$1.5 million per month. For six consecutive years. On

average, this is how generously the community has sup-

ported our vision of improving care and treatment options

for patients throughout our region.

I am pleased to announce that our patients, friends,

employees and physicians have con-

tributed over $112 million to support

patient care throughout the Swedish

system. With just over seven months

remaining in The Campaign for

Swedish, the community continues

to respond with generous gifts to

support the important work each of

you do on a daily basis.

This incredible response from

the community — more than 50,000 people in all — is a

testament to the outstanding care provided by each and

every employee at Swedish. Because we recognize that the

success of the Campaign is tied directly to the exceptional

care provided at the bedside, the Swedish Foundation is

launching an innovative new Honor Your Caregiver program

that will allow grateful patients to celebrate anyone at

Swedish who has made a difference in their care and healing.

You can read more about this exciting new program on the

final page of this issue of Campaign Update.

In addition, you will also be able to learn more about

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how our two most recent successful events, Destination

Swedish and Celebrate Swedish, have helped expand and

create important new programs at Swedish. Destination

Swedish, held in February, raised nearly $500,000 to

expand our RN Residency Program. Celebrate Swedish,

held on April 27th, generated over

$2.6 million to support the creation

of the new Lytle Center for Preg-

nancy & Newborns and $700,000

for charity care.

During the final seven months

of the Campaign — known as “The

Campaign Homestretch” — we will

continue to seek gifts to support a

wide-range of programs and prior-

ities throughout Swedish. We hope you take great pride

in knowing that the care you provide to patients and

their families continues to generate important philan-

thropic support that will be reinvested in the health of

our community.

Don TheophilusExecutive Director, Swedish Foundation

“This incredible response

from the community — more

than 50,000 people in all —

is a tes tament to the

outs tanding care provided

by each and every

employee at Swedish.”

Don Theophilus

Spring 2013

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On April 27, 2013, more than 800 guests and numerous

volunteers joined together at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel for

Celebrate Swedish 2013. Chaired by Foundation Board mem-

bers Sarah Everitt, Jessica Hughes and Tracy Morris, guests

enjoyed an evening of silent and live auc-

tions, dinner, dancing and entertainment.

Swedish’s largest annual fundraising event,

the gala raises funds to support Swedish’s

charity care program and a Fund-A-Need

project selected each year.

The Fund-A-Need project for Cele-

brate Swedish 2013 was the new Lytle Center for Pregnancy &

Newborns, a unique community resource soon to be opened

at Swedish/First Hill. This 5,000 square-foot space will pro-

vide an array of care and support services that enable Swedish

to provide comprehensive care to mothers and their new-

borns that begins during pregnancy and continues through

Celebrate Swedish: Helping to get familiesoff to the best possible start

the first days and months of a new baby’s life. In addition, the

Lytle Center will serve as a warm and welcoming community

gathering place, offering educational programs, fitness acti-

vities and support groups to new families.

Thanks to generous support from cor-

porate and community donors, Celebrate

Swedish 2013 raised $2.6 million for The

Lytle Center for Pregnancy & Newborns,

and $700,000 for charity care, which offers

free or discounted hospital services for

people who cannot afford care. Special

thanks to Chuck and Karen Lytle, Dr. Charles and Lisa

Simonyi, Pediatrix/Obstetrix, and Mark and Sarah Everitt,

whose generous leadership gifts have helped to make The

Lytle Center for Pregnancy & Newborns a reality.

Thank you to everyone who donated their time and re-

sources to make Celebrate Swedish a success!

As the Fund-A-Need project for Celebrate Swedish, $2.6 million was raised to help make The Lytle Center for Pregnancy & Newborns a reality.

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Celebrate Swedish Committee Co-chairs:(from left) Sarah Everitt, Tracy Morris, Jessica Hughes.

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Campaign giftsimprove and expandpatient care programs

All philanthropic gifts generated in support of Swedish count towards The Campaign for Swedish. Below are several recent gifts that are making Swedish both “the best place to receive care” and the “best place to work.”

$185,000 from Nancy andDavid Auth, PhD to benefit SHVI and SSF

David and Nancy Auth made a gift of $185,000 to support the development of cardiovascular emerging technology and to further clinical education at the Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute and the Seattle Science Foundation.

$39,000 from glassybabysupports cancer patients

glassybaby, maker of hand-made glass votives, made a giftof nearly $39,000 to support Swedish’s Cancer Patient Assist-ance Fund. This donation was funded through their Decembersales at their Bellevue store. The oncology social work team atSwedish uses this fund in special cases where money is neededto help meet non-medical needs and expenses of Swedish patients and their families.

Scott Swerland and Seattle SunTanScott Swerland, CEO of Seattle SunTan and Desert SunTan

and Board member of The Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research made a gift of more than $30,000 to the Rivkin Center and The Campaign for Swedish at the end of 2012.

Inspired by Babs Fisher who lost her fight against ovarian cancer in 2004, Scott chairs the annual Rivkin Center auction procurement committee and donates his marketing expertise to the organization. He also actively engages his staff in livelycompetitions that give back through the Rivkin Center.

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The inauguralDestination Swedish

a huge successThe inaugural Destination Swedish luncheon was held

at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel on Monday, February 11th,

with Foundation Board member Lorna Kneeland and her

husband, Jim, and Campaign Leadership Council member

Jan Sinegal and her husband, Jim, serving as co-chairs.

Thanks to generous giving from the 600 guests in atten-

dance, event sponsors, and other donors, nearly $500,000

was raised for the RN Residency Program at Swedish.

The RN Residency Program draws on — and improves

on — current best practices for training recent RN gradu-

ates. The goal of the program is to retain newly hired RNs

and help them become the skilled and dedicated career

nurses for which Swedish is known. It achieves this goal by

providing them with mentoring and specialized training

during their first two years of clinical care, much like the

training physicians receive during their residencies.

The funds raised at Destination Swedish will help meet

the estimated $1 million cost of creating a dedicated, state-

of-the-art Learning Center for the program. This completely

remodeled space, to be located at the Cherry Hill campus,

will include classroom space and a Nursing Simulation Lab.

The 2014 event is scheduled for Tuesday, February 11

at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. We hope you will join us!

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a life.

Foundation launchesHonor Your Caregiver program

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Campaign UpdateSwedish Medical Center

Campaign Update is published quarterly for the employees of Swedish Medical Center by the Swedish Medical Center Foundation. We welcome your comments and sug-gestions. Please contact Randy Mann, Senior DirectorCampaign, at 206-386-6791.

Rod Hochman, M.D.Marcel LohCharles LytleKaren LytleHoward Maron, M.D.John N. NordstromJanet SinegalJohn H. Vassall II, M.D.

Lucius Andrew IIINancy J. Auer, M.D.Lida BucknerDeborah CrabbeAnne GittingerWayne GittingerCheryl Gossman

Swedish CampaignLeadership CouncilKirby McDonald, co-chair

David Sabey, co-chairJanet True, co-chair

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Every Swedish employee is impacting a patient’s care,

and so many of us choose to be at Swedish to make

a difference in patients’ lives. Whether you

help patients with their billing questions,

make their meals, prepare their medication,

diagnose their ailment, or are at the bedside admin-

istering medicine, you help shape that patient’s

experience with Swedish.

And patients are grateful. As they heal physically, part

of their emotional healing is to say ‘thank you’ to the care-

givers that made a significant impact on their health. The

best way for a patient to thank a caregiver, or Swedish as

an institution, is to make a gift to the Swedish Medical

Center Foundation.

In gratitude and celebration of Swedish caregivers,

who have inspired more than 50,000 philanthropic

gifts over the last seven years, the Foundation has

launched an Honor Your Caregiver program,

for patients to channel their appreciation.

Caregivers will be recognized among their peers

for the important role they played in making our patients’

experiences better.

Thank you to all Swedish caregivers for making such

a significant difference in our patients’ lives!

RoseYates, RNC, BSN

Family Childbirth Center

PeterNora, M.D.

Medical Staff MarinoCampos

Environmental Services

TamishaCooper

Cardiology