Portfolio May 2019

MAY 2019

GRATEFUL
For CAMP KEMO
Programs Pgs. 2+7

With gratitude, The high cost of health
to donors care and the importance
and friends of your support

With the beginning of any new year, Philanthropic support of Prisma Health—Midlands through
change is often inevitable. In fact, the Prisma Health Midlands Foundation is significant because of
familiar expression is, “the only thing the high cost of health care.
constant is change.” That is certainly true for us as we
change our name from Palmetto Health Foundation to In FY 2018, 67.51 percent of Prisma
Prisma Health Midlands Foundation. Palmetto Health’s Health’s total billings was for patients
integration with Greenville Health System in recent months, without private insurance. Only 15.45
and new brand as Prisma Health, brings new excitement percent of these charges was collected.
and opportunity to the now largest health care system in
South Carolina. The new Prisma Health name reflects the Emergency Medicine/Trauma
diverse, multifaceted nature of the organization and its
team members, as well as the bright future that lies ahead. When people don’t have insurance, they tend to delay seeking
We are excited to be a part of it. health care until a crisis drives them to the Emergency
Department. Accidents happen. Sometimes, those accidents
While our name at the Foundation is new, our mission require trauma services. Prisma Health Richland Hospital
remains the same—to raise funds for the patients and operates a Level I Trauma Center—the only one of its kind in
families of Prisma Health in our community. All funds raised the Midlands.
here will remain at Prisma Health—Midlands.
In FY 2018, trauma charges alone were $150 million but
Health care is changing across the country, and donor only $31.1 million in revenue was collected.
dollars are more vital than ever. We are fortunate to have
you, our donors and friends, as partners in this journey. Children’s Hospital
You have been so very generous, as the following pages
will illustrate, in supporting life-saving equipment and Each year, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands sees
initiatives, and we are forever grateful. In fact, in the last more than 150,000 patient visitors through its inpatient and
fiscal year, 11,813 donors made gifts of $8 million*. This is outpatient facilities. Many complex illnesses and injuries
such an amazing gesture of your care for your neighbors, demand highly specialized care, yet many children’s health care
family and friends. services are not reimbursed.

As we move forward as Prisma Health Midlands Foundation, The Midlands has the least supportive private payer mix and
we hope to continue to have your support as we commit the highest percentage of Medicaid pediatric patients in South
to Prisma Health’s promise to inspire health, serve with Carolina. More than 60 percent of children cared for at Prisma
compassion and be the difference. Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands are Medicaid patients.

Thanks for all you will do to help make that possible. Two out of three Children’s Hospital patients have
health coverage through a government provider.
In health, These reimbursements do not cover the full cost of the
care provided.

New Technology/Innovation

As new health care innovations emerge, Prisma Health—
Midlands can diagnose and treat patients with new technology
and tools. This new technology plays a vital role in recruiting
and retaining the most knowledgeable, skilled physicians at
Prisma Health.

Cash paid for additions to property and equipment totaled
more than $66.2 million in FY 2018.

Samuel J. Tenenbaum On the cover:
President, Prisma Health Midlands Foundation Patient Nireya Gibson (back) and her siblings London, Brooke
and Carmello enjoy quality time at Family Weekend, led by
*includes cash, payments, stock, gift in-kinds and pledges received from CAMP KEMO Programs, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—­
October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Midlands. Family Weekend is a family retreat for families
diagnosed with cancer within the last two years.

Learn more about the impact of community support for

CAMP KEMO Programs on page 7.

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The Impact of Your Gifts Prisma Health Cancer Centers

Of each dollar raised through Prisma Health Cancer Centers is one of the largest
Prisma Health Midlands Foundation in FY 2018: cancer programs in the Southeast. More than 3,000
patients are diagnosed and treated each year.
$.95
Your Gifts At Work:
was spent on technology, programs and services
vital to the mission of Prisma Health—Midlands. $173,000 EBUS System

Last fiscal year, there were
Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is a minimally invasive but
11,813 highly effective procedure used to diagnose lung cancer,

donors who gave to the Foundation. infections and other diseases causing enlarged lymph nodes in

Your investments at work the chest. EBUS allows physicians to perform a technique

Equipment Improvements and Upgrades known as transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) to obtain

$3.8million tissue or fluid samples from the lung. EBUS allows real-time

Patient Care imaging of the airways, blood vessels, lungs and lymph nodes

$3 million and allows the physician to easily view difficult-to-reach areas

Health Education/Community Initiatives and to access more, and smaller, lymph nodes for biopsy rather

$261,000 than using conventional surgery. Patients recover quickly from

this minimally invasive biopsy and go home the same day.

$45,000 Ultrasound Machine

The ultrasound machine helps with anesthetic care of breast
cancer patients, TAP blocks and regional blocks for orthopedic
patients at Prisma Health Richland Hospital.

The Power of Your SURVIVOR: Jenny Honeycutt
Philanthropic Legacy
Jenny was diagnosed at age 28
You may give to a specific area of care, an endowment with acute myeloid leukemia
or the area of greatest need. If you have included and was admitted to Prisma
Prisma Health Midlands Foundation in your estate Health Richland Hospital. She
plans, let us know. was in and out of the hospital
for a total of 126 days over the
To explore how you can give to a specific area of course of six months, but even
Prisma Health—Midlands, call Prisma Health Midlands after multiple rounds of
Foundation at 803-434-7275. chemotherapy, Jenny relapsed.
This required additional
Our team will assist you in finding creative charitable hospitalizations and
solutions that best meet your philanthropic interests chemotherapy treatments at
and financial situation. All gifts are carefully managed Prisma Health Richland Hospital.
in accordance with your wishes. On her 30th birthday, October
21, 2015, Jenny underwent a
Prisma Health Midlands Foundation Mission: bone marrow transplant and has
Engaging community partners to enhance been cancer-free since.
health care for patients and families served
by Prisma Health—Midlands. “Prisma Health Cancer Centers saved my life. They treated a
serious diagnosis with excellent care. On top of that, they
treated me like a human being. I’d even go as far as saying
they treated me like family,” Jenny said. “Because of the
Cancer Centers, I am a happy survivor who is eternally
grateful to have a second chance at life.”

Learn more about Jenny’s cancer journey at
PrismaHealthMidlandsFoundation.org.

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Prisma Health Breast Center

Prisma Health Breast Center is fully accredited by SURVIVOR: Amy Rodriguez
the American College of Radiology (ACR). It is a
Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, having
achieved ACR high standards for quality, staff and
advanced technology.

39,718 Mammograms
(screening and diagnostic)

performed in 2018 at Prisma Health Breast Center

Your Gifts At Work:

$196,000 Hologic® Affirm®
Prone Biopsy Table

Last year, 199 patients had a biopsy using this latest
technology. 51 patients had a positive biopsy result.

$311,000 3D Mammography Unit Amy and Tony Rodriguez had their wedding date set for
September 2, 2017. Tony had recently moved back to South
Funded for Prisma Health Breast Center at Baptist Hospital. 3D Carolina from Michigan to begin their lives together. In April
mammography (also called digital breast tomosynthesis, digital 2017, Amy noticed what looked like a stretch mark on her right
tomosynthesis or just tomosynthesis) creates a 3D picture of breast. She didn’t think much of it until she saw a social media
the breast using x-rays. Images from different angles around article called, “The One Sign You May Be Overlooking.” She
the breast are used to create the 3D image. 3D imaging is the normally didn’t read articles like this, but she decided to read
preferred imaging for patients with dense breast tissue. Last this one. The article discussed dimpling and
breast cancer. It was this passage that
year, 6,618 mammograms (screening and diagnostic) brought Amy to ask her sister, a pediatrician,
to feel around the mark. She immediately felt
were performed using the 3D technology. the lump.

$22,000 Ultrasound Probe Amy was referred to Prisma Health Breast
Center where she had a 3D mammogram
An additional breast ultrasound probe was funded to perform and biopsy that diagnosed her with breast cancer. Doctors
originally thought the lump was small, but it turned out to be
breast exams for 6,618 patients last year at Prisma Health four centimeters of stranding carcinoma. The couple was
shocked.
Baptist Parkridge Hospital.

“The first month is the hardest, until you decide on a treatment
plan,” Tony said.

Tiffany Winslow, Amy’s nurse navigator at the Breast Center,
provided the couple with a road map of treatment options and
helped Amy and Tony figure out how to maintain normalcy
throughout Amy’s treatment.

“Cancer is awful,” Amy said. “It is. But
even though that was one of the hardest
years of my life, it was also one of the
most beautiful. It really restored my
faith in humanity.”

In 1987, the state’s first mobile mammography van was funded Learn more about Amy’s journey at
for the Breast Center. Since that time, Foundation funds have PrismaHealthMidlandsFoundation.org.
been used to purchase the latest technology for the mobile unit.

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The Sandra and Leon Levine
Pediatric Inpatient
Rehabilitation Center

Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands is Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands will soon be the
South Carolina’s first freestanding children’s home of South Carolina’s first pediatric inpatient rehabilitation
hospital and has central South Carolina’s only program. Each year, there are more than 150,000 children’s
Children’s Emergency Center. There are more than visits to Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands. Some
150,000 children’s visits each year. children experience a life-altering condition or injury and
require specialized rehabilitation. Because an inpatient pediatric
rehabilitation program does not currently exist in South Carolina,
patients and families are faced with challenges when they have
to go out-of-state for care. The Sandra and Leon Levine Pediatric
Inpatient Rehabilitation Center at Prisma Health Children’s
Hospital—Midlands will bridge this gap. The anticipated opening
of the center is late summer 2019.

Last fiscal year, $323,000 in donor funds were used to

begin updating eight patient rooms in the center. The total

fundraising campaign, $800,000, will provide specialized

equipment for the center.

To lend your support, contact Diane Junis at 803-434-2832
or [email protected].

The Child Life team at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands.

Naomi Johnson’s miraculous progress
highlights importance of having a
ILD LI Funded entirely by USC Dance Marathon

CH $ Dedicated to helping children and families master pediatric inpatient rehabilitation
health care experience and cope with the stress of center close to home
06 0 0,0 0hospitalization through play, preparation/support,
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PECIA education and self-expression.
$
$
In May 2011, Wendy Johnson and her
275,00
LTIES More than 30 subspecialists trained in areas of care husband, Chris, had just moved into
UCATI including—Cardiology, Child Abuse Pediatrics, Child a new home in Orangeburg. They
$ Development and Behavioral Health, Endocrinology, had celebrated the finalization of their
SUBS $ Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Neurology, Urology. daughter, Naomi’s adoption earlier that
week. The new home’s backyard pool
0$15,0 00

VOUC was in disrepair and the Johnsons looked

$ forward to fixing the pool and swimming

ED $18,0 00 ON Educational tools and training together. Wendy had just checked on

ILD ABU on dysphagia, epilepsy, endocrinology, injury Naomi, who was playing outside with

$ prevention, diabetes, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Wendy’s two grandsons, when the boys ran inside. The oldest

219,00 shouted, “Baby’s in the pool!” Although the pool was surrounded

by two fences, the boys had managed to open one of the gates.

Wendy saw that Naomi was floating face down in about two feet

MEAL HERS Meal vouchers provided to patients and families of rainwater that had collected in the pool.

with financial limitations during their hospital stay. Naomi was taken to the nearest hospital and then transported to

Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands. She was cared for

Child Abuse Medical Assessment Program in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and remained in an induced

This program protects Midlands children from coma for 11 days. Her condition was still critical and it was not

CH
0
SE dangerous abuse or neglect situations. Funding clear whether Naomi would wake up.
$
supported special forensic equipment and timely

medical evaluations by qualified, trained child abuse Learn more about Naomi’s journey and miraculous

pediatricians and advanced level providers. recovery at PrismaHealthMidlandsFoundation.org.

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Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals CMN Hospitals fundraising events

Prisma Health Children’s Hospital— $1,091,000
Midlands has been a member of Children’s
Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN Hospitals) USC Dance Marathon March 2018
since 1985.
Congratulations to USC Dance Marathon for being the
49CMN Hospitals fundraising is% #9 program out of 324 Dance Marathon programs across
the country.
of Children’s Hospital

22%total giving and of all giving at Prisma Health
Midlands Foundation.

Nearly
1.77$ was raised through
million CMN Hospitals partners,
events and initiatives in FY18.

Thank you to our top fundraising partners and events!

Walmart and Sam’s Club Extra Life

Publix Love’s Travel Stops

Palmetto Citizens Federal Credit Union Ace Hardware

(Credit Unions for Kids and CO-OP) Log A Load

Costco Great Clips

Jersey Mike’s Subs Sunshine Thrift Store

Little Miss South Carolina Pageants Rite Aid

RE/MAX

Outstanding partner locations

• Phi Delta Epsilon: SC Alpha #6 of 73 chapters
• Great Clips Rosewood Village, Columbia: #24 of

1,280 locations
• Publix at Gervais Place, Columbia: #16 of 1,187 locations

Thank you to Zoe Tipping for representing Prisma Health 200,000$
Children’s Hospital—Midlands as 2018 Children’s Miracle Including in-kind donations
Network Hospitals Champion!
Children’s Hospital Radiothon
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Thank you to Cumulus Media in Columbia for your support of
Radiothon 2018.

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Children’s Center for Cancer and Mimi Driscoll (center) and her sisters enjoy a silly memory
Blood Disorders at Prisma Health making photo shoot at Family Weekend.
Children’s Hospital—Midlands

Children and families faced with cancer and blood
disorders are cared for at the Children’s Center for
Cancer and Blood Disorders at Prisma Health
Children’s Hospital—Midlands. The center is the
oldest and largest facility of its kind in South Carolina.

CAMP KEMO Programs of Prisma Health
Children’s Hospital—Midlands focus on providing
psychosocial support to the families and children
affected by cancer and blood disorders.

Programs are designed to educate, inspire and support the
entire family so life is more manageable and enjoyable. It is
important to provide emotional support from the moment of
diagnosis through the end of treatment and beyond. This
includes late effects clinics for long term survivors and
bereavement support for families whose children do not
survive. CAMP KEMO Programs are fully funded with
community support.

$320,000 CAMP KEMO Programs

Your Gifts At Work for CAMP KEMO Programs:

$108,000 CAMP KEMO $8,500 Camp Burnt Gin

$2,900 Bereavement Events $19,000 Lasting Impressions
Teen Retreats
$7,000 Family Weekend
$23,000
$8,700 Camp New Horizons Psychosocial testing
and supplies
$16,000 Toy Box Program $2,000 TRACE Clinic
$1,100 GRACE dinners
$1,000 Brain Tumor Clinic
$1,700 Mother’s Group
$2,900 Bereavement (L-R) Teonna Fields (patient) and Malcom
$4,500 Sickle Cell Resources Montgomery (patient and counselor) enjoy arts and
crafts at CAMP KEMO.
Teen Retreat $13,500 Gas cards and

$2,500 Sickle Cell meal vouchers

Family Picnic

Dr. Carla 25,000$ Improve Care Now
Roberts and
Jiajah Lloyd Improve Care Now (ICN) is a countrywide network of hospitals,
enjoy a sweet physicians, researchers, patients and their caregivers striving to
moment improve the quality of care and quality of life of children living
together after with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). IBD includes ulcerative
the local colitis and Crohn’s disease, which are chronic inflammatory
Hemophilia disorders of the gastrointestinal tract diagnosed in adolescence
Chapter’s Ice and young adulthood. Prisma Health Children’s Hospital
Cream Sundae has enrolled into the program more than 100 patients with
event at Camp ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
Burnt Gin.

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Signature Fundraising Events

Walk for Life and Famously Hot Pink KEMOPALOOZA
Half Marathon, 5K + 10K
presented by Aflac, March 2018
presented by Nephron, October 2017 benefiting CAMP KEMO Programs of Prisma Health
benefiting Prisma Health Breast Center Children’s Hospital—Midlands

$744,000 $123,000

including in-kind donations including in-kind donations

Festival of Trees Golf Classic

presented by Aflac, November 2017 presented by Aflac, April 2018
benefiting Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands benefiting Prisma Health Cancer Centers

$243,000 $164,000

including in-kind donations including in-kind donations

Event totals in this issue may differ from announced totals due to various closing dates in the calendar year versus fiscal year.
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Other Special Projects, Campaigns and Philanthropic Partners

Miracle Team My Special Aflac Duck™

presented by Palmetto Health Credit Union In September,
Prisma Health—Midlands team member giving campaign longtime Foundation
partner, Aflac,
$273,000 delivered My Special
Aflac Duck™ to
Midlands Gives children facing cancer
at Prisma Health
50 donors Children’s Hospital—
Support of a Portable CT Scanner for Neuroscience Midlands. My Special
at Prisma Health—Midlands Aflac Duck is a social
robot that uses
$5,200 medical play, lifelike movement and emotions to engage and
help comfort kids during their cancer care.
Curing Kids Cancer
Curing Kids Cancer presented $150,000 to the Foundation

to support their $1.2 million endowment benefiting the
Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Prisma
Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands.

(L-R): Finnegan Owen; Dr. Caughman Taylor, Sr. medical director, (l-r) Dr. Stuart Cramer, Aflac medical director, Children’s Center for
Children’s Hospital; Samuel Tenenbaum, president, Prisma Health Cancer and Blood Disorders, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—
Midlands Foundation; Grainne Owen, co-founder, Curing Kids Cancer; Midlands; patient Delilah Price; Rich Williams, chief distribution officer,
Dr. Stuart Cramer, Aflac medical director, Children’s Hospital, and Aflac; Dan Amos, CEO, Aflac; Virgil Miller, chief operating officer, Aflac
Garrett Owen. U.S.; Samuel Tenenbaum, President, Prisma Health Midlands Foundation;
patient Trystan Jackson; patient Alexis McKay; Aaron Horowitz, inventor
Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit and Sproutel CEO, and patient Alexander Montes

Prisma Health has the only Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit Hannah’s Garden
(NSICU) in the Midlands. After a stroke, aneurysm or other
neurological injury or condition, patients are fragile, and it is 118,000$ was raised last fiscal year for the
not uncommon for these patients to require multiple CT scans Hannah’s Garden project.
daily. Moving these patients has the potential to expose them
to everyday illnesses and increase bodily stress. The Samsung 615,000$ total funds have been raised. Hannah’s
Omnitom® Portable CT Scanner would eliminate unnecessary Garden is anticipated to open next year.
transports of NSICU patients to other areas of the hospital and
scans to be performed in a patient’s room, allowing providers to Hannah Rogers’ passion for gardening, creative green spaces
make quicker treatment decisions. The Prisma Health Midlands and tranquil environments will help bring a dream to reality
Foundation Board of Directors jumpstarted a campaign to raise — Hannah’s Garden, at the Children’s Center for Cancer and
$150,000 towards the purchase of the new scanner. Last year, Blood Disorders, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands.
more than $36,000 was raised towards this goal and fundraising Hannah’s Garden will offer a warm, welcoming space on the
has continued into the next fiscal year. Prisma Health—Midlands roof top outside the Kevin Berry Rogers Children’s Infusion
will be one of the first hospital systems in the Southeast to have Center, where children receive treatment for cancer and
this portable CT scanner technology. blood disorders. It is the Rogers’ wish to have an inviting green
space where children undergoing treatment and their families
To learn how you can support this campaign or take a tour will enjoy sunshine and fresh air in a peaceful space featuring
of the NSICU, contact Katherine Davis at 803-434-2826 or Mexican beach stone, water features, benches and native
[email protected]. South Carolina plants.

To support Hannah’s Garden, contact Maria DeHart at
803-296-2175 or [email protected]

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Other Special Projects, Campaigns and Funds

Bernice Smith Cancer Fund Raymond P.H. Bynoe, MD Surgical
Trauma Unit at Prisma Health
The Bernice Smith Cancer Fund is a patient assistance fund Richland Hospital
that hospital clinicians and social workers can access to help
alleviate the suffering of cancer patients who have very limited
financial means. Funds are used to help cover the cost of
medication, medical supplies and limited home health for
patients after they leave the hospital.

$5,000Last fiscal year, nearly was allocated to support

patients who have had a total laryngectomy (removal of the

“voice box”) due to head and neck cancer. These funds covered

the cost of voice prostheses and related supplies, literally

helping restore the ability to speak for these individuals. The

voice prosthesis works by connecting the trachea (airway)

and the esophagus (food tube), allowing for air flow for sound

production and verbal communication while preventing food

and liquid from entering into the lungs. Without support from

the Bernice Smith Cancer Fund, 10 patients would have been

left unable to communicate or unable to receive the related

supplies, as these devices are very expensive and not typically $82,000 Raymond P.H. Bynoe, MD

covered by insurance.

Women’s Services Since 1980, Prisma Health Richland Hospital’s Trauma Center
has held a Level I designation, the highest ranking a hospital
$4,500 70 Graco Pack ‘n Play Cribs can achieve. It is the only Level I Trauma Center in the Midlands

Graco Pack ‘n Play cribs for new parents were funded for new and serves an average of 3,600 trauma patients
parents who met financial criteria after attending a Safe Sleep annually. Trauma Team services are available 24 hours a
Class at Prisma Health Richland Hospital.
day, seven days a week and include six critical care ambulances
and an air ambulance with a dedicated, specially-trained
medical crew.

Last fiscal year, Prisma Health renovated and opened the
Raymond P.H. Bynoe, MD Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit.
The unit was named after Raymond P.H. Bynoe, MD, founding
physician of the Prisma Health Richland Hospital Trauma program.

$70,000 Hospice and Home Health To learn more about the Raymond P.H. Bynoe, MD
Surgical Trauma Unit at Prisma Health Richland
Remote patient monitors to help reduce Hospital, contact Maria DeHart at 803-296-2175 or
hospital readmission [email protected].
Bereavement materials and resources for
children and families Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Patient support: 202,000$
Giraffe Omnibed Carestations
6 hospice families received assistance with burial/cremation
Five Giraffe Omnibed Carestations were funded last fiscal
of their loved one. year by donors, including the Arnold Family through their
endowment. The NICU at Prisma Health Richland Hospital is
16 hospice and home health patients received assistance equipped to care for 69 babies at a time, averaging about 800
babies annually. The addition of the five new Giraffe Omnibeds
with keeping their electricity on. brings the fleet of Giraffe Omnibeds to 15.

29 hospice and home health patients received assistance The Foundation continues to seek funds to grow the fleet of
Giraffe Omnibeds. On an average day, the NICU cares for 30
with purchasing food. or more babies between 23 and 30 weeks gestation who would
benefit from the optimal environment a Giraffe Omnibed
16 hospice and home health patients received 2-way can provide.

transportation for medical appointments.

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Giving Annually and Getting Results: Annual Giving Societies

Women’s Leadership Circle, benefiting Women and The Atrium Society and The Cavalry, benefiting
Children Services at Prisma Health—Midlands Prisma Health Cancer Centers
37 members Atrium Society: The Cavalry:
Funded last fiscal year: 68 members 40 members, age 40 and under
Celebrated 25 years!
4,500$
Low level laser for breast cancer patients
A low level laser was funded for Physical Therapy Specialists The Atrium Society and The Cavalry fueled an important
to use with breast cancer patients, to help reduce swelling
associated with lymphedema. acquisition with $100,000 raised in FY18. A Medtronic
BarrX™ radiofrequency ablation system, at a cost of $145,000,
6,800$
Rapid Infuser and Hyperthermia Pump was funded through the societies and the cancer fund. The
This specialized infuser uses patented electromagnetic
induction heating and allows the Surgical Trauma Intensive BarrX™ system allows physicians to treat a pre-cancerous
Care Unit team to infuse blood products and fluids rapidly
into patients experiencing massive blood loss. Without this condition in the esophagus and, in many cases, prevent the
equipment, the team would have to rely on a manual process,
which delays the infusion of lifesaving products. condition from developing into cancer. Prisma Health-USC

650$ Medical Group is the first to offer BarrX™ treatment in the
Arts of Healing Program
A mobile art exhibit, in partnership with Heathwood Hall Midlands. An estimated 2,200 patients benefited
Episcopal School students, for the Acute Care for the Elderly from this treatment last year.
(ACE) Unit at Prisma Health Richland Hospital.
Dr. Julian Kim, medical director for Oncology at Prisma Health, and
Women’s longtime Atrium Society donor, Bebie Chambers, visit at the Atrium
Leadership Circle Society 25th Anniversary Celebration.
Member Sheila
Davis (l) and Dr.
Fredric Mau,
LPC, NCC, DCC,
D.Min., M.A., M.Div.
of Watermark
Hypnosis and
Brief Counseling
demonstrate
hypnosis during
a session that
focused on
hypnotic stress
relief for life and
work last fiscal year.

Champions Society and Why We Give to
Rising Champions Children’s Hospital through
benefiting Prisma Health Children’s Rising Champions:
Hospital—Midlands Mary and Chris Burke
Champions Society: 55 members
Rising Champions: 35 members, Our own experience at Prisma Health began with a
age 40 and under 72-day stay at the NICU with our second daughter
Champions Society and Rising who was a micro-preemie. Although it was stressful,
Champions members collectively the excellent care we received from Prisma Health
Baptist Hospital eased the difficulty. In addition to
contributed nearly $75,000 to the NICU, we have also benefitted from having
pediatric specialty care available in a moment’s
support pediatric subspecialty notice. From doctor visits to a short stay in the
programs at Children’s Hospital. hospital last fall, we find great comfort in the fact
that there are 24-hour specialists in our own backyard. Supporting the Rising
Champions cannot prevent the unexpected from happening, but it can help guarantee
immediate access to the best pediatric care in the Midlands. We are thankful for the
support of the community in recognizing the value of a well-equipped children’s
hospital. As parents, we look forward to continuing the legacy of giving that has been
so faithfully established in years past.

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The expertise and dedication of our board members is reflected in their extraordinary
contibutions to Prisma Health Midlands Foundation.

Prisma Health Midlands Prisma Health Prisma Health Children’s
Foundation Board Cancer Centers Board Hospital—Midlands Board

Brian Dunphy, Chair Charles R. Vernon, Jr., Chair Barbara Koosa Ryan, Chair
Drew Painter, Chair Elect Allison Horne, Chair Elect Andrew Lucas, Chair Elect
Jill Armbruster Alice Adams Drs. Stan and Ellen Adkins
Emily Brady Bedenbaugh Frances Brown Anderson Valerie M. Aiken
Susan Brill Mary Ellen Barnwell Diane Bagnal-Moody
Eleanor Clark O. Kip Dillihay II Brad Blackburn
Virginia Crocker Elizabeth “Beth” Frost Scott A. Bonnette
Dan D’Alberto Jeanette K. Fulton, MD Ben Brantley
Mary Dailey Kara Hamilton Heyward Cathcart
Bill Duda Beth McCamey Harris Timothy E. Davis
Ryan Dukes Kathryn Harris Ryan Dukes
Ben Green Jenny Honeycutt Michele B. Frazier
Jeff Griffin Brittany Huey Shelton W. Haile
Jonathan Ingram Carol Ivey Jay Hamm
Pam Jenkins Audrey Korsgaard Drew Hampton
Elizabeth Nkuo Johnson Sara Krisnow James Hennessy
Claire Breedin Jones John T. Lay Victor Iskersky, MD
Scott Jones Kathy Mercer Everett A. Kendall, II
Alan Kahn Kathleen Muthig Bill LaMotte
Jane Kulbersh Leigh Gignilliat Pound Deitra Matthews
Joel Lourie Satish Prabhu, MD Chris Pricenor
Reed Mattingly Donna Graham Rone Tyler Priester
Bill McElveen Elizabeth Woodring Ross Brenda Rankin
Virgil Miller April Sampson Laura Rickenmann, MD
Michael Montgomery Georgette Sandifer Katie Schanz
Graeme Moore Ronald Scott Darrell Scott
Margaret Nevill Lindsey McCallister Strickland Caughman Taylor, MD
Rita Patel Kristin Epting Sullivan Katherine Thompson
Bill Quattlebaum John Anderson Thompson, III Chappell Wilson
Cary Smith James Lance Tripp Ernie Yarborough
Jill Smith W. Bruce Truluck Debbie Zvejnieks
William W. West III

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Palmetto Health
Fiscal Year 2018 Statistical Profile Oct.1, 2017 – Sept. 30, 2018

Oct. 1, 2017 - Sept. 30, 2018 Palmetto Health Palmetto Health Palmetto Health Palmetto Health Palmetto Health
Baptist Baptist Parkridge Richland (including Tuomey
Admissions Children’s Hospital 1,352
Number of licensed beds 352 76 and Heart Hospital) 283 72,349
Inpatient admissions 22,720 5,274 10,436
Births 641 7,205
Surgical Procedures 2,866 660 33,919 1,296
Inpatient 3,687 1,531 1,859 15,041
Outpatient 8,382 7,758 2,383 4,050 31,897
Open heart procedures 7,964
Catheterization lab procedures 847 21,613 11,707 528 377
Patient Days 89,111 59 52,464 12,580
Adult and pediatric (including newborns) 377
Average daily census 244 4.10 11,205 144 384,659
Average length of stay (in days) 3.92 34,762 221,471 5.03 1,054
Outpatient Services 46,048 110,838 61,463 5.32
Emergency Department visits 248,759 607 143,322
Outpatient visits 4,099 696 6.53 236,923
(including ED, O/P and other clinics) 123 94,650 1,596 1,075,297
HomeCare admissions 2,016 572,378 125
Mammograms 217 302 4,099
Team Members 4,995 547 34,256
Total team members 744 616 216
System team members (including RNs) 183 15,734*
Volunteers (includes 44 Hospice volunteers) 802 1,673 2,005
Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group 725
Baptist Easley (performance is reported by 884 2,245
Greenville Health System) 728
Registered nurses
(including full-time, part-time and PRNs) 4,218**
Medical Staff
Physicians 2,485
Of 2,485 physicians, 771 have privileges on
multiple campuses including Baptist, Baptist 1,100
Parkridge, Children’s Hospital, Heart Hospital,
Richland and Tuomey.
Palmetto Health Quality
Collaborative Physicians
Includes nearly 533 physicians (116 primary care
and specialty practices) in the Palmetto Health-
USC Medical Group.

*Figure includes hospital, ambulatory services and system team members, Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group, Baptist Easley and volunteers.
**Figure includes 464 Palmetto Health system, 211 Baptist Easley and 277 Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group registered nurses.

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