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DearFriends Welcome to the spring issue of NSMCGiving featuring the annual Honor Roll of Donors—our chance to publically recognize the many friends, supporters and generous contributors who made 2011 such a banner year for North Shore Medical Center. High among the major accomplishments of the past 12 months was the successful completion of the Best Care, Right Place campaign, celebrated at an event on May 18 at the Peabody Essex Museum. At this event, former Salem Hospital Trustee Michael Davenport told NSMC President and CEO Bob Norton and assembled guests that the $1 million Davenport Challenge had been met, thus completing the overarching $15 million capital drive. Another fundraising milestone was reached last year when the 21st annual North Shore Cancer WALK/RUN crossed the $1 million mark for the first time in more than four years and attracted a record-breaking crowd of nearly 6,000 walkers and more than 500 runners. This issue introduces you to this year’s WALK Chair—Jason Maxwell—who is making every effort to ensure that this year’s event on Sunday, June 24, 2012 will be just as successful. This year’s Cancer WALK/RUN is vitally important to NSMC as a major portion of the event’s proceeds will be applied to the renovation of the inpatient oncology unit on Davenport 9, the next project upgrade in the series of major improvements being made to the Salem Campus. We extend our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of individuals, corporations, foundations and families who provided valuable philanthropic support to North Shore Medical Center in 2011, across a variety of programs. Your endorsement of our work is making our medical center stronger and is ensuring that we are able to provide the very best care in this region to those who count on us. Again, thank you and all the best wishes of the springtime to you. Sincerely, Richard C. Bane NSMC Trustee Chairman, Development Committee NSMCGiving | Spring 2012 Sara J. Andrews Senior Vice President for Development NSMCGiving is a publication of the North Shore Medical Center Development Office. It is published two times a year for supporters and friends of NSMC. Comments, questions and suggestions should be addressed to: Sara Andrews, Senior Vice President for Development 978-825-6250, sandrews1@partners.org NSMCGiving / NSMC Development Office 81 Highland Avenue – ED Ground, Salem, MA 01970 Please write to us at the above address if you wish to have your name removed from our distribution list for future fundraising materials designed to support North Shore Medical Center. smcGiving nsmcGiving | Spring 2012 LACING UP TO FIGHT CANCER (continued from page 1) Cancer survivor Ray Levesque of Saugus with his oncologist James Weitzman, M.D. LAST YEAR’S CANCER WALK/RUN featured record-breaking crowds and topped the $1 million mark for the first time in four years. Beginning in August, some of those funds will be used toward a $4 million renovation of NSMC’s inpatient oncology unit. This project follows the $50 million in improvements already made to the Salem Campus over the past four years supported by the successful $15 million Best Care, Right Place campaign, which concluded last spring. continued on page 4 Cover photo: Ray Levesque of Saugus will be lacing up for this year’s North Shore Cancer WALK/RUN to celebrate his successful battle with lymphoma. Levesque was treated at both the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center and the inpatient oncology unit at NSMC Salem Hospital. nsmcgiving.org | Page 3
nsmcGiving | Spring 2012 LACING UP TO FIGHT CANCER (continued from page 3) Located on the ninth floor of the Davenport Building, the inpatient oncology unit serves cancer patients who require specific forms of chemotherapy that can only be delivered in an inpatient setting or who need specialized care as a result of complications from chemotherapy. Ray Levesque of Saugus is one of those patients. In September 2010, the 55-year-old marketing executive was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. “I’d been having abdominal pain for about three weeks,” Levesque recalls. “I was about to leave for vacation in Bermuda and didn’t want to feel lousy while I was away, so I figured I’d have it checked out. It never occurred to me that the pain could be a sign of something serious.” Levesque received his diagnosis the day after he returned from vacation, when he says his treatment went into “hyper-speed.” After a week in NSMC’s intensive care unit for treatment of internal bleeding associated with his lymphoma, Levesque began a “While our current facilities allow us to provide effective clinical care, we saw a need to create a more comfortable, supportive environment that will make it easier for patients to focus on their health and well-being.” BUILDING A BETTER INPATIENT ONCOLOGY UNIT JAMES WEITZMAN, M.D. In 2009, North Shore Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital expanded their long-standing collaboration and opened the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center in Danvers, a state-of-the-art facility offering the highest quality cancer treatment north of Boston. When completed, the renovated inpatient oncology unit at NSMC Salem Hospital will provide an equally superior experience for patients and families. Set to begin this summer, the renovation will include: • Six private rooms • Family space for overnight stays • Enhanced caregiver workspace • Exposure to natural light course of chemotherapy that included six outpatient sessions at the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center in Danvers plus three inpatient sessions on Davenport 9, under the care of Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center oncologist James Weitzman, M.D. “From diagnosis through treatment, cancer exacts a physical and emotional toll on patients,” says Dr. Weitzman. “While our current facilities allow us to provide effective clinical care, we saw a need to create a more comfortable, supportive environment that will make it easier for patients to focus on their health and well-being.” As part of the renovation, the inpatient oncology unit’s six private patient rooms will be redesigned to include family space for overnight stays. An enhanced caregiver area in each room combined with centralized resources will improve overall efficiency. Levesque, who today is in total remission and “feeling great,” has a good idea of the difference these planned changes will make. He recently spent a few days in NSMC’s recently renovated Phippin Building following a knee replacement and describes the patient rooms there as “spectacular.” As Dr. Weitzman looks ahead to this year’s Cancer WALK/RUN, he’s reminded of the advances it makes possible and the reason he chose to become an oncologist. “It’s the nature of cancer that we have good days and sad days in our practice,” he says. “The WALK/RUN is a day we celebrate all of the lives we touch.” CANCER WALK/RUN SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2012 The 22nd annual North Shore Cancer WALK (6.2 miles) and 3rd annual North Shore Cancer RUN (3.1 miles) will both begin in Salem Willows Park and travel through historic downtown Salem. All proceeds will support cancer treatment and programs at North Shore Medical Center and the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center. For more information, call 866-296-6900 or visit: www.northshorecancerwalk.org. Jason Maxwell Named Chairman of 2012 Cancer WALK/RUN Jason Maxwell was nine years old when his father lost his battle with liver cancer at the age of 35. “During his illness, my dad often traveled to Baltimore for treatment at The Johns Hopkins Hospital,” says Maxwell, now himself the father of four young daughters. “Needless to say, it was hard for me and my siblings to be separated from him while he was sick. Thanks to the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center, patients in our community don’t have to leave home to get the best in cancer care.” “I really am fed up with the disease. That’s why I want to make this year’s Cancer WALK/RUN the most successful yet.” Maxwell credits his father for instilling in him a strong fighting spirit. This legacy is part of what drove him to join the battle against cancer when he participated in his first North Shore Cancer WALK in 2006 and, two years later, to form his own team, Fed Up With Cancer. “After losing my father in 1988, my brother-in-law in 2007 and seeing how cancer has touched the lives of so many of my friends and colleagues, I really am fed up with the disease,” says Maxwell. “That’s why I want to make this year’s Cancer WALK/RUN the most successful yet.” A resident of Saugus, Maxwell is president of MassPay, a Beverly-based company he started in 2004 that offers small- and mid-sized business owners a full suite of services to support their payroll, insurance and human resources needs. Page 4 | nsmcgiving.org nsmcgiving.org | Page 5
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