REDEFINING BOUNDARIES - Geisinger Health System
REDEFINING BOUNDARIES - Geisinger Health System
REDEFINING BOUNDARIES - Geisinger Health System
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<strong>REDEFINING</strong> <strong>BOUNDARIES</strong><br />
<strong>Geisinger</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> will celebrate its 100th<br />
anniversary in September 2015 with the completion of<br />
its $150 million Centennial Campaign.<br />
The comprehensive campaign offers unprecedented<br />
opportunities to partner with us in redefining the future<br />
of healthcare for the Wyoming Valley and surrounding<br />
regions.<br />
There are many ways to contribute — cash gifts; gifts<br />
in kind; named funds or endowments; artwork or<br />
personal property; real estate; appreciated securities or<br />
mutual funds; planned gifts, such as charitable gift<br />
annuities, charitable lead trusts, retirement or life<br />
insurance plans, and charitable bequests. With lasting<br />
gratitude, <strong>Geisinger</strong> stewards all gifts – of any amount –<br />
with care.<br />
Although many generous supporters have already<br />
contributed to the campaign, there is still much to do to<br />
ensure success and greater accessibility to quality care.<br />
Named funds may be started with gifts of $10,000<br />
and above, and named endowment funds may be<br />
established with gifts of $25,000 and above, to<br />
support these priority programs and services:<br />
Exceptional patient care<br />
Education of the next generation of<br />
care givers<br />
Cutting-edge research and new discovery<br />
No one should have to go far from home to get<br />
specialized care at the very time the comfort of loved<br />
ones and familiar surroundings is most important. GWV’s<br />
expansion will address the growing demand for advanced<br />
healthcare in the Wyoming Valley region.<br />
Investment in healthcare environments for<br />
the 21 st century<br />
Many capital naming opportunities are available from<br />
$25,000 to $20 million and will support the <strong>Geisinger</strong><br />
Wyoming Valley Medical Center Expansion and<br />
existing facilities.<br />
100 North Academy Avenue<br />
Danville, Pennsylvania 17822-4020<br />
570-271-6461 geisinger.org/100<br />
Advances in medicine and medical technology are<br />
yielding better health outcomes throughout our lives, but<br />
older patients are especially likely to benefit from highly<br />
specialized care. Because the average age of Luzerne<br />
County residents is twenty-four percent older than the<br />
state’s residents overall, GWV wants to be sure we<br />
can provide the full range of services our families need.<br />
Your gift helps us look to the future of our community.
Women’s Imaging Center<br />
Beyond Traditional Specialties<br />
The region’s only comprehensive breast-care program<br />
GWV was the first hospital in the region to offer a<br />
has outgrown its current home in the Women’s<br />
Imaging Center. A much larger facility, conveniently<br />
located near the Henry Cancer Center, will provide<br />
hospitalist program: doctors available for patients<br />
around-the-clock and specialty trained in inpatient<br />
medicine. While we anticipated natural growth,<br />
GWV IS COMMITTED TO A PROACTIVE<br />
AND PREVENTIVE APPROACH FOR<br />
highly specialized diagnostic services in a comfortable,<br />
caring environment. The expanded Center will give<br />
our patients peace of mind and the confidence that<br />
they are receiving the most technologically advanced<br />
current facilities no longer support existing or<br />
anticipated hospitalist staffing. Third-floor renovations<br />
to the Valley Medical Building will enable our<br />
hospitalists to work more efficiently with other<br />
OPTIMUM HEALTH WITHIN OUR<br />
COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIC VITALITY<br />
THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST<br />
Building on Success<br />
Every element of the planned expansion supports<br />
<strong>Geisinger</strong>’s four key priorities — patient care,<br />
education, research, and building healthcare<br />
environments for the 21st century. GWV is proud to<br />
have the region’s only freestanding heart hospital,<br />
organ transplant program, trauma center, women’s<br />
heart and vascular health program, Luzerne County’s<br />
only neonatal intensive care unit, and Pennsylvania’s<br />
first eICU ® (electronic intensive care unit).<br />
The expansion will build on these important<br />
community resources, consistent with <strong>Geisinger</strong>’s longterm<br />
commitment to make it right, make it the best.<br />
Critical Care<br />
The renovation of the fifth floor of the Critical Care<br />
Building will ease an increasingly severe bed shortage.<br />
Each room in the new inpatient unit can flex from<br />
intensive care to progressive care, based on patient<br />
needs. This expanded capacity will improve care for<br />
those who are critically ill, as well as for postanesthesia<br />
medical/surgical patients and emergency<br />
room admissions. The Life Flight ® helipad will also be<br />
conveniently located just a few steps away, on the roof<br />
of the Critical Care Building, providing rapid access<br />
to sophisticated life support and critical care services.<br />
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Renovate the fifth floor of the Critical Care Building<br />
Create 24 acuity-adaptable inpatient rooms<br />
Provide one nurse server alcove for every two<br />
patient rooms, and two traditional nurse support<br />
stations<br />
Destination Neuroscience<br />
Our renowned neurology and neurosurgery<br />
specialists are now handling caseloads that more than<br />
double every three years. Proposed renovations will<br />
improve clinic access, workflow, patient wait times, and<br />
recruitment and education of specialists. Most<br />
important, this project will support the commitment<br />
of the <strong>Geisinger</strong> Neurosciences Institute to deliver<br />
patient-focused care of the highest quality and value.<br />
Updated facilities will allow innovative new treatments<br />
that optimize healing, sustain wellness, and improve<br />
the lives of the patients and families who entrust their<br />
health to <strong>Geisinger</strong>.<br />
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Renovate the first and second floors of the Valley<br />
Medical Building<br />
Revamp and refit 26 state-of-the-art examination<br />
rooms<br />
Create on-site neurodiagnostics capabilities<br />
Double the patient waiting area<br />
Add 14 private and shared physician offices<br />
Create contiguous workspace for 20 advanced<br />
practitioners and support personnel<br />
Investment: $1.05 million<br />
breast care services in the region.<br />
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Create an expanded Women’s Imaging Center with<br />
its own entrance and parking facilities<br />
Add dedicated PET-CT Scanner<br />
Investment: $3.8 million<br />
Short Stay Services<br />
Just a few short years ago, <strong>Geisinger</strong> South Wilkes-<br />
Barre (GSWB), a campus of <strong>Geisinger</strong> Wyoming Valley<br />
Medical Center, was transformed into an innovative<br />
healthcare complex providing high quality ambulatory,<br />
short stay, and same-day services, such as adult and<br />
pediatric urgent care. With today’s increased demand<br />
for inpatient capacity, new plans are underway for the<br />
next phase of GSWB renovation on the fifth floor of<br />
the patient tower which is currently vacant space.<br />
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Create new 14 inpatient bed unit for surgical stays of<br />
two days or less, and orthopaedic stays of three days<br />
or less<br />
Investment: $5.1 million<br />
healthcare teams to ensure continuity of care and the<br />
best possible patient outcomes.<br />
Our palliative care staff serves patients with lifelimiting<br />
or life-threatening illnesses. These specialists<br />
also work closely with members of all clinical services<br />
to aggressively manage pain and other problems<br />
associated with advanced illness. Your support for<br />
third-floor renovations will provide much-needed<br />
space for these patients and make it easier for friends<br />
and family to visit.<br />
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Renovate the third floor of the Valley Medical<br />
Building<br />
Create support offices, conference room, staff<br />
lounge, and on-call room<br />
Add 26 workstations for physicians and other<br />
practitioners<br />
Investment: Hospitalist Program & Palliative Care:<br />
$1.3 million<br />
Local Investment<br />
Your support for the GWV expansion contributes to<br />
the region’s economic strength as well as to the<br />
health of its people. GWV is already the secondlargest<br />
private sector employer in Luzerne County,<br />
and the expansion will generate hundreds of<br />
additional job opportunities and other investments<br />
that directly and indirectly contribute to the vitality of<br />
the local economy. In the past decade GWV has<br />
completed 162 projects in Plains Township, totaling<br />
$171.8 million, and at the end of 2012 there were 14<br />
projects underway, totaling over $29 million.<br />
Our integrated approach to healthcare is also a<br />
powerful attraction when we recruit new physicians,<br />
medical residents, and clinical research staff. In recent<br />
years, more than fifty percent of our medical resident<br />
graduates chose to stay and practice medicine in<br />
Pennsylvania.<br />
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Total economic benefit to Wyoming Valley region<br />
in 2010: $613 million<br />
<strong>Health</strong>care jobs added in the past three years:<br />
430, totaling over 3,500 <strong>Geisinger</strong> employees in<br />
Luzerne County<br />
PENNSYLVANIA.<br />
GWV Treasures<br />
Other exceptional programs and facilities need your ongoing<br />
support.<br />
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The Tambur Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the only NICU in<br />
Luzerne County, ensures convenient and highly specialized<br />
medical care for premature infants and critically ill newborns<br />
The Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center at <strong>Geisinger</strong><br />
Wyoming Valley is home to the region’s largest team of<br />
fellowship-trained cancer specialists and the latest care options,<br />
including clinical trials<br />
The Pearsall Heart Hospital, the region’s only accredited Chest<br />
Pain Center, provides 24-hour cardiac catheterization<br />
laboratories, advanced cardiac imaging, cardiac rehabilitation,<br />
Level 1 Heart Attack Program and cardiac clinical trials<br />
Our new orthopaedics facility is home to the region’s first and<br />
only Geriatric Fracture Program. GWV has officially earned The<br />
Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval Disease-Specific<br />
Care for Hip Fracture, Total Hip Replacement, and Total Knee<br />
Replacement<br />
Our Telemedicine Program offers live audiovisual consultations<br />
to patients who live in areas without easy access to <strong>Geisinger</strong><br />
physicians, in specialty areas such as neurology/stroke, pediatrics,<br />
and oncology<br />
The latest transplant services by expert surgeons are available at<br />
GWV — northeast Pennsylvania’s first and only Organ<br />
Transplant Program<br />
Marworth Treatment Center, located in Waverly, PA, is<br />
recognized as a national leader in alcohol and chemical<br />
Investment: $9.5 million<br />
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dependency treatment<br />
Community Practice Sites make GWV’s quality healthcare<br />
accessible for families in Dallas, Forty Fort, Hazleton, Kingston,<br />
Mountain Top, Pittston, Tunkhannock, Wilkes-Barre, and Wyoming