Shawn Elliott and Eric Elkins establish fund to

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Palmetto Health Foundation
Shawn Elliott and Eric Elkins establish fund
to support inpatient pediatric rehabilitation
(L-R) Shawn Elliott, Jack Enright and Eric Elkins
Dear Friends
Samuel J. Tenenbaum
President
Swinging into action
for a Children’s Hospital
playground
It’s that time of year again when we gather to reunite and
celebrate. We make extra efforts to see family and friends,
enjoy the festive season and appreciate all that we have.
At this joyous time of year, Palmetto Health Foundation
would like to raise a toast to all of you, our generous donors,
for all you’ve done to support us throughout the year.
We closed our fiscal year on September 30 with our highest
revenue ever—more than $10.7 million in total revenue,
$8.5 million of which came from committed donors like you.
When we brought needs to your attention like the Child
Abuse Medical Assessment Program and advanced breast
cancer detection equipment, you stepped up to help. When
the floods came and Palmetto Health team members were in
need, you gave again. Because of you, we cared for Palmetto
Health team members in crisis and maintained extraordinary
patient care.
Words like “thank you” seem inadequate. Our appreciation
is sincere. This holiday season, we celebrate all our donors
and volunteers who have given so generously. We celebrate
our local first responders who extended a hand in our time of
crisis. We also celebrate all that your generosity and caring
means to our community.
May your holidays be filled with peace, joy and good health.
May your new year be prosperous! Cheers!
Warmest Regards,
Samuel J. Tenenbaum
(L-R) Back row: Caughman Taylor, MD, Senior Medical Dir., Palmetto Health
Children’s Hospital; Shirley MacRae, Dir., Corporate Alliances, Children’s
Miracle Network Hospitals; Samuel Tenenbaum, President, Palmetto Health
Foundation; Christy Fink, Child Life Manager, Palmetto Health Children’s
Hospital; Richie Raccoon, Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital mascot; Drew
Painter, 2015 Chair, Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital Board; Drew Lufkin,
Division VP of Consumer Sales for Kruger Products, manufacturer and
distributor of White Cloud. Front row: Nadia Durasamy, Marketing Manager
at Kruger Products, manufacturer and distributor of White Cloud; Palmetto
Health Children’s Hospital patients, Brooklyn Harvin, Kate and David
Schelling, Pierce Embree Cook, Kendale and Keldon Hemingway, Benjamin
Brown and Sara Kate Bryant.
A $30,000 prize from White Cloud through their “Real Comfort, Real
Kids” video contest has jump-started a fundraising campaign to
create a special playground at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital.
B106.7FM will “swing” into action to support the playground
through the annual B106.7FM Children’s Hospital Radiothon to
be held Feb. 9-10, 2016, at Children’s Hospital.
Playing is a vital part of the healing process for Children’s Hospital
patients. With the new playground, even the sickest children can
play, using specially designed equipment that will accommodate IV
poles, wheelchairs and hospital beds.
“WITH THE INCREDIBLE GIFT FROM
WHITE CLOUD AND THE SUPPORT OF
B106.7FM AND THEIR LISTENERS, WE WILL
BE WELL ON OUR WAY TO CREATING
THE SAFE OUTDOOR PLAY SPACE WE’VE
BEEN DREAMING OF,” SAID CHRISTY
FINK, CHILD LIFE MANAGER, PALMETTO
HEALTH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.
To learn more about how you can be part of the Children’s
Hospital playground project, visit the Special Projects section
at PalmettoHealthFoundation.org or call 803-434-7275.
Be sure to tune in to B106.7FM Feb. 9-10.
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“Double E” fund supports inpatient pediatric
rehabilitation at Children’s Hospital
Jack Enright
Strength, perseverance and
a keen sense of awareness
(L-R) Shawn Elliott, Jack Enright and Eric Elkins at fund-a-need live auction
Each year, 40-50 patients at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital
experience a life-altering condition or injury that requires
specialized rehabilitation. Because an inpatient pediatric
rehabilitation program does not exist at our Children’s Hospital—or
anywhere in South Carolina—these patients and families have to go
out-of-state for care. Families are often unexpectedly uprooted for
months at a time.
Shawn Elliott, a football coach at the University of South
Carolina, and Columbia businessman Eric Elkins have teamed up
with Palmetto Health Foundation to create a special fund, the
“Double E” (Elliott/Elkins) Fund, to establish an Inpatient Pediatric
Rehabilitation program at Children’s Hospital so families can
sleep in their own beds at night.
At the Foundation’s donor event and Festival of Trees auction
preview on Nov. 20, Elliott and Elkins were joined on stage by Jack
Enright who inspired support for the program. Within minutes,
$92,000 was raised during a fund-a-need live auction. The project is
special for Enright and his mother, Ann, because earlier this year,
Enright was paralyzed during a lacrosse game at Chapin High School,
and he was rushed to the Palmetto Health Trauma Unit. When it was
time for Jack to start rehab, he and his family had to go to Atlanta—
more than 200 miles from their home. If an inpatient pediatric
rehabilitation program had been in place at Palmetto Health
Children’s Hospital, Enright would have simply moved from the
Trauma Unit to Children’s Hospital—within minutes from his home.
The new eight-bed Inpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit, led by
Stanley Skarli, MD, will be constructed on the 5th floor of Children’s
Hospital. Children’s Hospital expects to treat 58 patients in the new
unit within the first year. To get the program up and running, nearly
$2 million of community support is needed. Renovation is
anticipated to begin summer/fall 2016, and the unit is expected to
open in the spring of 2017. To learn more about how you can join
Elliott and Elkins in their fundraising efforts, visit the Special
Projects section at PalmettoHealthFoundation.org. Details on
naming opportunities will be available soon. To lend your support,
are among many attributes of Chapin
High School lacrosse player, Jack
Enright, who was injured during a
game on March 4, 2015. In those
first moments, he could feel his
teammates rallying around him.
He could feel the positive energy
from his opponents and the crowd.
Although he knew something
was terribly wrong, he felt a sense of calm. He remembers
everything—from being driven off the field in an ambulance
to the flurry of activity when he arrived at the Trauma Unit at
Palmetto Health Richland.
“WHEN WE WERE ON THE FIELD AND I
REALIZED JACK COULDN’T MOVE HIS
LEGS, I MADE SURE WE WERE BEING
TAKEN TO THE PALMETTO HEALTH
RICHLAND TRAUMA UNIT BECAUSE
I KNEW IT WAS A LEVEL 1 TRAUMA
CENTER,” SAID ANN, JACK’S MOTHER.
“So much happened so fast,” said Jack. “There were teams
of people around me, and they took me into surgery at 1 a.m.
after scans revealed the reason I was paralyzed from the
waist down.”
The Trauma team confirmed Jack’s neck was broken. After
successful emergency surgery to repair a vertebrae that had
crushed into his spinal cord, Jack spent a week in the care of
the Trauma team and built a strong relationship with many of
the nurses and doctors. Through their actions and words, Jack
felt confident he was in great hands.
“I trusted the Trauma team with my life,” said Jack. “I
appreciated their reassurance that I would be okay. As I was
leaving the hospital, they told me they wanted to stay in touch,
so I’m going to continue to update them on my progress.”
Jack is gaining strength every day and pushing himself to
reach milestones. With the support of his family, physical
therapist, community, classmates and teachers at Chapin High
School, he is making great strides. He uses a wheelchair but
has progressed to using forearm crutches and a cane to walk.
He can drive with modified hand controls and remains hopeful
to regain mobility and function from his spinal cord injury.
contact Diane Junis at Palmetto Health Foundation. 803-434-2832
or Diane.Junis@PalmettoHealth.org.
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Annual donor recognition event and 26th Festival of Trees
On Nov. 20, the Foundation celebrated more than
1,100 donors and supporters at our annual donor
event and Festival of Trees Auction Preview.
First responders were thanked and celebrated.
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Proceeds from the 26th Festival
of Trees, benefiting Palmetto
Health Children’s Hospital,
totaled more than $332,000,
including in-kind donations.
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Palmetto Health Foundation recently inducted these Fellows in
grateful appreciation and recognition of their exemplary service,
dynamic leadership and generous personal commitment to the
mission and vision of Palmetto Health Foundation.
Thomas B. Bates (posthumously)
James S. Konduros, Esq.
P. Prithvi Reddy, MD, FACS, FAAP
In 2007, when Palmetto Health
Foundation was in the midst of a $20
million capital campaign to expand and
renovate Palmetto Health Children’s
Hospital to become South Carolina’s first
freestanding children’s hospital, Tom Bates
made a significant gift—$1 million. This
was the largest individual gift received
for the campaign and the second largest
individual gift ever received by Palmetto
Health Foundation. Bates’ gift named the
Tom Bates Day Hospital at Palmetto Health
Children’s Hospital.
In 1998, Baptist Medical Center and
Richland Memorial Hospital became
one integrated health care system—
Palmetto Health Alliance. The alliance
was significant news for our community
and garnered Palmetto Health national
attention. For two large, competing
hospital systems to become one, years
of planning and preparation, with the
right leaders in place, was critical. Jim
Konduros, Esq., co-founder of the McNair
Law Firm, was a trusted advisor to the
alliance team, as he helped navigate
countless legal and regulatory concerns in
the process. His tenacity for a successful
merger coined him the nickname, “Coach
K.” Years prior to the merger, Konduros’s
diligent work as chief legal counsel for
Baptist Healthcare System set the tone for
his successful outcomes on the Palmetto
Health Alliance team.
As a “Founding Physician” of Palmetto
Health Children’s Hospital, Dr. Prithvi
Reddy was a well-loved and respected
leading physician for many years at
Children’s Hospital. His unwavering
commitment to children’s health care
and innovative ideas for pediatric surgery
was vital to his success as a distinguished
member of the Palmetto Health Richland
medical staff and leadership team. During
his tenure, he was a founding member
of Pediatric Surgeons of South Carolina,
chief of the Children’s Hospital medical
staff, senior medical director for Surgery at
Palmetto Health Richland and a member of
the Children’s Hospital Board from 2005 to
2006. Dr. Reddy’s personal contributions
and efforts to strengthen the relationship
between the Hospital and Foundation
were instrumental to the success of the
Children’s Hospital Capital Campaign and
Pediatric Surgery Campaign.
When Bates toured Children’s Hospital
and met the care team, he realized their
commitment and noted the “beautiful
things they do for children every day.” He
was most pleased that his gift would help
provide a restful place for families to take
their children for care without requiring
inpatient hospitalization.
Prior to his gift to Children’s Hospital,
Bates, a retired financial consultant and
auditor with Blue Cross Blue Shield of
South Carolina, made a significant gift to
Spring Valley High School to build Bates
Hall, the first freestanding wrestling
facility of its kind in the state.
Bates died in September 2010.
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In the years that followed, Konduros’s
relationship with Palmetto Health
remained strong, as he and his family
continued to support the hospital through
significant gifts to Palmetto Health
Foundation for a variety of programs
at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital
including the Children’s Hospital Capital
Campaign, Pediatric Neurology, Child
Life, Pediatric Palliative Care Program,
Sickle Cell and Reach Out and Read.
Most recently, Konduros established the
Konduros Fisherman Fund Endowment
for Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital,
with the initial earnings benefiting the
Child Abuse Medical Assessment Program.
Over the years, Dr. Reddy was presented
numerous awards, including the 2005
Derrick/Lynch Champion of Children
Award and the 2005 Pediatric Hall of
Fame Award from the University of South
Carolina School of Medicine Department
of Pediatrics. In 1998, 2003, 2004 and
2005, he received the Outstanding
Clinical Faculty Award, presented by
general surgery residents at the University
of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Dr. Reddy retired in 2012 after 36 years
of service to Palmetto Health Children’s
Hospital.
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Many Fellows celebrated at a recent induction ceremony for 2015 Fellows: (L-R) Lester P. Branham, Jr., Jimmy Derrick, P. Prithvi Reddy, MD,
Donna and Curt Rone, Linda Wells, Beebe James, Bebie Linn Chambers, Dr. Chris and Chantsie LaTorre, James S. Konduros, Esq.,
Dr. Traci Young Cooper and Ronald Dew, MD
OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO ARE FOUNDATION FELLOWS
Eugene D. Allen
Lynette L. Allston
Gerry Sue, Norman,
Ben and Lisa Arnold
Thomas N. Bagnal, Sr.*
Garnet A. Barnes*
Harold Bessent*
William A. Boyce*
Lester P. Branham, Jr.
Bebie Linn Chambers
Congressman James E. Clyburn
Beth Coble
Dr. Traci Young Cooper
C. Warren Derrick, MD
Jimmy Derrick
Ronald Dew, MD
Charles H. Dickerson*
Mr. W. Russell Drake
John Ducate, Sr.
Martha C. Edens*
George C. Fant, Jr.
Caroline and Kester Freeman
Stiles Harper*
Joyce Martin Hill
Dr. Charley* and Beebe James
Sheila Bonner Kolb
Dr. Chris and Chantsie LaTorre
John H. Lumpkin, Jr.
B. Palmer McArthur*
Bill McDaniels
Fred S. Miller, Jr., DD*
John E. Peters
Curt and Donna Rone
Charles R. Sloan, MD*
Frank S. Smith, Jr.*
Nathaniel John Stewart, Jr., MD
Ray Tanner
Don E. Taylor
John A. Warren*
Richard Wayburn, MD*
Linda Wells
Lights for Hospice
Providing comfort and compassion during uncertain times,
Palmetto Health Hospice and Palliative Care helps families
remain together in peace, comfort and dignity. This holiday
season, you can offer the warm embrace of hope through
Lights for Hospice.
Lights for Hospice has shined brightly for hospice patients
for 30 years, lighting the way for people to support Palmetto
Health Hospice while honoring or remembering someone
dear. Lights for Hospice proceeds benefit Palmetto Health
Hospice and Palliative Care patients and their families,
providing medications as well as emergency rent or utility
assistance for qualified patients. Annually, Palmetto Health
Hospice provides financial, physical and spiritual assistance
to nearly 1,000 patients and families in 13 South Carolina
counties, and implements bereavement programs for adults
and children who have experienced the loss of a loved one.
Donate online at:
PalmettoHealthFoundation.org/LightsforHospice.
*deceased
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Walk for Life/Race for Life
January 9, 2016
Finlay Park, Columbia
Registration open!
WalkForLifeColumbia.org
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The expertise and dedication of
our board members is reflected in
their extraordinary contributions
to Palmetto Health Foundation.
Palmetto Health Foundation Board
Bill Duda, Chair | Margaret Nevill, Chair Elect | Brian Dunphy,
Finance Chair/Treasurer | Ted Creech, Secretary | Marie Boyd |
Emily Brady Bedenbaugh | Janice Coleman, MD | Virginia
Crocker | Mary Dailey | Ryan Dukes | Vanessa English | Jeff Griffin
(L-R) Mary Claire Clonts, president, Palmetto Health Richland Volunteer
Auxiliary; Patti Smith, a member of the Auxiliary and Randy Branham,
director, Operations, Simulation Center
Welcome, Ethel!
Thanks to a generous gift from the Palmetto Health Richland
Auxiliary, the Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina
School of Medicine Simulation Center welcomed “Ethel,” the
most advanced, realistic and reliable female and childbirth
simulation technology.
“SINCE WE WELCOMED ETHEL IN JULY
2015, WE HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT
POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE WAY HIGH
FIDELITY SIMULATION IS EXPERIENCED
BY THE RESIDENTS AND NURSES WHO
TRAIN IN OUR CENTER,” SAID RANDY
BRANHAM, DIRECTOR, SIMULATION
CENTER OPERATIONS. “WE’RE GRATEFUL
FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE PALMETTO
HEALTH RICHLAND VOLUNTEER
AUXILIARY, AND WE LOOK FORWARD
TO YEARS OF POSITIVE IMPACT FOR
MOTHERS AND BABIES AS A RESULT
OF THIS GIFT.”
Opened in 2007 as a collaborative effort between Palmetto Health
and the University of South Carolina, the Simulation Center hosts
team-based simulation training for medical students, nurses,
resident physicians and the public in everything from individual
patient care to full-scale disaster response scenarios. Health
care simulations generally have four main purposes: education,
assessment, research and health system quality integration.
Charlene Keys | Dan Lebish | Bill McElveen | Carroll McGee |
Henry McMaster | Judy C. Smith | Tim Timmons | Lynn Williams
Palmetto Health Cancer Centers Board
Chip Stanley, Chair | Mary Ellen Barnwell, Vice Chair | Bruce
Fewell, Treasurer | Sharleen Craig, Secretary | Bhavna Maker
Vasudeva, Development Chair | Chris LaTorre, DMD, PA.,
Membership Chair | Dee A. Bennett, Past Chair | Alice Adams |
Stephany Connelly | John W. Foster, Jr. | Elizabeth “Beth” Frost |
Jeanette Fulton, MD | DR Granger | Christie Hill | Audrey
Korsgaard | Sara Krisnow | Emily Anna Long | Chris MacDougall |
Jennifer Mashura | Phyllis McElveen | Kathy Mercer | Lisa M.
Merritt | Kathleen McDavid Muthig | Barbara Ann Petit |
Leigh Pound | Suzanne Pucci | Donna Rone | Georgette Sandifer |
Debbie Seale | Wade Shugart | Sandra Sims | Robert E. Smith, Jr., MD |
Janet Snider | Susan Steck | Marilyn M. Swygert | W. Bruce
Truluck | Charles Vernon, Jr. | Peter Zvejnieks, MD
Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital Board
Jeffrey T. Reeves, Chair | John Griggs, Vice Chair | Rett Kendall,
Treasurer | Drew Painter, Immediate Past Chair | Carl W.
Blackstone, AMC Member-at-Large | Jeff Holloway, MD, AMC
Member-at-Large | Shelton W. Haile | Jennifer Lloyd | Mary Lynch
Wagnon | Anna Alessandrini | Diane Bagnal-Moody | Kristen
Beckham | Brad Blackburn | Billie M. Boette | Scott Bonnette |
Eleanor Clark | Greg Downs | Darren Foy | Michele B. Frazier | Jay
Hamm | Drew Hampton | Chad Holbrook | Robert Hubbird, MD |
Victor Iskersky, MD | Fitz King | Lauren Leviner | Charles Moore |
Bill Oliver | Chris Pricenor | Rhonda Quinones | Brenda Rankin |
Barbara Koosa Ryan | Stacy Sawyer | Darrell Scott | Ronald Scott |
Stephanie Shields | Caughman Taylor, MD | Debbie Zvejnieks
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PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
A story about families who, although separated by decades, are
collectively shaping the future for women with breast cancer
THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THIS STORY
was written in 1977, by Saydo “Tommy” Gemale. He
emigrated to the U.S. from Italy as a small child with his
parents. He fought in World War II, made his career in the
Army and, with his wife, Eunice, called Columbia home. The
Gemales found themselves under the care of Dr. Hoyt Bodie
at what is now Palmetto Health Baptist, after Eunice was
diagnosed with inoperable cancer and given one year to live.
Under Dr. Bodie’s care, she lived for five years. During the
final days of her life, she requested to be at home. This was
before Baptist had established a hospice program; therefore,
Bernice Smith, the Oncology nurse who had assisted Dr.
Bodie and cared for Mrs. Gemale, volunteered to check on
Mrs. Gemale while at home.
Tommy Gemale was so impressed with the care given to his
wife by Dr. Bodie and Bernice Smith that he changed his will
immediately following her death. After his own death in
1977 and in accordance with his wishes, a large portion of
his estate was gifted to what is now Palmetto Health
Foundation to create the Gemale Cancer Fund, with the
stipulation that the gift be used to benefit cancer treatment
at Palmetto Health Baptist.
John and Betty Warren
THE SECOND CHAPTER OF OUR STORY
commences in the early 2000s, when John and Betty Warren,
longtime leaders in our community who had given generously to
Palmetto Health Cancer Centers and Palmetto Health Children’s
Hospital, decided they would find a way to support these institutions
well past their own lifetime.
The Warrens’ desire to pave an easier journey for cancer patients and
for sick and injured children, even past the duration of their own
lives, should come as no surprise to those who knew them. Years
prior, John had co-founded the Atrium Society, an annual giving
society whose members collectively fund high-priority equipment
and technology for Palmetto Health Cancer Centers. Betty served on
the Children’s Hospital Board in its very early years in the mid-tolate 1980s and was most recently a member of the Champions
Society, an annual giving society to support key initiatives at
Children’s Hospital. Their contributions spanned nearly 30 years.
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The Warrens had given generously, and inspired others to do
the same, to support the construction of the Cancer Center at
7 Richland Medical Park in the early 1990s, for which the Warren
Atrium was named in their honor. Coincidentally, 7 Richland
Medical Park was converted to a freestanding Children’s Hospital in
2008, and the Warrens once again led the way as major donors to
this project. These places were near and dear to their hearts. John
Warren, beloved husband of 64 years, died in 2009. Betty passed
away on February 3 this year.
THE THIRD CHAPTER OF OUR STORY
involves current members of the Atrium Society, individuals and
couples who give annually to support the Cancer Centers. Just over a
year ago, members of the Atrium Society Executive Committee
mulled a list of needs presented by Debbie Seale, director of
Oncology Services at Palmetto Health. Their charge? To decide on
the Society’s funding focus for the year, with a goal of delivering
maximum benefit to families who would rely on Palmetto Health for
their cancer care. The committee, led by Foundation Fellows Curt
and Donna Rone set a goal of funding three Hologic® Quantra™
software licenses that would allow the medical team at Palmetto
Health Breast Center to better serve women with dense breast tissue,
at a cost of around $18,000 per license. Tumors are difficult to see in
dense breast tissue, so women with dense breasts may need tests
beyond a screening mammogram. Equipped with Hologic Quantra
software, the radiologists will be able to measure tissue density and
make appropriate recommendations as to which women may need
an additional test. An estimated 40 percent of women have dense
breast tissue.
Over the next year, 50 Atrium Society members
contributed and raised $60,000 for this purpose.
IN SEPTEMBER 2015, ALL OF THE
CHARACTERS IN OUR STORY INTERSECTED.
As the Atrium Society’s campaign was winding down, the
Foundation received notice regarding the estate of John and Betty
Warren. In keeping with the couple’s wishes, a gift of $62,000 was
designated for Children’s Hospital, and $62,000 was designated for
the Cancer Centers. Because John Warren co-founded the Atrium
Society more than 20 years ago, the Cancer Centers leadership
agreed it was appropriate for the cancer contribution to be directed
to the Atrium Society.
The Warrens’ gift more than doubled the Atrium Society total,
bringing it to $122,000. This provided the Atrium Society’s
leadership with an opportunity to make a much bigger impact than
originally thought possible. Perhaps rather than purchasing only
three software licenses, we could upfit every mammography unit at
Palmetto Health. After all, that had been recognized as a dream early
on by Dr. Douglas Bull, the Breast Center’s medical director, at Pitts
Radiology. Upfitting all 15 units at once would allow the team to
maintain efficient patient flow, avoid adding unnecessary anxiety for
patients (which would be the case if the medical team had to move a
patient from one unit that wasn’t upfitted to one that was upfitted)
and, importantly, allow a consistent opportunity for reporting. To
upfit all units at every campus would require at least another $120,000.
REMEMBER MR. GEMALE, who after losing his wife to
cancer, decided to fund treatment and research to help others? And
Dr. Hoyt Bodie and Bernice Smith, those caregivers who inspired
Mr. Gemale by living Palmetto Health’s vision—to be remembered
by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for
ourselves—decades before it was ever uttered aloud?
Perhaps this was a perfect fit for the Gemale Cancer Fund, which had
been a source of funding for the Cancer Centers over the years. The
physician, Oncology nurse, hospital leaders and board members who
oversee use of the funds agreed. Palmetto Health Breast Center is now
moving forward with the purchase and installation of Hologic
Quantra licenses system-wide, marking a tremendous advancement
in the care that the Breast Center will be able to offer for women in
our community. To date, no other breast center in the Midlands is
providing this important service.
THE NEXT CHAPTER IS THE ONE THAT’S
STILL UNWRITTEN. IT’S THE HIGH POINT
OF OUR STORY—WHEN AN ESTIMATED
16,000 WOMEN WHO HAVE DENSE
BREAST TISSUE WILL RECEIVE BETTER
CARE. TO THE MANY AUTHORS OF THIS
STORY, THE LATE TOMMY GEMALE,
DR. HOYT BODIE, THE LATE BERNICE
SMITH, THE LATE JOHN AND BETTY
WARREN, CURT AND DONNA RONE AND
ALL MEMBERS OF THE ATRIUM SOCIETY,
WE SAY THANK YOU.
WHY BREAST DENSITY MATTERS
The ability to assess and measure breast tissue density
represents a promising advancement for Palmetto Health
Breast Center and ultimately, for the women the Breast
Center serves. The American College of Radiology
acknowledges that mammography alone may not be
enough to detect breast cancer in women with greater
breast density. However, until recently, radiologists
have not had a way to objectively measure breast tissue
density and make recommendations based on the density
score. Now, new technology such as Hologic ® Quantra™
is available to objectively and consistently assess and
measure breast tissue density. The technology is a software
application that is used with existing digital mammography
units and will allow radiologists to get an objective measure
of breast tissue density. This measurement will help the
radiologists determine which women are most likely to have
hidden tumors and may need additional diagnostic tests.
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Important dates!
Lights for Hospice
benefiting Palmetto Health Hospice and Palliative Care
through Dec. 2015
25th Walk for Life and Race for Life
benefiting Palmetto Health Breast Center
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016
Finlay Park
WalkForLifeColumbia.org
B106.7FM Children’s Hospital Radiothon
benefiting Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital
February 9-10, 2016
Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital
B106FM.com
University of South Carolina Dance Marathon
benefiting Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital
February 27, 2016
Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center
USCDM.org
KEMOPALOOZA
benefiting CAMP KEMO Programs, Palmetto Health Children’s
Hospital
March 11, 2016
EdVenture Children’s Museum
KEMOPALOOZA.org
Find out more at PalmettoHealthFoundation.org.
Portfolio
Editor: Ashley M. Dusenbury, APR
803-434-2738 | Ashley.Dusenbury@PalmettoHealth.org
Contributing writers: Amy Coward, APR, Fellow PRSA, Leah Peace,
Anna Saunders, Randy Branham
Photography thanks: Field Brabham, John Mann, Kimberly Campbell
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