2012 Donors - Support Beth Israel Medical Center

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BETh ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER
Beth Israel Advances Its Diversity Initiatives—Establishes
Richard Netter Diversity Initiatives Endowment • Singer
Foundation Extends Giving to Post-Anesthesia Care
Unit • Ed Roos, Beth Israel’s King of CRATS, Continues
Extraordinary History of Giving with Planned Gifts •
From House Calls to Health Care Proxy—Bequest
Honors Physician for 40 Years of Exceptional Care• Kurt
Reinsberg Raises Funds for Parkinson’s Research •
Lifelong New Yorker Honors Her Hospital with Estate Gift
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ST. LUKE’S AND RooSEvELT HoSPITALS
Grateful Family Supports Hematology-oncology Research
• Generous Pledge Brings Joy to others—Tom and
Marilyn Reynolds Give to the Helen Sawaya Fund • Spring
Gala • Robert Lum Supports Hospitals with Charitable
Gift Annuities • Anonymous Donor Allows Doctors to
Explore a New Frontier • St. Luke’s Archives: Preserving
the Past—Mrs. Helen Roosevelt Continues Tradition of
Honoring History • Generous Gift Establishes Award in
Honor of Dan William, MD
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CoNTINuuM
Needler's Foundation Brings Smiles To our Young Patients
• Continuum Cancer Centers of New York Golf Classic
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ThE NEw YoRk EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY
Million Dollar Gift Endows New Fund
Why Give?
Your gift to a Continuum Health Partners hospital is
an investment in medical progress.
People around the City and the globe rely on us for
healing. With many world-class specialists, our
hospitals are widely known for combining medical
excellence with clinically innovative programs. And
as voluntary teaching hospitals, we remain steadfast
in our commitment to the training and education of
the clinical leaders of tomorrow. we stand for
excellence, integrity, diversity, compassion and
genuine collaboration—medicine at its best.
Philanthropic support is vital to our lifesaving work.
our hospitals are nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charitable
organizations, and contributions are tax deductible
to the extent allowed by law.
our benefactors ensure that our hospitals continue
to deliver outstanding care, pioneer groundbreaking
research initiatives, and train the next generation
of exceptional physicians, improving the quality of
medical care for all of our patients and the
com munities we serve.
About Continuum Health Partners
Formed in 1997, Continuum Health Partners, Inc.
unites five distinguished voluntary teaching hospitals:
Beth Israel Medical Center Petrie Division, Beth Israel
Medical Center Brooklyn Division, St. Luke’s
and Roosevelt Hospitals, and The New York Eye &
Ear Infirmary. All of the Continuum hospitals were
established more than a century ago by civic-minded
individuals with a shared commitment to improving
health and health care for their communities.
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Center, St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals and The New York
Eye & Ear Infirmary, please contact:
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Continuum Health Partners, Inc.
555 West 57th Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10019
212.636.8400
www.chpnyc.org
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Cover: Students from The Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education on clinical rotation at Beth Israel
Medical Center as part of the Richard Netter Diversity
Initiatives Endowment
Beth Israel Advances
Its Diversity Initiatives—
Establishes Richard Netter
Diversity Initiatives Endowment
The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund recently gave
$1.5 million to establish the Richard Netter
Diversity Initiatives Endowment at Beth Israel Medical
Center. This remarkably generous gift helps to position
Beth Israel and Continuum at the forefront of promoting
and ensuring diversity in healthcare—a goal long
embraced by Mr. Netter during his more than 50 years
on the Board, until his death three years ago.
Leonard and Sophie Davis were longtime dear friends of Mr. Netter
who shared many common interests, including a commitment to
diversity in medicine. Their son Alan Davis, President of the Davis
Foundation, was pleased to honor Mr. Netter’s memory by making
this significant gift. “It is fitting that my parents and Dick Netter are
unified in this endowment fund dedicated to a cause so close to
them all. I am happy to honor Dick in this way.”
“Diversity is a critical mission to Beth Israel and has been from
the very beginning,” said Harris M. Nagler, MD, President, Beth
Israel. “one of the barriers to health care for many groups is the
discomfort associated with a system they are unfamiliar with—
either they don’t know how to navigate through it, or the system
is not responsive to their cultural needs or customs. our diversity
initiatives are based on recognizing that potential flaw so that we
can better respond to it—and the Davis Fund gift is helping us to
do just that.”
Dr. Nagler had many conversations with Mr. Netter over the years
about the lack of diversity in clinical, senior and executive positions
in hospitals, and also in business. over the years, Mr. Netter
helped to bring a more diverse group of candidates to the Board
of Trustees while he chaired the nominating committee of the
Board. He also took great interest in the careers of several staff
members who helped diversify the leadership of the hospital.
Several years ago, Beth Israel and the other Continuum Health
Partners hospitals launched Destination Diversity—a system-wide
diversity initiative to enhance the hospitals’ reputation for high
quality patient care by ensuring that staff at all levels mirror the
communities and patients who rely on them.
Richard Netter, Esq.
Beth Israel Medical Center
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Beth Israel recognizes a broad definition of diversity as it relates to
race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other factors. Featuring
the cornerstones of inclusion and respect, Destination Diversity
promotes recognition and respect for individual differences among
Beth Israel’s workers, maintains a positive workplace environment,
and makes diversity initiatives part of day-to-day operations.
Beth Israel and the other Continuum hospitals all share a commitment
to a number of core behaviors and values that support
diversity, including integrity, inclusion, respect for each individual,
collaboration and teamwork, and community and citizenship.
The Richard Netter Diversity Initiatives Endowment
Named in honor of Beth Israel’s longtime trustee, dear friend, and
generous benefactor Richard Netter, Esq., who passed away in 2009,
the Richard Netter Diversity Initiatives Endowment provides support
to three programs that reflect the hospital’s commitment to diversity:
The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education Student Clinical
Rotation, The Destination Diversity Training Seminar Series, and The
Richard Netter health Care Leadership Institute.
The Davis Fund gift sponsors clinical rotations at Beth Israel for
students from The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.
Established at The City College of the City University of New York,
this seven-year medical program offers an integrated baccalaureate
education with preclinical medical education and is dedicated
to expanding access to medical careers among inner-city youth,
particularly among underrepresented minorities.
Both The Sophie Davis School and Beth Israel share a commitment
to increased diversity in medicine, and this program represents a
significant step toward meeting that goal. Beth Israel will provide
Davis School students with learning opportunities in the hospital
and in its ambulatory primary care sites, all of which will expose