90th Anniversary - Fort Hamilton Hospital

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WELCOME

Fort Hamilton Hospital is celebrating 90 years of quality care in the community S

ince 1929, Fort Hamilton has been fueled by the dedicated people of Hamilton. Its legacy began with the help of community donations and we could not be who we are today without your support.

And just as you have shown your dedication to us, we will continue to show our dedication to you. Fort Hamilton is more than a business; it’s a mission. We are committed to serving the needs of this community through expanded services such as our Special Care Nursery, Kettering Cancer Care at the Carruthers Center and Hamilton Health Center on Main so that you have the most comprehensive care available close to home.

In addition to our main campus, our expanding health centers allow us to provide even greater access to care.

We continue to develop our current staff and recruit new physicians, always looking for opportunities to expand our services to meet the community’s needs.

We are honored to have spent these 90 years providing whole-person care as the City of Hamilton’s community hospital. We are excited to invest further in the health and wellness of local residents, with a vision of making Hamilton one of the healthiest communities in Ohio.

Thank you for being a part of the Fort Hamilton Hospital story.

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Hospital Developments and Expansion

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Fort Hamilton Volunteers

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Fort Hamilton Hospital’s History

10 Q&A with Dr. Richard Sternberg

11 Fort Hamilton Foundation Efforts

12 Healthy Hamilton Initiative’s Progress

14 Fort Hamilton Safety Fair and Anniversary Event

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—Ron Connovich, President

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DEVELOPMENT

The new Hamilton Health Center on Main provides the community greater access to primary care physicians.

Growing to Give the Best Care EXPANSIONS TO FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL CREATE MORE CARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY.

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f Fort Hamilton Hospital’s 2019 could be summed up in one word, it would be “access.” Through multiple new expansions and additions to the hospital, Fort Hamilton is creating greater access to health care for people in the Hamilton community.

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“We’re all about access and creating great care that’s close to home, so people don’t have to travel to get health care,” says Beth Blank, director of business development for Fort Hamilton.

In addition to expanded services with the Hamilton Health Center on Main and the Hamilton Health Center on High, Fort Hamilton will welcome advancements with Kettering Cancer Care, the Special Care Nursery and 13 new providers starting later in 2019.

WHOLE-PERSON CANCER CARE Fort Hamilton has had much to celebrate with the completion of the expanded cancer center and the addition of Kettering Cancer Care.

Kettering Cancer Care at the Carruthers Center offers 16 private and semi-private rooms for chemotherapy patients, a new

Clockwise from top left: The Kettering Cancer Care Center at Fort Hamilton Hospital; The expanded cancer care facility includes new rooms for infusion treatment; Miriam Cartmell, executive director of Kettering Health’s women’s and children’s service line, displays one of the Special Care Nursery’s incubators. nursery expanded to eight private rooms for families and their newborns who may be experiencing issues such as substance withdrawal, prematurity, respiratory problems or feeding problems. With extra space and privacy, families can spend time with the infants comfortably.

Giraffe warmers—specialty neonatal beds—and cardiac monitors were also replaced and updated.

NEW CAREGIVERS, SAME QUALITY CARE

linear accelerator and 10 clinical exam rooms. Nihar Patel, MD, is the medical oncologist for the center, which was designed by patients for patients to reflect holistic care. Kettering Health Network created a patient advisory council to involve cancer patients and survivors in the development of the Kettering Cancer Care facility at Kettering Medical Center. Fort Hamilton’s cancer center was modeled after that original design.

The cancer care providers of Fort Hamil-

ton partner with world-renowned experts in the field at Kettering Medical Center’s cancer center, making Fort Hamilton Hospital the premier cancer treatment destination in Butler County.

RENOVATIONS TO MATERNITY CARE Expansions to Fort Hamilton’s Level IIB Special Care Nursery have created extra capacity and implemented a new look with updated equipment.

In an effort to serve patient needs, the

Fort Hamilton is also bringing on board 13 new providers in the specialties of primary care, medical oncology, cardiology, general surgery, orthopedics and neurology.

“In addition to growing our access points, we’re growing our medical staff as well,” says Blank.

Fort Hamilton also recently added the da Vinci Surgical System for use by most general surgeons, urologists, obstetricians and gynecologists. The first surgery robotic surgery is set to happen in May of 2019 this month.

Blank states that with all of these added services, Fort Hamilton is seeking to add treatment options for patients. Whether it’s with a minimally invasive approach to a necessary procedure or a new cancer center in the neighborhood, Hamilton residents have the opportunity to customize their care with the right treatment options for them.

Looking to the future, Blank says expansion won’t stop here.

“We have a lot of new projects on the docket,” Blank says. “We’re going to continue to serve the greater Hamilton region.” n F O RT H A M I LTO N 2 0 1 9

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VOLUNTEERING

Giving to the Community Cause FORT HAMILTON’S VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN A LARGE PART OF THE HOSPITAL’S SUCCESS FOR DECADES.

By Kevin Michell

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Longtime volunteer Harold Saylor and his wife, Sharon, attend a banquet for Fort Hamilton’s volunteers.

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ort Hamilton Hospital is unique in that it is a product of its community.

From its founding in 1929 to its dedicated team of over 100 volunteers today, Fort Hamilton has thrived through its 90 years because of the people surrounding it.

The hospital’s volunteer program is eminently representative of this, providing a wide array of roles spanning from flower delivery and front desk staffing to providing comfort to cancer patients and emergency room visitors. The people around Hamilton who give their time are paramount to the hospital’s success.

“It feels like a continuation of the basis of our founding as a hospital,” says Sonja Kranbuhl, director of the Fort Hamilton Foundation. “It really is a community effort and it’s been supported, for many generations, by families who live here, who choose to have their care provided here.”

The volunteer base is a cross-section of the community at large. Students from area high schools and nearby colleges work alongside retirees and former patients.

One volunteer, older than the hospital itself, still does errands at 97 years old as he has for the last 15 years. “They are an extraordinary group of people with a wide variety of backgrounds and reasons for being here,” Kranbuhl adds.

Several have volunteered at Fort Hamilton for a decade or more, logging tens of

thousands of service hours along the way.

“Several of our long-term [volunteers], they still come two to three days a week,” says Marlena Goodwin, who has been volunteer coordinator at the hospital for about a year. “Most of them are doing more than four hours at a time.”

That contribution of time adds up. In 2018 alone, volunteers contributed a total of 20,588 hours of their time. That’s roughly equivalent to the work of 11 full-time employees.

Along the way, these volunteers make friends with one another and it gives the staff and the patients a purposeful outlet for their time and energy. Some have brought each other into the volunteering program, many have found the opportunity a good way to spend time after retirement and others are younger people looking for ways to give back or explore the potential of a career in caregiving.

“We have a small group that went to school with each other,” Goodwin says.

“They were at each other’s weddings and they’re still here together volunteering.”

One subset of the volunteer base is the Auxiliary of Fort Hamilton Hospital. The Auxiliary has existed since around 1950,

HAROLD’S STORY Harold Saylor spent 37 years with Procter & Gamble before it was time to retire.

After spending some time traveling with his wife and trying his hand at golf, he needed something to do.

“I was talking to a friend of mine after church one day,” Saylor recalls. “[He] moved to Florida, built himself a house, bought a boat, went fishing all the time and finally got bored.” Saylor’s friend began volunteering at his local hospital’s emergency room and he suggested that Harold try the same.

This appealed to Saylor because it could provide him with new purpose

The World War II-era Stamp Guild raised funds for the hospital and laid the foundation for what would become the Auxiliary of Fort Hamilton. evolving from the Stamp Guild of local residents that raised funds for the hospital during the 1940s. The group runs the Fort

in a busy environment. So, 15 years ago, Harold Saylor joined the Fort Hamilton volunteer program.

He began his volunteer journey by delivering materials from one part of the hospital to another, then was asked by the hospital to be its loaned executive to the United Way, which piqued Saylor’s interest. After multiple interviews, one with the CEO, Saylor spent the rest of that year setting up and helping to run the fundraising campaign for businesses around Hamilton.

That opened up new opportunities to help in other facets, such as sitting on the board for Partners in Prime and assisting Fort Hamilton staff on the hospital’s

Hamilton gift shop and gets to direct how the money from it is reinvested into the hospital.

T he Au x i lia r y cont r ibuted $250,000 to the hospital’s 90th anniversary capital campaign, a signifier of its generosity and capability.

“To be perfectly honest, I don’t know that we can calculate what they’ve given throughout the entire existence of the Auxiliary,” Kranbuhl says.

Many community members’ lives are rooted in Fort Hamilton history and Kranbuhl is no exception—having lived in Hamilton for 32 years, all of her children were born at Fort Hamilton and she even started as a volunteer herself. As she puts it, it was her choice for a hospital long before she started working there.

“There’s something very extraordinary and very personal about our hospital,” she says. “We know we’re taking care of our friends and neighbors.”

Fort Hamilton is always open to new volunteers joining the ranks. It is currently recruiting golf cart drivers and gift shop workers to help the Auxiliary in addition to other roles. Anyone interested in volunteering can learn more and sign up at ketteringhealth.org/volunteer. n

fourth floor that includes orthopedics and Fort Hamilton’s LifeCare Hospital.

“I didn’t expect that to happen,” Saylor says, “but when it did what you find is you’re oftentimes wanted and needed more than you realized. That, I found, is a very important feature. You really need to feel needed when you’re volunteering for something.”

After experiencing many different roles and functions as a volunteer, Saylor looks back on his 15 years of volunteering as a fulfilling part of his retirement.

“You do need something that makes you feel better about yourself and helping other people,” Saylor says. “I find that a very rewarding situation.”

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HISTORY

Fort Hamilton Hospital: A History of Care, From 1929 to Today

By Corinne Minard

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t was because of the people of Hamilton that Fort Hamilton Hospital opened in 1929 and has continued to serve the community since. In 1925, a group of residents called the Butler County Welfare Group banded together to raise funds to build an additional hospital in Butler County. The group was able to raise $500,000 for the endeavor, which equates to more than $7 million in today’s money.

Four years later, the hospital opened its doors on May 1, 1929. To introduce the community to the new health care location, the hospital hosted an open house where more than 14,000 toured the new facility.

Even when the stock market crashed five months later, the hospital was able to stay afloat by working with the community and even accepting fresh produce as payment. In spite of this tumultuous period,

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the hospital was able to open a nursing school in 1930.

Fast forward to 1971, when the hospital continued to expand and offer new services, merging with Hughes Hospital.

Hughes Hospital opened in 1951 with the sole purpose of treating infectious dis-

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Fort Hamilton Hospital opens its doors on May 1.

An open house is held for the public where 14,000 people tour the new facility.

Hamilton citizens raise $500,000 to build a new hospital in Butler County.

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The recently opened Fort Hamilton Hospital as it stood in the winter of 1929. eases. After the merge, the new hospital was called the Fort Hamilton Hughes Memorial Hospital after Eugene Hughes, the founder of Hughes Hospital.

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Hughes Hospital opens for the specific purpose of treating infectious diseases.

Groundbreaking of the new Lois A. Roscoe Wing.

The hospital starts a nursing school.

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Hughes Hospital merges with Fort Hamilton. The hospital is named Fort Hamilton Hughes Memorial Hospital in honor of Eugene Hughes, founder of Hughes Hospital.

Fort Hamilton opens the Gebhart Radiation Center, offering cancer treatment for patients.

Clockwise from top left: Technicians set up one of the hospital’s first X-ray machines; Dignitaries and honored guests attend the 1929 open house at Fort Hamilton; Surgeons operate at the hospital in the early 1960s.

Expansion continued in the 1980s and in 1983, an entirely new facility was built at the intersection of Eaton Avenue and Cereal Avenue. The turn of the 21st century saw the hospital add its north wing in 2000, which included the Ralph Rogan Carruthers ICU and the Donna Y. Carruthers Cardiovascular Suite.

In 2010, the hospital officially joined Kettering Health Network, becoming one of the network’s eight hospitals in southwest Ohio and driving the mission of improving the lives of the communities they serve.

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Over the years, more services have been added to meet the needs of the community.

In 2014, the hospital completed the Carruthers Emergency Department—which can accommodate more than 53,000 patient visits each year—and opened Hamilton Health Center on High Street.

This new location enabled the hospital to offer primary care, endocrinology services, diabetes care and weight management in the heart of downtown Hamilton.

Even in its 90th anniversary year, the hospital continues to grow and improve its quality of care. In March, the hospital opened its Special Care Nursery. The $1.5 million renovation of the nursery allows the hospital to provide care for premature babies or other infants who need special

2000 Fort Hamilton continues to expand by adding a north wing that contains the Ralph Rogan Carruthers ICU and the Donna Y. Carruthers Cardiovascular Suite.

A new building is constructed that would become the Fort Hamilton Hospital we know today.

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Fort Hamilton joins Kettering Health Network.

care. Fort Hamilton also opened the Hamilton Health Center on Main, which offers primary care and imaging services just outside of downtown Hamilton.

May of 2019 brought to life the latest addition to the hospital, the Carruthers Cancer Center, adding 16 private and semi-private infusion bays for chemotherapy treatment and 10 clinical exam rooms specifically for cancer patients.

Today, Fort Hamilton Hospital remains dedicated to bringing quality, affordable care to Hamilton and the surrounding communities. It is a full-service hospital that continues to lead the way to better health by offering more than 20 specialty services focusing on treating the whole person—mind, body and spirit. n

2014 Completion of the new Carruthers Emergency Department that accommodates more than 53,000 patient visits per year.

Hamilton Health Center on High Street opens, offering primary care, endocrinology services, diabetes care and weight management.

2019 Special Care Nursery opens in March, providing care for pre-term babies.

Hamilton Health Center on Main opens, offering primary care and imaging services.

Carruthers Cancer Center opens in May, bringing Kettering Cancer Care to Fort Hamilton.

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DOCTOR Q & A

Q&A with Dr. Richard Sternberg D

r. Richard Sternberg is a veteran pulmonologist who joined Fort Hamilton Hospital in 1993 after finishing his fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. He specializes in pulmonary critical care and in recent years has cared for patients near the end of their lives as a certified hospice physician. Dr. Sternberg took some time to answer questions about his and Fort Hamilton’s shared past.

What were Fort Hamilton’s operations like when you first started there in the 1990s?

We were a profitable, small, communityoriented facility that really took care of the patients we had. There were two hospitals at that time—us and Mercy Hamilton. So, we had competing hospital systems and then over time—I think it was about five or seven years—they realized it wasn’t viable to have two hospitals in a small town both providing quality care. Back then it was just myself and another [critical care doctor] and we were basically on call every other night for many, many years together.

So it was very busy taking care of all the pulmonary critical care needs of Hamilton, Ohio, but it a very congenial crowd.

How has your role with Fort Hamilton changed since then?

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toget her and I for med my ow n practice about 10 yea r s ago. O ver t he last 10 years that’s grown to four pulmonary critical care physicians.

We’ve grown significantly, and Kettering Health Network has been very generous in helping us do well, survive and grow in terms of capital dollars. They put physicians first in terms of making sure that we’re getting the resources we need to provide quality care.

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From your position, how has the relationship between the community of Hamilton and the hospital evolved over the last couple decades?

I think overall there was some trepidation

Have you noticed any particular advance- initially that we have a large system, but they ments in care from your vantage point? were kind of used to the fact that the Health Yeah, part of it is the capital dollar utilization to bring the latest technologies.

Fort Hamilton has been very good with expenditure and making sure we’re stateof-the-art with respect to equipment. From a personnel standpoint, the beauty of being with Kettering Health is that they have allowed us to utilize service lines that we never had available before. So, that’s been a huge benefit—the neurosurgeries, the advanced cardiac [treatments]. We have a built-in specialty pool that we can draw from and really provide quality care.

Alliance was associated with us and I think that got [the community] used to the fact that we needed a big hospital system in order to provide the most advanced care. Kettering has really done a nice job in fostering the best practice model and really putting the physicians and our needs up front so that they know if we’re not successful the community won’t be successful. We’ve really expanded a lot of services, built a new ER, he Cath lab, new operating rooms—so it’s been very impressive in terms of the capital outlay to really make sure that we are in head-to-head competition with all of the best hospitals in the area. n

COMMUNITY

Strengthening the Community FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION RAISES FUNDS FOR THE HOSPITAL’S RECENT ADDITIONS.

INVESTING IN A HOSPITAL LEGACY In honor of Fort Hamilton Hospital’s 90th anniversar y, Fort Hamilton Hospital Foundation has launched a special campaign—Legacy of Care—to support the hospital’s most recent expansions. Through this two-phase campaign, the foundation was able to raise $2 million in support of the recently renovated special care nursery and the addition of Kettering Cancer Care at the Carruthers Center.

The expansion of the Level IIB special care nursery was completed in March, which enhanced the healing environment for newborns who require extra care. The department expanded to eight private rooms that feature more space for families to spend time with their new babies.

The campaign’s other recipient was the expanded cancer center and expansion of Kettering Cancer Care services at Fort Hamilton Hospital. This created 16 private and semi-private infusion bays and 10 clinical exam rooms.

The money was raised through a variety of grants and individual gifts, as well as through an employee fundraising campaign.

“We were fortunate enough to receive $1 million from the Carruthers family for the cancer center,” says Sonja Kranbuhl, Fort Hamilton Hospital Foundation’s director.

The Auxiliary of Fort Hamilton Hospital, which runs the Wishing Well Gift Shop at the hospital, donated $250,000 to split

between the two major projects.

The foundation’s annual gala, Ticket to Hollywood, also supported this campaign in 2018 and the proceeds from the October 5 event were earmarked for those two projects as well. After raising $65,000 at last year’s event, the foundation’s goal is to reach $75,000 in sponsorship this year.

The second phase of the campaign is in its planning stages and additional projects will be announced in the near future.

A PIECE OF HAMILTON HISTORY Fort Hamilton Hospital Foundation is also in the process of restoring a historic home on North Third Street in downtown Hamilton. The historic Fitton Family House will serve as offices for the foundation, allowing them to strengthen their relationships with other nonprofits located downtown like the Hamilton Community Foundation and United Way of Butler County

Top: Neonatologist Ajay Ponkshe demonstrates a new giraffe warmer to Jennifer Shull, chief nursing officer (center) and Melissa Tillery, Fort Hamilton Hospital’s director of quality control. Bottom: Fort Hamilton Hospital members cut the ribbon at the expanded cancer care center. while preserving an important piece of Hamilton history.

“We’ll consider ourselves foundation row, unofficially,” Kranbuhl shares.

Sam Fitton, the longtime owner of the house, was president of First Financial Bank which his family was instrumental in founding. The foundation plans to revere Hamilton’s history through displaying early photographs of the bank, the house and the family when renovations are complete.

To learn more about or donate to the foundation fund, visit ketteringhealth. org/forthamiltonfoundation n F O RT H A M I LTO N 2 0 1 9

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HEALTHY HAMILTON INITIATIVE

Keeping Patients Healthy KETTERING HEALTH NETWORK’S PROGRAM IS REDUCING VISITS TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.

By Eric Spangler

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ort Hamilton Hospital is ready to expand its Healthy Hamilton Initiative to the community of Hamilton.

The current Healthy Hamilton Initiative program has been providing employees of the City of Hamilton with biometric screenings and same-day primary care visits for four years, says Beth Blank, director of business development at Fort Hamilton Hospital.

The Healthy Hamilton Initiative program has succeeded in reducing the number of visits to the emergency department—and the expensive costs associated with emergency medicine—while increasing the number of visits to primary care physicians, she says.

And that’s exactly the outcome for which the Healthy Hamilton Initiative was designed. By encouraging people to choose and then visit a primary care physician, health issues can be diagnosed and treated before those same health issues cause a problem that necessitates a trip to the emergency room.

The biometric screening—which provides a clinical assessment of key health measures that enables doctors and health professionals to diagnose high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease or determine whether a patient has an increased risk for these conditions—is one of the keys to the health and well-being of 12

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The new Hamilton Health Center on Main opened in April.

City of Hamilton employees.

“We’re catching it on the front end rather than the back end before it’s too late,” Blank says. “It’s really keeping [patients] healthy.”

As part of the Healthy Hamilton Initiative, Blank says its health professionals are also conducting vascular screenings. “If they have an irregular heart rate then we connect them with a cardiologist.”

The hospital is now going to expand the Healthy Hamilton Initiative to the entire Hamilton community. “Our mission is to serve the people and the community, so we thought the best way to serve it is to be

proactive with their health care and just educating the community about all of the resources that are available through Fort Hamilton Hospital,” she says.

One of the newest resources available to Hamilton residents will be Fort Hamilton Hospital’s Hamilton on Main building. The recently opened $6 million, 16,000-squarefoot facility has 24 exam rooms along with imaging and lab services.

The new building provides office space for up to seven primary care providers, as well as specialists that will rotate through.

That will allow Fort Hamilton Hospital to

Fort Hamilton leadership and guests attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Hamilton Health Center on Main. provide the community with convenient access to primary care physicians. “We really want to add same-day appointments and walk-in access,” she says.

That easy access to primary care is an important part of the Healthy Hamilton Initiative, says Ron Connovich, president of Fort Hamilton Hospital.

“We believe that the community needs access to health care. It’s all about access so our patients are not waiting and the community can get right in for the services that they need,” says Connovich.

As he looked at the panel size—the number of patients assigned to a health care team—for Fort Hamilton Hospital’s primary care physicians, Connovich found they were full or almost full.

“We need more primary care physicians,” he says. “We are in the process of adding 10 to 12 new primary care physicians in the community.”

Those new physicians will work out of Fort Hamilton Hospital’s Hamilton on Main building. “It’s a beautiful new building,” says Connovich. “So we’re excited about that.”

In addition to Fort Hamilton Hospital’s Hamilton on Main building, the health care provider also has the Hamilton Health Center on High Street, located in downtown Hamilton, which offers convenient access

to primary care providers. It is home to Kettering Physician Network Primary Care, Endocrinology, and the Kettering Health Network Diabetes & Nutrition Center.

Providing more primary care physicians and greater access to them is all part of being proactive about the community’s health. “And I don’t just mean by managing the disease states and responding to the illnesses that people have. A lot of health care does that very well,” Connovich says.

“I’m talking about really being more proactive and getting out in front and really improving the health of the community through better lifestyle choices.”

Fort Hamilton Hospital is not just talking about improving the health of the community—they are leading by example. “We’re going through a lot of change internally to make sure we are a healthier organization ourselves,” says Connovich.

The health care organization recently conducted a weight loss challenge for its staff. “We lost about a quarter of a ton of weight in our employees,” he says. Next up is a step challenge to encourage the hospital’s staff to get up and move and exercise.

“I want to take that out to the community as well,” he says. “We have to start with ourselves. That’s the way it works.” n F O RT H A M I LTO N 2 0 1 9

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EVENT RECAP

Fort Hamilton’s 90th Anniversary Fest and Safety Fair COMMUNITY CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF CARE AT FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL.

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ort Hamilton Hospital threw a party for the public on May 5 in celebration of its 90 years of caring for the community. With approximately 800 people in attendance, the combined Public Safety Fair and Anniversary Fest featured a variety of information and resources on safety topics as well as fun for the whole family.

Featured guests included McGruff the Crime Dog and Disney Junior’s Doc McStuffins. Kids could also bring their sick or injured stuffed animals to be examined by a doctor at the teddy bear clinic.

Several notable organizations in the Hamilton community also attended to provide education for visitors, including MetroParks of Butler County and Hamilton’s Highland MetroPark, which was also celebrating its 100th anniversary in the community.

The Hamilton Fire Department, MedFlight, Kettering Mobile Care and the Hamilton Police Department were present to allow kids of all ages to explore emergency vehicles, including a fire truck, a SWAT truck, an ambulance and a medical helicopter.

A health fair provided free health screenings and wellness information plus those who visited the health fair booths could enter to win one of two bikes with helmets.

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Attendees visit the booths at the Fort Hamilton 90th Anniversary Fest and Safety Fair. safety and bicycle safety.

Members of the Hamilton community were invited on a campus tour of Fort Hamilton Hospital to see updates and new services. The tour spent time at the Kettering Cancer Care at the Carruthers Center, the Wound Center and the Cath Lab. In addition to educational activities, the

celebration included face painting, balloon animals, a bounce house and live music from both Middletown’s Classic Country 105.9 WNKN and Butler Tech students.

To learn more about Fort Hamilton Hospital as it continues growing during its 90th anniversary and beyond, visit ketteringhealth.org/forthamilton n

Visitors to the event met with members of Hamilton’s police and fire departments and Fort Hamilton physicians as well as local food vendors.

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TO OUR PATIENTS AND FRIENDS

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