Caring PartnersFall 2012 - Mayo Clinic Health System
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Fall <strong>2012</strong><br />
<strong>Caring</strong> Partners<br />
Your gifts | Your impact | Our thanks<br />
High quality<br />
cancer care<br />
PAGE 2<br />
More than<br />
treating<br />
a disease<br />
PAGE 4<br />
Help for those<br />
who struggle<br />
PAGE 6<br />
How your support<br />
helps patients<br />
with cancer<br />
mayoclinichealthsystem.org/giving<br />
Franciscan <strong>Health</strong>care Foundation
Your gifts at work<br />
Cancer Center receives special recognition<br />
Your support of comprehensive care makes the difference<br />
“We’re really proud<br />
to have been<br />
recognized. But<br />
more important<br />
is achieving the<br />
high level of care<br />
required to earn<br />
the recognition.<br />
That’s what means<br />
the most to us and<br />
to our patients.”<br />
Diane Otte<br />
Director<br />
Cancer Center<br />
On the cover:<br />
Cancer survivor<br />
Bill Eddy with friend<br />
Petie, see page four.<br />
The Cancer Center at <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong><br />
<strong>System</strong> in La Crosse has achieved two<br />
commendations for providing high-quality,<br />
comprehensive cancer care — and it’s thanks<br />
in part to your support.<br />
Your charitable gifts allow staff in the<br />
Cancer Center to do much more than treat a<br />
disease. You help them heal mind, body and<br />
spirit by maintaining programs that address<br />
individual patient needs.<br />
“We’re really proud to have been<br />
recognized,” says Diane Otte, director of<br />
the Cancer Center. “But more important is<br />
achieving the high level of care required to<br />
earn the recognition. That’s what means the<br />
most to us and to our patients.”<br />
Earlier this year, the Cancer Center<br />
successfully completed all requirements<br />
and an onsite survey to achieve Quality<br />
Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI)<br />
certification. The American Society of<br />
<strong>Clinic</strong>al Oncology established the QOPI<br />
program to certify practices that meet the<br />
highest quality standards for cancer care.<br />
To become certified, practices must meet<br />
core standards in all areas of treatment,<br />
including treatment planning, chemotherapy<br />
preparation and administration, staff<br />
training and education, and monitoring and<br />
assessment of patient well-being.<br />
Currently, only 138 practices in the<br />
country have achieved this certification.<br />
In addition, the Cancer Center was<br />
granted an Outstanding Achievement<br />
Award by the American College of<br />
Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer. The<br />
award recognizes practices that demonstrate<br />
a “commendation level” of compliance in<br />
six areas, including clinical management,<br />
research, community outreach and quality<br />
improvement.<br />
The Cancer Center is one of just 13<br />
practices across the country to have earned<br />
the Outstanding Achievement Award in<br />
each of the three-year review periods since<br />
the program began in 2005.<br />
Your support of patient-centered<br />
programs helped make this recognition<br />
possible, and ensures that patients receive<br />
compassionate, individualized care.<br />
“Our staff is keenly aware of the<br />
importance of philanthropy in caring for<br />
our patients,” notes Otte. “We rely on<br />
Foundation funding to maintain important<br />
components of our program.”<br />
This issue of <strong>Caring</strong> Partners highlights<br />
Cancer Center programs made possible<br />
through your generosity. Thank you for the<br />
essential role you play in caring for patients<br />
with cancer.•<br />
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Your gifts at work<br />
Navigators help patients find their way<br />
New program launched thanks to your generosity<br />
Janet has just been told she may have cancer.<br />
She’s stunned. Fear wells up in her body.<br />
People are talking, but she can’t grasp<br />
what they’re saying. What was that about<br />
additional tests? Where do I need to go?<br />
Janet could use the help of a patient<br />
navigator.<br />
At the Cancer Center at <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong><br />
<strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> in La Crosse, patient<br />
navigators help support patients beginning<br />
with the diagnostic process and continuing,<br />
if needed, through treatment and beyond.<br />
Your gifts allowed the new program<br />
to be piloted earlier this year and fully<br />
implemented this fall. Cancer guide Marti<br />
Runyon and medical social worker Sue<br />
Newman have expanded their roles as<br />
patient navigators to help patients steer<br />
through a maze of details and decisions.<br />
“Diagnosing cancer can be a complex<br />
process,” says Runyon. “To ensure patients<br />
get the care and support they need, it’s<br />
important that someone be really connected<br />
to the patient experience from the start.”<br />
It begins with a phone call.<br />
“We call and introduce ourselves prior<br />
to their first appointment, then meet them<br />
at the door when they arrive. Patients<br />
appreciate connecting with someone<br />
before that first visit,” says Runyon.<br />
“We offer to stay with them through the<br />
entire appointment. Afterward, we follow<br />
up to answer questions, confirm future<br />
appointments and suggest referrals that<br />
might be beneficial. We’ll continue to support<br />
them throughout their care.”<br />
Patient navigator programs in the United<br />
States began as a way to address disparities<br />
in care experienced by disadvantaged<br />
groups. But even the most well-informed<br />
and well-insured patients can benefit from a<br />
navigator’s help.<br />
“Patients are stressed,” notes Runyon.<br />
“Their doctors have given them a lot<br />
of information. There are multiple<br />
appointments to be scheduled, insurance<br />
forms to be completed and decisions to be<br />
made. It can be overwhelming for anyone.”<br />
Cancer centers offering patient navigation<br />
programs have seen dramatic results.<br />
Patients miss fewer appointments, make<br />
fewer trips to the emergency department<br />
and have fewer and shorter hospitalizations.<br />
They also report much greater satisfaction<br />
with their care.<br />
“We want patients to know they are<br />
not alone. This is a difficult time for<br />
them. We’re here to make sure they get<br />
the support they need, and the best<br />
care possible,” says Runyon.•<br />
Sue Newman<br />
Medical social worker<br />
Marti Runyon<br />
Cancer guide<br />
“To ensure patients get the care and support they need,<br />
it’s important that someone be really connected to the<br />
patient experience from the start.”<br />
Marti Runyon<br />
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Your gifts at work<br />
Supportive programs make cancer care unique<br />
Your gifts help heal body, mind and spirit<br />
With the approval of his doctors, Bill<br />
Eddy delayed treating his prostate<br />
cancer until he could move from<br />
Connecticut to La Crosse.<br />
The move had been planned for<br />
some time, and Eddy’s doctors felt<br />
the opportunity to be treated at a<br />
<strong>Mayo</strong> facility was worth the wait.<br />
“Back east I would have been<br />
treated, gone home and had periodic<br />
follow-up visits, but that’s about all,”<br />
says Eddy. He found a very different<br />
kind of care at <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong><br />
<strong>System</strong>’s Cancer Center.<br />
“Here, you have all these programs<br />
to help you heal not just physically,<br />
but emotionally, too,” he says.<br />
To treat his cancer, Eddy<br />
underwent several weeks of radiation<br />
therapy. He’s been cancer free for two<br />
years now.<br />
“You get great medical care at<br />
the Cancer Center,” says Eddy, “but<br />
it’s the wonderful staff and the<br />
supportive programs that help you<br />
get through the aftermath.”<br />
An exercise class for cancer<br />
patients was Eddy’s first venture<br />
into the Cancer Center’s supportive<br />
programs. “It really lifted my spirits<br />
and made me feel much better,”<br />
recalls Eddy. “After that, I took<br />
advantage of every program I could,<br />
including meditation, acupuncture,<br />
Reiki and the support groups.”<br />
Melissa Lockman was treated<br />
in the Cancer Center after being<br />
“You get great medical care<br />
at the Cancer Center, but it’s<br />
the wonderful staff and the<br />
supportive programs that help<br />
you get through the aftermath.”<br />
Bill Eddy, Patient<br />
diagnosed with breast cancer in<br />
2010. She also took advantage of<br />
the exercise program, Reiki and<br />
support groups. She says she<br />
especially benefited from educational<br />
presentations on nutrition and coping<br />
with stress and fatigue.<br />
“Cancer can be as much an<br />
emotional struggle as a physical<br />
one,” says Lockman. “The supportive<br />
programs help you rebuild your self<br />
confidence and your spirit as your<br />
body starts to heal.”<br />
Both Eddy and Lockman continue<br />
to participate in the monthly support<br />
group.<br />
Eddy notes, “You learn so much<br />
from other people — how they cope,<br />
how they adjust to lifestyle changes<br />
— many things like that.”<br />
Lockman’s experience echoes<br />
Eddy’s. “The other participants help<br />
you work through all the emotions,”<br />
she says. “They celebrate with you<br />
when you’re happy, and pick you up<br />
when you’re down.”<br />
Eddy adds, “There are so many<br />
opportunities beyond direct<br />
treatment of cancer that the Cancer<br />
Center offers.” It’s heartfelt when<br />
he says, “I’m glad that people<br />
support these programs. I hope they<br />
understand all the good they do for<br />
people with cancer.”<br />
Lockman agrees. “Cancer, for me,<br />
was a journey with many highs and<br />
lows — but I didn’t walk it alone.<br />
I’m eternally grateful to the people<br />
who give money to maintain these<br />
programs that gave me so much<br />
encouragement.”•<br />
“Cancer, for me, was a journey with many highs and lows — but I didn’t<br />
walk it alone. I’m eternally grateful to the people who give money to<br />
maintain these programs that gave me so much encouragement.”<br />
Melissa Lockman, Patient<br />
Melissa Lockman, pictured with husband<br />
Jamie, says cancer can be as much an<br />
emotional as a physical struggle.<br />
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Your gifts at work<br />
Reducing a barrier to a crucial cancer screening<br />
Mammograms more comfortable, thanks to your support<br />
A mammogram is a screening tool that<br />
searches for breast cancer when symptoms<br />
may not be apparent. Mammograms are<br />
essential to early breast cancer detection and<br />
help decrease breast cancer deaths.<br />
So why do some patients avoid them?<br />
“We know that discomfort is often cited as<br />
a reason why women avoid mammograms,”<br />
says Kathleen Christian, M.D., a breast<br />
surgeon at <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> in<br />
La Crosse. “We were looking for a way<br />
to provide a more comfortable patient<br />
experience.”<br />
To achieve that goal, Bradley Weber,<br />
director of diagnostic services, requested a<br />
grant from the Foundation to fund the first<br />
year of a new program.<br />
Your support has made it possible for<br />
mammography patients across the region to<br />
benefit from the use of a special foam pad<br />
during screenings, called a MammoPad. The<br />
single-use pad is placed between the patient<br />
and the surface of the mammography<br />
device, resulting in a warmer, softer and<br />
more comfortable mammogram.<br />
<strong>Clinic</strong>al studies have shown the pads<br />
reduce mammography-related discomfort<br />
by about 50 percent for most male and<br />
female patients.<br />
In addition to providing greater comfort,<br />
the pads can also result in better imaging.<br />
Less discomfort helps patients relax,<br />
assisting with proper positioning and<br />
sufficient compression — the key<br />
components of a good mammogram.<br />
Another study found technologists achieved<br />
an average of 13 to 15 percent greater<br />
compression when the pads were used.<br />
Weber says patients have responded<br />
positively since use of the pads began July 1.<br />
“Patients have told us the pads make a<br />
big difference. Many say they’ll no longer<br />
dread their annual mammogram because<br />
it’s so much more comfortable,” says Weber.<br />
“We’ve also seen the benefits of the pads in<br />
terms of enhanced imaging.”<br />
Dr. Christian says mammograms are a<br />
crucial screening tool. “We want to do all we<br />
can to encourage patients to take advantage<br />
of them. We’re so grateful to Foundation<br />
benefactors for making it possible to<br />
implement the program without delay.”•<br />
Using MammoPads (in pink, below) reduces<br />
mammogram discomfort by about 50 percent<br />
for most patients. This enhancement to breast<br />
care was made possible by your support.<br />
Kathleen Christian, M.D.<br />
Surgeon<br />
Bradley Weber<br />
Director<br />
Diagnostic services<br />
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Your gifts at work<br />
Oasis makes the cancer journey easier<br />
Struggling patients and families benefit from your kindness<br />
Knowing you care<br />
helps Jessica Clark<br />
stay optimistic as she<br />
battles a rare blood<br />
disease. She is shown<br />
here with son Zachary<br />
and daughter Arianna.<br />
Life is tough. It’s even tougher when you<br />
have cancer.<br />
Your gifts to the Oasis Fund for Cancer<br />
Patient Support directly impact patients<br />
who struggle financially while undergoing<br />
treatment at the Cancer Center at <strong>Mayo</strong><br />
<strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> in La Crosse.<br />
Here, three of those patients share their<br />
stories – and their gratitude.<br />
Jessica Clark<br />
“Until I got sick, I always worked two jobs.<br />
Now I have a hard time getting out of bed,”<br />
says Jessica Clark of La Crosse. “Just cooking<br />
a meal for my kids is exhausting.”<br />
Clark has been receiving treatment at the<br />
Cancer Center for a rare blood disease. She’d<br />
just learned she would need a bone marrow<br />
transplant when you first came to her aid.<br />
“I was out of work, our house was going<br />
into foreclosure and my car had just broken<br />
down,” recalls Clark. “When [medical social<br />
worker] Sue Newman told me Oasis could<br />
help us get the car fixed, I cried.”<br />
Your gifts to Oasis also made sure Clark<br />
had two medications she desperately<br />
needed.<br />
“I had a lapse in my insurance. While<br />
I was trying to get it straightened out, I<br />
needed to get my blood thinners refilled,”<br />
says Clark, whose disease puts her at<br />
high risk for blood clots. Not taking her<br />
medications could have been disastrous.<br />
“Through Oasis, I was able to get a twoweek<br />
supply that lasted until my insurance<br />
kicked in. There’s no way I could have<br />
afforded them myself.<br />
“It’s such a relief knowing that if<br />
something really drastic comes up, and<br />
there’s no way I can take care of it myself,<br />
there are people willing to help,” shares<br />
Clark. “I’m so grateful that people care.”<br />
Jim Downs<br />
Jim Downs is undergoing a second and<br />
particularly grueling round of chemotherapy<br />
at the Cancer Center.<br />
The first round put his cancer into<br />
remission, but eight months later, it returned<br />
with a vengeance. Now his best hope is a<br />
procedure at <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> that offers him a<br />
50 percent chance of survival.<br />
“Before I got sick, I used to throw $5 into<br />
a canister to help people with cancer. I didn’t<br />
think much of it,” says Downs, who lives in<br />
Tomah. “Now I know how much that help<br />
means to someone who really needs it.”<br />
Downs lost his machinist job a few<br />
months before his initial diagnosis. He had<br />
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Jim Downs travels 105 miles round trip for his<br />
chemotherapy treatments. Your support ensures<br />
he won’t run out of gas on the way home.<br />
insurance, but the loss of income and added<br />
expenses took their toll.<br />
“Our bills are piling up. Everything’s<br />
about to be shut off. Without help from<br />
Oasis, I couldn’t afford to drive the 105 miles<br />
round trip for my treatments.”<br />
Your gifts to Oasis provided Clark with<br />
several gas cards. He says, “It relieves a lot<br />
of stress to know I won’t run out of gas on<br />
the way home.”<br />
Clark has a special reason for sharing his<br />
story. “I hope people will see how much<br />
their donations mean to patients. I want<br />
to say thank you. If I get through this, I’m<br />
determined to give to Oasis myself, to<br />
help people going through what I’ve been<br />
through.”<br />
LauraJean Peterson<br />
LauraJean Peterson was diagnosed with<br />
stage III breast cancer in February and<br />
underwent a double mastectomy.<br />
“A few weeks later, I began chemotherapy<br />
at the Cancer Center,” she recalls. “I have<br />
two treatments left, then it’s on to radiation.”<br />
Peterson lives in Sparta with her husband<br />
and five children, ages 3 to 15.<br />
“We have only one vehicle we can all<br />
fit into,” she says. “It broke down recently<br />
and was in the shop when I went in for my<br />
chemo. I was visiting with Sue Newman<br />
when the shop called with the estimate. It was<br />
bad news. The repairs would cost over $700.”<br />
Newman knew Peterson wasn’t working<br />
and that money was tight. Thanks to your<br />
generosity, Newman was able to offer the<br />
family some much-needed support.<br />
“I was flabbergasted when Sue said Oasis<br />
could help with the repair,” Peterson says.<br />
“Without that help, it would have been weeks<br />
before we could have afforded to get it fixed.”<br />
The vehicle provides more than just<br />
transportation for Peterson and her family.<br />
“The only vacation we had planned this<br />
summer was a week up north at my sisterin-law’s<br />
cabin. It was a chance for us to hang<br />
out for a while as a family. We couldn’t have<br />
made the trip without the help from Oasis.<br />
I can’t tell you how much it meant to us.”<br />
Thank you for providing an oasis for<br />
patients and families along the cancer<br />
journey.•<br />
Thanks to your generosity,<br />
LauraJean Peterson and<br />
her husband Jim didn’t<br />
have to cancel a much<br />
anticipated trip with their<br />
five children.<br />
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Your gifts at work<br />
Study shows use of symptom checklist improves care<br />
Your investment in medical research yields benefits for patients<br />
A study performed at the Cancer Center at<br />
<strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> in La Crosse<br />
is translating into better care and a better<br />
quality of life for area cancer patients.<br />
Your gifts in support of medical research<br />
helped fund the study.<br />
The findings of “Therapy Related<br />
Symptom Checklist Use During Treatments<br />
at a Cancer Center” were published recently<br />
in Cancer Nursing, a nursing journal.<br />
The study compared a control group of<br />
patients receiving standard care to a group<br />
of patients receiving standard care and<br />
completing the Therapy Related Symptom<br />
Checklist (TRSC) at appointments, prior to<br />
meeting with their health care provider.<br />
The TRSC was designed to be quickly<br />
and easily completed. Patients were asked<br />
to consider 25 common treatment-related<br />
symptoms and rate how affected they were<br />
by each, from 0 (no symptom) to 4 (very<br />
severe). Then, the health care provider<br />
reviewed the patient’s completed TRSC<br />
during the appointment.<br />
Researchers found an increased number of<br />
symptoms were documented and managed<br />
when patients completed the TRSC. These<br />
patients also showed improved healthrelated<br />
quality of life over patients who did<br />
not complete the TRSC. Additionally, they<br />
were more satisfied with their care.<br />
Earlier research performed by two of<br />
the study’s authors at other facilities<br />
showed symptoms of concern to<br />
patients were under-documented<br />
and often weren’t discussed during<br />
visits. Use of the TRSC improved<br />
symptom reporting and generated<br />
important discussion between patient<br />
and provider.<br />
Thanks to your support, this research<br />
is now benefiting patients beyond the<br />
region as other cancer centers adopt<br />
use of the checklist.•<br />
<strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong><br />
launches Proton<br />
Beam Therapy<br />
Program<br />
Patient/philanthropist<br />
donates $100 million<br />
to project<br />
<strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> is launching a Proton Beam<br />
Therapy Program at its Rochester,<br />
Minn., and Scottsdale, Ariz., locations.<br />
The first treatment room will be<br />
available for patients in 2015.<br />
The program will feature intensitymodulated<br />
proton beam therapy exclusively.<br />
This is an advancement over traditional<br />
radiotherapy because the radiation beam<br />
is targeted only to the tumor, better<br />
sparing surrounding tissue from harm.<br />
Treatment rooms will be equipped with<br />
pencil beam scanning, the latest form<br />
of proton beam therapy, which uses<br />
spot scanning to “paint” dots of protons<br />
back and forth through a tumor.<br />
Proton beam therapy will be used to<br />
treat many kinds of cancers located<br />
deep within the body and close to<br />
critical organs and body structures,<br />
especially in children and young adults.<br />
This exciting advancement in cancer care<br />
is made possible by the generosity of<br />
Richard O. Jacobson, a <strong>Mayo</strong> patient and<br />
philanthropist, who donated $100 million<br />
to the Proton Beam Therapy Program. The<br />
Rochester facility will be named in his honor.<br />
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Gift planning<br />
Your IRA is worth more as a charitable gift<br />
Leave an individual retirement account (IRA)<br />
to your children or siblings and you may be<br />
leaving them almost nothing.<br />
IRAs are excellent vehicles for accumulating<br />
assets for your use during retirement, but they<br />
are terrible for transferring wealth to others.<br />
Those who inherit IRAs may find them seriously<br />
depleted by taxes — unless the recipient is a<br />
charitable entity like <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong><br />
— Franciscan <strong>Health</strong>care Foundation.<br />
Tax rules<br />
Like other investments and savings, IRAs<br />
may be subject to federal estate tax in estates<br />
where federal estate taxes apply. What most<br />
people don’t realize, however, is that all IRA<br />
distributions carry an income tax liability,<br />
too, which carries over to your designated<br />
beneficiaries. This double bite of income and<br />
estate taxes often leaves little for your heirs.<br />
Only a surviving spouse can “roll over”<br />
an inherited IRA distribution to his or her<br />
own IRA, called a Spousal Rollover IRA, and<br />
further delay receiving distributions (and<br />
hence income taxation) until his or her own<br />
date for required distributions, typically age<br />
70½. Other recipients are not eligible to roll<br />
over their proceeds, although some may choose<br />
to “stretch out” their inherited amount over<br />
time with taxable payments<br />
beginning immediately.<br />
Preserve your assets<br />
IRA transfers to charitable<br />
organizations after your lifetime,<br />
however, eliminate estate and<br />
income taxes. Estate planners<br />
often advise clients to consider<br />
a charitable gift at death of<br />
your remaining IRA funds simply because<br />
an IRA is worth far more to a tax-exempt<br />
organization than it is to heirs, net of tax.<br />
You can leave your remaining IRA<br />
funds to the Foundation, preserving<br />
100 percent of them to support our<br />
work rather than giving up a significant<br />
portion to taxes.<br />
Your IRA plan administrator or estate<br />
planning attorney can assist you in<br />
arranging to name us as the primary or<br />
secondary beneficiary for a percentage of<br />
your IRAs.<br />
Your next step<br />
To learn more about this or other gift<br />
options, please contact Peter Grabow at<br />
608-392-9394 or grabow.peter@mayo.edu.<br />
Estate planners often<br />
advise clients to<br />
consider a charitable<br />
gift at death of your<br />
remaining IRA funds<br />
simply because an<br />
IRA is worth far more<br />
to a tax-exempt<br />
organization than it is<br />
to heirs, net of tax.<br />
$100,000 IRA Bequest to Heirs Versus <strong>System</strong> — Franciscan <strong>Health</strong>care Foundation<br />
Beneficiary<br />
Heirs<br />
Franciscan <strong>Health</strong>care<br />
Foundation<br />
Federal Estate Tax<br />
(Assumed 35 Percent Marginal<br />
Estate Tax Bracket)<br />
Net Amount Subject to<br />
Federal Income Tax<br />
Federal Income Tax<br />
(Assumed 28 Percent Marginal<br />
Income Tax Bracket)<br />
($35,000) $0<br />
$65,000 $0<br />
($18,200) $0<br />
Net Amount to IRA Beneficiary $46,800 $100,000<br />
© The Stelter Company<br />
The information in this publication<br />
is not intended as legal advice.<br />
For legal advice, please consult an<br />
attorney. Figures cited in examples<br />
are for hypothetical purposes<br />
only and are subject to change.<br />
References to estate and income<br />
taxes include federal taxes only.<br />
State income/estate taxes or state<br />
law may impact your results.<br />
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Remembering Family and Friends<br />
Gifts in Memory<br />
Memorial gifts provide an opportunity to honor<br />
and remember loved ones while helping to sustain<br />
essential health care services in the community.<br />
Sr. M. Aloysius<br />
Sr. M. Juliana<br />
A<br />
Bernard Adams<br />
Charlotte Adams<br />
Joan Adams<br />
Donald Albitz<br />
Pauline Albitz<br />
Peter Paul Albrecht<br />
Kenneth Aleckson<br />
Scott Allen<br />
Leland Alsteen<br />
Edwin & Shirley<br />
Amberg<br />
Charles E. Anderson<br />
Diane Anderson<br />
Everett J. Anderson<br />
John Arity<br />
Clinton Armstrong<br />
Kyle Arndt<br />
Sally Ausich<br />
B<br />
Alfred Bahr<br />
Arlene Bahr<br />
Natalie Baker<br />
Tom Baker<br />
Robert Bakewell<br />
Ruth Banasik<br />
Tom Banasik<br />
Ruth Bannen<br />
James Barry<br />
Ingibjorg Bartley<br />
Charlotte Bean<br />
Kathleen Beck<br />
Janice Beeler<br />
Eloise Bell<br />
Kerry Bell<br />
Harold Bentzen<br />
Sharon Beranek<br />
Frances Berens<br />
Florence Berg<br />
Joyce Berge<br />
Robert Bernd<br />
Roland Berns<br />
Richard Betsinger<br />
Hunter Biermeier<br />
Mary Biller<br />
Linda Bjorge<br />
Bernard Bleske, Jr.<br />
Lucille Bloss<br />
Tammy Boardman<br />
Blaine Bockenhauer<br />
Raymond Boessel<br />
Gracie Bohland<br />
Joseph Boland<br />
LaVerne Boland<br />
Ken Boswell<br />
Jane K. Bouse<br />
Leo Bouska<br />
Aleda Bouwman<br />
Laura Ann Bowen<br />
Nancy Bowen<br />
Ardy Brague<br />
Jim Brenengen<br />
Everett A. Breyer<br />
Frank & Helen Breza<br />
Maynard Brostrom<br />
Norm & Edith Brown<br />
Paul Brown<br />
Maureen Bryant<br />
Virgil Bue<br />
Debra Buhr<br />
Delores Burmaster<br />
Richard Butterfield<br />
Sandra Butterfield<br />
C<br />
James Caggiano, Sr.<br />
Donna Calkins<br />
Norma Carlson<br />
Marguerite Caya<br />
Helen Chapin<br />
Darrell Chapman<br />
Renetta Cholewa<br />
Sara Christianson<br />
Jim Chritton<br />
Ernabelle Cina<br />
Leo Clark<br />
Thomas J. Clark, Sr.<br />
Richard Coaty<br />
Richard Colgan<br />
Edward Colsch<br />
Robert Colsch<br />
James Connor<br />
Dale Conrad<br />
Burton & Mary Cook<br />
Karen Cook<br />
Leonard Cooper<br />
Della C. Coots<br />
Mary Cota<br />
Leo Court<br />
Doris Cox<br />
D<br />
Dr. Ruth M. Dalton<br />
Gerald Davis<br />
Lynn DeBauche<br />
Walter Decker<br />
Kathy DeGaetano<br />
Anita Degenhardt<br />
Robert Degenhardt<br />
Maribeth Deming<br />
Janice Denny<br />
John Deusterman<br />
Marlin Deyo<br />
Billy Dick<br />
Peggy Dinger<br />
Dennis Doonan<br />
Robert Drier<br />
Howard Duffy<br />
Dorothy Dunahee<br />
Arlan Dwyer<br />
Richard J. Dwyer<br />
E<br />
Ruth Eide<br />
Gayleen Eilers<br />
Dr. Martin Erlandson<br />
Sharon Esch<br />
Kenneth Espenes<br />
F<br />
Donald Faas<br />
Dorothy Fairchild<br />
Lloyd &<br />
Evelyn Falke<br />
Neil Farris<br />
Roy Fass Family<br />
Brian Fawcett<br />
Edmund G. Feiock<br />
Evelyn Felbinger<br />
Marie Fernette<br />
Neosia Ferris<br />
Joyce Fierst<br />
Carla Figgie<br />
Sally Fink<br />
James J. Finn<br />
Mildred Finn<br />
Alice Finstuen<br />
Albert Forer<br />
Mary Forer<br />
Frank Fradette<br />
Raymond Frank<br />
Marlin Frick<br />
Brad Frohmader<br />
Albert P. Funk, Jr.<br />
G<br />
Leah Gabriel<br />
John R. Gaines<br />
Lucy H. Gaines<br />
Frederick Garbers<br />
Maria Gasper<br />
Kristine M.<br />
Gates Bissen<br />
Artis Gaustad<br />
Mary Gavin<br />
Elsie Genz<br />
Patrick George<br />
Delores Gerke<br />
Virginia Gerke<br />
Delos Germann<br />
Margaret M.<br />
Germanson<br />
Thomas Gilbertson<br />
Helen Gilles<br />
Harriette Gleason<br />
Lanny Glenn<br />
Ruth Goggin<br />
Dan Gordon<br />
Donna Grade<br />
Russell O. Grant<br />
William Grayburn<br />
Kathy Green<br />
Mary Lou Green<br />
Francis & Mary<br />
Grenisen<br />
Rodney Groth<br />
Miriam & Ewald<br />
Gustafson<br />
Marjorie Gutknecht<br />
H<br />
Clara Haag<br />
Donald Haag<br />
Daniel Hach<br />
Michael Hafner<br />
Robert Hagen<br />
Delores Halik<br />
Shirley Hanan<br />
Bernard Hansen<br />
Evenelle Hansen<br />
Patricia Hansen<br />
John Hanson<br />
Doris Hanssen<br />
Thomas Harris<br />
Clara Harter<br />
Rolf Hatling<br />
Dr. Jon Havenstrite<br />
Frank Heasley<br />
Ed Hei<br />
Steven Heim<br />
Agatha Heimer<br />
Glenn Heintz<br />
Calvin Helming<br />
Edward Hengel, Sr.<br />
Poua Her<br />
Elizabeth Herold<br />
Inez Hertzfeldt<br />
Paul and<br />
Dorothy Hess<br />
Lillian Hill<br />
Verna Hjelsand<br />
Agnes Hoaglund<br />
Stanley Hoaglund<br />
Audrey Hodge<br />
Dorothy Hoesley<br />
Virgil Hoff<br />
Norman Holler<br />
Elaine Holliday<br />
Dorothy Horstman<br />
Sara Hougom<br />
Neil Howe<br />
Rebecca Howe<br />
Fred B. Howly<br />
George & Lillian<br />
Huebner Family<br />
Zeta Huerkamp<br />
Peter Hundt<br />
Marlin G. Hunkins<br />
Joan Hyde<br />
J<br />
Alberta Jacobson<br />
Francis Jacobson<br />
Gabriel Janusheske<br />
John Jenco<br />
Darrell Jenkins<br />
Sr. Yvonne Jenn<br />
Arthur Jensen<br />
Douglas Jensen<br />
Larry Jernigan<br />
Alverta Johnson<br />
Betty Johnson<br />
Helen Johnson<br />
Janice Johnson<br />
Linda Johnson<br />
Mary Johnson<br />
Robert Johnson<br />
Ronald T. Johnson<br />
Russell Johnson<br />
Donald Jordan<br />
Leonard Jorgenson<br />
Alice Jorstad<br />
Margaret Julian<br />
K<br />
Joachim Kamla<br />
Margaret Kang<br />
Lester Kastenschmidt<br />
Joan Kastman<br />
Gene Keehn<br />
Dr. Kent E. Keller<br />
Helen Kellogg<br />
Roy Kemerling<br />
Charles Kennedy<br />
Curtis Kennedy<br />
Fred Kerska<br />
Sandra Kidd<br />
Phyllis Kilmer<br />
Richard & Mary<br />
Kimmet<br />
Beverly King<br />
William King<br />
Donald Kirby<br />
Marjorie Kirchoff<br />
Charles Kirkey<br />
Earl Kleckner<br />
Skyler J. Klotz<br />
Dorothy Klug<br />
Ruth Knutson<br />
Dorene Koby<br />
Gertrude Kolter<br />
Audrey Korn<br />
John R. Kortebein<br />
Joseph Kotnour<br />
Leo Kraft<br />
Mary Jane Kramer<br />
Alfred Krause<br />
Alvina M. Krause<br />
Janet Krismer<br />
Evelyn Kron<br />
Raymond Kroner<br />
Veronica Kuderer<br />
James Kudronowicz<br />
Violet Kunert<br />
L<br />
Pauline Lachman<br />
William & Edith<br />
Lampert<br />
Richard Landwehr<br />
Joseph R. Lang<br />
Virgil Lang<br />
Don Langan<br />
Jeanette Larkin<br />
Lester Larson<br />
Patricia Larson<br />
Ronald Larson<br />
Gary Lassig<br />
Margaret Lau<br />
Dorothy Lauerman<br />
Lawrence<br />
Laufenberg<br />
Dorothy A. Lawrence<br />
Jim Lawrence<br />
Helen Lehrke<br />
Cynthia Leis<br />
Kathy Leitner<br />
Hulda Lemke<br />
William Lemke<br />
Jean Lepore<br />
Robert Lettner<br />
Phyllis Lewis<br />
Virgil Lewis<br />
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Donations were received in memory of the following individuals between July 2011 and June <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Memorials are published quarterly in The La Crosse Tribune and can be viewed near the main<br />
lobby of our La Crosse hospital.<br />
Alice Lichtie<br />
Joyce Lichtie<br />
Edna Lietke<br />
Peg Lilgegren<br />
Marjorie Lindsay<br />
Marie Lockhart<br />
Eugene Loeffler<br />
John Loomis<br />
Mike Loomis<br />
Robert Loomis<br />
Anthony Lorenz<br />
Peter Losby<br />
Bonnie Lovejoy<br />
Edward Luckett<br />
George R. Luther, Sr.<br />
Raymond &<br />
Ann Lyga<br />
M<br />
Herald Maak<br />
Robert Mack<br />
Cargill MacMillan, Jr.<br />
Dorothy Mader<br />
Gordon Madison<br />
Evelyn Maher<br />
James Malay<br />
Robert Malay<br />
Bonnie Malzacher<br />
Mrs. Mandeville<br />
Mary Maney<br />
Joseph Marco<br />
Dave Marley<br />
Art & Iola Marohl<br />
Kim Marson<br />
James Martin<br />
Vernon Martinson<br />
Nick Matheny<br />
Richard Mauss<br />
Romelle Mauss<br />
George McCabe<br />
Blaine McDowell<br />
Thomas F. McDowell<br />
Orlea McFarlin<br />
Kathrine McHenry<br />
Charles McKittrick<br />
Kenneth McLees<br />
James E. McLoone<br />
Helen Meiners<br />
Marvin Meiners<br />
Harry Meinking<br />
Matt Merfeld<br />
Cecelia Meyers<br />
George Meyers<br />
Howard Meyers<br />
Steven Meyers<br />
Chad Mezera<br />
Richard Mickschl<br />
Suzanne Mickschl<br />
Evelyn Miller<br />
Virginia Miller<br />
Georganna Mishler<br />
Danny Mitby<br />
Vicki Mitchell<br />
Richard Mitton<br />
Joan C. Moen<br />
Tony & Elaine<br />
Molina<br />
Katherine Moore<br />
Joyce Morris<br />
Kenneth Mueller<br />
Raymond Muller<br />
David. Murphy, Sr.<br />
Leo Murphy<br />
Hugh Murray<br />
Jane Musbach<br />
Olivia Mutschler<br />
George R. Myer<br />
N<br />
Vera Nagle<br />
Gary Nekola<br />
David R. Nelson<br />
Evelyn Nelson<br />
Marilyn Nelson<br />
Mary Nelson<br />
Maxine Nelson<br />
Mae Nicolai<br />
Arnold Niedfeldt<br />
Frank Nintemann<br />
Leonard Norby<br />
Chester Nordstrom<br />
O<br />
Lori Sue Obert<br />
Mildred Olsen<br />
Basil Olson<br />
Fern Olson<br />
Frances Olson<br />
Gordon Olson<br />
Jacqueline Olson<br />
Lloyd &<br />
Dorothy Olson<br />
Marie Olson<br />
Fr. Thomas O’Neill<br />
Ralph Onsrud<br />
Timothy O’Rourke<br />
Gordon Ostreng<br />
Ann Ott-Brecka<br />
Marjorie Overton<br />
P<br />
Jack C. Padesky<br />
Evelyn Paeper<br />
Patricia Pahs<br />
Marjorie Paletta<br />
Roger Papenfuss<br />
Michael Parkes<br />
S. Robert Parkes<br />
Anna Parkhurst<br />
James Passe<br />
Bishop John Paul<br />
John and Helen<br />
Pavela<br />
Mark David Peacock<br />
Carrol D. Pederson<br />
Albert Penchi<br />
Arnold Pendleton<br />
Ardell Peterson<br />
Ethelyn Peterson<br />
James Peterson<br />
June Peterson<br />
Richard Peterson<br />
Harold Peth<br />
Candice Phelps<br />
John Pintz<br />
Leona Piperno<br />
Robert C. Pittman<br />
Norman Poudrier<br />
Elzie Powell<br />
Gary Pratt<br />
Virginia Price<br />
Agnes Prochazka<br />
Juanita Puder<br />
Raymond Puent<br />
Joanne Putz<br />
Q<br />
Gladys Quinn<br />
JoAnn Quinn<br />
R<br />
Mary Jeanne Rady<br />
Adeline Reinhardt<br />
Marjorie Reinhart<br />
Josie Reining<br />
Loretta Reinsvold<br />
Thomas Renwick<br />
Frank Rhodes<br />
Gene Rhodes<br />
Walter P. Riley<br />
Edward Roesler<br />
Donald Rokusek<br />
Louise Roob<br />
Helen F. Roraff<br />
Leonard &<br />
Eleanor Roraff<br />
Molly Rosenow<br />
Reay Ross<br />
William F. Ross<br />
William G. Ross<br />
Kent Rotering<br />
Clarmont Rothering<br />
Allen Rugg<br />
Don Ruud<br />
Doris Ruud<br />
Melvin Ruud<br />
S<br />
William Sandman<br />
Milly Sather<br />
James Sauer<br />
Cynthia (Bilyeu)<br />
Scargall<br />
Norman Schaller<br />
Alfred Schaper<br />
Leonard Schleis<br />
Herbert Schmidt<br />
Lucille I. Schmidt<br />
Mary Schmidt<br />
Carol Schneider<br />
Barbara Schneyer<br />
Lynn Schneyer<br />
Anita Schnick<br />
Catherine Schoen<br />
Paul & Agnes<br />
Schreier<br />
Helen Schroeder<br />
Carl & Helen<br />
Schubert<br />
Mary Ann Schubert<br />
Mary Schucht<br />
Constance Schultz<br />
Edward Schultz<br />
Ralph Schultz<br />
William Schuth, Jr.<br />
Rosalyne Schwaab<br />
Kenneth E. Schwartz<br />
Gerald Schwertel<br />
Eugene Schwirtz<br />
Marilyn Sciborski<br />
Carla Seibert<br />
Elaine Selke<br />
Diana Serres<br />
Maxine Sheely<br />
Richard Sherer<br />
Sally Sherer<br />
Nancy Sieger<br />
Irene J. Sill<br />
Clinton Sinclair<br />
Eliza Skemp<br />
Dr. George &<br />
Mary Skemp<br />
Blyden Skogen<br />
Vivian Skoy<br />
Bernice Slaby<br />
Constance Slaby<br />
George Snapp. Jr.<br />
Brad Snyder<br />
Martha Snyder<br />
Richard Snyder<br />
Angeline Sobotta<br />
Mary Beth Soller<br />
Martin Sorenson<br />
Nora Spencer<br />
Michael Stacey<br />
Judith Stahl<br />
Genevieve Stark<br />
Arlys Steele<br />
Daniel Steers<br />
Daniel Steinhoff<br />
Sylvia Stetzer<br />
Terry Stetzer<br />
Ruth Stevens<br />
Verna Stevenson<br />
Michael Stoker<br />
Roger Stoll<br />
Earl J. Storandt<br />
Daniel Strangstalien<br />
Lucy Strasser<br />
Gloria Strupp<br />
James Stumpf<br />
William Styba<br />
Michael Subjek<br />
William Sugg<br />
Catherine Sullivan<br />
Irene Sweeney<br />
Leo Sweeney<br />
Mary Lucille Swing<br />
Walter Swinghamer<br />
T<br />
Marie D. Tauscher<br />
Francis Taylor<br />
Thomas P. Terry<br />
Mavis Thesing<br />
Norma Thiesse<br />
Dale Thomas<br />
Wayne Thomforde<br />
Valera G. Thoreson<br />
Gale Timm<br />
John Michael Tischer<br />
Molly Ann Tischer<br />
Michael Tischer<br />
Celestine Toenies<br />
Lucy Tooke<br />
Paul Tracey<br />
Theodore Trierweiler<br />
U<br />
Mary Unseth<br />
V<br />
Donald Vaaler<br />
Lamar Vanmeter<br />
Margo Varo<br />
Peter Vick<br />
Debra Kay Villarreal<br />
Matthew Von Arx<br />
Phillip Vonruden<br />
Howard Voss<br />
W<br />
Claybon Wallis<br />
James Walsh<br />
P.R. Walsh Family<br />
Bernice Weber<br />
George P. Weber<br />
Frederick Wege<br />
Helen Weiker<br />
Jerry Weis<br />
Shirley Weiss<br />
Donald C. Welch<br />
Mary Welch<br />
LaVern Welke<br />
Alma Wells<br />
Kay Welper<br />
Elaine Wendt<br />
Mary Westergard<br />
Allen Westfahl<br />
Lee Weymiller<br />
Lynor Wheeler<br />
Robert White<br />
Clifford Wieman<br />
Altheia Wiemer<br />
Ardis Wilkening<br />
Dennis Wilson<br />
Mildred Witt<br />
Robert L. Wittenberg<br />
Donald Wolfe<br />
Robert & Violet<br />
Wolfe<br />
Donald Wood<br />
Henry & Vada<br />
Wooden<br />
Marjorie Wuensch<br />
Harold Wunnecke<br />
X<br />
Mai Xiong Lee<br />
Z<br />
Francis Zahn<br />
Raymond Zeller<br />
June Zemke<br />
Lloyd Zimmerman<br />
Francis Znidarsich<br />
Gerard (Gary)<br />
Znidarsich<br />
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Local couple leaves bequest to medical center<br />
Norm and Edith Brown extend thanks for a lifetime of care<br />
Norm and Edith Brown couldn’t have been more different,<br />
yet somehow they were a perfect match.<br />
He was friendly and outgoing with a personality that<br />
filled a room. A notoriously bad tipper, it’s said even<br />
waitresses couldn’t resist his charm.<br />
Edith was quiet and reserved. She was happy to let Norm<br />
do most of the talking.<br />
Throughout their lives, Norm and Edith received all their<br />
medical care at <strong>Mayo</strong> <strong>Clinic</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> in La Crosse, a<br />
place they fondly referred to as “St. Francis.” For years, both<br />
were cared for by John Ujda, M.D., a now-retired internal<br />
medicine doctor. Outside of scheduled appointments, Norm<br />
would often drop by to chat, followed by a stop at the<br />
hospital’s bakery.<br />
Norm had, as he often said, “a bad ticker.” After he passed<br />
away in 2003, Edith was never quite the same.<br />
A few years after Norm’s death, Dr. Ujda retired. His<br />
replacement, T. Scott Cunningham, D.O., whom Edith<br />
always referred to as “the new guy,” had big shoes to fill.<br />
Eventually she conceded, “The<br />
new guy is pretty good too.”<br />
After her death in February<br />
this year, the Foundation learned<br />
Norm and Edith Brown<br />
Norm and Edith had left a<br />
bequest to the medical center in<br />
gratitude for the care they had received.<br />
“It’s apparent Norm and Edith were devoted to each<br />
other and to special causes,” says Foundation executive<br />
director Peter Grabow. “To be among them is humbling.”<br />
Though the couple lived a modest lifestyle, their gift was<br />
substantial.<br />
“Next month, next year and far beyond, patients will<br />
benefit from their kindness,” says Grabow. “Not knowing<br />
about the bequest until after Norm and Edith passed,<br />
we weren’t able to thank them. I wish we’d had that<br />
opportunity. They were true philanthropists, and their gift is<br />
so important.”•<br />
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