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Team Lahey Raises $80,000Runners from Lahey Health’s inaugural Boston Marathon team raised more than $80,000 for programs at their respective hospitals at the April 15 event. Team Lahey was a proud official charity of the John Hancock Non- Profit Program.

Stefanie Smolinsky, Lahey’s manager of talent acquisition operations, was our top fundraiser, bringing in more than $18,000. Stefanie ran for maternity services at Beverly Hospital.

Ashley Spongberg, a surgical technologist at Beverly Hospital, came in second, raising nearly $17,000 to support her colleagues in the surgical suite at Beverly.

Pamela DeCoste, a grateful patient of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, took in more than $14,000 for the hospital’s Comprehensive Breast Health Center. That money

will help pay for a new facility at 67 South Bedford Street in Burlington with private exam rooms and 3D mammography.

Valena Wright, MD, director of gynecologic oncology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, raised more than $13,000 for women’s surgical programs. When she’s not in the operating room, Dr. Wright teaches young doctors how to perform surgery in the hospital’s Center for Professional Development and Simulation.

Sponsors donated almost $18,000 to the team.

Each runner on Team Lahey had personal reasons for running the marathon.

Video profiles and stories are online at Giving.LaheyHealth.org/BostonMarathon

Ashley Spongberg, right, gives high fives to the Team Lahey cheering section as she runs through Kenmore Square.

Lahey Health’s affiliates became part of Beth Israel Lahey Health on March 1, when the new system came together with a goal of helping our patients, their families and our communities be healthier.

“I think more important than the fact that what we’re creating is going to be different is the fact that what we’re creating will make a difference,” said CEO Kevin Tabb, MD.

Read more at BILH.org

A Hole-in-One for Our HospitalsJoin us June 10 for the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Golf Classic at the Belmont Country Club! Proceeds from the tournament go to Lahey Hospital & Medical Center.

Tee off with us on September 9 for the Winchester Hospital James F. McDonough, MD, Golf Classic at the Winchester Country Club! Proceeds will fund nursing scholarships named for the late Dr. McDonough, a beloved OB/GYN at Winchester Hospital.

It’s Official!

Three Lahey Hospital & Medical Center leaders celebrate with BILH CEO Kevin Tabb, MD (second from left). From left: Chief Nursing Officer Tracy Galvin, MSN, RN; Tabb; President David Longworth, MD; and Chief Operating Officer Stathis Antoniades.

Hit a few golf balls on the North Shore for a good cause! The Beverly & Addison Gilbert Hospitals’ Golf Classic will take place on September 16 at the Essex County Club. The proceeds from this tournament will benefit programs at Beverly and Addison Gilbert hospitals.

For more information, please contact Alice Coogan at Alice.Coogan@Lahey.org or 781-744-5419.

Ladies’ Night Out Raises $160,000+The Women’s Leadership Council’s signature event, Ladies’ Night Out, raised more than $160,000 for the Hospice Comfort Care Fund on May 2. The event, in its sixth year, was hosted by TV personality Jenny Johnson and sponsored by Long’s Jewelers.

The Hospice Comfort Care Fund was started by the Women’s Leadership Council in 2017 to pay for supplemental end-of-life care at home or in hospice for patients in need.

“For hospice care, Medicare covers visiting nursing care (which is not 24/7), medications and equipment,” said Beth Collins, MD, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center’s medical director of palliative care. “However, the ‘hands-on’ personal care is left to family and friends. Many patients and families need more private nursing care during hospice to enable them to receive the best end-of-life care at home or in a hospice house.”

Grant MakesVet’s DyingWish PossibleAn ambulance ride from Burlington to the Bronx would have cost the Gaulman family thousands of dollars. A grant from the Hospice Comfort Care Fund made it possible for Bill Gaulman, a Lahey Hospital & Medical Center patient, Vietnam veteran and former New York City firefighter, to spend his final days near his family.

“I thank Dr. Collins and the whole team at Lahey for offering the fund, applying for the fund and approving the fund. It was absolutely amazing,” said LeShan Gaulman, Bill’s son.

LeShan describes his father as his hero. Watch a short video about Bill and the Hospice Comfort Care Fund at Giving.LaheyHealth.org/ComfortCareImpact

WLC Cofounder Cindy Gruber and Beth Collins, MD.

Ladies’ Night Out Cochairs Kathy Bickimer, Tamilyn Liesenfeld and Jeanette Creighton with emcee Jenny Johnson (second from left).

The Women’s Leadership Council.

Left to right: WLC member Mary Jones and Betsey Crawford, MD, look at auction items.

Bank Donates $150,000 to Bolster Senior CareAddison Gilbert Hospital’s capacity to care for the elderly will expand, thanks to a $150,000 donation from Cape Ann Savings Bank. The gift will help the hospital’s acclaimed Senior Adult Unit (SAU) grow from 12 beds to 20. The SAU provides comprehensive specialty care for seniors experiencing concurrent physical and behavioral health challenges, including acute depression, dementia and failure to thrive.

“Our projections show an increasing need for these services because the population of people over 65 is growing, and hospitalizations of people in that age group are also increasing,” said Cindy Cafasso Donaldson, Addison Gilbert’s vice president.

“We’re a community bank,” said Cape Ann Savings Bank President Bob Gillis. “Our community is Cape Ann. Those are the people and organizations that we’re going to support.”

Doctor, Practice Donate $50,000 to Honor Nurse The bill to send Winchester Hospital nurses to nursing conferences will be paid in part by a doctor who’s grateful for his close relationship with the nursing staff — and one nurse in particular.

Mohammed Jaleel, MD, and his practice, Winchester Hospital Inpatient Physicians, donated $50,000 to start a fund named after Marlene Williamson, RN, MSN. Marlene, Winchester’s beloved assistant chief nursing officer, retired in March after 40 years.

The gift established a fund in her name that will pay for nurses at Winchester to attend educational conferences and bring that knowledge back to their peers. “One nurse goes to a conference, comes back and changes the practice,” Marlene explained. “Five hundred nurses who work here will incorporate the information from that conference and care will improve. It’s transformative.”

Dr. Jaleel felt this gift was the best way to help Marlene’s legacy last for years after her retirement. “She was the backbone of this hospital,” he said.

Marlene Williamson, RN, MSN, center, at Winchester Hospital’s 2018 All in Good Taste event.

Bob Gillis, third from left, presents a ceremonial check to Addison Gilbert Hospital leaders.

Head of the Class Doctors from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; Lahey Medical Center, Peabody; Winchester Hospital; Beverly Hospital and Addison Gilbert Hospital made the Harvard Pilgrim Physician Group Honor Roll for 2019. The distinction recognizes these practices for their high quality care in the areas of acute, chronic and preventive care.

See the full Honor Roll at tinyurl.com/y6to9ldb

Lahey Named One of America’s Best HospitalsLahey Hospital & Medical Center has earned a spot on Healthgrade’s list of America’s 50 Best Hospitals, placing it in the top 1 percent of hospitals for consistently exhibiting clinical excellence year after year. Patients at America’s Best Hospitals are more likely to have successful treatment without major complications — and a lower chance of dying — according to Healthgrades.

Read more at tinyurl.com/y3z4tmab

Our Docs Are TopsNorthshore magazine’s annual list of the North Shore’s top doctors features more than 100 physicians from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beverly Hospital, Addison Gilbert Hospital and Winchester Hospital. Boston magazine’s list features 98 doctors from Lahey and 22 from Winchester.

Winchester’s Camera ConnectionBeing separated from a newborn baby who needs specialized hospital care can be agonizing. But thanks to a generous donation by the McCance family, parents can now check on their infants via a secure video feed direct from the Special Care Nursery at Winchester Hospital.

Bill and Suzy McCance of Reading paid for 10 cameras and installation to ease the anxiety of parental separation and to reduce stress around scheduling visits, especially for infants requiring lengthy stays and when care of other siblings is involved. “There’s no need to be pulling out dated photos when you can be sharing a look at your baby in real time,” said Bill.

New mom Courtney Ferrari, whose son Tysen was born 7 1/2 weeks early, said she was “thrilled to have access to streaming video. At the very beginning, Tysen had to stay at a Boston hospital where they didn’t have this option. It has been a surprise add-on to the amazing care at Winchester.”

For the Love of PhilanthropyThe third annual Hearts for Health luncheon on Valentine’s Day raised $21,000 for the expansion of Addison Gilbert Hospital’s Senior Adult Unit. The fundraiser, hosted by Jane Fonzo and Frances Ferrante, mother of State Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, is held every year in gratitude for the compassionate providers at Addison Gilbert Hospital, including Michael Arsenian, MD, the cardiologist who saved Frances’ life.

This year’s luncheon was dedicated to the memory of Brian Tarr, a beloved educator in Gloucester, longtime volunteer at Addison Gilbert Hospital and brother of State Sen. Bruce Tarr. Brian, a past president of the Cape Ann Commercial Fishermen’s Loan Fund, was also known for helping fishermen secure financing to keep their businesses afloat.

Suzy and Bill McCance.

Left to right: Frances Ferrante and her daughter, State Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante.

Practice Sponsors Surgical Suite FundraiserTwo practices that perform surgery and deliver anesthesia at Winchester Hospital sponsored the hospital’s All in Good Taste event for the second consecutive year. Winchester Anesthesia Associates donated $50,000 and Middlesex Surgical Associates donated $25,000 to the May 10 event, which raised more than $190,000 to renovate the surgical suite. Both were lead sponsors last year as well, giving $50,000 each.

All in Good Taste gathered several different restaurants in the Bonnell Ford showroom, where guests sampled bites from the local food scene and enjoyed live music and an auction.

The new surgical suite will feature six completely renovated operating

rooms, including one hybrid room and one that will house the latest-generation da Vinci surgical robot. “As a practice, it’s important for us to support the place where we work,” said Kurt D. Gress, MD, president of Winchester Anesthesia Associates, which has staffed the ORs for more than 50 years. “It benefits the patients, the hospital and our practice. It is a win for everyone.”

“Supporting the operating room renovations is the least we can do to continue Winchester’s strong tradition in surgical patient care,” said Bill Breckwoldt,

MD, president of Middlesex Surgical Associates.

Other lead sponsors of All in Good Taste were the Cummings Foundation and Salter Healthcare.

To learn more about the surgical suite renovation, contact Denise Flynn at Denise.L.Flynn@lahey.org or 781.756.2155.

Left to right: Marco Loi, CRNA, and Kurt D. Gress, MD.

Hany Takla, MD, Winchester Hospital’s director of robotic surgery, with the da Vinci surgical robot.

Ajay Wakhloo, MD, PhD Pioneer in Aneurysm TreatmentAfter George Keady experienced an episode of transient global amnesia, his primary care physician ordered brain imaging tests and discovered he had an aneurysm. This occurs when part of an artery wall in the brain weakens, allowing it to widen abnormally or balloon out. The imaging studies revealed that George’s aneurysm had the potential to rupture, which would release blood into the brain and cause a stroke.

As the Longmeadow man and his doctor researched the best physician to treat the aneurysm, Dr. Ajay Wakhloo’s name kept coming up. An MD and PhD, Dr. Wakhloo is chief of neurointerventional radiology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. “Dr. Wakhloo stood apart from the rest,” George Keady said. “I knew he had an excellent reputation, but he also has an outstanding manner. He’s so accessible and reassuring, and took time to answer all my questions.”

Dr. Wakhloo treated him with a technique he pioneered, called flow diversion. Guided by X-ray imaging, the surgeon uses a catheter to place a soft, flexible

mesh tube into the blood vessel where an aneurysm has formed. This process immediately diverts the flow of blood away from the aneurysm itself, making it less likely to rupture. In time, new cells grow on the implant, sealing the aneurysm and healing the vessel.

The procedure went smoothly, and George went home the next day.

Dr. Wakhloo has been the central figure in the commercial development of flow diversion, which recently received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We are seeing a 90 –100 percent cure rate using this technology in aneurysms where previously our only option was surgical clipping of the aneurysm,” he said. “The problem is that many aneurysms are not clippable. Flow diversion has created a paradigm shift in brain aneurysm treatment.”

Dr. Wakhloo was also the first to introduce and publish the concept of using a stent to remove an embolus for the treatment of stroke, which is currently the standard treatment for acute ischemic stroke. “This was an incidental discovery,

which has had a huge impact on the management of stroke patients,” he said.

He is now making his dream of creating the Image Guided Therapy Innovation Center at Lahey a reality. Image guided therapy is increasingly replacing conventional surgical approaches that involve big incisions, blood loss and long hospitalizations.

The Innovation Center is bringing together physicians and researchers in a multidisciplinary, collaborative effort to deliver leading clinical care and produce breakthroughs in novel imaging that will improve diagnosis and guide treatment in many areas of medicine. This Center will also

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Ajay Wakhloo, MD, PhD, is chief of neurointerventional radiology at Lahey.

create a sophisticated environment in which to train physicians, researchers and engineers in the use of advanced technologies and simulation.

The ultimate goals are less damage to healthy tissue, faster recoveries, fewer complications, less pain and scarring, and a quicker return to home or work after treatment. An added benefit is reduced costs associated with disease detection, monitoring and treatment.

The Innovation Center will bring new imaging technologies from bench to bedside, including:

• A robotic system that uses imaging to precisely target specific areas of the body for biopsies and surgeries. Researchers will be using robotics to steer small tubes

called microcatheters in the brain.

• Minimally invasive tools that travel through the veins or arteries into the brain to remove tumors, deliver implantable devices to treat epilepsy or expedite recovery from a stroke.

• MRI-guided cardiac ablation — a procedure to destroy tissue in the heart that causes rapid and irregular heartbeats.

Nearly one-third of the $6.5 million project’s cost has come from donors, including a multiyear, $750,000 donation from InNeuroCo Inc., a medical device maker. Construction of the Innovation Center, which will be located in the main hospital building in Burlington, is scheduled to begin this summer.

Bruce Hook, MD, left and top right, performs an image guided procedure to correct a patient’s heart arrhythmia while a colleague monitors the patient’s vital signs.

Cabaret Spotlights Angelic Volunteers Showbiz is paying off for the volunteers who performed in Heavenly, the 2019 Winton Club Cabaret show this past winter. Funds raised at the club’s annual revue have the club on track to meet their $100,000 fundraising pledge for this year. Their pledge also includes proceeds from the Winton Club Gift Shop at the hospital, which is managed by club members.

The Winton gift will pay for new equipment, products and services that benefit cancer patients. That includes six new ceiling lifts in patient rooms that will make it easier and safer to move patients who can’t get out of bed on their own. The club is also raising money for a new telemetry monitor in the surgical suite, so nurses can monitor multiple patients from the main desk.

Their other cause is A Caring Place, a resource at Winchester’s Center for Cancer Care that helps patients obtain services and products insurance sometimes doesn’t cover, such as wigs and prosthetics. “We’ve gotten many thank-you notes from women because of that,” said Cathy Wrotny, this year’s Cabaret producer.

The Kindness of StrangersEvery month, a beautiful bouquet of flowers gets delivered to a patient at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center as a pick-me-up. But the patient doesn’t know whom to thank for the gift, because the donor who pays for them wants to remain anonymous.

When the flowers arrive, the nursing staff identifies a patient who could use some cheering up and gives that patient the arrangement. For the donor, knowing the flowers make a difference for someone who is not feeling well is its own reward.

“I can’t tell you how much this is appreciated by each and every patient,” said Mary Iodice, director of volunteer and community services at the hospital. “It truly makes their day!”

If you’d like to make a gift so that more patients can receive a day brightener, please contact Nancy Paterna Breton at Nancy.Breton@Lahey.org or 781-744-2009.

Left to right: Richard Ma, MD; Hannah Lemieux, RN; Erica Frazier, RN; Krista Cormier, RN; and Dominique Michaud, RN.

Producer Cathy Wrotny models her angelic costume.

Team Lahey to Fundraise in Falmouth Team Lahey is headed to Cape Cod on August 18 to run the Falmouth Road Race for the first time! Ten runners, including five members of the Department of Philanthropy, will raise at least $15,000 as a team to benefit hospital programs of each runner’s choice.

Left to right: Philanthropy staffers Rebecca Imperiali, Lauren Cronin, Nancy Paterna Breton, Keturah Sawyer and Kristina Stanley.

Going the Extra Mile Empathy for cancer patients and their families was Dr. Krishna Gunturu’s impetus for starting the Survivorship Program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, which is funded by the annual Lahey Health Cancer Institute 5K Walk & Run. Having lost her father to cancer when she was 15, she knows firsthand the emotional, psychological and financial aspects of what a cancer diagnosis can do to someone.

For two years, experts in oncology, psychology, nutrition, physical therapy and other fields have assisted patients during and after their cancer treatments through the Survivorship Program. “We’re looking at issues of long-term side effects of treatment,

providing psychosocial support, and realizing that survivorship, in many ways, is just as important as the active treatment phase,” said Paul Hesketh, MD, FASCO, director of the Lahey Health Cancer Institute.

Psychological care is crucial for cancer patients, according to behavioral oncologist Cary Meyer, PsyD. When he meets with patients at the Survivorship Clinic, he asks one question: “How are you doing?” That simple query allows patients to open up and discuss their struggles in a safe space that they might not otherwise have. “The patients are relieved,” Dr. Meyer said. “They really enjoy coming to this program.”

For the past 13 years, the 5K Cancer Walk & Run has raised money

to pay for new programs such as Survivorship and to help with costs that insurance won’t cover. “If patients are not able to afford a copay, we’re able to help them,” Dr. Gunturu explained. “We pay for transportation, help from a social worker, medications and physical therapy.”

Drs. Gunturu, Hesketh, and staff and patients walk the 5K every year with their team, the Chemosabes. “For the survivors to work through all those obstacles and come through strong, believing in themselves and being empowered, that’s what the goal of this program is,” Dr. Gunturu said.

The Chemosabes pose for a photo before the 2018 5K. Dr. Gunturu is in the front row, fifth from right.

Calling All Runners!

It’s not too late to sign up for the 14th Annual Lahey Health Cancer Institute 5K Walk & Run in Burlington on June 22. Bring your friends and family and help us raise $500,000 for cancer care at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; Lahey Medical Center, Peabody; Addison Gilbert Hospital; Beverly Hospital and Winchester Hospital.

Register at LaheyHealth5k.org

Make a gift online at Giving.LaheyHealth.org/Donate.

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