2014 Impact Report
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Dear Friends of Cardinal Glennon, What an amazing year 2014 was for the kids at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. We once again saw record-breaking contributions come in from our generous donors who support all of our events and programs. We even created a new event to celebrate Homers for Health with Cardinals Nation, the Homers for Health Game Shows, which was incredibly successful! We are blessed to have received 149 estate gifts, and proud to welcome 80 new annuitants, helping secure their financial future while helping kids at the same time. Sandy Koller, Executive Director Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation
U.S. News and World Report ranked three SSM Cardinal Glennon specialties amongst the country’s leaders In its 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. We are proud to be ranked 31st in gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, 33rd in cardiology and heart surgery and 46th in nephrology among all children’s hospitals in the U.S. That is quite an accomplishment, and we could not have achieved this status without the support of our generous donors. In 2014, our Board of Governors committed up to $1.5 million to help SSM Cardinal Glennon and Saint Louis University School of Medicine build up our signature programs and enhance our top performing service lines, which allow us to continue to lead and innovate, keeping us at the edge of pediatric medicine. One of the best parts of my job is to hear the stories from the grateful families who have been impacted by our mission “Though our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.” You can just walk through the halls of Cardinal Glennon on any given day, and see that mission in motion. Our exceptional caregivers who live that mission each day are truly what set us apart from the rest. We hope you will enjoy reading about how your dollars have directly impacted the lives of thousands of children and their families. Your compassion and generosity enable us to continue to reveal the healing presence of God to all we serve. On behalf of all the children and families of Cardinal Glennon, we thank you for your support. Sincerely,
Sandy Koller, Executive Director Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation
$494,974
$429,693
Supporting Events
In 2014, our supporting events were hosted by community groups and grateful patient families who wanted to give back to our hospital. These events collectively raised $1,322,055 in support of our mission. Our top 10 supporting events and programs:
$2,450,056 • C hildren’s Miracle Network – Benefiting Research for Sickle Cell Anemia, The Costas Center and Children’s Fund
$688,447
•H olly Krieg Memorial Golf Tournament – Benefiting Footprints
$739,000
•F leur de lis – Benefiting the Pediatric Research Institute • Glennon Guild – Benefiting Telemedicine and the Children’s Fund
$1,529,000
•L ocal 148 Bass Fishing Tournament – Benefiting the Children’s Fund
$1,630,000
$2,500,000
Direct Family Support Laparoscopic/Operating Room Enhancements Nuclear Medicine Suite Signature Program Support PICU Child Friendly Renovations Costas Center Knights of Columbus Developmental Center Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center
Events and Programs Planned Giving...........................................$8,264,984 Third Party Events..................................... $1,322,055 Homers for Health..........................................$699,818 Glennon Sunday............................................. $493,201 Tree of Hope....................................................$372,034 Dierdorf Pronger Golf Classic.................. $216,200 Glennon Card...................................................$182,494 Glennon Gallop............................................... $213,230 Glennon Golf Classic......................................$96,606 Employee Appeal.............................................$77,896 Scoops of Fun................................................... $38,894
•M ary McDermott Basketball Tournament – Benefiting the Pediatric Hybrid Cardiac Catheterization Suite •T ee off for Kids – Benefiting the Knights of Columbus Developmental Center •B lacksheep Golf Tournament – Benefiting Footprints •R ide for Rocky – Benefiting the Children’s Fund •B udde Family Fun Day - Benefiting the Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center
Glennon Ambassadors
Glennon Ambassadors are a network of dynamic, dedicated families who understand, better than most, the mission of SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. This network, which continues to grow, is made up of 120 grateful families who want to give back by providing support around our programs and events. For more information visit glennonambassadors.org.
Youth Opportunity Program (YOP) Tax Credits
Once again, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center was awarded YOP tax credits. Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation is marketing these credits with the goal of generating $500,000 to support the Right Start Program of the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, which helps youth overcome behavioral-health obstacles that pose challenges to successful development. YOP is a program of Missouri’s Department of Economic Development that enables youth-serving nonprofits to increase their donations by offering donors state tax credits equal to 50 percent of their donations while taking the entire donation on their federal tax returns. Call 314-951-2203 to learn more.
The best gifts under the sun
YOUR impact at a glance
Our fundraising events & MAR-SEPT
$699,818
JUNE
$493,201 Glennon Sunday
Homers for Health In its third year 2014 Homers for Health co-chairs Matt Holliday, Allen Craig, Jason Motte and Adam Wainwright raised $699,818 for the kids at Cardinal Glennon. Thousands of pledges came in from Poland, 38 states, and Washington D.C. Adding to that total was a new event, the Homers for Health Game Shows, which brought 1,500 people to Ballpark Village in its inaugural year to benefit Cardinal Glennon kids.
In 1955, Archbishop Ritter called upon the faithful of St. Louis to build the only free-standing Catholic pediatric hospital in the country. Thanks to the support of our community, SSM Cardinal Glennon was built, brick by brick, dollar by dollar. That was the beginning of Glennon Sunday. In 2014, 185 parishes contributed to raising $493,201 through parish collections and donations throughout the community.
Nuclear Medicine Suite $1,630,000
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onations from 2014 funded a new $1.6 million Nuclear Medicine Suite at SSM Cardinal Glennon, which is the only radiology and imaging department with the newest nuclear medicine technology in the St. Louis and surrounding area. This state-of-the-art equipment allows the nuclear medicine images and computed tomography (SPEC/CT) imaging to be performed at the same time. With this technology, the information from two different exams can be correlated and interpreted on one image, therefore leading to precise information for diagnoses.
How we put YOU
& programs of 2014 JULY
$38,894
SEPT
$96,606
Presented in partnership with Columbia Golf Club
Each summer, hundreds of kids and their families look forward to the Scoops of Fun event to benefit Cardinal Glennon kids, and 2014 was no different. A crowd of nearly 800 gathered to eat all the ice cream they wanted, play interactive games, enjoy face painting and playful balloon creations, all while raising $38,894 to help the hospital.
A 30 Year Tradition
The Glennon Golf Classic is hosted each year at Columbia Golf Course, thanks to our dear friend and longtime donor Lou Mund. This three-person golf scramble features lunch, dinner, gifts and attendance prizes, along with special event holes, closest-to-the-pin contests and a hole-in-one prize and putting contest. Proceeds from the event raised $96,606 in 2014.
$213,230 The Second Annual Glennon Gallop was a huge success, raising $213,230 to support Danis Pediatric Center at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. The 2014 event featured world-renowned polo player Nacho Figueras, who was welcomed by thousands of attendees who gathered in their finest whites to watch the fastest team sport in the world. Proceeds from the event each year enable Danis Pediatric Center to make many enhancements and improvements to their services and programs they provide to our community.
The Costas Center $688,447
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n June 2014, NBC broadcaster Bob Costas unveiled the new colorful and child-friendly space in The Costas Center at SSM Cardinal Glennon. Costas, a member of our Board of Governors, showed off the underwater-themed renovation to donors at a special reception. The renovation features include bubble walls, a pirate ship and a 28-foot interactive yellow submarine, complete with a movie screen and video games. The more playful and interactive space is designed to help children cope with fear and anxiety as they face treatments for pediatric cancer and life-threatening blood and immune disorders. The renovations were supported through various fundraising efforts and events, including Homers for Health and specifically the Bob Costas Benefit, which has been supporting the medical center for 26 years.
“ She puts the fish in schools on the wall and calls them her family.” —Angelita, mom to Costas patient
OUR gifts to work
SEPT
OCT
$216,200 DIERDORF PRONGER GOLF CLASSIC Board of Governors members and St. Louis fan favorites, Dan Dierdorf and Chris Pronger come together each year for this charity golf classic held at Boone Valley Golf Club. Event proceeds in 2014 raised $216,200 to support the Dan Dierdorf Emergency and Trauma Center at SSM Cardinal Glennon.
OCT
$182,494 Glennon Card During the 2014 program, 3,200 Glennon Cards were purchased, raising $159,991 to benefit the medical center. Additional sponsor contributions resulted in a total of $182,494 raised. The funds from these efforts created enough capital to purchase new, advanced procedural and surgical scopes for numerous areas of the hospital. Patients undergoing general surgery, ear, nose and throat procedures, urological interventions, orthopedic surgeries or pulmonary procedures will benefit greatly from the new scopes.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit $739,000
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n the summer of 2014, a new $10 million Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) was unveiled featuring 18 rooms with 21 beds in an expanded, redesigned, and renovated 20,500 square foot space. The new unit is nearly triple the size of the former PICU and features state-of-the-art medical technology. Patients are monitored through a new system which will allow physicians to view their status from home, 24/7. New bedside dialysis and ultrasound is also available in the PICU. The waiting area features interactive play areas for families with children, providing calm and comfort during times of trial.
“ There’s room for us to write on the tables and play cards or Legos together.” —Kari, mom to PICU patient
NOV
$77,896 Employee Appeal What better place to donate than to the hospital you know and love best! Each year our employees have the opportunity to pledge a donation from each paycheck to benefit patients and families. In its third year, the Employee Appeal raised $77,896 to benefit our patients, with donations going to designated areas like Child Life, Footprints, Social Services, the Children’s Fund and the Sr. Noreen McGowan Nursing Education Fund.
DEC
$372,034 Tree of Hope Each Christmas season, thousands in our community write messages of hope for our patients and their parents. Each message is unique and inspiring, giving hope for healing and recovery. In 2014, our donors contributed $372,034 to our Tree of Hope and virtual Light Up Glennon year-end appeal, lighting up the hospital with each gift received.
Planned Giving
$8,264,984 Our Planned Giving program offers a variety of ways to honor or remember SSM Cardinal Glennon with a charitable gift. With up to an 10% return, our charitable gift annuity provides a stable source of retirement income. Many of our donors remember us in their Will through significant gifts. These sources provide additional support for the needs of children and families at the medical center.
Other areas YOU support Social Services
Social Services helps our families address practical and psychosocial issues that impact their medical care. They coordinate with medical and nursing staff to assure that families have equipment, nursing care and medications needed for departure from the hospital. Social workers facilitate protocols for our victims of violence and child abuse cases, and they team up with legislators to help keep children safe statewide. Your donations help provide basic health care assistance, such as prescription drugs, meal tickets, transportation and other forms of support to our uninsured patients.
Children’s Fund
Donations to the Children’s Fund are used to address special needs of the hospital and our patients as they arise. This unrestricted fund allows for investing in special projects and programs at the medical center.
Footprints
Footprints is a program of comfort and advocacy for families and children with complex medical illnesses. The Care Team includes physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, care coordinators, family members and others, with a goal of having the resources and support available so these children and their families can live full lives. Footprints staff works with families in the hospital and at home to identify issues which may become difficult, and advocate to see that those issues are resolved. Footprints staff provides immediate support for the family, assistance in talking with siblings and assistance with funeral options. Your donations support the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of children and their families.
SSM Cardinal Glennon’s
Beads for Breath B
eads for Breath, created by a Child Life Specialist
with input from the Cystic Fibrosis Team is 100% funded by donations to the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation. Cystic fibrosis patients earn a bead for different treatments they experience, such as completing a respiratory treatment, participation in physical therapy, getting a poke or having surgery.
Beads of Breath is a resilience-based intervention designed to support and strengthen children and families coping with cystic fibrosis, a generic, incurable disease affecting the respiratory and digestive systems. Since the program began in January 2015, 22 patients have enrolled, with plans in place to address other chronic illnesses.
Benefits of Beads of Breath: • Helps to decrease illness-related distress • Increases use of positive coping strategies • Helps children find meaning in illness • Restores sense of self in children coping with serious illness • Provides something tangible that the child can use to tell about their experience
“ The program is awesome. It really gives her something to show off everything she’s been through.” - Cheryl, mother of 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient.
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