
That’s when wife Marjorie took Chuck to Jameson Hospital’s Emergency
Department. They found that he had indeed suffered a heart attack, and
one of the arteries supplying his heart was completely blocked. “It was a
shock when they told me what it was. I was expecting something totally
different,” Chuck recalls. After being transferred directly from the ER to
Jameson’s catheterization lab, Chuck had two stents inserted that restored
his blood flow.
Subtle or not, the heart attack was a wakeup call for Chuck. It was a threat
to the life he shared with Marjorie and their children and grandchildren.
And it was a threat to his commitment to the community of New Castle,
as manager of the First National Bank.
After his surgery, Chuck spent some time in observation. He enrolled in
the Jameson’s Dean Ornish program and other related wellness activities,
where he’s learning to manage a healthier diet. Then he went back to his
job at the bank, and to his wife, children and his grandchildren; almost like
it never happened.
Which is the way it’s supposed to be.
because ...
With your help, Building Together will give Lawrence County a new, larger
Emergency Department ... the heartbeat of our service to the community.
It will give our patients like Chuck more options for treatment, better
equipment for arterial surgery, and better facilities for family and loved
ones to wait in privacy.
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Chuck’s heart attack was quite a scare, but now, we’re back
to normal. That is, a wiser normal, even better than before.
And that is such a good and happy place to be.
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Jonathan & Julia, RN
I wouldn’t trust anyone else
Julia Yohman is a single mom of four. Her youngest, Jonathan, is an allaround athlete and student who wants to play someday in the NFL.
Julia is also a 25-year veteran surgical nurse at Jameson who has worked
her fair share of emergency appendicectomies. But when it’s your own
child, it’s a whole different ball game.
She remembers well the night she and Jonathan realized that what had
started out feeling like stomach flu was taking a deadly turn towards
appendicitis. And with that came the realization that the clock was running, threatening Jonathan with serious complications.
Julia rushed Jonathan to Jameson’s ER, where a CAT scan and other
tests confirmed appendicitis, and Jonathan was taken to the OR for
immediate surgery. And then she waited, trusting her colleagues and
coworkers with Jonathan’s safety.
Laparoscopic technology has made quick work of what used to be an
invasive operation with a long scar and a long recovery. Jonathan,
minus his appendix, was out of surgery in an hour, home 24 hours
later, and back in training three days after that.
because ...
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Julia has no doubt that Jonathan got the best possible emergency care,
from diagnosis through surgery. Julia knows the standards, talent and
quality behind Jameson’s OR doors. She’s just as confident that the new
ER and OR facilities will have the capacity and the technology to make
the trip even faster and smoother for generations to come.
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I have seen many emergency procedures as an
OR nurse, but when the patient is your child,
there’s no such thing as a routine operation.
You feel just as helpless as any other mom.
With your support, Jameson’s expansion will add space,
work flow and technology to speed the process of transferring
Emergency Department patients to surgery.
A faster trip from ER to OR
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Caitlyn
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victory comes in all forms
Sometimes victory is fighting back after an injury so you can join
your soccer team in the national finals. And sometimes it’s just
being able to play catch with a six-year-old.
To be all you can be
Caitlyn Bleggi, a serious athlete at Penn State with a wall full of
sports medals and a will of iron, achieved her goal with some
home team assistance. After demolishing the ligaments in her
right knee during a state championship soccer game, Caitlyn
came to Jameson for reconstructive surgery and therapy. A short,
miraculous year later, she was back with her team as it ran to the
top – placing second in the nation.
Whether it’s family,
community, friends or
fellow athletes; in the
end, all paths lead
to the same goal:
winning back your
place on the team.
To be all you can be again
Ann Sumner, along with two of her friends from their church in
New Castle, fought a different kind of battle: Crippling arthritis.
Total knee replacement surgery and inpatient therapy
at Jameson helped all three friends get back to a more mobile
life. Ann is back behind the counter at Weingartner’s Florist and
Gifts, serving the community she loves. Ann’s friend Marian
DeRobertis is again playing catch with her six-year-old grandson,
grateful for each day of renewed strength. And Tom Tatarka, the
third member of this trio of friends, is planning, with help from
wife Paula, to put in his usual crop of tomatoes over the summer.
because ...
A Highmark Blue Distinction Center for Knee & Hip Replacement, Jameson is leading
competitive quality in orthopedics. Dedicated orthopedic operating rooms will be part
of our new surgical department, with space for greater patient privacy and to accommodate advancing technology, all essential for keeping our community on the move.
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Ann, Tom & Marian
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My team at Jameson was with me every step of the way –
they prepared me for my journey at every phase. The
rewards are surprising, just being able to go up and down
the stairs again makes a huge difference.
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Patricia & Ginger
care is a personal thing
Patricia McCreary knows something about care. She spent 23
years as a nurse’s aide in the recovery room at Jameson, helping
patients take their first steps back to a normal life. She made
many close friends among the caregivers and staff at Jameson
over the years, all the way up to her retirement.
In October 2010, Patricia had a chance to see some of those
friends again... this time as a patient herself. Patricia was diagnosed with breast cancer at Jameson’s Women’s Center, and had
successful breast surgery at Jameson. “The girl who took me to
surgery was a girl I’d worked with,” Patricia recalls. “It was a difficult time, and it felt good to be in the hands of folks I knew.
They were all very good to me.”
Patricia is now cancer-free and back to her own normal life. She
spends time with Richard, her companion of 30 years, and takes
care of her dog Ginger. She visits her niece and nephew and their
children, with whom she’s very close. And Patricia stays in touch
with her Jameson friends and colleagues.
Because, as a professional caregiver, Patricia knows how good it
is to be able to put your trust in the hands of folks you know.
because ...
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YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER
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When I was a nurse’s aide, I always felt a special
connection when friends and family came in as patients.
It just felt reassuring to have that same feeling again,
later in life, when I was looking up from a hospital bed
instead of looking down.
Your contribution to Building Together will help improve our post-operative
facilities to give patients more privacy and better access for family
and loved ones. After all, care is what it’s all about.
Dr. Fernando Hayetian & Shari Comianos, RN
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As retired publisher of the New Castle News, Fred
Rentz has a newspaperman’s eye for the pressing
needs of our community. And for him and his wife
Barbara, there is no need more pressing than supporting an updated and expanded Jameson Hospital. Fred
and Barbara are 2010 YMCA Salute to Courage honorees, and Fred is a Board Member of the Jameson
Health Care Foundation. And for Fred, it’s personal
too. He is a Jameson patient.
“A health care system, community hospital
and an ER that’s just minutes away is
imperative to making our life better.
So we are committed to making it better.”
Portraits of Giving
Chuck Adamo — “This expansion is vital: The
Emergency Department will get to patients faster,
and the Surgery Department will be state-of-the-art.
We’ll have everything a big hospital can provide,
and we’ll have it right here in Lawrence County.”
Dr. Robert McGann — “Advancements of this project
will align Jameson with some of the most advanced
centers in the country. It will enable better healing
and enhanced service to our patients and families.
And it will give us a stronger, healthier community
hospital – and a stronger, healthier community.”
Fred & Barbara Rentz
Diane & Kevin Benedict — “We’re 100% behind
this project because we work here, and because
we care about the future. We can see, every day,
how much better it will be for patients who need
emergency and surgical care.”
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Now is the time to invest in the
A
future.
s a community, we care for each other – as we should. Jameson Health System is an essential part
of that care – saving lives, restoring independence, helping families and neighborhoods stay together.
Through Building Together, you can be part of that effort. Your contribution will help us accomplish the
community’s healthcare goals today by expanding to meet the emergency and surgical needs of a
unique and dynamic region. As part of Jameson’s excellent and compassionate health care system ...
your gift will continue to give to our community
for generations to come.
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For Project Updates, please visit:
www.jamesonhealth.org/buildingtogether