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Pardee Hospital Foundation offers Making Rounds

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

It was another grand opportunity to visit Pardee through Pardee Hospital Foundation’s Making Rounds Tour where eight members of our community recently toured the hospital, starting first thing in the operating room.

Drs. Das and Mackel were generous in their time to share with our guests the orthopedic surgeries they were performing. Joe and Eileen from the day surgery crew also provided excellent information on processes in the surgical suites, the equipment the Foundation helped purchase, and data on Pardee’s low infection rates. Our guests also visited the new Comprehensive Wound Center to see the new hyperbaric chambers. Paul explained how oxygen therapy works and the types of patients who can benefit.

“I really liked observing surgery and the willingness of the staff to impart information to us,” said Ann N., one of the participants.

If you would like to participate in an upcoming Making Rounds tour, please contact the Foundation office at (828) 696-4666.

Women share stories of survival with Times-News

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Last Thursday, the three women recently named the 2011 Pardee Hospital Foundation Women of Hope spoke with the Time-News. They recieved this honor at the Pardee Foundation’s annual Women Helping Women events. You can find the entire article here.

Women of Hope

Pardee Hospital Foundation is pleased to honor women in our community for sharing their stories of courage, determination and will, as they have faced cancer and other diseases.

The Women of Hope display was created to highlight these very women. This display is a collection of over 30 photographic portraits, each with a personal statement. This display has grown over the years and is permanently housed in the lobby of Kayden Radiation Oncology Center and the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Center.

There are traveling exhibits in English and Spanish that are available for short-term display at area businesses and other locations. If you are interested in hosting the traveling exhibit, please email debbie.patrick@pardeehospital.org.

Pardee Hospital Foundation to host free Workshop for Professionals

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Pardee Hospital Foundation will host a Workshop for Professionals free of charge on Thursday, Nov. 3 from 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. at The Orchards at Broadmoor, located on Highway 280 in Fletcher.

Thomas S. Kaluzynski, M.D., F.A.C.P., with MemoryCare of Asheville, and Caroline T. Knox, J.D. with Van Winkle Law Firm will be speaking about ethics in elder care including normal cognitive aging and dementia, advance directives, Medicare and Medicaid, and special estate planning.

This workshop is designed to meet the standards of the NC State Board of CPA Examiners, the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards for continuing education credit, the standards of the N.C. Bar Board of Continuing Legal Education, and the NC Department of Insurance continuing education requirements. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and breakfast will be provided at no charge.

Registration is required and space is limited. To register for the Workshop for Professionals, please call the Pardee Hospital Foundation at (828) 696-4666 or email tracey.mcmahan@pardeehospital.org.

Pardee Hospital Foundation was established in 1996 to fund services, equipment and capital projects for Pardee Hospital. Pardee Foundation also serves as the charitable gift and grant receiving entity for Pardee Hospital. The foundation is dedicated to supporting excellence in healthcare through fundraising efforts. For more information, call the Pardee Foundation at (828) 696-4666.

Pardee Hospital Foundation’s Women Helping Women raises $130,000 for uninsured women in the local community

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Pardee Hospital Foundation hosted its annual Women Helping Women Luncheon on October 14 at Kenmure Country Club. Over 250 attendees came together to celebrate survivorship and to see how their collaborative gifts touch so many lives.

Pardee Foundation’s Women Helping Women Committee successfully raised over $130,000 from the generosity of 72 sponsors and attendees. The Pardee Hospital Auxiliary made a special gift with a generous contribution of $15,000. Other major gifts included Teddi Segal as Lead Sponsor, Mary Mason and Eleanora Meloun as Diamond Sponsors, and AVL Technologies, Carolina Village, Tom and Sue Fazio, Hendersonville Radiological Consultants, P.A., Lake Pointe Landing, Mission Healthcare Foundation, and UNC Health Care as Gold Sponsors. Women Helping Women funds will be used to provide financial assistance for uninsured women for their healthcare needs at Pardee Hospital. Specifically, these needs address diagnostic screenings and procedures for cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis and other critical women’s health needs.

This year, attendees saw first hand how their gifts had assisted women in our community. Committee Chair Sharon Koffman shared that since 1998, Pardee Foundation’s Women Helping Women Committee has raised over $1.6 million for equipment, facilities and services for uninsured women in our community. Nearly 1,000 women have received financial assistance from these funds for diagnostic treatments and procedures at Pardee. A video was also shown, featuring several fund recipients and various patients of Pardee services, highlighting the impact the Women Helping Women assistance has made.

Three women were recognized as the newest honorees in Women of Hope. Mary Taylor is a breast cancer survivor, Nancy Thomas survived a heart transplant, and Jean Steer survived both uterine and breast cancer. Pardee Hospital Foundation is pleased to honor women in our community for sharing their stories of courage, determination and will – as they have faced cancer and other diseases – in their lives and in the lives of their families. The Women of Hope is a community display honoring some of the women in our community who have experienced cancer and other women’s health issues. View these and other survivors by visiting the display at the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Center at Pardee’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The featured speaker, Jessica Melore, shared her inspirational story of overcoming adversity. A survivor of a massive heart attack, leg amputation, and cancer, she survived for nine months on an experimental battery-operated mechanical heart assist device before receiving a life-saving heart transplant. Jessica went on to graduate from Princeton University and was named one of Glamour magazine’s “Top 10 College Women of 2002″.

Workshop for Professionals

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

On Thursday, Nov. 3, Pardee Hospital Foundation is sponsoring a Workshop for Professionals.

This year’s offering is Ethics in ElderCare, and will be presented by Dr. Thomas Kalyuzinski from MemoryCare ofAsheville and Caroline T. Knox of Van Winkle Law Firm. The free event is scheduled from 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Orchard Restaurant located at Broadmoor Golf Links. Those attending can earn 2 hours of Continuing Education credit for CLE, CPA, CFP, and ICEC.

Fore more information, please visit www.pardeehospitalfoundation.org.

Pardee Hospital Foundation hosts annual Women Helping Women Events

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Pardee Hospital Foundation will host their annual Women Helping Women events Thursday, Oct. 13 and Friday, Oct. 14.

A meet the speaker dinner will be held Thursday, Oct. 13, at 5:30 p.m. at Kenmure Country Club where attendees can meet this year’s Women Helping Women featured speaker, Jessica Melore. Melore suffered a massive heart attack at age 16 that led to multiple health complications including a heart transplant. She is now an advocate for organ donation, heart disease, cancer, and disability awareness.

“Now that I’m 29, I can say that the adversity I’ve been through over the past 12 years has enriched my life in so many ways. My message to your community will be ‘don’t let any obstacle stand in your way’,” said Melore.

Melore has won several awards including the YMCA’s “Woman of Inspiration” and the New Jersey Transplant Association “Triangle Award” for “using the ‘gift of life’ to make a dramatic impact in and out of the transplant community”. Tickets for the meet the speaker dinner may be purchased for $100.

The Women Helping Women Luncheon will be held Friday, Oct. 14, at 11:30 a.m. at the Kenmure Country Club. The luncheon will include Jessica Melore as the featured speaker and the 2011 Women of Hope will be revealed. A diamond pendant, donated by Shelley’s Jewelry of Hendersonville and Hearts on Fire® will be offered. Tickets may be purchased for $25 at the dinner as well as the luncheon. The pendant will be on display at Shelley’s Jewelry of Hendersonville prior to the events. Tickets for the Women Helping Women Luncheon may be purchased for $125.

To purchase tickets for the meet the speaker dinner or the Women Helping Women Luncheon, or if you would like more information, please call the Pardee Hospital Foundation at 696-4666.

Article :: Pardee affiliation won’t affect foundation

Monday, September 26th, 2011

A letter from Lynn Matykiewicz, president of the Pardee Hospital Foundation Board of Directors, appeared on www.blueridgenow.com today. She writes about the foundation, its relationship to the hospital and details how the foundation will remain separate from the agreement with UNC Health Care.

Pardee Hospital Auxiliary

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Do you know who all those people walking around in blue jackets at Pardee are?

They are the Pardee Auxiliary – the hospital’s volunteers. They give countless hours of their time to the hospital. They run the gift store, deliver newspapers to patients and so much more. Not only do they give of their time, they give monetarily. They just gave $10,000 in scholarship funds to Blue Ridge Community College nursing school, and $15,000 to the Foundation’s Women Helping Women.

Thank you to the Pardee Auxiliary for all that you do for our community hospital.

See a letter to the editor from one of our Auxilians about a high schooler who volunteered at the hospital this summer.

Interested in joining the Auxiliary, click here for more information.

Pardee Hospital Foundation names Healthcare Philanthropist of the Year

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Pardee Hospital Foundation named Kenneth Youngblood as its 2011 Healthcare Philanthropist of the Year at the annual donor recognition event held at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher on June 23.

Pardee Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors presents this award each year to a member of the community that has made an outstanding contribution to Pardee Hospital, the Pardee Hospital Foundation and for the improvement of the community’s healthcare. The recipient acts as an advocate for philanthropy and perpetuates giving within the community. Past winners of this award include Marcia Caserio, L. Howard Carl, Jr., Bob and Doris Eklund, Colin Thomas, M.D., Grace Vineyard, Phillip Sellers, M.D., and Dorothy (Dot) Marlow. The award was presented to Youngblood by Dot Marlow.

In selecting this year’s award recipient, previous winners of the award recognized Youngblood’s community work and unprincipled support of healthcare. Youngblood has served the community as a driving force at Bruce Drysdale Elementary School where he raised community knowledge of the nurse to child ratio and drew attention to ways in which health programs in schools could improve academic performance. His efforts led to the school health clinic that is still located at Bruce Drysdale Elementary School.

Youngblood was also the recipient of the Community Foundation of Henderson County’s Sauer Award, and is a founding board member of Carolina Village in which he has continued to support for the past 35 years. He was also involved in Pardee and Western Carolina University’s “Integrative Initiative for Aging”.

The Prince, Youngblood, and Massagee Law Firm was recognized as the “Best Geriatric Practice of Law” in 2004 for it’s commitment in educating adults on the importance of later life planning. Youngblood also served as Counselor to the North Carolina State Bar for the 29^th Judicial District from 1972-1983 and is a Life Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. His pro-bono legal work has also helped many organizations, including Henderson County Schools, Carolina Village and the Community Foundation.

“I think he is that ‘wise one’ who serves as the conscience of the community, drawing attention to the inequities in the lack of access in healthcare. He has always used his respected stature to reach those of influence locally and beyond in an effort to enhance the health and well-being of young and old alike in Henderson County,” said Marcia Caserio.

Pardee Hospital Foundation’s annual donor recognition event is held as a way of thanking the donors who support Pardee. Since its inception in 1996, Pardee Foundation raised over $26 million in charitable gifts to assist Pardee services. The event was supported through sponsorships from Pardee Hospital Foundation and lead sponsors First Citizens Bank and Frankie Bones Restaurant. Additional contributions were made by Edward Jones, Carolina Village, the Fazio family, Chris, Judy and Desiree Ricker, TD Bank, Lake Point Landing, the Law Office of Lenbensburger & Gilreath, PLLC, Mountain Home Care and Geriatric Care Management, Economy Drugs, Times-News, Shelley’s Jewelry, and An English Flower Cottage.