2007 - Memorial Hospital of South Bend

ANN THOMAS…We’ve got a 57-year-old female with a GSWto the abdomen. Ambulance requested…“God must have something else for me to do. I shouldhave been dead.”Reflecting on a day that nearly ended her life, Memorialemployee Ann Thomas will tell you that something elsewas at work when she encountered a gunman outside herhome last year.After attending church services and an anniversary partyfor her pastor and his wife, Ann said a brief good-bye toher friends and went home to get ready for a churchevent later that evening.“When I came home I saw there was a lawn chair lyingout in the front lawn, and I thought ‘something’s notright here,’” remembers Ann. “Then I noticed that theback door was wide open and I know I didn’t leave itopen like that,” she adds.“When I looked inside the house, it was just ransacked.I mean just destroyed,” says Ann. “I was stepping backdown the steps to get out of there and call the police.”After that, her recollections become more emotional.She remembers a very sudden feeling of extreme6 | MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM 2007 ANNUAL REPORT