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GETTING BACK TO LIFE Because of equipment provided by donors and a quick-thinking care team, Martin is alive today. He will spend the holidays with his growing family. The last time Martin was in the Emergency Department at Kingston General Hospital, he didn’t have a heartbeat. Thanks to a quick thinking care team, and equipment provided by donors, Emergency staff were able to bring Martin back to life. “I was told that a human being couldn’t live through this much trauma,” explains Martin’s wife, Margaret, who
waited outside the room in the Emergency Department as the care team did everything they could to get Martin’s heart beating again. After clot-busting medication, rounds of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and shocking Martin with a defibrillator didn’t work, Dr. Adam Szulewski and his senior resident Dr. Colin Bell decided to take a more innovative approach. They asked Continued on pg. 5...
In This Issue: YOUR IMPACT New surgical programs now in Kingston. p. 6
CAMPAIGN NEWS A message from campaign chair Susan Creasy. p. 3
THE MASQUERADE A glimpse at our most lavish event of the year. p. 4
A MESSAGE FROM OUR DIRECTOR With the holidays fast approaching, it’s time to reflect on a wonderful year of philanthropy. As the last of the leaves are blown from the trees and the first snowflakes fall, I pause for a moment to reflect with gratitude on what an extraordinary community we have in Kingston. I am so inspired by the generosity of donors just like you who give faithfully to ensure we have the best possible health care right here in Kingston. Throughout the year, I have had the great pleasure of meeting donors who have shared their stories of receiving compassionate, life-saving and innovative care right here in the Kingston hospitals. Martin Bird (p.1) is one of many grateful patients who have come forward to share their care story to help inspire others to give generously. Denise Cumming, UHKF President & CEO
HOSPITAL STAFF GO THE EXTRA MILE FOR CARE It’s not just community donors and grateful patients who are inspiring others this year. Hospital staff members came together to raise more than $37,000 in this year’s We Walk for Comfort and Care event. These funds will be devoted to making sure that patients, clients and residents have access to the care they need regardless of financial constraints.
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As part of our holiday tradition, we invite you to share with us what inspires you to give back. If you’ve received a blue ornament recently, I encourage you to fill it out and send it back to us. We’ll hang it on our giving tree to help inspire others! With more than $51-million raised towards our $65-million Extraordinary People, Innovative Health Care campaign (p.3), we are well on our way to reaching the next phase of redevelopment in the Kingston hospitals. I look forward to the New Year with enthusiasm and excitement for the changes on the horizon for health care in Kingston. I am grateful to you for helping to ensure innovative health care is available, close to home. I wish you and yours all the best of the season and many blessings for the New Year.
CAMPAIGN UPDATE An important message from Susan Creasy, chair of the Extraordinary People, Innovative Health Care campaign. ity to patient, clients and residents across the community. We are also focused on planning a new home for Providence Manor, where we can best meet the complex needs of our residents.
We have already raised $51-million of our $65-million goal for the campaign. This campaign will lay the groundwork for the next major round of redevelopment.
As UHKF’s Campaign Chair, I am so grateful to this community of generous supporters who have helped us reach $51-million of our $65-million Extraordinary People, Innovative Healthcare campaign goal. What a tremendous accomplishment! At Kingston General Hospital, we are anticipating a major project, which will include redevelopment of the surgical suites, the emergency department, clinical laboratories, obstetrics (labour and delivery) and the neonatal intensive care unit. Hotel Dieu Hospital’s outpg. 3 | WINTER 2016
patient clinics already showcase innovative approaches to care, but there is still more to be done. Community donations will lay the groundwork for revamping diagnostic imaging, improving recovery room areas, consolidating the cardiac program’s diagnostic and clinical facilities, and relocating the Ear, Nose and Throat program. Vulnerable populations receiving care through Providence Care continue to benefit from new patient care equipment. The tools purchased through community support provides dignity, safety and mobil-
As we look forward to the exciting changes, we continue to rely on the funds raised through the Extraordinary People, Innovative Healthcare campaign to help support ongoing equipment needs, education and research throughout all three hospital organizations. I am so proud to a part of a community that has demonstrated such unfailing commitment to ensuring that we continue to have access to world-class, innovative care close to home. From annual gifts in response to fundraising letters, to major gifts, to bequests and gifts from community events, you are all helping to make the next phase of development for your Kingston hospitals a reality!
AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENING AT THE MASQUERADE BALL Our first-ever signature event in support of all three Kingston hospitals was a great success! Proceeds from The Masquerade Ball, held on October 29 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, will be shared between Kingston General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital, and Providence Care. “We are very excited to be a part of this event,” said Ted Bergeron of Bergeron Clifford Injury Lawyers, presenting sponsors of the event. “We support the work that is done at the hospitals and the hundreds of people who work there.” Guests enjoyed dancing to live music from Juliane Brazeau, Triola, and Taxi Dancers featuring Emily Fennell, Rob Baker and Gord Sinclair. We would like to give a special thanks to all the event sponsors who made the evening special with delicious food, champagne and cocktails. To see more pictures from this elegant event, visit uhkf.ca/events/masquerade.
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Martin made a swift recovery, but still needs the specialized care offered by expert caregivers at the Kingston hospitals. Continued from p.1...
a nurse to get a second defibrillator as they prepared for a procedure that had never been performed in the Kingston hospitals. “Instead of doing the typical one shock as we always do, as has been taught for years and as are the current guidelines for this, we did the double shock,” explains Dr. Szulewski. Interestingly enough, [the double-shock] was something that I heard about randomly at a dinner party a few days beforehand. Colin had just heard about this as well, so we said ‘ok, let’s do it.’” The double-shock worked. Martin’s heart began beating in a normal rhythm and he pg. 5 | WINTER 2016
was transferred to the catheterization laboratory where a large clot was removed from his coronary arteries. Martin then spent a week in the Intensive Care Unit.
“I was told a human
being couldn’t live through this much trauma.”
- Margaret Bird
His journey wasn’t over, though. Once he returned home, Martin was visited by staff from Providence Care’s Community Brain Injury Services team, and he regularly visits Hotel Dieu Hospital for follow up appointments
in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Centre. Just four weeks after his heart attack, Martin walked his daughter down the aisle and danced with her on her wedding day. It was a moment he will never forget, and it was made possible by the exceptional quality of care here in Kingston and the generosity of donors like you. “Thank God we live in Kingston and have a hospital with fresh minds,” said Martin, “If this had happened anywhere else, would I be lucky enough to have had the team I did?” To see a video of Martin’s story, visit uhkf.ca/heartbeat.
EXCITING NEW SURGICAL PROGRAMS IN KINGSTON Your donations have made it possible for two groups of patients to access specialized surgical care close to home. BREAST RECONSTRUCTION CAN HAVE LASTING IMPACT FOR CANCER PATIENTS
GASTRIC BYPASS PROCEDURE ALLOWS BARIATRIC PATIENTS TO GAIN CONTROL IN ALL ASPECTS OF HEALTH
By accessing over $200,000 in funds raised by the annual Rose of Hope golf tournament, the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario is able to perform 12 additional breast reconstruction surgeries on qualifying patients this year. Rose of Hope organizers and other private donors will fund 20 additional breast reconstruction procedures over the next three years in an effort to pilot the new program to secure longer-term government funding for the procedure.
Thanks to a combination of government funding, support from Volunteer Services to Hotel Dieu Hospital and other community donations, the Bariatric Centre of Excellence at Hotel Dieu Hospital can now provide gastric bypass surgery. Up until this point, patients were assessed and received followup care at Hotel Dieu Hospital but had to travel to Ottawa or Toronto for their surgery.
“There is good evidence that if we are able to offer breast reconstruction, it improves a patient’s general self-confidence and well-being,” says surgical oncologist Dr. Jay Engel. “As we increase the number of reconstruction surgeries offered in Kingston, we will be able to help more women return to their normal life quicker than before.”
“This is life-changing, and it’s desperately needed in this region,” says Dr. John Drover, Medical Coordinator of the Bariatric Centre of Excellence, “Obesity in this area is higher than the provincial average, and this procedure means patients can get control of their health.”
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