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Network: April/May 2007
Mission
 Sentara Health Foundation Issues Grants
The Sentara Health Foundation issued more than $593,000 to 23 organizations in the January grant cycle. The funds were targeted to a broad range of services including basic health care and screenings, dental care, mental health and crisis pregnancy services, prescription medications and transportation to doctor visits, as well as coalition building and training for people who care for frail, elderly relatives. For more information, check out the Sentara Health Foundation homepage.
Community Benefit Update
Sentara Healthcare’s Total Community Benefit and Charity Care figure for 2006 equals $121,684,000. This includes more than $100 million in Charity Care costs, up from $89 million in 2005. Community Benefit programs rose sharply, from just over $2 million in 2005 to $11.5 million last year. Net unfunded cost for teaching programs was more than $9.7 million, up from $8.8 million the previous year.
Camp Lighthouse Set for April
The Second Annual Camp Lighthouse to aid grieving children is scheduled for April 21 and 22, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day, at Triple-R Ranch in Chesapeake. Sponsored by Sentara Home Care Services’ Hospice Program, the camp is designed to help children ages 6-16 who have experienced the death of a close family member or friend within the past two years. Trained professionals and volunteers at the camp incorporate creative activities like art therapy and rock climbing to help children and their families cope with their grief, share it and let it go. The camp had an extremely successful first year. Enrollment is limited to 50 children. For information, call (757) 549-7755.
Events Celebrate Nightingale 25th Anniversary
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| Moriah Mills, a former patient transported by Nightingale, takes a look at the rescue helicopter at the Nightingale anniversary event. | To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sentara Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance, Nightingale crew flew to participate in two community events: February 27 at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center and March 13 at Sentara Obici Hospital. The events were well attended by staff, former patients and community members. Nightingale has flown 14,000 accident-free missions since it was introduced in February 1982. While based at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Nightingale serves a 125-mile radius, transporting trauma victims as well as critically ill cardiac patients and high risk infants.
Sentara Heart Hospital Holds Brick Dedication Ceremony
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| (L-R) Peggy Parker, secretary, Cardiac Transplant Services, Melody Sink, Clinical Nurse II, Congestive Heart Failure Program, and Betty Crandall, Director Transplant, Cardiac Research and Congestive Heart Failure Program. | Sentara Heart Hospital® held a
Commemorative Brick Dedication Ceremony February 15 to officially thank and recognize those who have made donations to Sentara Health Foundation in honor or memory of loved ones whose names were inscribed on bricks placed in the hospital courtyard. Approximately 75 Sentara employees and members of the community gathered to celebrate the effort, which resulted in 386 commemorative bricks and yielded $38,650 in donations to support cardiac care. Donations of $100 each to have a brick inscribed are still being accepted through the Sentara Health Foundation. Call (757) 455-7220 for more information.
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