Cardinal Glennon: 10 Years of Yes

10

YEARS OF

+YES!

CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION DECADE OF PHILANTHROPY

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Dear Friends of Cardinal Glennon, It is with a grateful heart and a complete sense of awe that we share this 10-year report with our medical center staff and supporters. It has been an inspiring endeavor to look back on the incredible impact our donors have made at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center since the turn of a new century.

When we review the past decade, we realize that thousands of young lives have been saved, healed and cured because so many in our community chose to care! They said “Yes!” to our faith-filled mission to treat all sick and injured children who come to us, regardless of their family’s circumstances.

We have the greatest job in the world at the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation. We have the privilege to come to work every day to interact with the most giving, most caring and most dedicated donors and volunteers. Our Board of Governors, a team of dedicated community volunteers, brings a level of commitment and leadership that allows us to dream big and be bold in our strategic planning. These influential men and women see Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center as a beacon of hope.

They see the fruits of their labor and the rewards of their generosity in the eyes of our NICU infants, in microscopic heart surgeries, in cutting-edge cancer care and through so many other life-saving procedures and programs.

Recently, a long-time Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation donor said, “I feel as if I’m an active part of making miracles happen.” She had just learned about a new life-saving surgery in our St. Louis Fetal Care Institute — a minimally invasive procedure performed on a baby still in his mother’s womb. No one could have said it any better.

We are all called to be a part of God’s miracles. While we often don’t know His plan for us or the path of our journeys, we do know that the next decade holds many more opportunities for our donors to step forward in faith and support Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. It is that unyielding support that allows us to seek more innovation, more growth and more ways to reveal the healing presence of God. We will see more miracles!

Sincerely,

Dan Buck, Executive Director, Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation

Message of thanks When SSM Cardinal Glennon opened the doors to patients in 1956, it was an extremely innovative hospital: It was the first hospital in the country specifically devoted to the care of pediatric patients, and training physicians to care for them. Our generous donors, who raised money for 10 years to build SSM Cardinal Glennon, gave the region’s families an enormous gift that continues to benefit thousands of children today.

Our donors are just as critical now to our mission as they were 65 years ago, and they continue to open doors into the future of pediatric health care. We are grateful to the Foundation’s Board of Governors, whose leadership and guidance have given hope and healing to our patients by funding critical departments, programs and technology. By partnering the latest technology in health care with the expertise of our physicians and nurses, we provide safer care, faster healing and healthier futures.

From an entire treatment center to a memorial donor wall, the Foundation’s donors have built world-class facilities and fostered our mission. For example, The Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center, which opened in 2009, was supported by Larry Dallas’ donation in memory of Dorothy Hennessy Dallas. The center treats young patients with the latest advancements in cardiology care. And like the rest of the hospital, the center is designed to be child and family-friendly. Vibrant artwork and bright colors in exam rooms and hallways replace sterile, white walls; patients can watch their favorite DVDs on flat-panel TVs. Improved technology provides fetal echocardiography testing and 3-D views of the heart, allowing doctors to see with more detail and clarity. This kind of care that sets us apart is only made possible by our generous donors.

Innovation and technology is very important, yet it is our staff’s unsurpassed dedication to the children and families they serve that truly makes SSM Cardinal Glennon a unique place. Research has proven what we experience every day: Children are best treated in a hospital that focuses totally on pediatric care. We share in this great privilege and vision with you: to care for the youngest and sickest among us with compassion, dignity and excellence, using the many gifts and talents that God has given us to serve others.

Sherlyn Hailstone, President, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center

10

YEARS OF

+YES!

All great achievements in the non-profit world are built around quality partnerships in which multiple community organizations are working together. At SSM Cardinal Glennon, we have been blessed by thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations, all saying “Yes“ to our mission over the past decade. In recent years, the largest contributions have come from generous bequests, including two extremely generous estate gifts from Alan and Edith Wolff and Larry and Dorothy Dallas.

Combined, these two families donated more than $8 million to improve our treatments, technology and facilities. We also must recognize our long-term partnership with the Dana Brown Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network and the Missouri Knights of Columbus. The impact of these organizations is seen daily in the lives of our children who are healed, cured and are living productive lives thanks to the love and support of our community.

ALAN AND EDITH WOLFF

F O U N D A T I O N

Dorothy & Larry

Dallas Heart Center at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center

Coming Soon!

Glennon Youth Council

Cassandra Armstrong shares her ideas for the new playground with landscape architect Laurel Harrington

The Glennon Youth Council is made up of kids and young adults who are past patients and their siblings.

These young Glennon Ambassadors‘ role is to lend their “kid perspective” to hospital projects. One of their first tasks is to give feedback on what should go into the new playground area at the hospital. To learn more or get involved in the Glennon Youth Council, check out the Glennon Ambassadors page at Glennon.org!

Cardinal Glennon

Children’s Foundation

Timeline of

Generosity...

The following timeline recaps some of the significant contributions made to SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center from

2000-2010

These contributions were made possible because of thousands of donors, supporters and friends in our community who believe in the SSM Cardinal Glennon Mission:

“Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”

Did you know?

The SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation supports numerous youth programs and summer camps for our Cardinal Glennon kids.

2000

2001

2000

The Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation invests more than $160,000 in seed funding to begin a new cord blood cell research program (a non-controversial stem cell) which grew into one of the largest public umbilical cord blood banks in the world. To date, the Cord Blood Bank has provided adult cells to more than 1,800 transplant patients globally.

Faith Hill and Bob Costas

Paul Simon

The Bob Costas Benefit has generated more

than $9 million in support over the event’s 23-year history.

Thanks to another great Bob Costas Benefit in 2001,

than $286,000 in the Bob Costas Cancer Center.

the Foundation invests more

These contributions have saved countless lives by delivering some of the best pediatric cancer care in America. As we like to say, SSM Cardinal Glennon is where cancer research comes to life through effective, life-saving treatment programs!

Conan O’Brien

2002

2001

Bob Costas Annual Benefit

2003

2004

2004 Welcome

to Glennon Café The world of hospital food took a drastic turn for the better. The Foundation

invests $3.9 million to completely renovate the medical center cafeteria for patient families and staff.

Glennon Café is considered by many as the best hospital cafeteria in the region!

The New SSM Cardinal Glennon!

The Board of Governors completes a 5-year vision and campus capital improvement.

campaign generates $34 million

The two-phase to build the new four-story addition that greatly increases Cardinal GlennonÕs capacity to serve more children, both in-patient and out-patient. This significant Foundation investment also included funding for a new and improved all-private Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, making it one of the largest NICUs in the Midwest. In addition, the hospital also improved patient parking and has the ability to add additional floors to the new tower if needed in the future.

2006-2007 Did20you 05 know?

2006

2007

Without the generosity of our donors, we could not touch as many lives through our critical programs such as Footprints, Social Services, Safe Kids, Pastoral Care and Child Life.

Each year

, the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation supports patient families facing financial needs.

Our support includes transportation, lodging, food and special needs.

2008

The Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center

Dorothy and Larry Dallas never had children, as they married late in life. But their generosity will touch the lives of thousands of kids with heart defects for decades to come.

Dorothy and Larry left Cardinal Glennon more than $4

million in their estate

to build and maintain a new state-of-the-art cardiology center of excellence.

Dorothy & Larry

Dallas Heart Center

2000-2010

Larry and Dorothy Dallas

From , the Foundation transferred a total of

at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center

51.1 million

$

2008

2009

to SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center.

New Equipment for NICU

2010

Just as it does each and every year, the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation purchases special equipment to help our nurses and doctors stay on the cutting edge of technology. In

2009 alone, the Foundation spent more than $120,000 on equipment upgrades in the NICU and another $214,000 on improvements to physician offices around the hospital.

NEW

Glennon Ambassador

The

Program

T

he Glennon Ambassador Program is a new community outreach program that is designed to give the families, parents and children who know the mission of SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center better than most the opportunity to unite and do some amazing work for our incredible hospital.

We plan to build a powerful network of grateful families that will have a profound impact on the future of SSM Cardinal Glennon.

Support

The program will include:

• peer-to-peer support (past patients helping current patients) • donating your time to help create fundraisers to support staff and facilities • sharing your experience at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center with the greater community

Encourage

The Glennon Ambassador Program will bring a dynamic, cohesive

and impactful team of grateful families together to help us further the mission of Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. We look forward to growing this program in the years to come. If you would like to join us, please visit our programs tab at glennon.org and fill out the form provided.

Above: Glennon Ambassador Leadership Family — Morgan, Lauren, Jim and Angie Lee. Left: Lauren Lee when she was a patient at SSM Cardinal Glennon.

Become a Glennon Ambassador Today!

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