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Superhero September: Hope is Stronger Than Fear

By Michelle Talsma Everson

An award-winning law veteran, Sean Reavie is the founder and president of the board of directors of Put on the Cape: A Foundation for Hope. This month, and all year-round, Reavie and his team of real life superheroes raise funds to empower children suffering acute physical and sexual abuse by adopt advocacy and child crisis centers in Arizona to ensure the children visiting have all their needs addressed. “Put on the Cape (POTC) uses superhero mythology to empower children victimized by physical or sexual abuse or who may be witness to heinous crimes,” Reavie explains. “Superheroes overcome adversity and tragedy and use their new found strength to serve others… POTC raises awareness for family advocacy centers and the work done within those walls. The centers have no budget for toys, clothing, food, and basic necessities like diapers, underpants, toothbrushes, shampoo and other basic needs people sometimes take for granted. We organize events around the country asking for donations of superhero action figures, Barbie dolls, superhero themed t-shirts, and those basic necessities. Our mission is to provide those items to the centers, so they can take the time they normally spend fundraising and focus 100 percent on the child.”

Superhero September started in 2015 as a one-time promotion that grew each year—so much so, it was the catalyst for creating POTC. “I decided that Superhero September limited me to holding events in just September,” Reavie shares. “I incorporated all events, intellectual properties, and trademarks

into Put on the Cape: A Foundation for Hope.”

Like many nonprofits, POTC is feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their fundraising efforts.

“It [the pandemic] has devastated our ability to do what we’ve done for the last five years. Our signature events were designed to go right to the public. We had seven events planned for March and April and had to cancel them all,” Reavie says. “Our sponsors are hurting and unable to donate as they have in the past. I began to realize I needed to change our approach to fundraising and our advocacy.”

To help make up the difference, the POTC team is turning to localized virtual events. To find these events, community members can go to putonthecape.org and click the link for upcoming events or find Put on the Cape: A Foundation for Hope on Facebook and look under the event section. All events are virtual and support seven child advocacy centers and 10 cities across the Valley.

In addition to the virtual events, community members can get involved by organizing a donation drive to support the center in their city, Reavie explains. “All centers have a wish list of items they need to give to children and their families. We can give them [community members] that list and they in turn can empower their business or school to participate. You can make a difference with donating one action figure or $10. I have seen first hand the change in a child when handed their favorite superhero action figure. They become happy, animated, and child-like again. Someone stole their right to be a little kid. We aim to give it back to them.”

To learn more, visit putonthecape.org or e-mail sean@putonthecape.org.

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Sonoran Crossing Medical Center Opens Care centered around you that is close to home

The wait is over and now north Phoenix and Anthem residents can call Sonoran Crossing Medical Center their new official neighborhood hospital.

Blossoming directly from the beautiful desert acreage on the east of the I-17 and south of Carefree Highway, the three-story, 210,000-square-foot, 70-bed hospital will soon be accepting new patients.

“The services and extraordinary care are just the beginning of what the community can come to expect from our sixth medical center,” says Kim Post, executive vice president, chief operations officer at HonorHealth. “What’s more are the architectural features and multiple healing environments that we offer to our patients and guests for comfort. This truly allows for an optimal experience that far exceeds what you have traditionally experienced from a medical facility.”

Carefully planned for patient comfort, Sonoran Crossing not only offers a healing environment inside patient rooms and waiting room areas with the mountainous views, but an added feature is an outdoor healing garden that allows visitors to gather their thoughts peacefully with all of nature’s comforts.

With new families making up the majority of the fastest-growing communities of north Phoenix and Anthem, providing labor and delivery services was apparent. Those who are looking forward to adding a child to their family can now benefit from comprehensive obstetrical and gynecological care at Sonoran Crossing. These services include prenatal and postpartum, labor and delivery services, and a newborn nursery designed to meet the needs

HEALING AND COMFORT IN A STATE-OF-THE-ART

MEDICAL CENTER: • 70 inpatient beds • Labor and delivery, including a newborn nursery • Physicians specializing in joint replacement and minimally invasive orthopedic, spine, gynecologic and general surgery procedures • Outpatient specialty care • 24-hour emergency services for patients of all ages

of babies with more complicated care requirements. This unit can accommodate babies 34 weeks of age and older.

Surgery in general is not typically at the top of anyone’s list, especially having to travel to a facility that is not close to home. Surgical services at Sonoran Crossing include highly skilled surgeons performing a variety of surgeries using the latest technology.

HonorHealth team members will guide patients through the surgery process from pre-admission and testing, to preparing patients about what to expect before, during and after a surgical procedure. They even offer education classes for those who are interested. The operating rooms are slightly larger than average, to help make them ultra-flexible. This allows the surgical team to accommodate a greater array of cases in a comfortable environment, with state-of-the-art technology. Whenever possible, surgeons will use minimally invasive surgery to reduce the length of the patient’s hospital stay, shorten healing time, and allow patients to get back to their lives quicker.

What anchors this new facility is the Emergency Department to care for all of those unexpected life events. While nobody is truly prepared for an emergency, Sonoran Crossing Medical Center is ready to treat patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and staffed with residency-trained, board-certified emergency physicians. The existing outpatient center will continue to offer outpatient medical imaging that includes CT scans, MRIs and breast health services featuring 3D mammography.

“We have been proud to serve this community at this location since 2013, when we opened the HonorHealth Sonoran Health and Emergency Center,” says Post. “The community can continue to expect an elevated level of care with our emergency services, outpatient and ambulatory services. No matter what level of care you need, you can get it at HonorHealth.”

HonorHealth Sonoran Crossing Medical Center is located at 33400 North 32nd Avenue in Phoenix. For more information, visit HonorHealth.com/ SonoranCrossing.

ABOUT HONORHEALTH HonorHealth is a nonprofit, local community healthcare system serving an area of 1.6 million people in the greater Phoenix area. The network encompasses six acute-care hospitals, an extensive medical group, outpatient surgery centers, a cancer care network, clinical research, medical education, a foundation and community services with approximately 12,300 employees, 3,700 affiliated physicians, and 3,100 volunteers. HonorHealth was formed by a merger between Scottsdale Healthcare and John C. Lincoln Health Network. HonorHealth’s mission is “to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.” Learn more at HonorHealth.com.