Day Kimball Healthcare has launched a capital campaign seeking $3 million to rebuild the emergency department of the Putnam hospital.
For Peter Deary, former Day Kimball board chair and owner of Sunnyside Farms, the campaign touches close to home. Deary credits Day Kimball Hospital’s emergency department with saving his life. Twice.
“I was hit in a head-on auto collision in which the driver of the other car did not survive,” said Deary. “The doctors at Day Kimball saved my life from the accident and in the process detected that I had kidney cancer, which they ultimately caught early enough to cure. To say that I’m indebted to this wonderful hospital is an understatement.”
Deary and his wife, Kimberly Lane, an advanced practice registered nurse at Day Kimball Healthcare, have stepped forward as co-chairs of the “Care in a Heartbeat” Campaign.
A “quiet phase” of the campaign already has netted $2 million through leadership donations from individuals and businesses. Now, another $1 million needs to be raised from the community to meet the $3 million fundraising goal. This phase of the campaign is being co-chaired by Karen and Gary Osbrey, owners of WINY radio.
The $2 million netted during the “quiet phase” of the Campaign came from individual donors, the physician community and local businesses, including major gifts from:
• Steven and Marjolaine Townsend of Brooklyn: $500,000.
• The Citizens National Bank, David Conrad, President & CEO, Putnam: $250,000.
• The Center for Bone and Joint Care, Putnam: $120,000.
• Linemaster Switch Corp., Joseph Carlone, Jr., executive vice president, Woodstock: $100,000.
• Dr. Michael and Denise Baum, Pomfret: $50,000.
Day Kimball Hospital’s emergency department was constructed in 1970 with renovations done in 1990 and was designed to serve 18,000 patients per year. Today, the department cares for over 30,000 people annually, with forecasts indicating that number will get bigger over the next few years.
“The current emergency department is too small based on present-day volume and architectural standards, lacks privacy, and inhibits physician and staff recruitment,” said Dr. Douglas Waite, Day Kimball vice president of medical affairs and quality.
Pamela Watts, Day Kimball Healthcare’s director of development, is handling campaign inquiries. Information is also available at www.daykimball.org.
Day Kimball Healthcare is a non-profit, integrated medical services network comprised of Day Kimball Hospital, healthcare centers in Danielson, Plainfield, Dayville, Thompson and Putnam, Day Kimball HomeCare, Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern CT, Day Kimball HomeMakers and Day Kimball Physician Practices. It has more than 1,200 employees.
Grants awarded for parent leadership training
Parents in 16 towns and cities across Connecticut will receive training on how to become effective leaders in their communities, thanks to grants recently awarded by the Parent Trust Fund, an initiative of the Connecticut General Assembly.
Programs supported by the Parent Trust Fund include the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI), a nationally recognized civics initiative of the Connecticut Commission on Children; People Empowering People (PEP), which is sponsored by the University of Connecticut; and Parents Supporting Educational Excellence (PSEE), an innovative collaboration between the Commission on Children and the Connecticut Center for School Change that is designed to support family-school partnerships.
Through these programs, the Parent Trust Fund will provide 23 grants totaling $626,144 in 2012, allowing parent leadership training in Bridgeport, Bristol, Danbury, Enfield, Greenwich, Hartford, Meriden, Middlesex County, New Haven, New London, Norwich, Plymouth, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury, and West Hartford.
The Parent Trust Fund was established by the Connecticut General Assembly in 2001, with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation providing $250,000 in seed funding.
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Grant targets barn restoration
Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington has been awarded a grant of $20,000 from the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to develop architectural plans to restore two historic barns. The grant will be used as matching funds for the Survey & Planning Grant of $20,000 awarded Hill-Stead earlier in 2011 by the Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development’s Offices of Culture and Tourism.
The architectural plans, to be developed by Drummey Rosane Anderson (DRA Architects) from South Windsor, will serve as the first step toward the goal of utilizing the Farm Complex for exhibitions, educational and agricultural programs, and community events.
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HARC offers poster exhibit
HARC, Inc., a Hartford-based organization serving people with intellectual and related disabilities and their families, is offering businesses a poster exhibit highlighting the vast strides made in the lives of people with intellectual disability since the organization’s founding in 1951.
The poster exhibit contrasts black and white photographs from a from a 40-year-old book by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan, named Christmas in Purgatory, A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation, with contemporary color photos of HARC participants enjoying a full range of inclusive activities.
Among those who have hosted the exhibit are 280 Trumbull Street, Hartford; Northeast Utilities, Berlin; Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, Hartford; West Hartford Town Hall, Lincoln Financial, Hartford; and One Financial Plaza, Hartford. Future dates are planned at ING, Windsor; The Mandell Jewish Community Center, Bloomfield; the Glastonbury Library; the Hartford Library and the Legislative Office Building Concourse in April 2012.
Arrangements for the poster exhibit can be made by contacting Mike Morrissey at (860) 218-6112 or mmorrissey@harc-ct.org.
