possible with hospital-bound children when

their illness requires hospitalization for

worsening conditions or in their last precious

hours.

Gifts also help siblings of sick children.

“Siblings can be neglected, because parents

must focus resources on the sick child,” said

Hertel.

High medical costs mean little money is left

for healthy children to participate in programs

and classes. But thanks to a $7,100 gift from

Bon Secours HealthPartners Lab employees,

many siblings are enjoying summer camps.

Employees sold raffle tickets for gift baskets

they made.

“When siblings of sick kids get to go to camp,

they get to have fun and laugh,” said Hertel,

who says Foundation funding makes a big

difference. “Ultimately, financial support

means we can share more compassion.”

Thank you for supporting our

community’s health care needs through

the Bon Secours Richmond Health Care

Foundation.

Because you support the Bon Secours

Richmond Health Care Foundation and the

mission of Bon Secours, we give good help

to those in need. That means we answer the

call of the community. We take pride that

we turn no one away. Your giving provides

for the training, equipment, facilities

and programs that make our community

stronger and might not otherwise be

possible without donor support.

As always, we’d like to hear what’s on your

mind, so please connect with us.

Call: 804-287-7700

Email: info_bsvaf@bshsi.org

Log on: bsvaf.org

giving makes good happen.

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THE SPIRITFrom the Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation

www.bsvaf.org

Losing a job is a blow to anyone. But for

a family with a chronically or terminally ill

child, it can be downright devastating.

The economic downturn has made life even

harder for many families who rely on Noah’s

Children, Central Virginia’s only pediatric

hospice and palliative care program, said

Patricia Hertel, team leader and pediatric

nurse.

“The medical bills don’t go away because a

family loses insurance,” said Hertel. “So we

are grateful for the Foundation’s support.

It allows us to meet needs that we couldn’t

take care of otherwise.”

Foundation support provides comfort in

big and small ways. Hertel’s staff bought

a special mattress cover to help prevent

bed sores for one boy when his insurance

company wouldn’t cover it, citing he would

ultimately die from his illness. Gas cards

allow families to spend as much time as

Donors Make a Difference for Kids Through Noah’s Children

Bon Secours Family Center staff (from left to right) Samantha Kennedy, Tami Buckley, Kelly Haun, Wendi Hughes, Beth Davis, Jared Crist and Donna Shifflett. The Family Centers helped raise more than $18,000 for Noah’s Children. Employees helped kids in the child care centers create art, then auctioned it to raise money.

HealthPartners Lab employees at Richmond

Community Hospital. Front row: Dorothy

Williams. Back row from left: Bonnie Resnick,

Tony Nguyen and Angel Humes.

Bon Secours “have

dedicated their

lives to serving

people in need. We

recognize that, so

we try to do what

we can to help the

health system.”

“Hospitals are

required to

examine anyone

who comes to the

ER, but at Bon

Secours, the staff

and leadership

truly welcome

everyone in need

with open arms,” said

Sorini, whose group’s

$600,000 pledge

will also support St. Mary’s Critical Care Pediatric Transport.

Commonwealth Radiology pledged $250,000 to support the

St. Mary’s Emergency Department Expansion, as well as the

Women’s Imaging Centers at Watkins Centre and at Memorial

Regional Medical Center, said Dr. Karen Killeen, the group’s

president.

“These projects will allow for greater and more

innovative health care access for our community,”

said Killeen. “In this economy, it is critical to

ensure that world-class health care is available to

everyone.”

Many physicians and their families give. Heart

health is a focus for cardiac surgeon Mark

Bladergroen and his wife Carmella, who is also

involved with the American Heart Association

Go Red for Women Circle of Red’s Executive

Committee. They were initial donors to the

Foundation’s Heart Care Fund.

At Memorial Regional Medical Center, Vice

President of Medical Affairs Dr. Sunil Sinha

said, “As physicians, we need to support the

community to help keep it healthy and vibrant.

The Foundation’s staffers make it easy. They will

distribute your funds to areas that concern you most, whether

that’s pediatrics or geriatrics or anything in between.”

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For some Richmond physicians, giving excellent care at a

Bon Secours hospital is not enough. With more than $1 million

recently pledged, our physicians are personally investing to

expand our ability to give good help to those in need.

With emergency visits increasing, Bon Secours is building a free-

standing emergency department at Watkins Centre in Chesterfield

County and expanding the emergency department at St. Mary’s

Hospital, which will include a bigger pediatric emergency

department.

“This new dedicated pediatric emergency department will allow

the child and family to experience world-class, child friendly and

family-centered care,” said Dr. William Azie, Medical Director,

St. Mary’s Hospital Emergency Department. His group, Richmond

Emergency Physicians Inc. gave $250,000 to support the

expansion.

Other groups, including NetMD Business, are supporting Watkins

Centre. NetMD Chairman Dr. Ernie Sorini said the Sisters of

Generous Physicians Give Back

Chief Medical Information Officer for

Bon Secours Virginia Dr. Mark

Bladergroen and his wife Carmella give

to support heart health.

Dr. William Azie (right) presents a check to co-chairs of the

St. Mary’s Philanthropy Council, Jack Muldowney (left) and

Dr. Bonnie Makdad.

“Hospitals are required to examine anyone who

comes to the ER, but at Bon Secours, the staff

and leadership truly welcome everyone in need

with open arms.”

Foundation Wins Grant to Teach Girls Good NutritionGirls today receive so many mixed messages about food

and their bodies. Bon Secours community dietitians and the

YMCA have united to offer the right information through

GirlForce, an eight-week wellness program for 7- to 12-year-

old girls.

Bon Secours community dietitians Rachel Bulifant and Sarah

Gajewski are teaching life-long lessons about healthy eating.

About 180 Richmond girls are participating this year.

Bulifant and Gajewski

are working with the

YMCA and Fingers and

Forks, a locally owned

children’s cooking and

nutrition school, to develop

healthy eating classes to

supplement the GirlForce

curriculum. Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation

obtained a $50,000 grant from the national Humana

Foundation to support this work.

They are teaching girls about where their food comes from,

cooking healthy meals and even growing their own food.

“This supports our mission and our efforts to touch people’s

lives through education and hands-on learning,” said

Bulifant. “Teaching healthy eating habits and getting girls

excited about nutrition goes right to the heart of addressing

childhood obesity, a problem in our community.”

“The classes empower the girls to make a difference for their

families,” said Nan Brennan, the YMCA’s Childcare Director.

“This program does not just impact the child, it is impacting

the whole family. Many of these young ladies really need the

education and are taking these lessons home and changing

the way their families eat.”

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“Teaching healthy eating habits ... goes right to the heart of addressing childhood obesity.”

Help is on the LineTelehealth Monitors Providedfor Hospice Patients

Hospice Case Manager Sherri Moore recently discovered

that a patient’s oxygen wasn’t working properly — even

though Moore was miles away from the patient.

That’s the benefit of new telehealth monitors provided

through a $150,000 grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona

B. Carpenter Foundation.

“We can give them better quality care by picking up

on what’s happening earlier,” said Jacqueline Cleaton,

RN, Hospice Clinical

Manager.

Beginning in May, the

telehealth monitors

began to be put in

place for Bon Secours

Richmond hospice patients. Though it is not appropriate

for all patients, the monitors allow patients and/or

their family members to take daily readings on weight,

pulse, blood pressure and oxygen level, all of which are

electronically sent to the patient’s “dashboard” and

monitored remotely.

“Shortness of breath, pain, weight gain — those are things

the telehealth monitor can help us to watch more closely,

and we’re able to catch it before they have more severe

symptoms,” said Bon Secours Hospice/Home Health

Director Michelle Hafner. “In hospice, we’re using them

for symptom management. We’re trying to keep them

comfortable. It gives our patients a sense of security that

someone is keeping check every day.”

In the future, the machines may also be used in the

palliative care program and for those who do not yet

qualify for hospice but have chronic disease.

Moore said patients will be evaluated on a case-by-case

basis to make sure the monitors fit patients’ needs.

“We want it to provide comfort. We don’t want to alarm or

cause the patient or family any further anxiety,” she said.

“It gives our patients a sense of security that someone is keeping check every day.”

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As the Volunteer Auxiliary at St. Mary’s Hospital celebrates its golden

anniversary this year, we applaud the invaluable contribution of all of

our volunteers.

The St. Mary’s volunteers were founded 50 years ago to help support

the hospital’s creation five years before its opening. Today, more than

700 St. Mary’s volunteers give their time to help enhance

Bon Secours’ operations and its ministry, said Trish Fawcett, Director

of Volunteer Services.

Recently, the volunteers pledged $1.6 million to update the lobby

and retail corridor, $110,000 for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and

$24,000 to help the forensic nursing unit secure more space, among

other gifts.

“Operations and ministry are connected. Strengthening one, helps

the other,” said Jerry Katz, the group’s president. “Here is an example:

We recently helped put glass partitions in a pediatric department.

That was operational. But those partitions created intimacy and

privacy, so physicians could talk openly with parents, and that

strengthened the ministry.”

Memorial Regional Medical Center’s Volunteer Auxiliary makes a

big difference there, too, said Rob Herndon, Director of Volunteer

Services.

“Our volunteers really focus on community services and reaching out

to patients,” said Herndon. “That is really where they shine. In fact,

they will celebrate 500,000 service hours this summer.”

The group donated $75,000 for a community garden at the hospital

and pledged an additional $75,000 for renovations in the courtyard

and chapel.

At Richmond Community Hospital, the number of volunteers recently

has increased from just a handful to more than 50 in only a few

months.

St. Francis patients also benefit from a dedicated and active group

of more than 250 volunteers, said Dede Foerster, Director, Volunteer

Services. They volunteer in almost every unit of the hospital and raised

more than $100,000 last year to fund hospital projects, as well as the

St. Francis Care fund, which assists patients upon discharge.

“We are serving an increasing number of patients. Times are tough

out there. We are seeing more people without insurance and out of

work,” said Foerster. “Bon Secours provides a great deal of charity

care to patients while they are in the hospital, but they have unmet

needs once they leave. Through the St. Francis Care fund, our

volunteers raise funds to help fill the gaps to make sure patients go

home to a safe and healing environment.”

Volunteers Make Big Impact

Bon Secours Richmond volunteers selflessly give of themselves

to help those in need. Still, some of our volunteers wish to give

more. And they can — through Volunteers Forever.

Even after one passes, Volunteers Forever provides the

opportunity to continue giving through the Bon Secours

Richmond Health Care Foundation. There is no minimum

bequest, and the amount is kept confidential. The funds go to an

endowment and, in turn, give back forever.

For more information please call our office at 804-287-7700 or

visit bsvaf.org/volunteersforever.

Volunteering For More Than a Lifetime

From left to right, volunteers Angie Lymberg, Sally Janss, and Grace

Barnes join Director of Volunteer Services Rob Herndon, Senior Vice

President of Mission Dougal Hewitt and Director of Ministry Outreach

Sister Marie Kerns at a check-giving ceremony at Memorial Regional

Medical Center.

“Everyone here is so appreciative of what the volunteers do. But I am

appreciative to be here to do it. Volunteers Forever is the perfect way to

show my appreciation,” said Barbara Day Eicher, Volunteer at St. Mary’s

Hospital for almost 10 years.

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ADDRESSING NEEDS CREATIVELYThe Foundation supports yoga classes for cancer patients at St. Francis Medical Center.

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CARING FOR OUR NEIGHBORSPatients get critical vaccinations and other urgent and primary care from Bon Secours Care-A-Van.

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Touching Lives Across the Region:With your support, Bon Secours gives good help to those in need.

ADVANCING CLINICAL INNOVATIONSome of Virginia’s youngest — and most vulnerable — patients arrive safely at the St. Mary’s NICU thanks to the Critical Care Ambulance and Transport Team.

PROMOTING HEALTHY COMMUNITIESMore than 800 residents came together with Bon Secours leaders and others in Richmond’s East End to discuss and plan for the area’s future health care needs.

SUPPORTING NURSING EXCELLENCEMeriam Rucker, a nurse at Memorial Regional Medical Center, obtains her Certified Registered Nurse Infusion® (CRNI) credential, allowing her to move into a new field of nursing.

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Board of DirectorsThe Bon Secours Richmond Health Care

Foundation owes much gratitude and

thanks to our Board of Directors. Below is

a list of our current board members who

donate their time and resources, which

contribute to our success.

Toni R. Ardabell

Jenna J. Atwood

Kathleen Burke Barrett

Peter J. Bernard

Carmella Maurizi Bladergroen

William C. Boinest, Chairman

Peter W. Brown, M.D.

Diana F. Cantor

Barry J. Case

Dennis A. Diersen

Virginia G. DiStanislao

Susan Y. Dorsey

John W. Fain

Andrew C. Foldenauer

May H. Fox

Peter F. Gallagher

Kirsti A. Goodwin

Vernard W. Henley

Dougal G. Hewitt

Charles M. Jones III, M.D.

Sr. Charlotte Lange, O.S.B.

J. Stephen Lindsey

C. Gregory Lockhart, M.D.

Sr. Anne Marie Mack, C.B.S.

Terry W. Mohr

John J. Muldowney

William T. Patrick, Jr.

Nancy A. Plageman

Malcolm M. Randolph

Corbin K. Rankin

J. Sargeant Reynolds, Jr.

Linda F. Rigsby

William H. Schwarzschild III

Sr. Victoria V. Segura, M.D., C.B.S.

John N. Simpson, Sr.

Thomas W. Sokol

William B. Thalhimer III

Paul M. Thompson

James S. Watkinson

D. Kyle Woolfolk, Jr.

Heather Vaughn, diploma student, works with Assistant Professor Amy Feurer, MSN, RN, FNP-C, in the Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing Clinical Simulation Center.

Patients who don’t mind how many

times they receive a needle stick, who

are immune to infection and who can be

programmed to feel better don’t actually

exist. But through a grant to the

Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing,

several new high-tech mannequins will

provide that kind of experience for health

care professionals at the college and in the

community.

Through a new eight-room simulation lab,

students will find a safe place to practice,

while also being challenged by complex

situations.

“These mannequins do everything — they

talk to you, they breathe, you feel pulses,

they sweat, they blink. The realism is very

high,” said Holly Pugh, MSHA, Director of

the Clinical Simulation Center.

Funded in part through a Department

of Health and Human Services’ Health

Resources and Services Administration

grant, new lab rooms and equipment

augment the current simulation facilities

at the college.

The college plans to have the new labs

ready for training this fall. Yet, getting the

equipment is just part of the process.

“With simulations, it’s more than

mannequins. The mannequins are the

easy part. The hard part is developing

the programs. We collaborate with the

content experts, and we become experts

on how to operationalize mannequins,”

Pugh said.

Grant Supports State-of-the-Art Training for Nursing College

“These mannequins do everything — they talk to you, they breathe, you feel pulses, they sweat, they blink.”

“It was incredible the way the community

embraced them. It’s been one of the

highlights of my professional and personal

life,” Wilson said.

Today, three of the children are thinking

about health care careers. Maybe someday

they’ll be back at Bon Secours — as

employees.

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Excellent nursing played a big role in

bringing four Richmond-area siblings

into the world in 1996. Now 15, these

quadruplets recently ran in a race to

help support that same level of care. The

Memorial Regional 5k Challenge was held

on May 14.

The active teenagers were the first

quadruplets born at St. Mary’s Hospital.

“When I was pregnant I had to be admitted

in my 21st week. I lived at St. Mary’s for

about three months, so I got to know

everyone. The staff there became like

part of my family,” said Elaine King, the

quadruplets’ mother.

Nellie League, who was a NICU nurse at

the time and is today the Administrative

Director for Women’s Services and Nursing

Operations, remembers helping deliver the

babies.

“The Kings were a family you fell in love

with right away,” she said. “We had four

teams of nurses and physicians prepared to

care for the babies as they were born and

a team caring for Elaine and Earl.”

Director of Donor Relations Peggy Wilson

and the Bon Secours Richmond Health

Care Foundation helped secure formula,

diapers, car seats, jogging strollers and

many other baby items from hospital

vendors and the local community.

“Peggy said, ‘You know we’re going to

take care of these babies. We’re going to

make sure they have what they need,’”

Elaine remembered. “She’s been there.

She’s really been an angel.”

The babies were born weighing between 2

pounds 15 ounces and 3 pounds 13 ounces

but did not need a respirator. Earl and

Elaine King named their children Sophia

Michelle, Bethany Alexandra, Natalie

Christina and Nathaniel Dean.

Wilson, who has been with Bon Secours

for 28 years, said it was a joy to see how

the community came together for the

Kings, who had limited family in the area.

Quadruplets Run for Nursing ExcellenceThe first quadruplets born at St. Mary’s Hospital participated in the Memorial Regional Nursing 5K Challenge, held on May 14.

“It was incredible the way the community embraced them.”

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Richmond, Virginia 23226

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Don’t miss the 20th Annual Bon Secours

Richmond Foundation Charity

Golf Tournament PRESENTED BY

SPINELLA, OWINGS & SHAIA

Monday, September 26, 201112:30 p.m. – Shotgun Start (Registration begins at 11 a.m.)

Country Club of Virginia James River and

Tuckahoe Creek Courses

The Bon Secours Richmond

Health Care Foundation

recently recognized Members

of the Fleur~de~Lis Society at

a special event. Donors who

make commitments of $1,000

or more annually become

members of the Fleur~de~Lis

Society, which was established

in honor of the Sisters of Bon

Secours.

Fleur-de-Lis Society Members

Celebrate