Annual Report 2010 - Gifford Medical Center

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in the gifford community The Gifford Auxiliary: The Auxiliary completed its remarkable $300,000 Menig Way Campaign pledge in October. Quietly giving back to the community Gifford Auxiliary members spend their time selflessly giving back to their community. But a best kept secret Auxiliary President Mickie Richardson asks you to decide and reflects on the organization, its role in the community and its giving to the hospital by awarding departments’ various “wish list” requests through Thrift Shop proceeds. Is the Thrift Shop one of Randolph’s best kept secrets Well, not to the dozens who shop there on a daily basis. But to the many who come in for the very first time, it’s a shoppers’ heaven. Thanks to the generosity of people in the community, the Thrift Shop offers a wide variety of goods – clothing of all sizes and colors, children’s books and toys, and everything from knick-knacks to holiday decor for your home. Donations are at an all-time high, and the creativity and dedication of the very capable staff has mushroomed. It’s wonderful. It’s not just the fact that we’ve been able to serve our community at a time when many truly need us – not just want us – it’s a synergistic event; because of our increased revenue, we’ve been able to fulfill the “wish list” of so many departments at the hospital. This just adds to the best kept secret. It’s the stuff that life is all about. The giving. The sharing. The giving back. For example, “wish list” giving has resulted in an exciting new communication system between the Emergency Department and ambulance services that will soon help speed up care for heart attack patients; new interactive training manikins help Gifford caregivers to keep their skills current; and materials are available to help families who are grieving the loss of a loved one. The Auxiliary’s other best kept secret is how easy it is to put your best talents to work. There are so many opportunities for folks to share their knowledge and keep this organization strong. Whether you want to be a cashier at The Thrift Shop, sort donated goods once a month or assist in some other way, the Gifford Auxiliary has room for you. Learn more by calling the Auxiliary at (802) 728-2617. Visit the Thrift Shop (located beside the hospital) at 52 N. Main St., Randolph. Gifford Auxiliary Board members sport hats and mittens knitted by Auxiliary members and donated to six area schools in 2010. From left are, Mickie Richardson, Ruth Lutz, Susan O’Malley, Polly Frankenburg and Kathy Corrao. FACTOID Over the course of five funding requests, beginning in 2008, the Auxiliary has given $105,240 toward hospital programs and equipment purchases. Gifford’s Best Kept Secrets - 16 - Annual Report 2010
Bill and Betsy Arnold both worked for Gifford for decades. Now Betsy is an essential volunteer and founding member of the Chaplaincy Program. A relationship of many decades: Betsy and Bill Arnold, and Gifford in the gifford community To understand Bill and Betsy Arnold’s commitment to Gifford, you have to understand their history with the medical center. It started when Bill moved to Randolph in 1948 as the new Radiology/Lab Manager. At the time, there were only two people in the combined department taking X-rays and drawing blood for all patients. In fact, for more than a year, Bill was the only person in the department, virtually “on call” 24/7. Over time, the departments separated and grew, but one constant was Bill. He spent 52 years at Gifford, retiring in 2000, then continuing part-time and later as a volunteer. For many years there has been another constant in Bill’s life and at Gifford, and that’s his wife Betsy. Betsy moved to Randolph in 1952 and sought out work at Gifford. Bill remembers the very day she walked through the hospital’s back door. She was looking for medical records, and an immediately smitten Bill was happy to show her the way. She was hired and, upon seeing her in the cafeteria afterward, Bill announced to his table of coworkers with complete certainty, “I’m going to marry her.” It took a year of courting, but in 1953 Bill and Betsy were married. Betsy worked in medical records, in the operating and delivery rooms, in coronary care, on the inpatient floor and in the office of a general surgeon until 1975 when arthritis forced her to stop working. She came back as a volunteer in X-ray to help out her husband of 57 years, and in more recent years has been instrumental in establishing and maintaining Gifford’s now 10-year-old volunteer chaplaincy program. FACTOID Volunteers gave more than 14,000 hours of time to Gifford in 2010, helping support the medical center and nursing home’s operations and adding many smiling faces to Gifford’s entryways, offices, hallways and more. It was the reverend at Betsy’s church, Tim Eberhardt, who suggested starting an ecumenical chaplaincy program at Gifford. Betsy and Rev. Eberhardt were among the first people to approach new president, Joe Woodin, with the idea. Ten years later, Betsy is still extremely active in the 20-or-so-member group that provides patients and their families comfort in times of illness, and sometimes loss. Her faith brings her to the group. Her fellow chaplains and the joy of helping others make the now 80-year-old stay. “It’s a wonderful group of people to work with, number one,” she says, adding, “Visiting patients is very rewarding. “I go in and I ask ‘How is your day going’ ‘How is your recuperation’ ‘What can I do for you’ They tell me their stories. Some of the stories are funny and some of them are absolutely amazing.” Gifford Chaplain Susan Thomas calls Betsy “the matriarch of the volunteer chaplains.” “She was instrumental in starting the program at Gifford but also has continued to serve as the historian, the ‘go-to’ person and often the authoritative ‘last word’ on a topic,” Susan says. “I give thanks to God for Betsy, and know she is well-loved by all the other chaplains as well as appreciated by the patients she visits.” “Gifford is home to Bill and me.” Betsy Arnold, Chaplaincy volunteer “You hope that you have given someone some hope and counseling,” Betsy says. “I also tell them (patients) if they have to be in a hospital, this is the one to be in, and they agree.” Annual Report 2010 - 17 - Gifford’s Best Kept Secrets
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