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Leah Cerkvenik
EVP/Administrator |
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Welcome to the first issue of the new Administrative Campus Update. I am initiating this communication in an attempt to keep you, our employees, physicians, and volunteers, informed about changes, programs or news of special interest across our Campus. I hope you will find this information interesting and that you will share it with your staff, family and friends.
Special Thanks
A hero is someone we look up to, someone who helps, and someone who goes beyond what is expected. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes - a member of your family, a child, a public servant, or your co-worker. Look around and you will see heroes every day on the Warwick Campus. You might be one yourself!
Every month I receive numerous personal notes about ‘Our Campus Heroes’, members of the patient care/ancillary services staff who have gone above and beyond. I want to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to those staff members for their extra efforts with our patients and residents, for helping to meet the pressures of staffing, for your extraordinary acts of kindness and for your exceptional contributions to patient care. Doing what’s expected gets the job done—going the extra mile makes the difference to everyone involved! Thank you, Warwick Campus Heroes.
The Gift Of Life
The week of April 21 – 27 is set aside annually as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week and we welcome this opportunity to help raise awareness and help inform our community on the subject of organ and tissue donation. Each day we strive to save the lives and improve the quality of life for our patients and residents. We see the role of organ and tissue transplantation as being an integral part of the process. Never was this more apparent than here at St. Anthony Community Hospital over this past weekend when a heart defect tragically took the life of a young woman. Long before she died, this wife and mother signed an organ donor card and made her wishes known to those she loved. Her husband asked us to honor her wishes and upon her death she became the first donor after cardiac death in New York State. Because of her selfless act, others live. She gave the greatest gift – the Gift of Life. To her family we extend our heartfelt sympathy. To those staff members who cared for her and assisted her family throughout this time, I say thank you. To those of you who would like to become an organ donor and have not yet signed a donor card, I urge you to do so now. In the words of Pope John Paul II “Organ donation is a genuine act of love. It is not just a matter of giving away something that belongs to us, but of giving something of ourselves.”
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