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MARCH 15, 2023 VOLUME 39, NUMBER 5
Health systems align philanthropy, community benefit for more impact By JULIE MINDA
When philanthropy and community benefit practitioners within a health system unite, they can increase their work’s efficiency, tap into new resources, draw on one another’s expertise and have greater impact in their communities. Community benefit and philanthropy leaders at Avera Health, Providence St. Joseph Health and SSM Health say their systems are particularly intentional about marrying their philanthropic and community benefit efforts aimed at such priorities
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as behavioral health, health equity and social determinants of health. “We can have a tremendous impact on the people we serve … when we are all pushing in the same direction,” says Sandy Koller, chief philanthropy officer of SSM Health.
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impact on the people we serve … when we are all pushing
A volunteer helps a camper decorate a memory box at Camp GLOW, a grief support day camp in Waunakee, Wisconsin. Attendance is free thanks to the support of donors to the SSM Health at Home Foundation of Wisconsin. GLOW stands for Giving Loved Ones Wings.
in the same direction.” — Sandy Koller
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CHRISTUS Santa Rosa partners with nonprofit to check that hearts of teenagers are healthy
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Trauma recovery center helps patients overcome impacts of violence By LISA EISENHAUER
AugustHeart
By LISA EISENHAUER
After Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during the “Monday Night Football” game Jan. 2, the phone at AugustHeart started ringing. AugustHeart provides free electrocardiograms for middle- and high school-aged students at events it stages in and around San Antonio. Students and parents who were shocked into action by the televised collapse of a 24-year-old professional athlete wanted to take advantage of the San Antonio-based nonprofit’s next screening to check for undetected heart conditions.
In the shadow of Atlanta skyscrapers, Sweet Auburn is a historic cradle of the nonviolent civil rights movement. Rev. Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. was born, preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and is buried in the urban neighborhood. Here, his widow Coretta Scott King leads a celebratory 1995 march down Auburn Avenue. Trinity Health and its members Saint Joseph Health System and Mercy Care are investing in affordable housing and expanding health care access in the neighborhood.
A teenager undergoes an electrocardiogram during a screening event in January at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — Alamo Heights in San Antonio. The screening was a collaboration between CHRISTUS Santa Rosa and AugustHeart, a nonprofit that provides the heart tests without charge to teenagers. At this event, 167 teenagers underwent testing.
When the staff of the Mercy Health — Toledo Trauma Recovery Center in Ohio began working with a 36-year-old man and his 4-year-old son last August, the pair were homeless. The father was the victim of domestic violence. He had suffered a history of family violence before that. The center provided counseling and other support for the man and boy. The pair had moved into a home in January, but the center paid to relocate them to a safer one, away from the person who had physically assaulted the father for years. OraLee Macklenar, the center’s supervisor, says the father’s life has stabilized. He is working full time and providing for his son. “He and his child are doing better emotionally, and he is focusing on Continued on 2