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Volume 29 Number 5 May 2018 Dallas Scott, Editor
Inside this issue Cares & Concerns 2 Editor’s Page 2 Mended Hearts Chapter #16 Visiting Reports 3 Donations 3 Nature’s annual Spectacle: Where to see the leaves 4 December surgery anniversaries & birthdays 4 News from the Board Meeting 5 General Meeting Notes 5 Simple Food Safety Tips for Thanksgiving 6 Veterans Day and Memorial Day should not be confused 6 Recipes for Healthy Living 7 Chapter #16 Leaders 8 Pictures from the November General Meeting 9 December 2017 Mended Hearts Schedule of Visits 10 Member Enrollment Form 11 Mission Statement 12
PRESIDENT’S COLUMN– Betty Drinkard
A good time was had by all! That was at our 29th Anniversary Dinner (at Eagle Eyrie) and Hearts of Fame Awards. It was like a family (second family) gathering for me — I love seeing all your pretty faces! I was so proud of our Honorees — Susan Clapp, Laurel Dodgion, Esther Tucker — all well deserved! And our own Mid-Atlantic Assistant Regional Direc-tor Bill Voerster came all the way from Charlotte, NC. He must really love us! I believe he is proud of us because he is al-ways bragging about us to the other chapters in the Mid-Atlantic Region; Bill is quite a supporter. Tom Bry-ant did an excellent job as our Master of Ceremonies. Dear old Doctor Tom Nygaard came, as always — we couldn’t have done it without him! Another huge sup-porter! On behalf of Chapter #16, I want to thank Car-ol Bryant, Jean Blankenship, Ruby Davis, Laurel Dodg-ion, Vivian and Jack Hamilton for making the 29th Anni-versary Dinner and Hearts of Fame Awards possible — a job well done.
Two days after the Anniversary Dinner, April 28, Nelson and Ruby Davis, Dallas and Frances Scott and Laurel Dodgion attended the Mid-Atlantic Regional Cluster Meeting in Raleigh, NC. I was ill and couldn’t attend.. See the highlights in the Newsletter.
The next Chapter #16 meeting will be Thursday, May 24, 2018 at Pearson Cancer Center from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. We do not meet in June. Our next special occasion will be the Chapter #16 Picnic at the Alliance Church (Thanks to Dave Blackburn) on Route 811 on Saturday July 28, 2018 from 12:00 Noon to 2:30 pm. Bring your favorite food so I can sample!
The time is drawing near! Those of you who are plan-ning to attend the National Education & Training Con-ference to be held July 14 through 18, 2018 at the Hy-att Regency River Walk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas need to let me know ASAP. You need to Register with National, make your own hotel reservation and flihjt reservation (if you are flying). I don’t want anyone to be left out.
Still proud to be your President.
Heartfully,
Betty
Jackie Carver— Program Chair
2018 Program Calendar
April 26, 2018, Dinner Meeting: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Eagle Eyrie. Nancy Eggleston Anniversary Dinner
May 24, 2018, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Pearson Cancer Center — Dr. Scott Zindel, “Foot Care
June, 2018, No Meeting
July 28, 2018, Picnic: Noon to 2:30 p.m., Alliance Church - Rt. 211, Summer Social, Covered Dish
August — No Meeting
September 27, 2018, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Pearson Cancer Center — Dr. Brinder Kanda, "Mitral Clip"
October 25, 2018, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Pearson Cancer Center — Susan Clapp, “Peripheral Artery Disease”
November 15, 2018, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Pearson Cancer Center — Judith Taylor, PA, “Atrial Fibrillation”
December 15 (Saturday) 2015 Luncheon Meeting 12:00 p.m. — 3:00 p.m., Eagle Eyrie, Christmas Social
If you want to read the newsletter and do not have or use a comput-er, ask a family member or friend to print it for you. If you have not given Chapter #16 your Email address, please send it to Dan Cousins at [email protected]. This will save mailing cost and get you the newsletter earlier.
To access the Chapter #16, Blue Ridge Mended Hearts monthly news-letter, use either of the web links listed below.
Centra link; www.centrahealth.com/mended-hearts-newsletters
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Editor’s Page—Dallas Scott
April was a very busy Month for me and
Mended Hearts. I prepared for a taught two
training classes for Accredited Visitors.
Worked on day for the Belk Charity Day Sale. Attended the 29th Anniversary Dinner
and Hearts of Fame Awards. Attended the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Connections Confer-
ence. I also worked every Tuesday as an
Accredited Visitor. It was a very fulfilling
month.
As you all know we have been giving rocks from Lynchburg
Rocks to the patients we visit. I told this story to the Forest
Middle School Art Instructor and she got very excited. She had
been looking for a community service project for her classes.
She talked to the Principal and got permission for her students
to paint rocks for Mended Hearts. Remember these are 12 and 13 year old students. These rocks will not be perfect. But they
come with the love of these children and I am sure our patients
will love these rocks just as much as the others. I will take
them to the office soon.
We had two very interactive training sessions for the Accredited
visitors. Fourteen visitors became re-accredited and one person took the training on-line. So we have fifteen re-accredited visi-
tors. We need more! Laurel Dodgion has been filling in when-
ever anyone cannot be at the hospital. I know that some
months she has worked 6 or 7 days. If you are interested in
becoming a visitor please contact me at 434-610-4314 or Laurel
Dodgion at 434-610-6812. We would be happy to let you go with us for a day on our rounds at the hospital to see what visit-
ing is all about. Remember every visitor says they get more out
of each visit than the patients.
If you have any comments on this newsletter, please feel free to
send them to me at
[email protected]. I can also be reached at (434) 610-4314. Please feel free to email me or call me.
Dallas Scott, Editor
Accredited Visitor
434-610-4314
CARES & CONCERNS: Judy and Wayne Toler, Co-Chairs
Dan Cousins upcoming surgery.
Betty Drinkard has been ill.
Tony Tucker has been ill.
Laurel Dodgion upcoming surgery.
Mended Hearts Belk Charity Day Sale
It’s time for the Belk Charity Day Sale again. Save May 5 at 6 am to 10 am for the best sales that Belk has to offer. Mended Hearts will be selling tickets for $5 that will entitle you to get in the door for this private four-hour sale, which is featuring 20% to 70% off on rarely discounted brands store wide. Plus you get your $5 back on your first purchase.
The money we receive from the public stays with Mend-ed Hearts. The first 100 customers to arrive at the sale will receive a Belk gift card valued between $5 and $1000.
Ticket holders who are unable to attend the May 5th event and hold a Belk card can still take advantage of the sale prices by purchasing items during the pre-sale merchandise time period from April 21 to the day of the sale. Mended Hearts will be selling the $5 tickets start-ing now until May 5th. Please call Laurel Dodgion at (434) 610-6812 for tickets. We will also be selling the tickets at the Belk store through the month of April. We need everyone who can sell tickets to contact Laurel to schedule your times to sell. This is one of our fund rais-ers. Please, we need your help. Thank you,
Laurel Dodgion (434) 610-6812
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VISITING REPORTS
Patients Visited YTD
April 2018
Patients visited —(Including H.R.)
Home Recovery —
Family —
Pre-Op —
Post-Op —
176
17
21
9
129
660
68
107
43
442
Hours — 110.8 416.6
ESTHER TUCKER — DONATIONS & GIFTS
Donations made to Chapter #16:
Surgery Anniversary donations
50/50
New Members
Belk Charity Day
Membership Dues
Memorials
Lila Rosenthal
Donations: We appreciate all donations to Chap-ter #16. Thank you so much!
Please send your memorial gifts to: Blue Ridge Mended Hearts Chapter #16 Lynchburg General Hospital 1901 Tate Springs Road Lynchburg VA 24501
**BE SURE TO CONSULT
YOUR DOCTOR***
The Blue Ridge Heartbeat is written for the education
and information of our members and others concerned
with heart health. It is not or intended to be a substi-tute for the advice of your own physician. Contact
your doctor or health professional about any of your
symptoms or concerns. Don’t try anything new with-
out consulting your doctor first.
Meet and Greet Welcoming Registration folks Hospitality Chair—Ruby Davis 434-845-5245 2017 Greeters
Date Name
5/24/18 Carol Bryant & Jean Blankenship
7/28/18 Picnic
9/27/18 Kris Krishnamoorthy
10/25/18 Kim Owen
11/15/18 Vivian & Jack Hamilton
12/15/18 Christmas Social
April was a lighter month for Mended Hearts Visi-tors. You have made a difference in 176 patients’ and families’ lives. Keep up the great effort! You make an impression with each visit and improve the likelihood that patients’ and families’ lives will be improved by your visit.
Mended Hearts/Mended Little Hearts
National Education and Training Con-ference and Congenital Heart Disease Symposium
July 14 - 18, 2018
Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk
San Antonio, Texas
Please contact President Betty Drinkard if you will be going to this event.
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What I Know: Hustle While You Wait (Continued)
Have you ever heard of the 5 o’clock club? By rising at five o’clock instead of seven o’clock in the morning five days a week you will gain a ten- hour day. Think of all you could accomplish with an additional ten hours in your week. Ear-ly rising is one of the best secrets of successful people. The early hours of the morning are your golden hours for thinking, writing, and meditation. Rising early in the morn-ing will make you an achiever. Be up before daybreak and the habit will contribute to your health, wealth, and wis-dom. Remember, every morning is a fresh beginning; eve-ry day is your world made new. This moment is as good as any moment in all eternity.
“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life,” said Eu-ripides. Make today count!
Working safely with robots
Don't trust robots!
No, this isn't about a sci-fi robot takeover.
This is about over-confidence. One of the main issues in working with robotic devices is becoming so familiar with their repetitive movements that workers begin to think they can trust them. Injuries occur when workers move into a robot's zone of movement, either for maintenance or programming purposes.
The key to working safely with industrial robots is distance. Always respect the guarded area of a robotic device. If such an area ever needs to be entered, the device must be either shut down completely or put into training mode where an engineer has complete control over the move-ments.
Awareness of the robotic task is also key. Any unusual vi-bration or sound from the device should be immediately reported.
What I Know: Hustle While You Wait
“Who gains time gains everything,” wrote Benjamin Disraeli. You can gain time by accomplishing tasks while you wait. This way you re-deem the time. This way you cherish the welfare of the day. With your task accom-plished you are ready to do a good deed when the opportunity presents itself. How precious is your good deed done at the right time! Your day is like an identical suitcase. Everyone has the same size suitcase but some can pack more into it than oth-ers. The man who knows how to pack more into a day, hustles while he waits. He passes the time by keeping his hands busy.
Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out, and will tell,” wrote Franklin P. Jones. Time is like a physician; time is a teacher. Time is change and transformation. “Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow,” noted Peretz. Time and patience sweep away errors and make a crooked way straight. “Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about,” wrote Sydney J. Harris. Time is given you to use in view of eternity. You have to decide how to use your time knowing full well its brevity and transience. Therefore, draw from your past, live intensely in the present, and work for the future.
“Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go,” said Henry Dobson. You and I are only pilgrims passing through our earthly home to our heavenly home. Time is limited. Why be a fool searching for more and more material goods in-stead of enjoying the little of what we have? Though your wants may be endless, your needs are few. Simplify! Simplify! Simplify! Being eco-nomical means the wise use of both time and money. Eliminate the leaks in your use of time, money, and opportunity. You will have enough time if you use the time that you have prudently.
May Birthdays
Rebecca Bowling Bev Eggleston Homer Massey Dallas Scott Loraine Shepley
May Surgery Anniversaries
Edward Rogers 1992 Dallas Scott 2014 Robert Holt 2015
Mended HeartsTM Prayer
We ask for your blessings, Lord. We ask for strength, that we may pass it on to others.
We ask for faith, that we may give hope to others.
We ask for health, that we may encourage others. We ask Lord, for wisdom, that we may use all of your gifts well.
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Board Meeting Happenings: April 2018
The Mended Hearts Chapter #16 Board of Directors Meeting was not held in April.
Mended Hearts/Mended Little Hearts National Education and Training Conference and Congenital Heart Disease Symposium
When: July 14 - 18, 2018
Where: Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk San Antonio, Texas
Please plan to attend this conference. It is guaran-teed that you will learn something, have a good time and learn more about your Chapter members.
April 2018 General Membership Meeting
The 29th Anniversary Dinner and Hearts of Fame Awards were held Thursday April 26 at Eagle Eyrie from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The evening was opened by President Betty Drinkard who introduced our Master of Ceremonies Tom Bryant. Tom introduced our guests Doctor Tom Nygaard and Bill Voerster, Mid-Atlantic Assistant Regional Director.
And the Winner is: Susan Clapp — Professional Honoree
Ester Tucker — Membership Honoree
Laurel Dodgion — Spirit Award
These are highly qualified and deserving recipients as demonstrated by each of their biographies in the Anni-versary program. Please congratulate them when you see them.
“We Remember” Reverend Jack and Vivian Hamilton performed the Me-morial Service for the following deceased members.
Ernest Bowling
Lawrence “Rita” Bryant
Jeannie Clubb
Charlotte Crews
Russell Krantz
They have fought their battles and won their wars. They have met their maker while we struggle to live without them. Please keep them and their families in your thoughts and prayers. We will miss them.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Connections (Continued)
After lunch, we broke up into small working groups and discussed How to Use Media, How to Increase Membership, How to Recruit Visitors, and How to Re-cruit Officers. This led to a lively but sometimes wan-dering discussion. After the allotted time presentations were made by each group. These presentations will be published in future Mended Hearts articles.
The meeting was adjourned by RD Bill Carter.
This was a fun and informative meeting. We met Mended Hearts from throughout the Mid-Atlantic Re-gion. We were not the largest group in attendance but had a very respectable five people present out approxi-mately 80 people in attendance. I hope you will con-sider attending the next regional conference in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
It makes you think . . .
I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.
Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like hav-ing a peeing section in a swimming pool?
Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Connections
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Connections Meeting was held Saturday April 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the UNC Rex Heart Center, 4420 Lake Boone Trail, Ra-leigh, NC. The building opened at 9:00 am for cof-fee, tea, orange juice, pastries and conversation. Laurel Dodgion, Nelson and Ruby Davis, Dallas and Frances Scott and Mr. Dillon attended the confer-ence. We spread out and made many new friends and acquaintenances.
Bill Voester, Mid-Atlantic Assistant Regional Director, welcomed the attendees and introduced Christian Gring, M.D., FACC, Cardiologist, North Carolina & Vascular and Heather Dionne, RN, MS, structural Heart Clinical Coordinator / Patient Care Navigator, UNC Rex Healthcare. The presented an explanation on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) the Latest Therapy for Aortic Stenosis. The doctors presentation was very similar to our own Doctor Ta-vaf’s presentation in March 2017. The nurse gave a lot of the details leading up to the surgery (the things we don’t see). These were followed by a de-scription from a TAVR patient that was very in-formative and entertaining.
Bill Carter, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, then intro-duced Norm Linsky, Mended Hearts, Inc. Executive Director, who talk about the inner workings of Mended Hearts and what research is being per-formed.
Marcia Baker, Director of Development, Corporate Part-nerships & Marketing talked about our many corporate sponsors and associations and how to spread the word about Mended Hearts.
Breakfast, Lunch and afternoon snacks were provided by UNC Rex hospital. They have a great relationship with their hospital staff.
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.What I Know: It Takes A Long Time To Grow Old Friends
“Tell me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are,” say the Assyrians. Two things influence you as you travel through life: the books you read and the people you meet. At least some of the people you meet will eventually become your closest friends. They will start out as ac-quaintances and as time goes by the relationship deepens and they become your life long friends. Friendship is a slow-ripening fruit that time alone brings to perfection. Make sure to establish these lifelong friendships long before you really need them. Find an intelligent friend. What is better than a stupid friend? An intelligent enemy is superior.
“A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners,” say the Virgin Islanders. Keep a tested old friend because a new friend cannot compare with the old. An old friend has known you for so long that he or she has discovered your strengths and weaknesses. A true friend will appreciate your strengths and help you overcome your weaknesses. Friends of this caliber are too few and far between. What would life be without your friends! Frankly, I would rather have one true friend than a hundred relatives. I can bear cold tea and cold rice but not cold looks or cold words. Harsh demanding insensitive words can cut me like a knife. What about you?
“Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend,” is a Hebrew saying. Have you ever turned an en-emy into a friend? It is an accomplishment that you will never forget. What a turn around! How delightful it is to make friends with someone you formerly disliked! A former enemy is now your dearest friend. An ene-my will destroy you with his beak but a friend will cover you with his wings. The worse kind of enemy is one who is close to you. “Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within,” say the Arabs. For exam-ple, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, betrayed Jesus with a kiss.
“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks,” is an Eskimo saying. Can you discern your enemies from your friends? Sometimes it takes adverse circumstances to tell the difference. Your friends will be loyal and stay with you. A true friend loves you come rain or come shine, fair weather or foul. Moreover, there is a steadfast quality to genuine friendship. A stable reliable persevering friend is a gem.
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me,” noted Henry Ford. Do you bring out the best in your friends? Do you tell them of their faults and follies in prosperity and assist them with your heart and hand in adversity? Do you go the second mile for your friends? From one old friend to another, thanks for reading this.
The dramatic story of the well-traveled sweet potato
Sweet potatoes originated in Central and South America, but they managed to travel across the Pacific by 1000 AD.
This is a curious fact that scientists have uncovered through plant DNA studies. It seems that Europeans, from Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage onward, were responsible for many of the food transfers between continents. After Columbus, it took just over 50 years for the tomato, a native of Peru, to reach Italy where the sauce-loving Italians were recommending it be fried in oil with salt and pepper, according to Laphams Quarterly. (The British thought tomatoes smelled and were poisonous.)
But, 400 years before Columbus, the sweet potato managed to travel 5,000 miles across the Pacific from South America to Polynesia, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
How did that happen?
The sea-faring Polynesians may have accomplished the daunting voyage, which would have been like travel-ing to the moon without knowing the moon was there. The voyage would have taken months.
DNA research suggests the Polynesians landed on the west coast of South America and took some sweet po-tatoes home. They also may have left chickens in South America, possibly explaining why there were chick-ens in western Peru shortly before the arrival of Columbus.
Critics of this explanation abound, but there is also some linguistic evidence. One Polynesian word for sweet potato -- Kuumala -- sounds a lot like Kumara, the word for vegetable in the Andean language Quechua.
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Recipes for Healthy Living
Morel mania: A favorite mushroom dodges spring foragers
It's hard to overstate the mania for morel mushrooms.
From March to May, in Canada and the United States, morel hunting is a seasonal delirium in which novices and pros tramp the forests looking for fungus gold.
The wily morel is not easy prey.
Difficult to cultivate, morels remain mainly volunteers and they guard their secrets.
While they may grow in the same spot for years, they may also suddenly disappear. But when the spot is right and the temperature is over 40 de-grees, the tasty mushroom grows in wild abundance, peeking out from under trees for a couple of weeks before they are gone.
According to fieldandstream.com, morels are found in and on the edge of forested areas, especially among leaf litter. They grow in the shade of trees like ash, aspen and oak. They cloak themselves in colors similar to the forest's floor, making it difficult to find the early, smaller specimens. Often located on the southern slopes of fairly open areas in the early spring, as the season progresses, morels are found on north-facing slopes and tend to grow deeper in the forested areas.
They also love wooded areas which have been burned by a fire. These slippery ash-covered forest floors are often a challenge for hunters.
There is some money in the fungus; maybe not enough to make a hunter rich, but enough to encourage enthusiasm. The market for morels veers wildly from season to season and place to place. Sometimes fetching as little as 50 cents per pound and sometimes up to $6 or more, according to the New York Times. Serious morel traders carry backpacks suitable for 120 pounds of morels. At $6 a pound, that would justify a wet, itchy, thorny 12-hour day tromping through the forest. At 50 cents, maybe not so much.
1. Place halved morel mushrooms in a large bowl; cover with cold, lightly salted water. ...
2. Place flour in a shallow bowl.
3. Heat vegetable shortening in a large skillet until very hot.
4. Roll mushrooms in flour and tap off excess; gently lay mushrooms in the hot shortening.
5. Cook, stirring until the morels release their liquid, about 5 minutes. Continue cook-ing, adjusting the heat to maintain a light sizzle of the mushrooms, until the morels are cooked through and the liquid has evap-orated about 10 minutes.
This recipe can also be used with button mush-rooms and shitake mushrooms.
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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Dr. Kenneth Saum, Cardiology Surgeon
Dr. Mark Townsend, Pediatric Cardiologist
Betsy Mudie, Volunteer Office Liaison
Curt Baker, VP Cardiovascular Dept. LGH
Betty Drinkard President & By-Laws Chair
Laurel Dodgion 1st VP
Dave Blackburn 2nd VP
Esther Tucker, Secretary
Fred Mayer, Treasurer
Carol Bryant, President’s Advisor & Past President
Jean Blankenship, Socials Co-Chair
Dave Blackburn, Health Fairs
Jack Hamilton, Past President
Blue Ridge Mended Hearts Chapter #16
Visiting Program Chairman: Dan Cousins
Your Visiting Committee:
Visiting Assignments: Laurel Dodgion
Patient packs & bags: Visitors
Follow up Telephone Calls: Committee
Training: Members
Data Collectors: Dan Cousins
Ad Hoc Committees:
Standing Committees: Nominating — Betty Skoldal, Past President
Membership — Laurel Dodgion
Celebrations & Concerns — Judy & Wayne Toler
Photographer — Carollyn Peerman
Publicity & By-Laws — Betty Drinkard
Program — Jackie Carver
Socials — Jean Blankenship & Carol Bryant
Hospitality — Ruby & Nelson Davis
Newsletter – Dallas Scott
Visiting Chair — Dan Cousins
Health Fairs — Dave Blackburn
Anniversary Dinner — Ruby Davis
Hearts of Fame — Laurel Dodgion
Speakers Bureau — Betty Drinkard
Financial — Fred Mayer
Golf Committee Chair —
Historian — Betty Skoldal, Past President
Chapter #16 Leaders
President: Betty Drinkard 434 525-2852
1st Vice President: Laurel Dodgion 434 525-0475
2nd Vice President: Dave Blackburn 434 238-0528
Secretary: Esther Tucker 434 239-4587
Treasurer: Fred Mayer 434 610-1733
Asst. Treasurer: Nelson Davis 434 845-5245
Publicity : Betty Drinkard 434 525-2852
Health Fairs: Dave Blackburn 434 237-6581
Cardiac Staff Advisor: Cindi Cole 434 200-6701
Staff Editorial Advisor: Michelle Adams 434 200-7062
Immediate Past President: Carol Bryant 434 384-5982
Newsletter Editor: Dallas Scott 434 610-4314
Volunteer Liaison: Betsy Mudie 434 200-4696 Director of Volunteer Services — LGH/VBH Medical Advisors: Ken Saum, M.D. 434 528-2212 Mark Townsend, M.D. 434 200-5252 Curt Baker, Centra V.P. 434 200-3215 Chapter #16 Office (voice mail) 434 200-7611
National Mended Hearts
National President: Donette Smith www.mendedhearts.org Mid-Atlantic Regional Dir: William (Bill) Carter 803-270-2496 [email protected] Mid-Atlantic Asst. RD: Bill Voerster 704 310-8354 mendedheartsbillv@gmail National Executive Dir: Norm Linsky 214 390-3265 [email protected]
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Pictures Taken from the April 26th General Meeting
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“It’s Great to be Alive - and to Help Others!”
Blue Ridge Mended Hearts Chapter #16
Lynchburg General Hospital
1901 Tate Springs Road Lynchburg, VA 24501
THE MENDED HEARTS, INC.
MISSION STATEMENT: Dedicated to inspiring hope, encouragement
and support to heart disease patients and their families! We achieve
this in the following manner:
to visit, with physician approval, and to offer encouragement and support to
heart disease patients and their families;
to distribute information of specific educational value to members of the
Mended Hearts, Inc. and to heart disease patients and their families;
to establish and maintain a program of assistance to physicians, nurses, medi-
cal professionals and health care organizations in their work with heart disease
patients and their families;
to cooperate with other organizations in education and research activities per-
taining to heart disease;
to assist established heart disease rehabilitation programs for members and
their families;
to plan and conduct suitable programs of social and educational interest for
members, and for heart disease patients and their families.
Blue Ridge Chapter #16
of Mended Hearts, Inc.
expresses our apprecia-
tion for the generous
support of Centra in
providing printing costs
for this newsletter.
May 2018