JB Summer Newsletter Summer

JUNIOR BOARD of Christiana Care, Inc.

FOCUS ON GIVING Summer Edition 2023

During our 2022-2023 fiscal year, the Junior Board of Christiana Care, Inc. raised funds/gifted $329,000 to ChristianaCare projects. Recipients of our funds included the Pediatric Care Center ($85,000), Forensic Team ($67,000), Reach Out and Read Program ($10,000) and Securing Tomorrow ($167,000). The articles to follow highlight our recipients and their requests, as well as our JB Cause 2023 fundraising and event.

JB Cause 2023: “Showing our Pediatric Pride” The theme of Pediatric Pride encompassed the Junior Board’s fundraising efforts in 2023. The Board of Directors selected the newly opened Pediatric Care Center for JB Cause 2023. This round-the-clock facility on the first floor of the Center for Women’s and Children’s Health offers combined short-stay inpatient and emergency care for pediatric patients. Dr. Megan Mickley, Director of the Pediatric Care Center, summarized the future use of our funds by stating:

“Philanthropic support of the Pediatric Care Center through JB Cause allows us to continuously optimize our patients’ and families’ experiences as we improve care access and expand care services for the ChristianaCare pediatric community. Our gratitude and the impact of your support are truly immeasurable!”

Dr. Megan Mickley, MD MBA FAAP FACEP

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Securing Tomorrow: “You Can Count on Us!” With our final payment of $166,000, the Junior Board completed our lead sponsor pledge to ChristianaCare of $500,000. Initiated in 2020, Securing Tomorrow was designed to help our healthcare system to achieve, maintain and expand current and future important care services during the unprecedented pandemic. The Junior Board remains committed to assist ChristianaCare in all endeavors to secure excellent care for our neighbors. You can count on us!

Special thanks to our dedicated Junior Board Fundraising Committee of Diane Thomas (Chair), Claudine Richardson (Treasurer), Susan Katz, Linda White, Paula Cobb Sheldon, Joanne Abruzzese, Connie Euston, Judy Holloway, and Kathleen Fenimore.

JB Cause 2023 Fundraising Event: "A Very Special Day" After five years without a fundraising event due to COVID, the Junior Board’s Event Planning Committee hosted “A Very Special Day” at the Ammon Center on ChristianaCare’s Newark campus that showed our “Pediatric Pride”.

Fun and enthusiasm were evident throughout the day-long event, as JB members, hospital staff, family and friends attended a variety of activities. The day began with a marketplace of fourteen vendors selling a diverse array of handcrafted items and homemade food, as well as raffles offering enticing gift cards, gifts and wines.

Later, a happy hour featuring the up-beat tones of The Brandywine Riders and beverages by Magnolia Lounge delighted our guests. To top THAT off, a ticketed evening event featured delicious appetizers by Bachetti Brothers and the enjoyable sounds of the Piano Dudes whose vibe created a sing, clap and dance along atmosphere for our guests.

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Special thanks to our many Junior Board volunteers and to our extraordinary event committee: Diane Thomas and Claudine Richardson, (Co-Chairs), Judy Dr. Megan Mickley, Diane Thomas, Legge, JoAnn Vahey, Joyce Strojny, Ashlee Rowles, Claudine Richardson Kaye Crouch, Lori Wright, Pam Russo, Judy Holloway, and Lois Capone. In addition, kudos to our enthusiastic ChristianaCare honorary chairs: Megan Mickley, MD, Director of the Pediatric Care Center, and Ashlee Rowles, Director of Operations, Women’s and JoAnn Vahey, Lois Capone, Judy Holloway, Joyce Strojny, Lori Wright, Diane Thomas, Pam Russo, Children’s Services.

The combined efforts of our fundraising and event committees enabled the Junior Board to present a check for $85,000 to the Pediatric Care Center.

Claudine Richardson, Kaye Crouch, Judy Legge

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Pediatric Pride smiles all around!

Thanks to our Generous Donors Thanks to our JB Cause 2023 generous donors including Junior Board members, corporate donors and individuals. You made us all Pediatric Proud!

P L AT I N U M (=>$25,000) Junior Board of ChristianaCare GOLD ($5,000-$9,999) Dr. Janice Nevin & Dr. Charles Pohl S I LV E R ($2,500-$4,999) Lammot Copeland_ Jr Dr. Patricia Curtin & Family Charles H. & Ella Emery Seiberlich Trane Energy Services BRONZE ($1,000-$2,499) Phyllis & Charles Adams Cassidy Painting, Inc. Claudia & Richard Fischer Helen F. Graham Cancer & Research Center Lynn Herrick & Rodney Sharp Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware Dr. & Mrs. Howard Zucker PEWTER ($500-$999) Breakwater Accounting & Advisory Corp.

Barbara & Richard Burd Chandler Funeral Home & Crematory Cirillo Brothers, Inc. Dr. Richard Cuming & Mr. John Lally W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Kleon Diamantopoulos Elliott-Lewis Corporation Ann Kappel Milestone Construction Company, Inc. Dr. Renee Oleary Lear S. Pfeiffer Nancy & Dan Rich W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. FRIENDS ($250-$499) Debra Ackerman Betty & Elmo Beyer Brew HaHa!

Charles Copeland Lois Capone Michael & Tookie Clark Carol A. Coughenour Kaye Crouch Delaware Today Magazine

F R I E N D S (cont.)

PAT R O N S (cont.)

Joseph DeStephano Diamond State Promotions Kathleen Fenimore Denise & Gary Ferguson Jim & Paula Flynn Chris Frysztacki Furness Electric Company, Inc. Gunnip & Company, LLP Tom & Kathleen Johnson Leslie & Lynn Jones Mary Julian Susan & Alan Katz Irene Larson Farid Moosavy Barry & Susan Niziolek Pratt Insurance, Inc. R. L. Laboratories, Inc. Paul & Georgianna Riley Pamela Russo Sacksy Thyme, LLC Tom & Paula Sheldon Diane H. Thomas Dwight & Pamela Thomey Norm & Suzy Veasey

Jean Fong Tina Furman Carol Gallagher Arthur Gray Marie Hanley Claire Herrington Shirley Hills Judith & Joseph Holloway Kathleen Keogh Judy Legge Lincoln Financial Group Jane & Ernest Linsay Lolita Lopez & Don Jesse Mary Ann Marshall Anne S. McCarren Ann Marie Markovchick Larry & Karen Maurer Jane E. McKinstry Julienne Melchior Alice Missimer Blanche A. Moaney Debbie Mooney Jane B. Moore Barbara R. Morgan

PAT R O N S ($25-$249) Joanne Abruzzese Joan Altmaier Mary Lowenstein Anderson Sharon Anderson Sylvia Bachman Lois Backes Nancy Barefoot Georgia Brereton Susan Burchenal Dr. Hal Byck Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Case, Sr. Susan Carty Jeanne T. Checkel Donna M. Cohen Ann Davidson Elizabeth Dougherty Rose Ebner John A. & Lena Elzufon Marianne Ennis Connie Euston Elizabeth Fahl Sandra Farrell Elizabeth Feldman Catherine Fernald Helen Ferris

Susan E. Fletcher

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Mike & Keri Morton-Wiedner Lynda Moses Marilee H. Mullett Harriett Porter Janet Protack Claudine D. Richardson Joan Roberge Nancy & Robert Rothman Marie Rule Anne Saunders Ellen & Dave Schonbach Denise Schwartz Rosemary Shidner Helen Shields Cathie & Lew Shumaker Nancy Snyder John & Joyce Strojny Peggy & Marty Tracy Robert & Connie Travis Marlene Tribitt JoAnn N. Vahey Dru Vari Walter’s Steakhouse Norma Jean Welsh Elizabeth S. White Kevin & Linda White Dia Williams Adams Frances F. Williams Lori Wright

REACH OUT AND READ: "CHILDREN AND BOOKS...

A PERFECT MATCH"

The national program, Reach Out and Read, incorporates children’s books into the pediatric well visit. The books identify developmental milestones and teach parents how to engage their children through reading. There is nothing better than sharing a book with your child and helping them gain a love of reading…a lifelong gift.

Currently, Wilmington Hospital provides 1300 books annually to its patients.

To expand this program to additional pediatric providers, Dr. Allen Friedland, Director of ChristianaCare’s Residency Program, requested funds from the Junior Board. The Board of Directors thought this program had such a critical need that we doubled Dr. Friedland’s request, thus gifting $10,000. Soon, many children will leave their wellness visit with a smile and a great book to add to their home library.

Filling Forensic Nurse Needs

Amy Stier and Sarah Peluso Forensic Nurses

Imagine your daily work routine involving the care and support of patients physically or sexually abused, strangled, or victims of a gunshot wound? Fortunately, ChristianaCare has a nationally recognized Forensic Nursing Team that has the specialized training and compassion to offer exactly what is needed for those traumatized patients.

After two compelling Forensic Nurse Team presentations to the Junior Board, members unanimously voted to support funding for specialized nurse training and additional equipment and materials that will support patients. These truly dedicated and amazing Forensic nurses will utilize the funds for gunshot and strangulation training, specialized care equipment and supplies, and educational materials. There will even be stipends offered for nursing self-care to combat burn out, compassion fatigue and PTSD. The Junior Board is thrilled to support the Forensic Nurse Team and their Forensic Nurse Examiner Team Coordinator, Amy Stier, with our gift of $67,000.

Poinsettia Delivery: “A Gift of Holiday Cheer”

Ann Kappel, Barbara Burd, Diane Thomas, Georgia Brereton

On Christmas Eve morning 2022, the Junior Board resumed a gift giving event that COVID had paused. Lovely poinsettias were distributed to patients being cared for at both Wilmington and Christiana Hospitals. Patient thank you’s, applause, and even tears were evident as holiday bedecked Junior Board volunteers cheerfully Lori Wright, JoAnn Vahey, Connie Euston, Sue Fletcher, Paula Cobb Sheldon, Goodwin Cobb IV, Eddie Cobb, visited patients.

Goodwin Cobb V, Tom Sheldon

“Our Junior Board is to be congratulated on the many ways that we respond to the needs of our ChristianaCare community. We give of time, talents, and monetary gifts.

Members and donors alike should be proud to be part of such large giving hearts: past, present and Lois Capone, President future.” of the Junior Board

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Thank yoThanks to our Junior Board Newsletter contributors and staff: Linda White, producer; Diane Thomas, editor; Lois Capone, Claudine Richardson, and Tina Furman, contributors; Phyllis Adams and Angela Case, proofreaders.