PASSIONATE ABOUT PINK Lorna Jean Hagstrom is Inviting Everyone in Town to Embrace Her Favorite Color for the Month of October
Lorna Jean Hagstrom is wearing her signature pink and new favorite color for the promotion of AdventHealth DeLand Foundation breast cancer awareness. Although she is not a survivor herself, she has witnessed many who have battled the disease and some who have lost their fight. Her goal is to continue to fight for and alongside of those familiar with the cancer war. Her fight is personal, because she is leading AdventHealth DeLand Foundation’s annual Pink on Parade philanthropic events. She is the chairperson of AdventHealth DeLand Foundation and has served in this role for the last 20 years. Ms. Hagstrom is passionate about the Foundation’s impact on our community. Her focus is promoting opportunities for West Volusians to have their “healthiest life possible.”
community hospital continues to provide the “A” rated healthcare it’s track record has documented over the last 50 years.
Ms. Hagstrom is very active in the DeLand community and has lived here for more than 60 years. She has raised her two children, seven grandchildren and now five great-grandchildren here. She has served on multiple not-for-profit organizational boards and has volunteered in various capacities throughout the last six decades.
AdventHealth DeLand Foundation (AHD Foundation) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to generating monetary support for hospital initiatives and programs. AHD Foundation exists to support the mission of our hospital by developing a lasting and meaningful partnership with our community. The Foundation is dedicated to creating awareness of philanthropic opportunities that will help provide AdventHealth DeLand Hospital the means to grow in its commitment to provide excellent, faith-based healthcare to our community.
“We really have an excellent hospital that I’m proud to not only support but to serve on both the AdventHealth Foundation Board but also the AdventHealth Hospital Board,” said Hagstrom.
In 2020, she was named Junior Service League’s “Woman of the Year” for her dedication to our community over the last 50 years. She is the past Chairwoman of St. Barnabas Episcopal “I believe that everyone Church Board for many should have access to quality years and proudly sent all seven of her healthcare, and it is our grandchildren to the responsibility to make sure school. However, her deepest passion is we have a hospital that is healthcare and wellness.
AHD Foundation’s vision is to provide a linkage between the healthcare needs of our community and AdventHealth DeLand hospital through the efforts of our Foundation. The organization has been in existence for the last twenty years. Some of thriving so that we have “I believe that everyone the projects that the AHD the latest equipment, the best should have access to Foundation has focused quality healthcare, and around is the construction physicians and the most dedicated it is our responsibility of the AdventHealth DeLand hospital staff,” said Hagstrom. to make sure we have a Cancer Institute and the hospital that is thriving so hospital’s simulation lab that we have the latest equipment, the best physicians dedicated to training AdventHealth DeLand clinical and the most dedicated hospital staff,” said Hagstrom. team members. Ms. Hagstrom is adamant that AdventHealth DeLand has all three and she is steadfast on ensuring that our 16
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The AHD Foundation has also supported educational programs, equipment purchase such as the new Savi
