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THE SPIRITFrom the Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation

www.bsvaf.org

The movin’ mania program offers an

interactive web portal with games,

recipes and a calendar of fitness

activities. Children earn points

for healthy choices and redeem

these for prizes, including sports

equipment. The program includes

a standardized, learning-compliant

classroom toolkit and will host a 5K

walk next spring.

As a part of a $275,000 grant from

the Richmond Memorial Health

Foundation, Bon Secours recently

gave $120,000 to Richmond-area

schools for SOL-compliant movin’

mania activities in partnership

with nationally recognized experts

GeoMotion, including Learnercise Mats that allow students to blend

exercise with classroom learning.

Richmond-area schools have embraced the program. “movin’

mania is a great way to encourage the next generation of

Richmonders to take control of their health and their future,” said

Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently

saw the program firsthand. “For me, as a Richmond native, it was

especially meaningful to be able to highlight my hometown and its

commitment to young people’s health,” said Massie Ritsch, deputy

assistant secretary for External Affairs & Outreach at the DoE,

who accompanied Duncan.

A team of dynamic mascots, health and education professionals

and donors to the Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation

are helping Richmond children make healthier choices and

addressing the growing problem of childhood obesity.

Bon Secours Richmond launched movin’ mania, a fun, innovative

program that provides incentives, education and awareness of

healthy habits to more than 100,000 area youngsters.

“Our goal with movin’ mania is to collaborate with as many

community organizations as possible to educate, empower and

encourage the children of Central Virginia to live healthy lives,”

said Bon Secours Virginia CEO Peter J. Bernard.

Helping Richmond Get Fit

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan learns about movin’ mania.

“As a pediatrician, I see how the problems related to obesity continue to escalate, leading to health problems that are both physical and emotional. Bon Secours and our community partners have a tremendous

opportunity to educate, motivate and empower children and families to make healthy choices.”

- Dr. Sofia Teferi, Pediatric Hospitalist

Students learn about healthy lifestyles through movin’ mania.

giving makes good happen.

Friends Come Together for Fun, Philanthropy

Presenting Sponsor Spinella, Owings & Shaia presented a check on behalf of the sponsors and golfers for $111,200 to benefit the Care-A-Vans.

Golf Tournament

PJ Jamboree

St. Mary’s Community Day

CEO Toni Ardabell and young friends show their hula-hooping skills at the St. Mary’s Community Day in September.

Team members Tom Flood, Rusty Miller, Jack Moehling Jr. and Sean Pridgen represented Lexus of Richmond, a corporate sponsor and donor of the “Golf Trip of a Lifetime” prize for a raffle winner to play in the Lexus Champions for Charity Tournament in Pebble Beach.

At left, Susan Daniel, administrative secretary at the Bon Secours St. Francis Cancer Institute, organized the PJ Jamboree to celebrate cancer survivors. Also shown, Carolyn Moore (center) and Cindy Lawhorne.

Celebrating Our Community

cocktail attire • LIVE AND SILENT AUCTIONS

DANCING TO MUSIC BY MO’SOL

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The Richmond

Bureau of Catholic

Family and

Children Services,

the American

Cancer Society,

and others.

When Bon Secours

Richmond began

its Care-A-Van

mobile health clinic

program, Morrison

wholeheartedly

took up the cause.

Just finishing its

21st year, the golf tournament that he

helped found and lead has raised millions

of dollars to support free health care for

those most in need.

Morrison Honored with Lifetime Philanthropy AwardCharlie Morrison, who has dedicated

decades of service to the community,

received the Lifetime Achievement in

Philanthropy Award on Nov. 13.

Given by the Central Virginia Chapter

of the Association of Fundraising

Professionals, this honor recognizes

Morrison’s lifelong service.

Even before the first Bon Secours facility,

St. Mary’s Hospital, opened its doors in

1966, Morrison and his wife held potlucks in

their home to help support the opening of

the hospital.

As the years have passed, Morrison has

been a board member with Bon Secours

St. Mary’s Hospital, Bon Secours Richmond

Health Care Foundation, St. Joseph’s Villa,

Olsson Family’s Support Continues

Caring for Virginians has been Dr. Shirley

Carter Olsson’s passion for many years.

While she no longer practices medicine, she

and her family still work to help meet our

community’s growing health care needs.

A recent gift by Olsson and the Elis Olsson

Foundation will help fund the expansion of

the St. Mary’s Emergency Department.

Longtime supporter Charlie Morrison was honored with the Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award.

A look ahead: A rendering of the St. Mary’s Emergency Department expansion.

“St. Mary’s has evolved because of the

excellence of care and the reputation of the

hospital,” said Dr. Thomas Davis, a cousin

of Olsson and a member of the original

staff at St. Mary’s.

“But now demand exceeds capacity. The

Emergency Department has become a lot

of people’s primary care, and they never

turn anybody away.”

The gift is the most recent from a family

that has supported the Bon Secours

ministry for decades.

“Dr. Olsson was the epitome of a small-

town physician,” said Davis. “She was

compassionate and believed the patient

always came first.”

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, MD

Diana F. Cantor

Barry J. Case

Dennis A. Diersen

Brenda Hopkins Eggleston

Andrew C. Foldenauer

May H. Fox

Peter F. Gallagher

Kirsti Anne Goodwin

Vernard W. Henley

Dougal G. Hewitt

Charles M. Jones III, MD

Sr. Charlotte Lange, OSB

J. Stephen Lindsey

Charles (Greg) G. Lockhart, MD

Bonita J. Makdad, MD

Sr. Anne Marie Mack, CBS

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

Linda K. Seeman, PhD

John N. Simpson Sr.

Thomas W. Sokol

William B. Thalhimer III

Paul M. Thompson

James S. Watkinson

Marilyn H. West

D. Kyle Woolfolk Jr.

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Our holiday giving campaign.Tree of TributesThis holiday season, celebrate someone special by helping us trim our online Tree of Tributes and bring good help to patients in need.

The Foundation also helps provide

therapeutic activities such as art and yoga

to help patients reclaim their lives after

cancer.

“I don’t know how I would have received treatment for my cancer without this program. Financial support of these programs is so important because there are so many hard-working people just like me who can’t quite afford private insurance.”

- Kathleen Chancey, patient

Your support made a difference in 2012.

The Bon Secours Richmond Health System served more than 500,000 individuals, thanks, in part, to support from our donors.

Compassionate Cancer Care Bon Secours’ Every Woman’s Life program

allowed 752 women to receive breast

exams and screenings or diagnostic

mammograms and 214 women to receive

pap tests at no cost. Those needing follow-

up care were referred to appropriate

physicians and assisted with payment

arrangements.

Celebrating Your Impact

Throughout

the year, we

are touched by

stories of our

community’s

generosity.

The story of

community

volunteer

Frances Taylor

is particularly

inspiring.

Taylor loved giving, especially to newborns

in the St. Mary’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive

Care Unit.

She passed away in January, but left

behind a legacy of service and generosity

there. She also remembered it in her will.

Her sisters in the Alpha Masters Chapter

of Beta Sigma Phi were inspired by her

dedication and opted to donate $10,000 –

a bequest to the chapter from Taylor – to

the NICU she loved. Over the years, the

chapter has donated money to the NICU to

purchase a wide range of equipment.

A gift from Frances Taylor and the Alpha Masters Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi helped purchase important new equipment for infants in the NICU and helps nurses like Whitney Gee provide world-class care.

www.bsvaf.org/tree

Art and other activities are part of the holistic treatment process.

Honor, thank or remember a family member, friend or co-worker with each donation to our Tree of Tributes. With each tribute, you’ll add a decoration to our online tree and help give patients in need extra support including:

· Special car seats for premature babies

· Medical equipment to help heal at home

· Medications

We’ll send a letter with your message to those you remember. If you like, we’ll also share your message online.

For more, call 804-287-7700.

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“Frances loved

doing this,”

said Louise

Ferramosca,

the chapter’s

president. “We

knew that she

would want the

money to go to

the hospital.”

St. Mary’s will

purchase a

pediatric crib and breast milk warmers.

The crib will be used as the newborns

outgrow the smaller NICU bassinets, and

the warmers will allow breast milk to be

heated at the infant’s

bedside.

For information

on how to make a

legacy gift, contact

the Bon Secours

Richmond Foundation

at 804-287-7700.

Your support made a difference in 2012.

The Bon Secours Richmond Health System served more than 500,000 individuals, thanks, in part, to support from our donors.

Frances Taylor

High-Tech Heart Help

New technology helps cardiologists like Dr. Brian Kaminsky treat heart blockages. The ILUMIEN system was purchased with support from the Edna S. Hopkins family.

The Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation helps pay for advanced training for our nurses.

“I was encouraged by leaders to get my certification in orthopedic nursing, but I couldn’t afford the cost. The Foundation granted me the funds. I’m thankful for all the support I’ve received, from my peers, co-workers, the Foundation and all of Bon Secours in my 42 years here.

Certification helps me help patients. I feel that I’m more in tune with their needs, and I better understand what they’re going through. I also have learned to recognize and understand various medical issues, and this helps me explain and help treat them.”

– Ethel Gordon, RN, Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center

Foundation support helped purchase the

ILUMIEN system, which has made a huge

difference in caring for patients with heart

blockages. Laser beam technology allows

physicians to see inside the heart with

amazing detail, said John Zimmerman,

administrative director for Heart and

Vascular at Memorial Regional Medical

Center.

“We’ve had ultrasound technology for a long time, but looking through an ultrasound is like looking through a windshield on a rainy night compared to what we see with this machine.”

– Dr. Brian Kaminsky, Bon Secours cardiologist

Advanced Nursing Education

A gift from Frances Taylor and the Alpha Masters Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi helped purchase important new equipment for infants in the NICU and helps nurses like Whitney Gee provide world-class care.

The Bon Secours Richmond Health Care

Foundation helps pay for advanced training

for our nurses.

Ethel Gordon

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Richmond Health

System. “But for

us in psychiatry,

it means so much

more.”

Experts agree

that the quality of

the environment in

a behavioral health unit makes a difference

to patients.

“Safe, attractive and modern psychiatric

units have an important role to play in the

healing process. Recovery from mental

illness is possible, and part of what can aid

in that is a treatment site that is welcoming

and supportive of patients and their loved

ones,” said Mira Signer, executive director,

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Virginia.

Recent renovations to Richmond

Community Hospital’s Behavioral Health

Unit have made the 40-bed unit one of

the state’s top facilities. Resources to fund

the renovations were generously provided

by community, volunteer and Bon Secours

Richmond Health Care Foundation support.

“It is always nice to have something

new,” said Paul Altovilla, vice president

of Behavioral Health at Bon Secours

Bon Secours’ leaders and staff are grateful

to donors for their support.

“Thanks to the dedication and philanthropic

endeavors [of donors], we have been able

to create the type of behavioral health

unit that will provide a more holistic

environment for the patients we serve,” said

Michael D. Robinson, Richmond Community

CEO.

Altovilla agreed. “Our Behavioral Health

Program feels extremely supported and

appreciated by the ministry of Bon Secours,

which allows us to provide the care our

patients and their families deserve and

need.”

A multidisciplinary treatment team meets in the Behavioral Health Unit at Richmond Community.

New Space Boosts Patient Care in Hospital’s Behavioral Health Unit

Shatter-resistant mirrors and covered plumbing.

The nursing station.

Celebrating New Beginnings

Unit Undergoes Renovations

Improvements to Bon Secours’

Richmond Community Hospital

Behavioral Health Unit include:

• centralized nursing station

• larger treatment rooms

• dedicated conference rooms

• recessed sprinkler systems

• platform beds

• shatter-proof mirrors

• hard ceilings

• psych-safe fixtures

• plumbing coversPlatform beds.

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Community Hospice HouseThis 16-suite, free-standing hospice facility will fill an important

gap in end-of-life care for our community. Our goal is for the

Richmond community to come together to ensure that hospice

patients receive exceptional care at the end of life’s journey.

Why I give:

“Hospice care affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. It does not intend to prolong or hasten death but works to achieve the best quality of life for the patients and their families.”

“The concept of the Community Hospice House is compelling. Hospice care will be available to anyone in need of such services, irrespective of ability to pay. I applaud the efforts of Bon Secours and the community leaders who donated the land and initiated the planning. Their vision has real merit, and their leadership is commendable.”

– William F. Shumadine Jr.

To make a donation or learn more about the plans for the

Bon Secours Community Hospice House,

visit www.bsvaf.org/hospicehouse

Slated to open in 2013, a new St. Mary’s Guest

House — built with donor generosity — will offer

families a new place to rest and recharge while loved

ones are in the hospital.

A recent $175,000 donation from Ronald McDonald House

Charities of Richmond means the Guest House will offer a

pediatrics wing, focusing on the comfort of young patients’

families. The gift will fund three sleeping rooms and a playroom.

In addition, another gift of $75,000 from Ronald McDonald House

Charities of Richmond, will help us build two dedicated in-house

sleeping rooms and a respite lounge on the fifth floor of St. Mary’s.

“It is invaluable not only to have financial support from Ronald

McDonald House Charities of Richmond, but also their expertise in

providing a home away from home for patient families,” said Toni

Ardabell, CEO of St. Mary’s.

The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond will help patients’ families have a comfortable place to stay at the new St. Mary’s Guest House. Here, Dr. Billy Lennarz, Toni Ardabell, Ilona Scanlon and Kathryn Knierim accept a check from Derek W.H. Kung, president of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond.

Bill Shumadine (center), shown with his wife, Cornelia, and Jack Muldowney, believes in the importance of Bon Secours’ new Hospice House.

Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation’s new address is:7229 Forest Avenue, Suite 200Richmond, VA 23226804-287-7700Staff phone numbers and email addresses will remain the same.

We’ve moved!

Guest House

Ronald McDonald House Charities Supports Pediatric Families

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They’ve helped our membership in the Fleur-de-Lis Society grow

and been so active and engaged in fulfilling the Bon Secours

mission to give good help to those in need.

Likewise, the generosity of our donors continues to impress me. I

hope you’ll enjoy reading about the impact you, our donors, have

in the stories in this issue of The Spirit, which celebrates old friends

and new beginnings.

As 2012 nears its close, I urge you to consider making the most

of end-of-year tax benefits, to continue giving to make “good”

happen in 2013.

In the words of poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “And now we welcome the

new year, full of things that have never been.”

Thank you for your support,

William C. Boinest

Chairman, Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation

Thanks to you, our wonderful donors,

Board, volunteers and staff, we have

much to celebrate.

You have given so generously in 2012

that we hope to break ground in 2013

on two important new capital projects:

the St. Mary’s Guest House and the

Community Hospice House. We’re still

seeking funds for both projects, but it’s so exciting to be at a point

where we can begin to see them physically take shape.

Our entire community should be excited about these projects. The

Community Hospice House is not just for Bon Secours patients,

but for any qualified individual who needs this compassionate

setting for his or her final days, regardless of ability to pay.

And the Guest House will provide a welcome respite for families

needing to stay close to a loved one at St. Mary’s Hospital.

I’ve seen excitement grow among our Board members this year,

as more of them have taken on important roles in these projects.

Celebrating the Difference You’ve Made This Year

BON SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION

7229 Forest Avenue, Suite 200 | Richmond, VA 23226

804-287-7700 • www.bsvaf.org/richmond

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