2019 PeaceHealth Foundations Impact Report

The Spirit of Giving 2019

PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Ketchikan, Alaska

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Bellingham, Washington

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Longview, Washington

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Vancouver, Washington

PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center Cottage Grove, Oregon

PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center Florence, Oregon

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend Springfield, Oregon

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center – University District Eugene, Oregon

Dear friends,

I am deeply grateful for your generosity and support of our healing Mission. PeaceHealth’s services to the poor and vulnerable began with community giving and, more than 128 years later, our Mission continues because of that same generous spirit.

Donors throughout our communities contributed a total of $9,585,580 during the 2019 fiscal year ending on June 30 and the impact is significant.

Because of your giving…

New parents have resources to encourage and foster literacy in their child at an early age, helping their child to flourish and go on to a successful career.

An out-of-town family member can spend more precious moments with their critically ill loved one because there are comfortable, peaceful accommodations provided for them close to the medical center.

An elderly cancer patient can get the treatment they need in comfortable surroundings without having to travel long and tiring distances for care.

These are just a few examples of how your gifts empower our communities and what we can accomplish together through the power of philanthropy.

In closing I want to express my sincerest appreciation to you – our donors and friends – for your unwavering commitment to a brighter future for the communities we serve.

Warmest regards,

Liz Dunne President and Chief Executive Officer

Our Mission

We carry on the healing mission of Jesus Christ by promoting personal and community health, relieving pain and suffering, and treating each person in a loving and caring way.

The PeaceHealth journey began when the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace sent two young Sisters to the untamed wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Their Mission was simply to serve the needs of the local pioneer communities with a commitment to, and faith in, the healing power of God’s ever-present grace.

Now, more than 128 years later, we carry on this healing Mission every day. The Mission is our shared purpose that drives all that we are and all that we do.

Philanthropy is a vital part of how we uphold our Mission. Donor support enables our medical centers, critical access hospitals and medical clinics located in Washington, Oregon and Alaska to uplift the communities we serve and provide necessary resources.

Thank you, donors. You embody the spirit of giving!

PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Foundation

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace first began their work in Ketchikan, Alaska, almost 100 years ago. Today, their legacy continues through PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center, a critical access hospital and large medical group serving the diverse and remote island communities of southeast Alaska. PeaceHealth Ketchikan strives to bring the best in safe, high-quality care to a network of isolated communities where cost and access to care are uniquely challenging. Thanks to your support, we are making meaningful investments in technology, programs and specialty care services that have a direct impact on the lives of our Alaskan patients and their families. Thank you for your partnership in furthering our healing Mission.

Last year, your generous donations helped us:

§ Purchase a 3D mammography machine for the hospital to provide state-of-the-art screening and diagnostic procedures.

§ Open the Cornelia A. Brindle Cancer Resource Center to provide support for cancer patients and their families.

§ Award 13 grants totaling over $53,000 to benefit programs and patients through gift shop proceeds.

§ Provide more than 100 nights of free housing for patients and families in need through the Rotary 2000 Housing Program.

§ Purchase a new patient lift for the Long-Term Care Unit.

The Salazar family has called Ketchikan, Alaska home for many generations. While geographically remote, it’s a close, caring community and the Salazar’s know the importance of being there for one another – both celebrating everyone’s successes and jumping in when there’s a need.

One way they support their community is by contributing their time and resources to the PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Foundation. Angela Salazar has served on the Foundation board and is very involved in the hospital’s annual Sole-Stice fundraiser. Daughter, Tessa, has that same giving spirit. The 15-year-old organizes an annual Cookies for a Cause fundraiser.

“There isn’t another local organization (like PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center) that we know of that benefits such a diverse group of people from all over the world really,” says Angela about why the Salazar family continues to support the hospital. “It’s a great way for us to give back to a community that has already given us so much.”

Giving to the hospital is also important to the Salazar’s because it’s a way to honor Brien Salazar’s grandfather, Dr. Louis A. Salazar, a licensed surgeon in the Territory of Alaska in 1935, who went on to work for the Sisters of St. Joseph’s hospital. Brien shares, “We feel it’s not only a donation, but also an investment in our community and region that will benefit generations to come.”

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It’s an investment in our community and region that will benefit generations to come. ”

Brien Salazar

A family’s gifts honors their heritage, helps their community and leaves a lasting impact

The Salazar family, left to right: Brien, Tessa, Angela and Gavin Dr. Louis A. Salazar

$2,852,344

raised in fiscal year 2019 by Whatcom Hospice Foundation and PeaceHealth St. Joseph Foundation

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham is a nonprofit hospital providing comprehensive specialty care in northwest Washington. It was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in 1891. PeaceHealth St. Joseph provides a warm, caring atmosphere with advanced medical and surgical programs in cardiovascular, cancer, spine and joint replacement, as well as family birthing services and primary care.

63% Whatcom Hospice Services

Childbirth Center

Palliative Care

Cardiovascular Services

Patient Experience and Advanced Medical Technology 4% Cancer Services

Caregiver Experience and Clinical Education

Last year, your generous donations helped us:

§ Advance the professional practice of nursing.

§ Support local physician and wellness initiatives.

§ Enhance the Cancer Center patient experience – from advanced technology to complementary therapies.

§ Provide advanced care planning and end-of-life education to the community.

§ Provide cardiovascular diagnostic imaging equipment.

§ Provide a new youth waiting room in the Emergency Department.

§ Initiate an Outpatient Palliative Care Program.

§ Continue to establish a permanent art collection.

§ Acquire new visitor furniture for patient rooms.

Endowment honors a loved one with a lasting legacy

How do you honor a beloved family member in a way that is meaningful and leaves a lasting and positive impact?

For Fran MacPhee and her family, it was establishing an endowment in memory of her late daughter and their sister, Julie MacPhee, RN, a longtime PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Childbirth Center nurse.

Julie loved babies and books. The memorial endowment created a new baby book program for the family of each baby born at the Childbirth Center at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center. It is a perfect way to honor Julie’s life and memory.

“Our promise is that we will provide every baby born at the hospital with a Julie MacPhee Endowment book,” explains Gallit Eni, MSN, nurse manager of the Childbirth Center. “We’ll tell each family member a memory of Julie and pass on Julie’s message that reading is important for babies and young children.”

The books will be used by caregivers to guide parents in promoting their child’s development— helping foster early literacy skills and a lifelong love of reading.

“Our family has received so much joy honoring Julie’s life with this endowment,” says Julie’s brother, Dan MacPhee. “It’s meant everything to us knowing her legacy and love of books and babies will live on.”

The MacPhee family - Back row left to right: Nick MacPhee, Molly Bulloch and Daniel MacPhee; Front row left to right: Connie Hodgson and Fran MacPhee. Not pictured: Kathy MacPhee Heinrich

“ Our family has received so much joy honoring Julie ’s life with this endowment.”

Dan MacPhee

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Foundation

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace arrived in Longview, Washington, to operate the Longview Memorial Hospital on Dec. 1, 1943. Since then, many changes have taken place and PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center now serves as the region’s primary provider of acute care services. PeaceHealth St. John serves a rural population of approximately 200,000 residing in four counties of southwest Washington and two counties in northwest Oregon. We provide a broad range of services, including surgery, emergency care, intensive care, cardiac care, a Regional Cancer Center and behavioral services. Since the Foundation’s inception in 1986, our goal continues to be to work together to promote and provide healthier and happier futures for the people we serve, made possible by the generosity of our community. Thank you.

Last year, your generous donations helped us: § Purchase a nuclear medicine cardiac scanner.

§ Remodel the Cardiac Rehabilitation department.

§ Refresh the Lower Columbia Regional Cancer Center’s waiting area to provide a more healing experience for patients.

§ Provide healthcare workers for the Community Child Wellness Program. § Installed a stained glass in the medical center’s chapel. § Support continuing education for caregivers.

and Deidre Cheslock

Caring for their community by giving back

Dr. William (Bill) and Deidre Cheslock have lived most of their lives in Longview. It’s where they met, raised their four children and started Cascade Eye Care more than thirty years ago.

Their community means a lot to them and they show it by giving back. Whether it’s youth sports, schools, their church or their community hospital – PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center – it’s been important to the Cheslocks to be involved.

Bill serves on the PeaceHealth St. John Foundation board and the finance committee. He and Deidre organized the gala fundraiser one year and continue to support it because of the difference it makes to local services like A Child’s Place, physical therapy and the cancer program, among others.

They know firsthand the importance of having quality healthcare available close to home. In the space of a year, Deidre was diagnosed with stage four metastic melanoma and, 10 days later that January, Bill fractured his hip and then in November had a heart attack.

“The care I had at PeaceHealth St. John was fabulous,” says Bill. “I can’t imagine going anywhere else, unless you have to.”

For the Cheslocks, giving to the Foundation is a way “to provide a better community hospital and better service to people in need.” They support it, “because we want to – we love our community –we have a business in the community and the community supports us.”

Bill and Deidre Cheslock

“ We love our community. ”

Bill

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center provides comprehensive specialty care for more than 250,000 patients in southwest Washington annually, and is one of Clark County’s largest employers. It offers dozens of medical specialty services and programs, including emergency, trauma, comprehensive heart and vascular care, interventional stroke care, bone and joint care, brain and spine care, cancer care and birthing services. Thank you for being our partner in providing compassionate, timely care for all who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. Because you care, patients and families of Clark County will continue to receive the highest quality healthcare in our region.

Donor

Last year, your generous donations helped us:

§ Provide medical equipment for patients of the Benjamin H. McGough, MD, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, which allows them to continue their care at home.

§ Build a new family room at the Holtzman Twins Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

§ Support advanced education for 118 caregivers at the annual Jay D. Miller, MD, Neurosciences Conference.

§ Provide 40 blood pressure units for underserved families at the Family Medicine of Southwest Washington primary care clinic.

§ Create the Jaime Wyatt Miller Cancer Compassion Endowment to provide funds for needs such as shelter, clothing and food for low income cancer patients.

Left to right: Debbie Clay, RN; Faisal Siddiqui, MD; and Rochelle White, RN

Giving it their all

Caring is giving and giving is caring. Some people do both.

That’s what compassionate caregivers at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, do — they care, and they give their best — every time, every touch.

Debbie Clay, RN, nurse manager of the Inpatient Oncology Unit; Rochelle White, RN nurse manager of the Heimbigner Oncology Infusion Center; and Faisal Siddiqui, MD, radiation oncologist at PeaceHealth Southwest are not only caregivers, they are also passionate donors who support the Giving Strength Cancer Campaign.

The Giving Strength campaign is dedicated to caring for the most vulnerable cancer patients: those whose illness or frailty requires that they be hospitalized during cancer treatment. And to those who need financial assistance to support their basic needs while in treatment.

“My team of nurses gives strength and comfort every day to our chemotherapy patients. Being a donor to our cancer campaign is another way I can help our patients and I am proud to give back,” shares Rochelle. “It’s about giving patients our all.”

For Debbie, Rochelle and Dr. Siddiqui, giving patients their all means providing the best care and also dedicating their own personal resources to give strength to cancer patients in southwest Washington. They are helping fulfill PeaceHealth’s Mission of caring for all who come through our doors.

Rochelle White, RN

“ Being a donor to our cancer campaign is another way I can help our patients. ”

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation

The Foundation provides the philanthropic support necessary to help PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center care for all the patients and their families who turn to the hospital every day for help and hope. The Foundation is successful because of generous, community-minded donors, like you, who give their time and financial resources in support of PeaceHealth Sacred Heart’s programs and services. Thank you for helping us provide excellent care for all who walk through our doors.

Last year, your generous donations helped us:

§ Provide 929 Thanksgiving baskets to Lane County families in need.

§ Open the Looking Glass Regional Crisis Center. The Center, the first of its kind in Oregon, will provide group and individual therapy and trauma-informed behavioral support for vulnerable youth, ages 12 to 18.

§ Support a variety of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Department programs and services.

§ Keep kids safe by providing free bicycle helmets and car seat clinics throughout Eugene and Springfield.

§ Build the Heartfelt House, a 20-room guest house for out-of-town family members of patients being treated at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend or University District.

§ Award more than 96 nursing scholarships through the Sister Monica Heeran Nursing Scholarship Fund.

Honoring their community by giving back

Oregon Community Credit Union has been a part of the community for 63 years. As a not-for-profit financial cooperative, OCCU is committed to making a meaningful impact. They’re passionate about supporting youth, education, financial health and community prosperity to help strengthen the communities they serve.

This passion is why OCCU actively supports the PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation. Since its first gift 27 years ago, OCCU has given a total of $1.7 million to programs and services at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart, including:

§ Children’s Miracle Network

§ Hoerauf Endowment for Student Clerkships for the Center for Medical Education and Research

§ Emergency Department

§ Pediatrics Department

§ Lunch at Tiffany’s annual co-sponsorship

OCCU’s most recent gift of $500,000 supports the Heartfelt House, which will serve as a “home away from home” for families whose loved ones are patients at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart at RiverBend.

“We find strong alignment in the mission of the PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Foundation and OCCU. Both organizations are committed to supporting personal and community health in caring and sincere ways,” says OCCU’s President and CEO Ron Neumann. “By supporting the work of the Foundation, we believe we can create a ripple effect that will positively impact our more than 150,000 members and nearly 400 employees, which in turn creates a healthier, more prosperous place for us all.”

Ron Neumann, president and CEO, OCCU

Ron Neumann, president and CEO, OCCU, at the Heartfelt House

“ By supporting the work of the Foundation, we believe we can create a ripple effect . . . ”

PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center Foundation

The Foundation supports outstanding healthcare services in the rural communities of South Lane and North Douglas counties through community fundraising for PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center. Without the charitable support provided by community-minded donors like you, the medical center would not be here today. Thank you for helping us expand vital medical services and making our rural community a healthy place for families to live, work and play.

Last year, your generous donations helped us:

§ Support continuing education for caregivers.

§ Provide financial assistance through the Dignity Fund to low-income patients to support their treatment needs.

§ Remodel an existing conference room into a two-bay infusion center, enabling us to provide outpatient services such as transfusions and intravenous antibiotics locally.

A mother and daughter care and share

Betty Wright and her daughter, Betsy Baden, share the family trait of caring and sharing to make a positive impact in the health of their community.

Both have lived in the Cottage Grove, Oregon community since 1973, where Betty and her late husband, James, owned and operated the Wright Machine Tool Company until 2006. After a career in accounting and banking that spanned 40 years, Betsy retired from Siuslaw Bank in Cottage Grove in 2015.

Betty and Betsy are on the board of the PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center Foundation, where Betty started serving in the early 1980s to help meet the hospital’s need for new equipment.

This mother and daughter believe, “If we want a wonderful healthcare community, we all must support it to make a great hospital facility for Cottage Grove residents.”

While all the hospital’s services are equally important, “Emergency services are key to this community,” shares Betsy. “Many have no healthcare and have to use the emergency services for help.”

In addition to the Emergency Department, both are thankful for local physical therapy and mammography services. They also give to the Dignity Fund to help low-income patients and the fund that supports the hospital’s technology and equipment needs.

The caring and sharing of this mother and daughter will benefit their community for years to come.

Betty Wright with daughter Betsy Baden Betty Wright

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If we want a wonderful healthcare community, we must all support it. ”

Betsy Baden

PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center Foundation

at PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center helps us meet the growing healthcare needs in our community. For 30 years, the generosity of individuals, like you, has made a direct impact on the community, funding critical hospital programs and services that otherwise would not be available to those in need. Thank you for ensuring that everyone in western Lane County benefits from first-rate hospital

Donor

Last year, your generous donations helped us:

§ Provide ongoing support to our Hospice and Palliative Care programs.

§ Support the Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) Program that helps people stay healthier and avoid ambulance trips to the hospital.

§ Purchased a laparoscopic camera for minimally invasive surgeries.

§ Build the Heartfelt House, a 20-room guest house for out-of-town family members of patients being treated at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend and University District.

A healthy collaboration

It’s good to be part of a community that steps up to meet the needs of others. Among those stepping up in Florence, Oregon, are the 24 members of the local chapter of Delta Gamma of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, an international philanthropic organization with a focus on friendship, philanthropy and education.

Active in Florence for nearly 50 years, Delta Gamma often collaborates with the PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center Foundation. Their gifts have helped bring the radiology program, an MRI and other much-needed equipment to the hospital.

Currently, Delta Gamma’s focus is to bring an Emergency Prescription Assistance Program to the hospital for patients who cannot afford the cost of medication. “We’re striving to help those less fortunate with this important need,” says Delta Gamma member Sue Scarberry. After a 43-year career in nursing, the retired nursing administrator knows firsthand the difference that medication makes for patients. “It’s vital. It may save their life.”

This caring collaboration between Delta Gamma and PeaceHealth Peace Harbor is extended to others in the community to join in giving to the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program so no one in Florence will have to go without medication because they can’t afford it.

“We’re hoping the program can be a model for other communities like ours,” shares Karen Pendergrass,

Gamma member who also worked at the hospital many years. “It’s really exciting.”

another Delta

Back row left to right: Janet Houston, Ellie Allen, Marsha Klosterman, Karen Perry and Cindy Wobbe ; Middle row: Jane Yecny, Mary Carlisle, Sue Scarberry, Rhonda Adler and Shannon Graham; Front row: Ellen Henson, Julie Rassmann, Jean Forsman, Diane Jalowy, Jan Galbraith, Sarah Mans and Tina Meyers. Not pictured: Karen Pendergrass.

“ We’re hoping the program can be a model for other communities like ours. ”

Karen Pendergrass

Planned Giving Gifts that make a lasting impact

If you would like to extend your support of PeaceHealth to make a lasting impact, there are several gift arrangements to choose from, including:

§ Real estate or life estate arrangement

§ Charitable bequest

§ Life insurance

§ Charitable arrangement trust

§ Interest in retirement account

Whether you would like to put your donation to work today or after your lifetime, you can find a charitable plan that lets you provide for your family and support the PeaceHealth Foundation of your choice. Here’s how others have chosen to support their communities through planned giving.

Robert Quoidbach

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Foundation

Planned gift type: Bequest for Endowment

Born and raised in Longview, Washington, Robert Quoidbach always knew the importance of supporting the local community. A graduate of Stanford University in California, Robert and his wife, Mary Lou, returned to his hometown, where he operated Quoidbach Construction Company and two local tree farms. The local hospital, PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center, always had a special place in his heart. Robert understood the power of philanthropy and created an endowment to assist PeaceHealth in maintaining its facility and then co-created the Staff Education Endowment Fund for caregivers prior to his death.

“There are so many people who need help with education costs to make their lives better and that’s where I want my endowment to go,” he said.

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There are so many people who need help . . . ”

Robert Quoidbach

Jim and Becky Eastwood

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation

Planned gift type: Real Estate Arrangement

Jim and Becky Eastwood of Bellingham, Washington, shared 40 years together living by the principle of helping others. After a difficult four-year treatment journey with colon cancer, Jim passed in May 2017. Before he died, the couple made an estate plan to ensure their shared dream of helping others. In gratitude for the tremendous care Jim received at the cancer center, the Eastwoods designated PeaceHealth to receive their property after they both are gone. In the meantime, Becky continues to enjoy the home and making investments in it for her current comfort as well as its future value.

“Making a gift to PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in our estate plan was easy,” she says.

David and Linda Lauck

PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center Foundation

Planned gift type: Life Estate Arrangement

David and Linda Lauck of Dunes City, Oregon, felt passionately about supporting their local hospital, PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center, through philanthropy and volunteering. It has meant so much, they decided to share their support for the long term.

The couple partnered with PeaceHealth to create a charitable giving arrangement called a retained life estate, which allowed them to continue to live in their home while establishing the gift to PeaceHealth. David has since passed.

“Giving our home in this fashion was the perfect way to achieve both our philanthropic and financial goals,” Linda says. “We are grateful for the compassionate care PeaceHealth has provided to us. It’s very meaningful to know our support helps the future of the hospital as it cares for our community for generations to come!”

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For more information on planned giving, please reach out to your foundation. Contact information is available on the inside back cover of this report.

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Making a gift in our estate plan was easy. ”

Becky Eastwood

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It is very meaningful to know our support helped the future of the hospital. ”

Linda Lauck

A thank you from our Foundation Board Presidents

This report highlights just a few of the many services, programs and facility enhancements made possible by the generous support of our donors. We are so grateful for your support. It impacts the health of our community and touches the lives of countless patients and families in such a powerful way. Without you the level of care we’re able to provide would not be possible. Thank you for your spirit of giving!

PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Foundation

Joseph C. Williams, Jr. President

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation

Jon Sitkin President

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Foundation

Beth Laufer President

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation

Thomas C. Young President

PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center Foundation

Sherry Duerst-Higgins President

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Community Medical Center Foundation

Jennifer Papé President

PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center Foundation Ken Henderson President

PeaceHealth Foundations

PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Foundation

Matt Eisenhower, Director of Development 907-228-7616 meisenhower@peacehealth.org

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation

Anne Rasmussen, Chief Development Officer 360-788-6866 arasmussen@peacehealth.org

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Foundation

Cathy Barr, Executive Director 360-414-7900 cbarr@peacehealth.org

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation

Karen Santangelo, Chief Development Officer 360-514-3106 ksantangelo@peacehealth.org

peacehealth.org/foundations

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation

PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center Foundation

Tim France, Chief Development Officer 541-222-7101 tfrance@peacehealth.org

PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center Foundation

Heather Quaas-Annsa, Director of Development 541-902-6589 hquaas-annsa@peacehealth.org

“ For it is in the giving that we receive. ” — prayer of St. Francis