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DONOR HIGHLIGHTS Our Donors Ensure the Future Two years ago, Hoag Hospital Foundation began raising funds to build a $24 million endowment for the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center. The endowment ensures the long-term sustainability and success of the Allen Diabetes Center by providing a permanent revenue source. Financial security through the endowment is especially important given historically low reimbursement rates for diabetes care. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the endowment for the Allen Diabetes Center is up to $5 million and growing. To learn more about how you can secure the future of the Allen Diabetes Center, please contact Kenya Beckmann at (949) 764-6384 or Kenya. Beckmann@hoaghospital.org. Note: See full profiles of donors highlighted on these pages by logging on to www.hoaghospitalfoundation.org. 06 SCANNER SPECIAL EDITION 2009 Melinda and Chuck Smith, George Hoag Family Foundation The George Hoag Family Foundation has longstanding ties to Hoag Hospital, as the founding benefactor, having provided the funds needed to begin construction of the hospital in 1950. The Foundation was established by George Hoag, Sr., an early partner in the J.C. Penney Company, his wife, Grace, and their son, George Hoag II, and has maintained a strong connection with Hoag Hospital through the years. The Hoag Family Foundation, overseen by President, Melinda Hoag Smith and Executive Director, Chuck Smith, continues to support Hoag Hospital. The Foundation earmarked $1 million of a recent $16 million cancer-focused gift for the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center. The Smiths have also committed their time and talent to the Allen Diabetes Center. Melinda serves on the Allen Center Campaign Committee and Chuck serves on the Allen Center Oversight Committee. “Hoag Hospital continues to be a significant community asset, and we believe in the hospital’s vision to expand its world-class health care services and become a regional center of referral for Southern California and beyond,” says Chuck. “Our Board is pleased to support the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center which we believe will advance new developments in the care and management of diabetes.”
Tom and Margaret Larkin Tom and Margaret Larkin first became involved with Hoag in 2005. Now generous benefactors, they’re soaring with enthusiasm for the important programs being developed there—including diabetes. “When we moved down here I began talking with (trustee) Ginny Ueberroth about becoming involved,” said Margaret, a Hoag Hospital Foundation board member. “That’s how it all started.” Tom, a longtime investment manager, suffers with adult-onset diabetes, and the couple view the diabetes program as one that significantly helps all who are affected. What impresses Tom about the program is Kris V. Iyer, M.D., medical director for the Allen Diabetes Center. Tom has great faith in Dr. Iyer, and the two share a common health issue: diabetes. With diabetes, comprehensive care includes several components: identifying people who are at risk, educating them about staying healthy, and care. “The focus of the Allen Diabetes Center is on education and care,” Margaret said. “The fact that they won’t turn anyone away regardless of ability to pay means a lot to us.” Ginny & Peter Ueberroth Over the past 30 years, few names have become more familiar to Americans than “Ueberroth.” That same familiarity exists today at Hoag, where Virginia “Ginny” Ueberroth and her husband, Peter, remain indelibly intertwined. In fact, Peter, who chaired the 1984 Olympic Games Committee in Los Angeles, and Ginny, a longtime hospital and foundation director, recently gave $1 million through the Ginny and Peter Ueberroth Family Foundation to fund the Ueberroth Program for Women and Diabetes at the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center. “Healthy mothers make for healthy families,” Ginny said. “Our goal is to help the Allen Diabetes Center reach further into the community to ensure that all women have access to world-class diabetes care.” The couple’s involvement with the Allen Diabetes Center began when they became acquainted with Kris V. Iyer, M.D., medical director of the center, and benefactor and then-Hospital Board Chairman Dick Allen. Recalling her own grandmother’s battle with diabetes, Ginny’s participation seemed “a natural.” The Ueberroth gift will enable expansion of the hospital’s Sweet Success program, designed to improve pregnancy outcomes for women who develop diabetes during pregnancy and those who have existing diabetes. SCANNER SPECIAL EDITION 2009 07
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