MUSC Catalyst 6-26-2015

June 26, 2015

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une 17 started as a typical Wednesday for hospital Human Resource’s Marlena Davis; she could not anticipate – nor could anyone — the tragedy that lay ahead for Mother Emanuel AME Church, only blocks away from MUSC, where she has been a lifelong member.

When she arrived at MUSC that morning, she eagerly looked forward to what the day held in store. She knew she had committed to a particularly long day, but she was scheduled to be a facilitator at the National Coalition Building Institute’s “Welcoming Diversity” training, and she always enjoyed the powerful transformations that came out of the full-day workshops.

Once Davis attended her first NCBI training in 2011, she was hooked. She immediately signed up to become a facilitator. Since that time, she’s participated in dozens and, she will tell you, each one is unique and each makes MUSC a better place.

Davis explained that MUSC began working with the NCBI in 2007 as a campus affiliate.

Its mission to eliminate racism, prejudice and discrimination dovetailed with MUSC’s goal to promote diversity and inclusion.

The fit was ideal.

It had actually been a good two months since Davis signed up to facilitate the training on this particular date. Little did she know, she said, just how ironic that decision would turn out to be — as on the very day she would be promoting the importance of

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Marlena Davis reflects on the lives lost and prays for comfort for their families and loved ones. acceptance and tolerance, there was a stranger in town with far different ideas on the subject.

Examining SOCial idEnTiTiES That day, Davis would run one of the interactive exercises.

Perhaps the meatiest part of the training, the exercise had attendees digging deep to share perceptions of their own social identities as well as how they feel about those of others in the room

– and they share openly.

Identities can include a wide range of personal descriptors such as I’m a single parent, the oldest employee in a department, transgender, the middle child, Jewish, a child of divorced parents, college educated, or even feeling like the “token black person.”

Participants are asked to pick one and describe how it affects their lives.

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“When we get to this part,” Davis said, “sometimes people struggle. Look, we all are just trying to make it through the day – make it from point A to point B safely. You try not to think about your struggles, because you don’t know how it’s going to impact you, how it will impact your day. So when you start to think about all you have to do just to get through your day, it can be difficult. So we ask, ‘But what has your struggle helped you to be able to see?’

When you don’t deal with it, it’s like a pot boiling — it will boil over.”

By telling and listening to personal stories of how people genuinely feel different, feel discriminated against, or not included, not heard, “less than,” as Davis calls it, participants often develop new viewpoints

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DAISY Award presented to Interventional Cardiology nurse for her patient care The June DAISY (Disease Attacking the Immune System) award winner is Samantha Wilkins, R.N., who works in Ashley River Tower 3West. Wilkins was nominated by Jennifer Minick, ART 3West nurse manager.

Below is her nomination: “Sam has always been a strong patient advocate.

She recently went above and beyond for one of her patients, Ms. W. Ms. W was a 27–year–old Wilkins admitted with advanced heart failure. She required continuous IV inotropic medications and it was quickly determined she would need to remain on these after discharge. This patient was developmentally delayed and lived in a group home. She had been in foster care for most of her life and had very little contact with her family. Once the medical team determined that Ms. W would stay on the inotropes indefinitely, the group home could not allow her to return to their facility. Sam and the social worker, Peggy Willis, did not accept this decision and immediately began determining what resources were available. Ms. W wanted very much to return to her home and was very disheartened that this would not be possible. Sam and Peggy involved the services of a patient advocate attorney to work with the patient, the hospital and

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the facility to ensure the patients’ wants and rights were met. They spent a great deal of time with Ms. W and developed a strong bond over the course of the two months that she was a patient on 3West.

They eventually were able to facilitate the discharge back to the patient’s home with the appropriate services in place.

Unfortunately, Ms. W’s heart failure continued to advance and despite treatment she passed away before being able to return home. During the two months on 3West, Ms. W truly became part of the family for many of the staff here. Sam’s advocacy made it possible for her to have a peaceful end that we would all want for our loved ones. Once her prognosis had changed and it was clear that she would not leave the hospital, Sam worked with the medical team as well as palliative care to ensure that her patient’s wishes were met. Sam initiated a primary care type of nursing for Ms. W to ensure continuity of care and assure important pieces of her care plan and history were understood by each of her caregivers. She helped to maintain open communication with everyone involved in Ms. W’s care to assist in a smooth transition to palliative care. She dedicated her time both while at work and away to Ms. W. Around Easter, Sam coordinated with other staff and got Ms. W Easter baskets and decorated her room and door for Easter. Ms. W was actually one of a set of triplets that were separated early in their lives. This was yet another bond she shared with Sam since Sam is the proud mother of triplets. Sam brought her triplets into The Catalyst is published once a week.

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visit Ms. W to spend time with her. Sam also worked closely with Peggy, the social worker, to locate some members of Ms. W’s family, including one of her triplet sisters, who then came to spend time with her in her hospital room during her final week at MUSC. Additionally, Sam organized a collection to provide a flower arrangement for Ms. W’s funeral service from the staff of 3 West. She personally worked with the flower store to design a floral arrangement representative of the childhood character that provided much comfort to Ms. W during her last weeks — Sponge Bob Squarepants. Sam exemplified caring, advocacy and love to provide Ms. W with a positive and caring end of life experience. Sam was

at Ms. W’s bedside providing comfort on the evening that she passed away.”

Each month, MUSC nurses are honored with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. It is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program recognizing the efforts that nurses contribute daily in their jobs.

The award is given to outstanding nurses in more than 1,800 health care provider hospitals in the U.S. and 14 other countries. Nominations can be submitted by anyone — patients, visitors, physicians, fellow nurses and all MUSC staff and volunteers. To nominate a nurse, visit http://www.musc.edu/ medcenter/formsToolbox/DaisyAward/ form.htm.

New area code prompts 10-digit dialing The Tri–county and coastal areas of South Carolina are adding a new area code to its existing 843 overlay for telephone numbers.

The new area code overlay is 854 and will serve communities in the Charleston, Hilton Head Island, Myrtle Beach and Florence areas.

Beginning immediately, callers on MUSC’s campus should begin using 10-digit dialing (area code + telephone number) for local calls. Calls made using seven–digit dialing will still be accepted until Sept. 19. After Sept. 19, calls made without using 10–digit dialing will not be completed and a recording will instruct the user to hang up and dial again.

When calling from MUSC, users will need to dial 9 followed by the 10–digit local number, or 9 followed by 1+ area code + telephone number for long distance calls. Calls within MUSC to 792 or 876 numbers will continue to use the 5-digit extension to extension dialing.

This new overlay will not affect current telephone numbers and area codes.

Everyone is reminded to make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this new dialing procedure by setting and reprogramming equipment such as fax machines, alarms, Internet dial-up numbers, security systems, speed dialing, call forwarding settings, voicemail services and similar functions. Employees also should check their websites, business cards and stationery, contact lists, etc.

Information on updating abbreviated dial buttons on your MUSC phone can be found on the University Communications website at https:// sp.musc.edu/ocio-is/infrastructure/uct on the Basic Phone Information and Instructions page.

For more information, contact University Communications at 792-9980

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Med-surg nurse supports YES funds to new hospital

By J. Ryne Danielson

The YES campaign ends on June 30.

For employees who want to donate, there’s still time. As an added incentive, a special challenge has been issued to all employees by five faculty members: If employees join in giving $37,000 by June 30 to the new hospital, those faculty members will also give $37,000. Visit giving.musc.edu/yes and choose MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital as the designation. Your gift will support not only MUSC but the Charleston community as well.

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n February 23, Emily Brunner, R.N., headed to the university hospital for a scheduled C-section to give birth to her first child. “I was very nervous for this procedure,” she said.

“But my fears subsided once I entered the Labor and Delivery unit.”

Brunner, a nurse in MUSC’s MedicalSurgical ICU, was confident she was in good hands. “My pre-op care was outstanding and the kindness and caring from the nurses and physicians made me feel like I would be well taken care of.”

Once preparations were complete, Brunner asked that her husband, Chuck, stay by her side to cut the umbilical cord.

Brunner was looking forward to holding her new child, Cameron, and basking in the glow of motherhood. That didn’t happen.

“It took quite some time to get Cameron out,” she said. “When they didn’t ask my husband to cut the cord, but instead quickly whisked him away into the stabilization room, I knew something was wrong.

“As I lay open on the table, my mind automatically wandered to the worst case scenarios, but I knew in the back of my mind that my baby would be taken care of. After what seemed like an eternity, Chuck was called back into the room. He looked like he had seen a ghost. If not for the reassuring words of the doctors and nurses, I would have leaped right off the table right then to see what was going on.”

What was wrong, the doctors later explained, was that Cameron had been born with a birth defect. He was placed on oxygen and placed in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

“He had some deformities,” Brunner explained. “Most of his body was covered in port wine stains, and his right upper and lower extremities were significantly larger than his left.”

Brunner waited in agony while doctors ran tests on her child. “I felt like my whole world had come crashing down.

This was supposed to be the happiest moment of my life.”

While the doctors and nurses worked diligently to get Brunner into the post-

An artist’s rendering of the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. A new fund with MUSC’s YES Campaign was established to help support construction of this project. anesthesia care unit, a pediatric resident rolled Cameron in to see his mother before sending him off to the NICU. “I knew he was going to be okay,” she said.

For Brunner, the next week was a blur.

“I went through all five stages of grief at least a dozen times in those few days,” she said. “But, I knew Cameron was getting the best medical care possible.

From Dr. Wine Lee sitting down with me to explain my child’s condition, to the cleaning lady who held my hand as I cried, I can’t say how thankful I am.”

Brunner said the only thing that didn’t match the quality of care was the capacity of the facilities. “It was disheartening,” she explained. “It was hard to celebrate the joys of Cameron coming off CPAP when the baby lying two feet away was constantly seizing and his parents were discussing long-term care plans.”

That’s why, she said, the planned MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital is so important.

“I don’t think people in the Charleston community realize how fortunate and blessed they are to have such a phenomenal resource for their children’s health right in their backyard,” she explained. “I urge everyone to donate to the Children’s Hospital.”

“The YES Campaign makes a huge difference in the lives of patients and families,” said Whitney McLuen, Yes Campaign coordinator. “And the Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital is an

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and often make the decision to be more compassionate colleagues and classmates.

Equally, they look for pride in who they are, realizing they are understood and not so different after all.

Davis said, “I’ve seen many people have ‘Oh, I get it now’ moments in these trainings. It’s really gratifying. We all know we can do better.”

The exercises are designed so that through awareness and understanding, attendees can release the type of negatively charged stereotypes that can lead to bigotry and prejudices. Whether it’s related to color, gender, race or age, Davis explained we are typically conditioned to think a particular way.

“What we hear is what we tend to accept,’ she said. “In this training, we move from conditioning to acceptance.”

“If people walk away with more understanding, respect and tolerance for their fellow man – it has been a good day.”

ThE ViOlin: hEr TruE paSSiOn It had been a good day, albeit a long one. She played the training session over in her head while she drove to meet students to whom she would give violin lessons. A violinist who started playing when she was in 4th grade, Davis currently plays with both the South Coast Community Orchestra and the North Charleston Pops. She loves teaching the violin to children and adults. It’s her passion.

The night would get even longer as she headed home to meet her last student for an 8:15 lesson.

It’s not unusual for Davis to get home late in the evenings. Every Monday she teaches violin to the children at her church. She is also in charge of the L.I.F.E. Women’s Ministries there, along with Carla Jones of MUSC Accounts Receivable, and every third Tuesday, they lead the women’s meetings. On Friday, Davis is at the church again, working with her praise dancers, choreographing their dances for church services. And on Sundays, she’s there for the services.

Spending so much time at the church she’s been attending “since before she was born,” as she describes it with a laugh, is a blessing. “My mother sat in those pews when she was pregnant with me, just as hers did before her, and as I did with my daughter. We’re a family.”

Mother Emanuel AME Church has been her family’s home for generations, like many families in Charleston, as the church dates back to 1816 and is considered the oldest AME church in the South.

She arrived home right before 8 p.m.; her student would be there momentarily.

As she waited for her, Davis’ mother, Dee, poked her head in, having just returned from Mother Emanuel’s quarterly church session, where the room was packed. The meeting went particularly long that night, and at 80 years old, her mother headed home as the Bible study group was still discussing whether or not to meet. “The older people don’t like to be out late like that,” Davis explained, thankful her mother hadn’t stayed. In fact, many people left, she said, who may ordinarily have stayed.

Because the meeting was long, many were tired and hungry and headed home. dEVaSTaTing nEwS After she completed the lesson, it neared 9 p.m. Davis hadpulled out some work she needed to do for the office the next day, when her mom called in from the next room, “Marlena, there’s been a shooting at the church. Everybody is dead,” she cried. “Reverend Pinckney is dead.”

Davis was in shock, “What are you saying, Mom?” Her mom replied in tears, “Honey, there’s been a shooting. Everybody’s dead.”

Then, she recalled, the phone started ringing off the hook – more people relaying the story and the details they had heard.

The original call to Dee Davis came from Felicia Sanders, one of the two adult female survivors of the mass shooting. She was the grandmother who survived the assault by pretending to be dead and covering her granddaughter’s body, telling her, too, to pretend to be dead - all while lying in a pool of blood from her 26-year-old son, Tywanza.

Davis recounted the call: “Miss Dee, they shot up the church. “Everybody is dead,” Mrs. Sanders told her dear friend, “Everybody is dead. My son was shot.”

Miss Dee asked where she was right then, and Mrs. Sanders replied they were across the street from the church at the hotel.”

And she hung up.

The women were devastated. Their

Above photo: Mother Emanuel AME Church service on Sunday, June 21.

Left photo: Emanuel AME Praise Dancers after services Oct. 20, 2013. Marlena Davis choreographs the dances. photos provided

beloved pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was dead, and they feared more loved ones may also have been killed, which was indeed the case.

Davis wanted to help. She had a feeling the survivors would be brought to MUSC, so she drove straight to the Emergency Department. “I was praying that Tywanza was alive. Miss Felicia only said he had been shot. I was hopeful.

I thought I would be able to help the families who were looking for their loved ones. This is my church family — I kept hoping there would be injured. I waited and waited and waited. But no ambulances came.” She burst into tears thinking about that night, “I knew what that meant. No one else made it.”

While waiting for news, they learned one of their pastors, the Rev. Daniel Simmons, who was rushed to MUSC for emergency surgery, did not survive.

He, they would later learn, would number the ninth member of the church murdered by a yet–unnamed assailant, who would later be identified as Dylann Roof, a 21–year-old from Lexington County, with possible ties to white supremacist and apartheid groups.

Family members were waiting for news,

not knowing if their loved ones had been shot and injured or killed. “I stood there with the daughter of Ethel Lance,” Davis recounted. “She was crying, ‘She’s not answering the phone, she won’t pick up the phone, and I know she was there.’

She became hysterical. I told her, ‘Let’s don’t panic yet,’ and we put our hands together, and we prayed.”

But sadly, the news was not good. mOThEr EmanuEl OpEnS hEr dOOrS In the days to come, it was difficult to visit the church, but she forced herself to go twice. She thought about the location where she and Jones hold women’s ministry sessions and worried. “We meet in the very place where the Bible study was. As I thought about whether or not we should we move it, I thought, ‘No. We will be right here.’”

The community was elated to learn that Mother Emanuel would open her enormous doors Sunday morning, as usual. It had been only four days since the tragedy. It was a formidable message to the congregation, the community and the nation that evil would not triumph.

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MUSC MUSCCharleston CharlestonStrong StrongRemembrance RemembranceWall W Wall Heartfelt Heartfeltsentiments sentiments from fr fromthe theMUSC MUSCfamily family

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n the last week, the MUSC family has witnessed an outpouring of emotion from students, faculty and staff, who’ve expressed their shock, grief and determination in the face of hatred. This Catalyst issue is dedicated to the MUSC employees who are directly affected by the deaths of the Emanuel AME Church victims and their families.

First news — disbelief, shock…

Getting to MUSC — the brutal reality that only one victim made it to MUSC… Moving into the day — sadness, life is so fragile, how can we help? There is no rulebook…

MUSC prayer vigil — significant crowds, meeting a need in the moment, the fabric of the MUSC community…

Moving forward — very proud of our MUSC family, Charleston community, strength and faith of the families…

—David J. Cole, M.D., FACS MUSC President

AME Church. Because we are all here in some way to support life, it is virtually impossible to wrap our minds around a tragedy so senseless. While we all feel the tremendous weight of losing nine members of the Charleston community, my heart and prayers especially go out to the many members of our MUSC family who lost loved ones, friends and members of their church family that night. I do, however, remain optimistic and encouraged by the support and unity the MUSC and Charleston communities have displayed throughout this time.

—Patrick J. Cawley, M.D. CEO of the MUSC Medical Center

It's a terrible tragedy for the families, Charleston and the United States.

I just hope Jon Stewart was wrong, and something does happen to stop domestic terrorism like this from happening again.

—Alana McMichael Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The hearts of MUSC students go out to all the victims and their families.

—An MUSC Student

So many of us are going through our days with heavy hearts since the recent traumatic event at Emanuel

As a member of Charleston's extended community, I also grieve the killing of our nine citizens and loved ones. I send my heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, surviving members of Mother Emanuel AME church and others impacted directly and indirectly.

Know that the MUSC family will continue to love and support you in the

difficult days and months ahead, and we are here to serve in any way that we can!

May God bless and keep you.

—Willette S. Burnham, Ph.D. Office of Diversity and Office of Student Programs We are so proud of our home city of Charleston. We have come together to show the world that hate is not welcomed here.

—Philip Egloff Hollings Cancer Center —Sherrie Egloff Hospital Patient Accounting Bridge to Unity: An estimated 10,000 attended from the Mt. Pleasant side of the bridge with a reported 5,000 from the Charleston side. There were so many people that not everyone was able to get onto the bridge and participate.

We did have our 9 minutes of silence — it WAS silent — with all of those people.....Amazing! Not a foul word or negative comment was uttered by anyone through the entire event. Small groups randomly burst out in song with those in earshot joining in — 'Jesus Loves Me', 'Amazing Grace', 'We shall

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Overcome', among others. Joy, pain and sorrow were noticeable on the faces of those in attendance. My only regret…..I have none! I love this city, community, and family and am proud to say I am a Charlestonian!

—Stephanie Chomos, R.N. Nursing Professional Development My heart is heavy and full of prayers for the families and loved ones. I pray for continued healing and unity. Our MUSC family is here to support and lift you now and in the days to come....

—Lisa P. Montgomery MUSC Office of the President Division of Finance and Operations “It’s hard. It’s very, very sad. Hopefully, this will instigate some change. It never seems to. There’s that quote from (President) Obama about Sandy Hook, how that didn’t make anything change.

You know, he’s right. Twenty 6–year – olds didn’t change a single thing. Maybe, locally, it’ll change something. At least, we’re moving in the right direction.

—Sherman Paggi MUSC Library

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Listening to remarks from Mount Pleasant chief of police and representative Mr. Johnson from Black Lives Matter. When Mr. Johnson said with great emotion, "ALL lives matter", the roar of the crowd was overwhelming and moving.

—Jill Midgett Quality/Risk Management The tragedy of the shootings at Mother Emanuel will forever impact me. It's an event that cannot be reasoned. However, seeing the unyielding support and unity that Charleston has displayed this past week will also stay with me forever.

We live in a city where we refuse to let hate win, and that is beautiful.

—Meg Wallace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences My ardent prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives through such a senseless and heinous act.

The martyrdom of the nine blessed souls will have an everlasting impact.

Hopefully, we will harness the energy of their spirits to foster unity, harmony

and justice for all.

Deborah Deas, M.D. Interim Dean, College of Medicine Walking up the downtown side of the bridge for the Unity chain in remembrance of the victims. This was an amazing time for people to come together and pack the bridge to show that we are stronger than any evil put in our path. We are a community of love and forgiveness, we are CharlestonStrong.

—Steven Holshouser Pharmaceutical Sciences Pray without ceasing, calling for united front, are we to live in fear? God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. But we are to be watchful while we are praying.

Our church doors should be open at all times; who’s to say that if we locked them, the devil wouldn’t be locked in with us? Holy City it has come to us, the spirit of hatred, we cannot stand to let this go unnoticed, but pray we must.

Continue to strive for a unity in our city.

—Valerie Bailey Department—Amb Preop Clinic

I thought Sunday’s Unity Bridge event was a very interesting evening. It was a combination of celebration and definitely somber… It was really cool to see so many people coming out to take a minute, pause and reflect on the lives lost, their value, and the tragedy. With most of the events it was a really good opportunity for the city to come together and show support.

Kelly Warren College of Medicine, Dean’s Office I think that the events that happened this past week have been tragic. However, I think that as a state, we need to think about what are we doing to perpetuate this idea that things like this, especially with the Confederate flag, are OK. We need to look at this as a state and see what messages are we sending to our young people that African–Americans are second class citizens. It has to be an inward search. I understand that everyone is really sad and apologetic about the events, and they are tragic, but I think that it calls for us to go ahead and self–reflect.

Sidra Mitchell College of Pharmacy

I think it was a very horrific tragedy. It was just sad that we live in a time that we are still facing a racial divide. But, it is amazing — the amount of support and how we have come together after this tragedy. And I am proud of how everyone is rallying together and becoming unified throughout this tragedy.

—Lavarrick Townes Health Information Services The event was a horrific thing to have happen. It was one of the worst things to ever happen to Charleston, South Carolina. But it has also been one of the best things to ever happen to Charleston through the actual unity and congregation of everyone coming together. That symbol of love is not only bringing Charleston, South Carolina together in unity, I think the whole nation is looking at us and wanting and aspiring to be like our city. Which is a beautiful city to live in.

—Martay Rivers MUSC Wellness Center

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Photos capture a community of faith and healing In the wake of tragedy, the MUSC community joins hands and gets to work to help a community heal.

Many in the MUSC family have been directly affected by the shooting at the Emanuel AME church. Some have lost friends, family and loved ones and all have felt the grief of a community in mourning. But, from the unity walk on the Ravenel Bridge to the volunteer work of MUSC’s housekeeping staff to help clean up in the wake of the shooting, the Charleston community has come together to overcome hatred — sending a message of hope to its victims and defiance to those who would use violence in the Holy City.

Throughout this trying time, MUSC’s Employee Assistance Program will offer free counseling services to members of the MUSC community who may be struggling to cope with the aftermath of this tragedy. For more information, call the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at 792-8209.

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Members of the MUSC family were so moved by last week’s tragic events with the June 17 shootings at Mother Emanuel AME Church that individuals and groups of people were able to respond in different ways from attending prayer vigils to participating in the June 21 Bridge for Unity event. Above photo: MUSC’s Environmental Services team performed additional cleaning at the church at the request of church members. More than 20 employees and mangers volunteered to assist with cleaning.

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Regine Villain, MUHA Chief Supply Chain Officer was so moved by the events following the Mother Emanuel AME church shootings and took this photo at the church.

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The morning of June 18, watching the news hearing about a shooting in a church that killed 9 people, my husband and I said “Where has this horrible thing happened?” It was a total shock when they said Charleston! My heart hit the floor in such sadness, just like when 9-11 happened, watching the planes hit the buildings. We both said this does not happen here! To know this person is an American and lives in this great country and would so coldly and calculated take those people is unbelievable! My husband and I listened to the speech that our Rabbi Stephanie Alexander read at the College of Charleston Prayer Vigil. She gave an amazing speech telling how she was on a bus trip with members of three Charleston churches visiting the civil rights sites of the South, including where those girls were killed 50 years ago.

They immediately flew back to show support and prayers for everyone!

This young man’s hate came from somewhere learned by others. The outpouring from friends and family that have visited us and fell in love with Charleston, because of the warmth they felt from the beautiful place and people that are here, can’t believe it and are praying for healing for us. He thought he was going to create hate to come out of this, but it caused us to show love by the masses! I am proud to live here! We are learning and growing spiritually together as this wonderful holy city is known for!

—Martha Lipton MUSC Wellness Center More than two decades ago, I started as a State House page and in my “freshman” group I developed a friendship with an up and coming gentleman named Clementa Pinckney. We were the same age but he was way ahead of me in every respect. At that time, I didn’t know what I wanted to be in life (and acted as such) but Clem had his sights on faith and public service. You could tell he would excel in both. He was one of the most respectful and humble people I have met in politics.

He related to everyone regardless of background, color, or religion. A few years later I would also join him as we were in the same graduate school program at USC. He finally got me to sit up front but he still answered ALL the questions and knew ALL the answers. The Honorable Clementa Pinckney was the youngest AfricanAmerican to ever be elected to the House and later moved to the Senate.

He did much more for me as I was able to do for him over these years.

He was a leader in the health and education arena having served on the Health and Human Services subcommittee. He always took pride in watching MUSC grow into national prominence with advances he helped advocate such as telemedicine and endowed chairs. The last public vote he took that Wednesday before he drove to Charleston for church was a vote in favor of the $25 million for the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Women’s Pavilion (Capital Reserve Bill). We will be forever grateful and miss his friendship and leadership for MUSC, Charleston, and South Carolina.

—Mark Sweatman Government Relations MUSC Board of Trustees Today marks a week since the absolutely devastating tragedy happened in our Holy City. The majority of us are still struggling, unable to accept the reality of coldblooded murder of nine of our dearest citizens.

In spite of the overwhelming pain, and the reeling from this tragic and surreal event, the people of Charleston have come together in love and noble responses. The victims of the families have lead the rest of us in the best behavior that any other city or community has ever exhibited.

Not only a humbling experience to accept, but a time to reexamine all that is most important for our community, our state, and our people to work together from now and this point forward to protect and promote all of the love and embracing that our community will continue to cultivate and share.

Sarah King, DHA Office of Public Relations

Road Closure affects commute from June to August Staff Report The city of Charleston will be undertaking a large, long term project to improve the flooding in the Spring/ Fishburne drainage basin area.

This project, which consists of five phases in total, (with the completed CrossTown project being Phase 1), is now kicking off Phase 2. As part of the project, the work requires extensive drainage piping rework in areas north of the Crosstown. The MUSC campus will be affected directly as the project progresses over the next few months.

However, Sheppard Street is closed from June 8 to August. This closure will affect access to Rutledge Tower from the Crosstown, especially staff and patients coming in from Mount Pleasant and from the north via I–26.

This closure is expected to last for approximately two months.

This above map has Sheppard St.

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indicated in red and the possible routes that can be taken as possible detours to get around the closure and to get to Rutledge Tower.

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Magnet Recognition Program® Site Visit q MUSC has applied to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the prestigious designation of Magnet. The Magnet designation recognizes excellence in nursing services. q The site visit will take place July 20 to July 23, 2015. q Patients, family members, staff and interested parties can participate in the evaluation process. Anyone who would like to provide comments are encouraged to do so. Anyone may send comments via e-mail, fax and direct mail. All phone comments to the Magnet Program Office must be followed up in writing.

Your comments are confidential and never shared with the facility. If you choose, your comments may be anonymous, but must be in writing.

Comments must be received by July 10, 2015

Address: American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program Office 8515 Georgia Ave., Suite 400 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3492 (866) 588-3301 (toll free) — (301) 628-5217 (fax) or magnet@ana.org

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While hundreds of worshippers filled the sanctuary wall to wall, nearly 1,000 more stood outside in near —100 degree heat to listen to Rev. Norvel Goff deliver words of comfort and forgiveness. The service was piped into the streets so people could be a part of the service and show the support, unity and respect they were so eager to express.

Davis said it was hard going back in for the first service after the gunman’s rampage that killed nine members of the church family. The message they wanted to clearly convey was: “We’ll be right here. If you thought you were going to close Emanuel — it didn’t happen.”

While family and close friends grieved, it was a sad day, too, for MUSC Chief Diversity Officer Anton Gunn, who’d lost his close, personal friend, Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who had opened his heart and church to the man who ultimately took his life.

After it was all said and done, Davis realized “Sunday was healing,” she said.

“It happened to be all the right songs, the right scriptures and the presiding elder gave just the right sermon.”

Many who attended Sunday’s service can point to one song in particular that stirred the crowd and brought people to their feet, as Vanessa Thomas–Jackson, an MUSC Plant Maintenance zone technician in the main hospital, sang “Spirit Fall Down.” Thomas–Jackson, the president of the Claire K. Washington Choir at Mother Emanuel, is an active lifelong member of the church.

Inside and outside, worshipers sang along as Thomas–Jackson belted out the chorus: “Spirit, fall fresh on me. Fall down, fall down, fall fresh on me.”

The church hardly seemed adequate to harness Thomas–Jackson or the Holy Spirit. Accompanied by the choir, her powerful voice carried for blocks. There was hardly a dry eye as her rendition of Luther Barnes’s popular song reached a crescendo and she added a string of a dozen “Alleluias” that resounded through the sanctuary and through the streets of downtown Charleston.

Davis could hardly find the words to express how moving Thomas Jackson’s song was. “I thought to myself, ‘I wonder what she’s going to sing.’ She has a beautiful voice and has some songs that really rock the church. She sang that one and I said, that’s it. Perfect.”

Vanessa ThomasJackson brings the congregation to its feet singing “Spirit Fall Down” on June 21. photo provided

Thomas-Jackson said, “I sang ‘Spirit Fall Down.’ I sang it from the heart. I felt the chills of God, and I was moved to walk around hugging and kissing people and showing them love and compassion because Jesus is love, and he was showing that through me.”

“We need to love one another,” she said with emotion. “Love doesn’t have a color. I wanted to spread my love through song. I felt the Holy Spirit. My gift from God is for the glory of God.” She’s doing her best to carry on in light of all that happened. Losing her pastor and friends has been devastating.

“I break down every now and then.

I’ve pulled myself together and have to stand tall for the families. We all have to represent Jesus’ light. I am trying to live that light.”

ThE muSC FamilY Thomas-Jackson is inspired by how wonderful people have been since June 17 tragedy. “The people I work with have been so supportive. People are saying so many pleasant things. It means so much to me.”

Carla Jones, who is the supervisor of the Accounts Receivable Department and leads the L.I.F.E. Women’s Ministries with Davis, is so grateful for the support the MUSC family has shown her.

“I received so many expressions of sympathy for the loss of our beloved pastor and members of our church. I even received a call from Dr. (David) Cole, the president of the Medical University. What an honor. All I can say is that just sums it up.”

“When I came back to work everyone was awesome — in fact, they touched me before I even returned to the office.”

After Wednesday night’s shootings, Jones took a couple days off. “My

supervisor, Sherry Smith, knew it was my church. She was afraid to call me that night. She knows I’m at my church all the time at Bible study, revivals, and women’s ministry and knew I was going to be there that night.“ “We are still trying to make sense of all of this,” she said.

Jones and her daughter, Nikki Croker, attended Sunday’s church service. Her daughter, she shared, was very fond and proud of Pastor Pinckney. She worked for him as a page for three years while she attended Columbia College. She graduated this May. Like Dee Davis, Jones had just left the church 20 minutes before the shooter arrived, having attended the meeting prior to Bible study.

“I feel blessed that I was covered under the blood of Jesus. It wasn’t meant for me. If he had come there during the meeting right before, that was attended by 60 plus people, the tragedy would have been worse than it already was. The women’s ministry was there the night before. There were 30 of us in that same space, sitting around the very same tables where they were. In fact, Ethel Lance and Susie Jackson, two of our sisters who were killed, were right there with us.”

“We don’t normally lock the door, because the women come at different times, and we don’t want them to have to wait and ring the bell. We will definitely lock the doors now so that we are safe. That is certainly very sad.”

She was on her way to the church to join church sisters and start going through all the boxes of mail that since the tragedy had been sent to the church from around the world. “We have to render our ‘woman power,’” she said, referring to the female version of manpower.

Jones joined Emanuel in 1986. She

was married there and added that her daughter “was born on the back of Emanuel’s bench.” That’s the saying used by the older ladies in the church, she explained, that means someone’s been there from birth.

Sunday’s service was hard for many reasons. Her father, who was an AME pastor for 40 years, passed away six months ago, and Sunday was Father’s Day. She wanted to go to his home church, but she felt she needed to be at Emanuel.“Going back into the church is exactly what my dad would have done.”

“Rev. Pinckney was a wonderful pastor that we were privileged to have leading our congregation. We will miss him dearly along with all eight other members that were taken away from us.

Our lives are forever changed by this senseless act, but one thing that remains untouched is our faith in the almighty God, ‘for we live by faith not by sight,’” she said, citing 2 Corinthians 5:7.

Davis’ first day back at work was an emotional one. “MUSC is a family, and we have many in our congregation who work here and many who lost family members. We are very blessed because everyone has been wonderful,” she said.

“When I would take a call, people would ask, ‘Did you happen to know any of the people killed in the shooting?’ and I would say, ‘Well, yes, I knew them all.

That’s the church I attend. Those were my church family and dear friends.’ I’m glad I can help – I actually knew what had happened when there was still so much speculation.”

One thing that continues to stand out in her mind was the outpouring of support for the families that night by MUSC representatives. “So many people were at the ER Wednesday night to help – public safety, security personnel, chaplains, Matt Wain, Betts Ellis, Al Nesmith, Dean Braddy, Kevin Boyd. I appreciate their kindness so much – it touched my heart.”

FOrgiVEnESS She was really not surprised that Rev. Pinckney invited the “kid,” as they call him, so as not to give any power to his name, to sit next to him and pray.

She’s also not surprised that the family members of the victims have chosen to forgive him. “That’s God’s grace and God’s mercy,” she said.

Her daughter is upset by the things she

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Renovations to UH Cafeteria brings options Wondering about construction work in the hallway to the main cafeteria? Sodexo is bringing in new food options through several renovation projects, at no cost to MUSC Casa Vida, the pizza outlet, and the Freshens yogurt shop have closed to make way for Pandini’s, which will offer hand-stretched artisan pizzas, libretti sandwiches, freshly made pasta dishes and chopped salads.

Pandini’s will open in early Susan Johnson August. Until then, preview the menu at http://www.pandinis. com/ and enjoy frozen yogurt and smoothies in the UH cafeteria from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Once Pandini’s is open, construction will begin to convert the grill to an Original Burger Company, http://www.originalburgercompany.com/Menu.html.

The concept goes beyond their fresh made ground beef, turkey patties, portobello mushrooms and Hebrew National hotdogs to include a variety of free toppings and sauces as well as breadless options. World Cuisine will then be converted to the national brand Freshii, also located at 315 King Street. Freshii offers salads, wraps, bowls, juices & smoothies, breakfast items, as well as vegetarian and gluten free options, https://www. freshii.com/us/menu.

Additional renovations include enlarging the salad bar at UH which will provide more options and the opening of a PJ’s Coffee, http://www.pjscoffee. com in the Colbert Library, which will offer a variety of hot, iced and frozen coffee drinks, pastries, salads and sandwiches. Visit www.Facebook.com/ MUSCFoodandNutrition for updates.

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reads on Facebook and arguments people engage in. One in particular centers around why the families are so readily forgiving the killer. ‘Mom, how can they say this?’ I told her, ‘Baby, it’s OK to be mad. I’m mad right now, too, but I can’t hold on to that anger, because it will only serve to hurt me. It won’t hurt the guy who did it. So I have to let go.’”

She explained to her daughter that while everyone has an opinion, they may not have the facts. “It’s not your job to change anybody’s minds. Our job is not to punish anyone, that’s God’s job.

‘Vengeance is mine,’ sayeth the Lord.”

While others are surprised, there is no mystery to her why her church has handled things so peacefully.

“Forgiveness and acceptance is part of what our faith is based on. Our preachers have told us that same thing all the time, since we were little kids. We have big lessons of forgiving everybody.

We have big lessons about inviting everybody in. How do we manage this?

We don’t want to look at anybody and think, they aren’t a member. That’s a big struggle for us right now.”

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Marlena Davis and her daughter.

As she processes the tragedy, she grapples with why some were lost. “It wasn’t our day. I say to my daughter and my mom, ‘We were left here for a special purpose. We’d better get about doing it and doing it well.’”

Davis thinks about Felicia Sanders and how she made it through that night after her son was shot and killed as he tried to save his grand aunt’s life. “Felicia has a

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Sanders’ granddaughter, Ka’mya, is one of Davis’ praise dancers. “She’s a sweet girl, a good girl – and, she’s a talker,” Davis said, relieved that they made it through the horrific ordeal.

“That was just God’s mercy,” she said.

She also mentioned that the media had it wrong when they reported that Ka’mya was 5 years old. “She’s 8, I believe. I think she’s going into the fourth grade. It would have been difficult to tell a 5-year-old to be quiet and play dead and have her do it. I am in awe of Felicia – how do you have the presence of mind to do what she did? I also thought, ‘Felicia, you got Ka’mya to stop talking? God was with y’all for sure,’” she said with a laugh.

Davis knows her church will triumph and believes the congregation will come out stronger. “Hope is what binds us closer as a family. God put us out there to do the work we are supposed to do not only as Christians, but also in the community. This will make us stronger, tighter. We will struggle together. We will gain new people members.”

There was a day she went by the church and there were thousands of people up and down the block and in front of the church. She couldn’t believe they were there for them. “We are all just so grateful for the outpouring of love. In my normal everyday things, in my work, for instance, someone will email or message me and say, ‘Marlena, I understand there’s going to be the concert, and they will be redirecting the proceeds to go to your church.’ That’s what rocks my world. We see kindness in the most unusual places. I read something that says Chili’s is donating a day of proceeds to our church. I think to myself, ‘that’s me.’ That’s us. Every little thing makes such a difference.”

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