the
FOUNDATION
report
Winter 2019
Linda and Mika Palikko, grateful patients.
In This Issue:
NO ORDINARY GIFT
Message from Our President and CEO
Idling in her car on Montreal Street, fingers crossed, Linda Palikko waited to see if she was going to pass the ultimate compatibility test in her more than twenty-year marriage: did she have the right blood type to give her husband, Mika, one of her kidneys?
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MIRACLE WORKER SURGEON GOES THE DISTANCE FOR PATIENTS
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“I pulled off to the side of the road while the nurse from the Living Kidney Donor Program looked up my medical history to find my blood type,” says Linda. It was a pivotal moment and the first of many tests both she and Mika would have to pass in a healthcare odyssey that has brought the pair closer together than they ever imagined.
SPOTLIGHT ON KHSC’s WORLDCLASS CLINICAL LABORATORIES
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EXCITEMENT BUILDING FOR NEW AND IMPROVED PROVIDENCE MANOR
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