REDEFINING BOUNDARIES - Geisinger Health System

REDEFINING BOUNDARIES
Geisinger Health System will celebrate its 100th
anniversary in September 2015 with the completion of
its $150 million Centennial Campaign.
The comprehensive campaign offers unprecedented
opportunities to partner with us in redefining the future
of healthcare for the Wyoming Valley and surrounding
regions.
There are many ways to contribute — cash gifts; gifts
in kind; named funds or endowments; artwork or
personal property; real estate; appreciated securities or
mutual funds; planned gifts, such as charitable gift
annuities, charitable lead trusts, retirement or life
insurance plans, and charitable bequests. With lasting
gratitude, Geisinger stewards all gifts – of any amount –
with care.
Although many generous supporters have already
contributed to the campaign, there is still much to do to
ensure success and greater accessibility to quality care.
Named funds may be started with gifts of $10,000
and above, and named endowment funds may be
established with gifts of $25,000 and above, to
support these priority programs and services:
Exceptional patient care
Education of the next generation of
care givers
Cutting-edge research and new discovery
No one should have to go far from home to get
specialized care at the very time the comfort of loved
ones and familiar surroundings is most important. GWV’s
expansion will address the growing demand for advanced
healthcare in the Wyoming Valley region.
Investment in healthcare environments for
the 21 st century
Many capital naming opportunities are available from
$25,000 to $20 million and will support the Geisinger
Wyoming Valley Medical Center Expansion and
existing facilities.
100 North Academy Avenue
Danville, Pennsylvania 17822-4020
570-271-6461 geisinger.org/100
Advances in medicine and medical technology are
yielding better health outcomes throughout our lives, but
older patients are especially likely to benefit from highly
specialized care. Because the average age of Luzerne
County residents is twenty-four percent older than the
state’s residents overall, GWV wants to be sure we
can provide the full range of services our families need.
Your gift helps us look to the future of our community.

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