CROSSROADS

Summer/Fall 2012

CROSSROADS For Friends of Hospice

Progress and Hope Build the Foundation of CHC's New Riverfront Home

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CROSSROADS

A NOTE

from within

Collaboration. Timing. Patience.

It's been said it takes a village to raise a child. In this vein, we recognize it takes a community of supporters to bring the vision of the new Center for Hospice Care campus into reality. Though plans for a campus had been in the works for years, it wasn't until a meeting in September 2009 at Mishawaka City Hall that the focus of our quest turned exclusively to Mishawaka. At the center of our eight-county service area, we knew Mishawaka made great sense geographically for a consolidation of the offices in which we'd been leasing space for many years. During that initial meeting, several sites were pitched by then-Mayor Jeff Rea and City Planner Ken Prince. Their approach was warm, welcoming and highly collaborative. By the end of the meeting, we knew we were home.

With tremendous assistance from city officials and incoming Center for Hospice Care board chairman, Corey Cressy of Grubb & Ellis|Cressy & Everett, we spent much of 2009 and 2010 visiting the potential sites, eventually narrowing the field to four. While the site ultimately selected was the most picturesque, it was also the most complicated. Picturesque because of its more than 1,000 feet of St. Joseph River frontage, perched above the waterfall and adjacent to Central Park. Complicated because it involved acquiring 18 parcels from seven different owners ? and none of the parcels were for sale!

Fast forward to September 2012. With wise counsel from our board of directors; strong community support; some very fair and willing Sellers; much assistance from our architects, engineers, designers; a highly cooperative group of Mishawaka city officials; and a fair amount of divine intervention, the vision is becoming a reality. With all the real estate closings complete, governmental approvals in place and Phase I funding secured, we are ready to break ground.

We are blessed with a highly engaged design team who've been hard at work to create a Classic Contemporary masterpiece. They have listened closely and translated our vision in ways that make sense financially, aesthetically and functionally. This creative team includes some of the top architects, engineers and designers in the region, including:

?Architecture: Helman Sechrist Architecture ?Engineering & Landscape Design: Wightman Petrie

? Construction: DJ Construction ? Interior Design: Office Interiors

As a facilitator and conduit between our ever-supportive foundation board of directors, so ably led for the past four years by Catherine Hiler, the creative design team, former property owners and many officials within the City of Mishawaka, I`ve been privileged to witness what can happen when a group of committed people share a clear vision of what can be accomplished to care for those in need. We are indeed fortunate to have them in our corner.

We expect the first phase of the new campus to be complete in summer 2013. As you'll read in this issue's cover story, the first two buildings being constructed are the Life Transition Center and Administrative Office buildings, functions both currently housed in leased facilities in Mishawaka. Renovations will also be complete on two existing buildings: a home that will become a guesthouse to visiting physicians, interns and other CHC guests; and the former Edgewater Florist building, which will house our palliative care center being relocated from leased office space in Edison Lakes.

The vision doesn't end there, though. Phase II of the campus master plan includes new buildings to house our patient care teams and a new Hospice House. Planning for this critical phase will begin next year, with an eye toward commencing construction once funding commitments are secured. Construction of these additional facilities is essential as we prepare for the significant increase in the need for hospice and palliative care services that experts project will continue to rise annually during the next 20 to 30 years.

While the journey has only just begun, we look forward to being better positioned to serve those with life-limiting illnesses, as well as those of their loved ones, from our new campus. We are truly grateful for the continued support of a very giving community that makes it possible for us to continue to improve the quality of living of those for whom we care.

Michael J. Wargo Chief Operating Officer

Board of Directors

Catherine Hiler, Chairman Corey Cressy Amy Kuhar Mauro Terry Rodino Rita Strefling

Officers

Mark Murray, President/CEO Mike Wargo, COO Karl Holderman, CFO

Contributors

Nora Crosen Valerie Eads Ashley Gilbert Caron Gleva Rebecca Kelley Lisa Kelly Kim Lintner Cyndy Searfoss Mike Wargo Jim Wiskotoni



?2012 The Hospice Foundation

CONTENTS Summer 2012

p20-21 M ishawaka Campus

Progress and Hope Build the Foundation of CHC's New Riverfront Home

p6-9 A Look Back at the 28th Annual Helping Hands Award Dinner Honoring Mary Osmanski Ferlic

p4 Garden of Remembrance and Renewal Dedication

p5 Okuyamba Receives Inaugural Morfogen "Art of Caring" Award

p10 2011 Annual Report

p11Employee Giving

p12 A Passionate Vision for Palliative Care in Uganda

13 Pet Therapy: As Good As Gold

p14 Riding for A Cause

p16 World Hospice Day Gala p18 Walk for Hospice p19 Calendar

p22-23 Donor Profile Robert & Clara Milton Charitable Trust Foundation

p24-25 Community Corner p26-27 Circle of Caring p28-47 In Memoriam p47 Honor Listing

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stories and activities from the past quarter

Elkhart Campus Garden of Remembrance and Renewal Dedication

On June 7th Hospice Foundation hosted a Garden of Remembrance and Renewal Dedication for the Elkhart Campus. A beautiful June evening was the backdrop for an enjoyable and touching event.

The dedication ceremony marked an opportunity for Center for Hospice Care supporters to tour the newly finished garden area. The completion of the Garden of Remembrance and Renewal was made possible by many generous donors who honored their loved ones with a number of features in the garden. Those include an arbor fountain, flowering trees, boulders, benches and bricks inlaid into the garden path.

In all nearly 150 people attended the dedication ceremony and reception. Attendees were able to mingle under a tent or the shade of a tree, or enjoy the wonderful sunshine of the summer-like day. Many people took advantage of the time before

the dedication to walk around the Garden of Remembrance and Renewal, some just taking in the beautifully landscaped area, others viewing the outdoor features they donated in honor of a loved one for the first time.

The brief dedication ceremony honored the memory of patients who had been cared for at the Elkhart Hospice House. Mike Wargo, COO of Hospice Foundation, delivered a welcome, followed by an invocation by Marge Braden, a Spiritual Care Counselor for Center for Hospice Care. Brief comments from Mark Murray, President/CEO of Center for Hospice Care, and Terry Rodino, Chair of the Center for Hospice Care Board of Directors, followed. The ceremony concluded with a memorial presented by Greg Suderman, a Bereavement Counselor for Center for Hospice Care.

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CROSSROADS

Hospice Foundation's Okuyamba Receives

Inaugural Morfogen "Art of Caring" Award

Okuyamba, an award-winning short documentary produced by Hospice Foundation about palliative care in Uganda, was recently honored by the National Hospice Foundation (NHF) with the first Morfogen "Art of Caring" Award. The award acknowledges the individuals or organizations who have used the arts as a means to inspire and increase awareness of end-of-life care and whose central focus of their art is related to end-of-life issues.

The award was presented at the eighth annual NHF Gala, held in conjunction with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's (NHPCO) Management and Leadership Conference. Zachary Morfogen, the award's namesake and founding chair of NHPCO and NHF presented the award.

those already coping with these diseases is critical due to extremely low accessibility to curative health care options. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of those receiving palliative care and their caregivers, who are often their young children.

A number of partnerships were involved in the making of the film. The Hospice Foundation, along with Center for Hospice Care, has partnered with PCAU since 2008 to support its initiatives to

promote palliative care provision and the education of palliative care professionals to serve the country's population of more than 33 million people. Uganda, where life expectancy is 52 and the median age is 15, was the first country in the world to authorize these specially trained nurses and clinical officers to prescribe morphine. To date, 120 prescribers have been trained through Hospice Africa Uganda via a year-long clinical palliative care program.

The film, directed by Mike Wargo and Notre Dame Department of Film, Television, and Theatre faculty member Ted Mandell, follows the work of Rose Kiwanuka, Uganda's first palliative care nurse. Kiwanuka and other palliative care professionals are shown journeying through rural Uganda to provide care for dying patients with limited access to healthcare. Also featured in the film is Dr. Anne Merriman, the founder of the African palliative care movement and Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, former director of the African Palliative Care Association.

Palliative care offers pain management and symptom control for people facing life-limiting illnesses, such as AIDS and cancer. While HIV prevention and rising cancer rates in Africa have rightfully received a great deal of attention, the need for palliative care for

The inaugural Morfogen "Art of Caring Award" is presented to Hospice Foundation for Okuyamba. Pictured from left to right are: Zachary Morfogen, founder of National Hospice Foundation and for whom the award was named; NHF Executive Director John Mastrojohn; Country Director of Palliative Care Association of Uganda Rose Kiwanuka, who is featured in Okuyamba; and Hospice Foundation COO and producer of Okuyamba, Mike Wargo.

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A Star-Studded Tribute

Helping Hands Award Dinner 2012 Exceeds Goal

The 28th Annual Helping Hands Award dinner, held at Hilton Garden Inn on May 2nd and attended by 540 people, became the second highest grossing event in our history. Thanks to the generous support of a very giving community, the dinner raised $264,950. This brings the total amount of funds raised in the event's 28 years to $2,774,808. Proceeds from the event provide financial assistance to support Center for Hospice Care's ongoing mission to provide skilled, compassionate care to those facing life-limiting illnesses, regardless of their ability to pay.

This year's dinner, chaired by Carmi and Chris Murphy, was a tribute to

the late Mary Osmanski Ferlic's passion, charisma and charm. It was an evening that included top hats, tails, evening gowns, glitter, red carpets, Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson impersonators, champagne and roses... a fitting remembrance of the woman who loved the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. During her life, Mary filled many starring roles ? delightful entertainer, competitive athlete, motivational educator, loyal friend ? with irrepressible exuberance.

Mark Murray, President/CEO of CHC and Hospice Foundation, said "We are extremely grateful to our sponsors, dinner committee, and particularly our event chairs, Carmi and Chris

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Helping Hands Award Dinner

Murphy, for their leadership and vision. This event will go down on record as one of our most successful, most memorable dinners ever. It was a fitting tribute to a woman who gave so much to the community in so many ways."

Two of Mary's three children, Beth and Gavin Ferlic, accepted the award in her honor and ended the evening with a touching acoustic version of The Supremes' "I Hear a Symphony."

We are especially grateful to Mary for helping bring what became Center for Hospice Care to our community, even organizing one of our most memorable and successful fundraisers, a 1985 gala "re-premiere" of the 1940 film, "Knute Rockne, All?American."

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CROSSROADS

28th Annual Helping Hands Award Dinner Committee

Committee Chairs ? Carmi and Chris Murphy

Dinner Committee Members ? Zoreen and Rafat Ansari* ? Billie and Dave Bankoff* ? Lou Behre* ? JoAnn and Joe Blazek ? Jeannelle and Brian Brady ? Pat and Gene Cavanaugh* ? Linda Costas and Digger Phelps ? Pat and Don Cressy* ? Art Decio ? Beth Ferlic and Nate Lazenga** ? Gavin Ferlic** ? Jody and Mike Freid ? Ruth and George Friend* ? Judy and Larry Garatoni ? Mary Jo and Ted Halbritter III ? Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. ? Catherine and John Hiler ? Chris and Jim Kelly ? Lisa Kelly** ? Maggie and Joe Kernan* ? Patty and Glenn Killoren ? Ann Rathburn-Lacopo

and Frank Lacopo ? Ginger and Brian Lake* ? Karen and Mike Leep ? Alice and Rex Martin ? Cindy Miller ? Carol Mooney and George Efta ? Carmen and Lou Nanni* ? Mary and Phil Newbold ? Mary Pat and Dick Nussbaum ? Patty O'Hara ? Ernie Raclin ? Cyndy Searfoss** ? Chris and Jim Sieradzki ? Kathleen and David Sparks ? Mary Jane and Bill Stanley ? Joyce and Dick Stifel* ? Joey and Kurt Stiver* ? Mike Wargo** ? Jane Warner

* Steering Committee ** Consultant

28th Annual Helping Hands Award Dinner Sponsors

Executive Producer: $25,000 ? Art Decio ? Ferlic / Osmanski Families

Superstar: $10,000 ? 1st Source Foundation ? NIBCO ? Ernestine Raclin

Star: $5,000 ? Burkhart Advertising / Miller Family ? Grubb & Ellis | Cressy & Everett

and Cressy & Everett Realtors ? Robert J. Hiler Family Foundation ? Judy and Larry Garatoni ? McDonalds / Kathleen and David Sparks ? Memorial Hospital of South Bend ? Michiana Hematology Oncology ? Anna and Sam Milligan ? Carmi and Chris Murphy ? South Bend Medical Foundation ? South Bend Orthopaedics ? Joey and Kurt Stiver ? The Strefling Foundation ? The Foundation for Saint Joseph

Regional Medical Center ? Tire Rack ? University of Notre Dame

Public Affairs and Communications ? Jane Warner

Director: $2,500 ? Alick's Home Medical ? Ansari Family Charitable Trust ? JoAnn and Joe Blazek ? Jeannelle and Brian Brady ? Sarah and Chris Chocola ? Chris and Jim Kelly ? John W. Jordan II ? Mary and Phil Newbold ? Phair Family ? Ida and Perry Watson

Patrons ? Ann and Spike Abernethy ? Anonymous ? Nancy and Peter Baranay ? Billie and Dave Bankoff ? Ann and Rob Bartels ? Kathy Beeler and Brian Regan ? Century Custom Builders ? Pat and Gene Cavanaugh ? Anna Jean and Bill Cushwa ? Ann and Fred Dean ? Linda and Bipin Doshi ? Patty and Tom Gryp ? Mary Jo and Ted Halbritter III ? Marcia and Michael Hammes ? Pam and Gordy Johnson ? Marijo and Kevin Kelly ? Maggie and Joe Kernan ? Pat and Bob Kill ? Mary Ellen Mulcahy ? Jeannine Oren ? Stacey and Terry Rodino ? Patrick Ruszkowski ? Kathryn Shields ? David Sieradzki ? Mary Jane and Bill Stanley ? Joyce and Dick Stifel ? Quality Dining ? Dot Wiekamp ? Robert Zimmerman

Special Acknowledgements ? Mr. Lou Behre ? WNIT ? Poppies, Inc ? Audio Bahn ? Burns Rent-Alls, Inc. ? Hilton Garden Inn ? Pro-Show

Thank you for your generous support of our mission to provide compassionate care and support for those facing life-limiting illnesses.

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