November / December 2012

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is continually bringing new physicians, services and technology to the Big Bend so patients in this region can receive needed care close to home. Recently, TMH experienced particularly significant growth in the areas of cardiovascular and neurovascular services, opening two new laboratories and introducing revolutionary treatment options to the region.

The first of these expansions occurred in August when TMH opened a new electrophysiology (EP) lab, enhancing diagnostic and treatment options for patients with heart arrhythmias. The lab is equipped with advanced x-ray, 3-D mapping and recording technology that will make it easier for physicians to both diagnose and treat arrhythmias, helping to decrease patients’ risk factors for stroke, additional heart rhythm problems and heart failure.

TMH took another step forward in enhancing cardiac care with the introduction of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, a minimally invasive procedure for aortic stenosis. Patients with this condition experience a narrowing of the aortic valve, which limits blood flow to the heart and can cause shortness of breath, fainting, chest pain, and even sudden death. TAVR offers an alternative treatment option for patients who suffer from aortic stenosis but would be considered inoperable or high-risk candidates for open heart surgery.

In addition to these advances in heart and vascular services, Tallahassee Memorial has also made significant strides in neurovascular care, opening a new state-of-the-art neurovascular suite and also welcoming fellowship-trained neurovascular surgeon Matthew Lawson, MD.

TMH is now the first and only center in the area to offer treatment for intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVM), and endovascular intervention for acute stroke. Until now, patients who presented with these conditions required transport to Jacksonville, Gainesville or Tampa. The new neurovascular service offerings at TMH have dramatically improved the level of care available locally for patients with cerebrovascular disorders and include the ability to perform both open surgical procedures and minimally invasive neurovascular procedures that do not require an incision to the head.

Tallahassee Memorial’s first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) patient, Eunice Sloat, surrounded by members of her care team. From left to right: Wayne Batchelor, MD; Eric Henry; Stacy Etheridge, RN; Nicole Robertson, RN; Angie Colwell, RN; Eunice Sloat, patient; Leah Corley; Ann Valentine, RN; Mary Lu Williams, RN; Jim Totten, MD; Gary James; Linda Johnson, Manager of Cath Lab; Carter Brown; Shafi Mohamed, MD; Julian Hurt, MD; Tom Noel, MD; Holt Sanders, CRNA; and Penny Burroughs, RN, Valve Clinic Coordinator.

TMH Expands Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Care for the Big Bend

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Although Tallahassee Memorial’s latest expansions reach across many areas of medicine, the singular goal is to provide the highest quality of care. With new physicians and

technology, more treatment options are available in this region than ever before -- meaning a greater number of people can receive the care they need right here in Tallahassee.

Neurosurgeon Matthew Lawson, MD, stands in Tallahassee Memorial’s newly constructed Siemens biplane site where he performs both traditional neurovascular procedures and minimally invasive operations through an artery in the leg.

Designed with leading edge treatment capabilities for heart arrhythmias, the new electrophysiology (EP) lab is part of a comprehensive, multi-million-dollar expansion in the TMH Heart and Vascular Center that includes equipment upgrades, service expansions and a focus on acquiring additional specialists and clinical staff.

Judy Wilson Sheridan and Michael Sheridan are successful business owners. Since 1992, Judy has been the Owner/President of Wilson Realty and a Past President and Realtor of the Year of the Tallahassee Board of Realtors. Mike is founder of four companies, the Chairman of the Board of Fringe Benefit Management Company and has been in the insurance business for almost 50 years. They have called Tallahassee home for more than 30 years.

In 2011, Mike was diagnosed with cancer and the couple had to decide where to obtain the best treatment. Judy said, “We have always been secure in our knowledge that TMH would be a competent and caring medical facility so Mike received his treatments at Tallahassee Memorial.” Mike and Judy were impressed with the physicians, staff and the facility and wanted a way to show their appreciation. After discussing their options, they decided to make a donation to the TMH Foundation for the Cancer Center. “We gave,” said Mike, “because we were grateful for the wonderful care that I received during my successful cancer treatment. The staff was most caring and we realized that without contributions from members of the community, the Cancer Center is unable to advance its goals and be the premier facility for cancer treatment in the region.”

The Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center opened its new first floor outpatient center and Healing Garden on the TMH campus in January 2011. The second floor with the Cancer & Hematology Specialists clinic and a new, larger infusion suite opened in July 2012. Paula Fortunas, President/CEO of the TMH Foundation said, “The new second floor will offer further ‘naming opportunities’ for donors to support TMH.” Please contact Janet Borneman at the TMH Foundation 850.431.4048 or janet.borneman@tmh.org for more information on donations to benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center.

MIKE AND JUDY SHERIDAN Benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center

Mike and Judy Sheridan stand before the room that will bear their names in the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center.

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The Junior League of Tallahassee Makes COPE Donation

The Junior League of Tallahassee (JLT) celebrated the beginning of the 2012-2013 League year with an exciting and inspirational event that included a $7,200 charitable gift to the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation for the Tallahassee Memorial Pediatric Services COPE program -- Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment. COPE is a new program implemented within Pediatric Services – the first of its kind in a pediatric unit in the United States.

“The JLT is so excited about the fantastic year we have planned, including new community projects, partnerships — like this one with TMH to help launch an amazing new program — and the formation of our first-ever community Advisory Committee, ” said Jill Pope, JLT President. “These new endeavors will allow us to continue our focus on creating school success in Tallahassee and be the perfect complement to our signature community events.”

The Tallahassee Memorial Pediatric Services COPE team will include the unit Nurse Manager, Assistant Managers, Pediatric Nurses, TMH Child Life Specialist and a trained intern. The team will use medical play kits, puppets, children’s books and pinwheels as a form of therapy for hospitalized children, as well as train parents on how to support their child with play post-hospitalization. Pediatric Services Nurse Manager Kim Outlaw explained the benefits of the program, “Long-term benefits of fostering medical play for pediatric patients include greater adaptability, reduced stress and fewer overall negative behaviors before, during and after treatment.”

The TMH Foundation, Tallahassee Memorial Pediatric Services and the Junior League of Tallahassee have a history of partnering for the benefit of hospitalized children and their families at TMH. In addition to the $7,200 gift for COPE, the League provided a $10,000 donation in 2010 for the Tallahassee Memorial Pediatric Services Waiting Area resulting in more comfortable surroundings for families of hospitalized children. In 2011, the League created beautifully painted ocean themed ceiling tiles to

decorate the Pediatric Unit Treatment Room. And, each year since 2006, the League has offered the October Pumpkin Palooza day of fun for children at TMH. During Pumpkin Palooza, toys and goody bags are distributed and League members spend several hours in the playroom with patients. In 2007, the League donated $1,000 for the PC Pal laptop program for pre-teens and teenagers hospitalized at TMH. With the PC Pal, these young patients learn about relevant medical procedures and can communicate via e-mail with others who have the same illnesses.

According to Paula Fortunas, TMH Foundation President/CEO, “The TMH Foundation is profoundly grateful to the Junior League of Tallahassee for its support and generosity in providing this wonderful gift to establish the COPE Program for the children and families served by Tallahassee Memorial Pediatric Services. Judi Taber, TMH Foundation Annual Giving Officer, concluded, “The COPE Program will be enormously beneficial by offering parents the education and tools needed to use medical play as a form of therapy during their child’s hospital stay and after discharge, while recovering in their own home.”

Left to Right: Gil Ziffer, Tallahassee City Commissioner; Judi Taber, TMHF Annual Giving Officer; Paula Fortunas, TMHF President/CEO; Jessica Bahorski, TMH Pediatric Services Clinical Specialist; Kim Outlaw, TMH Pediatric Services Nurse Manager; Jill Pope JLT President; Nancy Click, JLT; Marissa Gajos, FSU Intern in TMH Pediatric Services; Nancy Blum-Heintz, JLT.

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On October 1, Florida State University and the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation held a joint press conference where Monk Bonasorte, Senior Associate FSU Athletics Director, announced that the Florida State University Women’s athletics teams are once again joining forces with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and the TMH Foundation for the fourth annual “Paint It Pink” campaign to benefit the Tallahassee Memorial Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Health Center.

During the 2012-2013 seasons, each of Florida State’s 10 women’s athletics programs will host games and/or other “Pink” events to raise money for the Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Health Center. Maye Walker, a breast cancer survivor and mother-in-law of the late Sharon Ewing Walker, thanked the coaches and staff “for involving these young women athletes in community, charitable work. You are teaching them valuable life lessons on how they can make a difference in the lives of others.” Paula Fortunas, President/CEO of the TMH Foundation added, “The FSU women-student-athletes are a credit to their generation and a tribute to the philanthropic spirit and the strong partnership between FSU and TMH.”

Matt Sherer, Administrator of Tallahassee Memorial’s Oncology Service Line, noted that “over the first three years of the “Paint It Pink” campaign, FSU Women’s Athletics programs have raised over $30,000 which has been used toward acquisition of cutting edge technology in the Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Health Center.”

In addition to the “Pink” games and events, pink shirts will be sold at each “Paint It Pink” game and other venues. Also, online auctions will be held at Seminoles.com and will feature “Pink” themed memorabilia including game-worn jerseys.

For more information about “Paint It Pink,” please contact either Nicole Haves at nhaves@fsu.edu or 850.644.8623 or visit Seminoles.com/genrel/paintitpink.html or Janet Borneman at janet.borneman@tmh.org or 850.431.4048.

“PAINT IT PINK” for the Tallahassee Memorial Sharon Ewing

Walker Breast Health Center

Left to right, front: Chris Poole, Head Coach FSU Women’s Volleyball; Paula Fortunas,President/CEO, TMHF; Danalee Corso, Head Coach, FSU Women’s Sand Volleyball; Janet Borneman, Planned Giving Director, TMHF; Morgan Toles, FSU Women’s Basketball Team; Craig Snider, Assistant FSU Women’s Softball Coach; Mark Marple, Major Gifts Officer, TMHF; Maye Walker, Breast Cancer Survivor and TMH Volunteer; Neil Harper, Head Coach, FSU Swimming & Diving; Mark Krikorian, Head Coach, FSU Women’s Soccer; Matt Sherer, TMH Oncology Service Line Administrator; Monk Bonasorte, Senior Associate Director of Athletics.

Chrome Divas 11th Annual Poker Run for A Woman’s Place at TMH The Chrome Divas of Tallahassee, a local women’s motorcycle group, hosted the 11th annual Breast Cancer Poker Run on Sunday, October 7, 2012. The Poker Run began at Capital City Harley Davidson on Capital Circle Northwest with the first bikes out at 9:30 a.m., last bike out at 10:30 a.m. and ending with lunch, festivities, music and prizes at the K and K Fish Camp on Lake Iamonia.

The Divas traditionally stage a “Fight Against Breast Cancer Poker Run”on the first Sunday of October -- to benefit A Woman’s Place at Tallahassee Memorial. Since 2001, the Chrome Divas have served as an enthusiastic fund-raising organization advocating support, education and counseling for women in the community diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jill Soderberg, 2012 Chrome Divas and Poker Run Director, explained the Divas passion for helping the breast cancer patients served by A Woman’s Place, “It continues to be a joy and pleasure for the Chrome Divas of Tallahassee to partner with the TMH Foundation and A Woman’s Place to benefit women in the local community diagnosed with or recovering from breast cancer who need support. Many members of the club have family, friends or have experienced themselves the diagnosis of breast cancer and understand how important it is to have resources before, during and after treatment.”

In 2007, the Tallahassee Chrome Divas organization was recognized as the outstanding fund-raising organization in this region by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in celebration of National Philanthropy Day for the Divas’ work on behalf of women with breast cancer and pediatric patients with diabetes.

A Woman’s Place at Tallahassee Memorial is an accredited facility which provides breast prosthesis, mastectomy bras and post surgical garments for women who have had mastectomies, lumpectomies, reconstruction or other breast surgeries. Certified Mastectomy Fitters provide personal and private fittings. Other products available are compression garments for those diagnosed with Lymphedema, and a variety of hats, wigs and skin care for those who are receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The staff at A Woman’s Place provides services and care in a warm, friendly environment.

According to Sherry Kendrick, A Woman’s Place Manager, “A Woman’s Place continues to be very grateful for funding received from proceeds of the Chrome Divas Poker Run, providing help for those women who do not have insurance or are under-insured and in need of breast prosthesis, mastectomy bras and compression garments.”

Chrome Divas Pat Kossmann, Kika Falomo, and Georgie Reffner prepare to serve lunch for Poker Run riders at K and K Fish Camp.

Poker Run participants are riding in to K and K Fish Camp to enjoy festivities and games.

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On September 26, 2012, representatives of Florida State University, Powers Device Technologies, Inc., Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and the TMH Foundation gathered in the TMH Women’s Pavilion to celebrate Powers Device Technologies’ donation of a Pacifier Activated Lullaby (PAL®) for the critically ill infants served by Tallahassee Memorial Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

The PAL® is a medical device invented by Dr. Jayne Standley, a Florida State University Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Music Therapy and the Ella Scoble Opperman Professor of Music and internationally-acclaimed researcher. Dr. Standley’s innovative device uses musical lullabies to help premature babies overcome one of their greatest growth hurdles — learning how to suck and feed. Research studies, such as the ones conducted at TMH, have shown that PAL® can reduce the length of a premature infant’s hospital stay by an average of five days.

“PAL® has been a decade in the making and would never have been possible without the partnership and support of TMH, the TMH Foundation and the hospital’s state-of-the-art NICU,” said Dr. Standley. “The hospital’s willingness to open its doors to my research has helped many premature babies get a healthier, quicker and stronger start on life, and I could not imagine a better home for one of these devices.” The device is on the market through a partnership with Powers Device Technologies, Inc.

“The medical music therapy partnership between FSU and TMH commenced in 1999 and, under the direction of Dr. Standley, it has become a model program for clinical practice, education, training and research – one of the most innovative in the world,” according to Paula Fortunas, President/CEO of the TMH Foundation. “TMH is profoundly grateful to Dr. Standley for her life-saving research and for the patient centered music therapy interventions she has introduced. And, of course, our gratitude extends to Powers Device Technologies’ generous gift of the new PAL® and especially to Powers’ leader, the forward-thinking and remarkable Kathleen Lovell. “

“The PAL® technology represents a life-altering experience for these very vulnerable infants and it also serves to reduce their hospital length of stay and their readmission rates – both measurable and real cost savings to the hospital,”

said P. Kathleen Lovell, President and CEO of Powers Device Technologies. “I am honored to donate one of our PAL® units to such a talented and dedicated NICU and look forward to hearing about their successes with the device in the years to come.”

TMH offers the only Level III (highest designation) NICU in a 20-county area of North Florida and South Georgia. The NICU supports 32 beds, including a 19-bed intensive care unit and a 13-bed intermediate care unit. There are also four “nesting rooms” for families to use prior to taking their babies home. More than 650 infants annually are admitted to the NICU and their stays can range from one day to weeks. “In the TMH NICU, we often see babies improve their sucking and feeding skills after only a session or two with the PAL,” explained Linda Frimmel, RNC, BSN, NICU Nurse Manager. “Improvement in feedings is a contributing factor to a sooner discharge home.”

A Real PAL® for NICU Babies at TMH

FSU’s Dr. Jayne Standley, Linda Frimmel NICU Nurse Manager and Jeff Ahsinger, Interim Women’s and Children’s Service Line Administrator

Miriam Hillmer, Coordinator of Medical Music Therapy at Tallahassee Memorial, expresses thanks for gift of PAL®.

Kathleen Lovell, Powers Device Technologies President/CEO, describes the Florida manufactured PAL® and salutes the dedication, commitment and collaborative caring of the NICU staff at Tallahassee Memorial.

Traditionally, as the year draws to a close, the TMH Foundation expresses its gratitude for your generosity and offers gift-planning information for your consideration with your family and professional advisors. And, 2012, is no

exception. Your kind and generous acts and gifts have again positively influenced the hospital and the care of its patients and their families. TMH is profoundly grateful to you, one and all.

While taxes are rarely the primary motivation for a charitable gift, tax considerations may influence the size, timing and form that a gift takes. Consequently, there are four year-end questions each of us would do well to consider as we wrap up our 2012 financial matters.

What is my tax situation for 2012? If your income has been particularly high this year and you expect it will decline, you might consider increased giving before December 31 and even make some of your 2013 gifts in advance to capture this year’s tax benefits. Counter to this strategy is the acknowledgment that – if tax rates increase, the charitable deduction will be greater provided, of course, that none of the presently-entertained Congressional charitable deduction limitations are enacted.

Do I expect my income to increase in 2013? Knowing that maximum federal tax rates are scheduled to rise in 2013 from 36.4 to 41.9 percent, you may want to take the extra income in 2012. The Medicare surtax on investment income is effective in January 2013 and this will impact those with adjusted gross incomes exceeding $200,000 for single tax payers and $250,000 for those who are married. The top federal tax rate on investment income from interest, rent and dividends is currently 35 percent and is scheduled to be 43.4 percent in 2013. There are also major estate and gift tax implications for 2013 that should be contemplated in your planning.

Have I taken my required minimum distribution? Anyone over age 70 1/2 can consider taking an excess distribution now when the top tax rate is below what it is scheduled to be in 2013. This will also have the effect of reducing future distributions and the accompanying taxes.

With so much uncertainty, should I delay my contributions to 2013? The contents of this article are based on the federal tax structure as it exists on October 1, 2012. Be vigilant in your contact with your professional advisors with respect to any Congressional action that may affect your 2012 gift and financial planning and please know that the TMH Foundation will also welcome your inquiries.

The U. S. Congress will not reconvene until after the November 6 election. At that time, it may address a number of the current areas of uncertainty with respect to federal tax rates and associated matters along with six important tax incentives to charitable giving that expired on December 31, 2011. Congress has re-enacted these lapsed provisions in the past, sometimes retroactively. The most popular of the lapsed six is the charitable IRA Rollover followed by favorable basis adjustment to stock of S corps making contributions, enhanced deductions for food inventory gifts, book inventory gifts, corporate gifts of qualified research and computer technology and special benefits for conservation gifts.

Now, a reminder – December 31 is the last day to make a contribution for which you may claim a 2012 income tax charitable deduction. If mailed, gift checks must be postmarked by December 31 and the deadline for on-line donations is 11:59 p.m. on December 31. To make gifts other than cash, such as securities or real property or to discuss a gift within your estate plan, please call or e-mail the Foundation – contact information appears below.

Note: The contents of this article and any materials you request and receive from the TMH Foundation are general in nature and are not intended as either legal, financial or tax advice. You should consult your own professional advisor(s) before making a final decision with respect to gift plans and agreements.

Paula S. FortunasPresident/CEO

TMH Foundation

Year-End Generosity, Gratitude and Questions

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