cincinnati children’s 2013 annual report
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The changing environment in which hospitals operate today challenges us at Cincinnati Children’s to think more creatively than ever about our responsibility to keep kids healthy. That challenge led to several exciting initiatives featured in this annual report.TRANSCRIPT
2 0 1 3 A N N U A L R E P O R T
3 Message from our CEO and Chairman
P R E D I C T
7 Recognizing Thought Markers: Predicting Who
Will Move from Thoughts of Suicide to Action
1 1 Making an Impact: A Warrior’s Fight to Save Lives
1 3 Cutting to the Bone: Perplexing Infection Prompts
Breakthrough Research
P R E V E N T
1 9 Counting the Weeks: New Efforts to Prevent
Preterm Birth and Infant Mortality
2 7 Making an Impact: The Partnership of Donors
Fuels Better Research, Better Care
2 9 Introducing the Health Network by
Cincinnati Children’s
P R E V A I L
3 3 Winning the Battle: Superior Outcomes
for Children Fighting Liver Cancer
3 7 Making an Impact: Tennis for Charity —
Western & Southern Open
P A R T N E R
4 3 Donor Recognition
7 2 Our Leaders
7 4 Financial Report
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C O V E R | Eleanor, age 12,
is a cancer survivor. For her
story, turn to page 33.
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
It is always both a celebration of community partnership and a poignant
reminder of the way Cincinnati Children’s touches the lives of children and
their families.
This year’s walk had the biggest turnout ever. Some families walked in gratitude
for a child who is now healthy, thanks to care at Cincinnati Children’s. Others
participated because their children are undergoing months or years of treatment.
Still others walked in memory of a child who didn’t make it — finding solace by
raising funds for research that might prevent other families from suffering such
a terrible loss. Side-by-side with them were friends, neighbors, hospital employees,
and teams from businesses and community organizations.
We love being part of this event, where we see thousands of patient families
and supporters in one place. It’s humbling. It’s inspiring. Every participant has
a story, a reason for being there. Their stories fuel our passion to pursue Cincinnati
Children’s vision to be the leader in improving child health.
One way we improve health outcomes is by offering specialized services for
children fighting complex diseases. Our Liver Tumor Program, featured in
this report, is one of many such programs. It is achieving superior outcomes,
making it possible for children to prevail over a rare type of liver cancer.
L E F T | ( L – R ) Riley,
Teagan and Zhania took
part in the opening
ceremony of the 2013
Cincinnati Walks for Kids.
A T A G L A N C E
Thanks to more than 9,500
participants and generous
sponsors, the 2013 Cincinnati
Walks for Kids raised over
$950,000 — an all time high.
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D E A R F R I E N D S ,
As we write this letter in early October, we’re
thinking back to this past weekend, when the
Cincinnati community gathered for our annual
Cincinnati Walks for Kids. The walk is one of
our favorite events of the year.
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Research discoveries with the potential to improve child health are another path
to achieving our vision. This report highlights two innovative studies. Research
by Peggy Hostetter, MD, will help doctors predict which children are at risk for
a rare and life-threatening complication of a common bone infection. Work by
John Pestian, PhD, will help emergency room staff identify children at risk for
attempting suicide. These new predictive tools will allow doctors to intervene
sooner and more effectively, saving lives.
Over the last year, we’ve focused more and more on the word “health” in our vision
statement. Our vision and the changing environment in which hospitals operate
today challenge us to think more creatively than ever about our responsibility to
keep kids healthy. That challenge led to several exciting initiatives featured in this
report. You’ll read about the Health Network by Cincinnati Children’s, a newly
launched network of hospital and community partners working together with
families to improve the health of children in our region. And we are very proud
to be playing a leadership role in promising new community and statewide
efforts to prevent premature birth, the number one cause of infant mortality.
Of course, we can’t do any of this alone. To the friends who walked with us
last weekend, or supported us through charitable gifts during the year, thank
you for sharing the passion for improving child health. Together we are making
a difference today... and tomorrow.
A B O V E | Tom Cody (left),
chairman of the Board of
Trustees, and Michael Fisher
(second from right), president
and CEO, visit with friends in
the community at the 2013
Cincinnati Walks for Kids.
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Ran in the Warrior Run
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In another, a toddler suffering an
asthma attack. In a third, a cancer
patient who spiked a fever.
Countless health issues bring
children and teens to the Emergency
Department (ED) at our Burnet
and Liberty campuses.
A surprising number of these
children are there for a mental health
evaluation — more than 5,000 last year
alone. As many as 2,000 children a year
are brought to the ED because they’re
thinking about committing suicide.
Every day, the clinicians who evaluate
these patients must make a decision:
What is the likelihood this child will
attempt suicide? Should the child
be admitted to the hospital, or is it
safe to send the child home with
medicine or a referral for counseling?
No blood tests or MRI scans can
help them make this decision.
They make the judgment — as they
have for generations — based on the
child’s history, behavior and current
living situation; the child’s responses
to questions that help them assess the
child’s state of mind; and their own
instinct from years of experience.
While there have been enormous
strides in developing more advanced,
sensitive diagnostic tools for
medical illness, there have been no
comparable advances in diagnosis
of mental illness. “We need better
tools to help us screen patients more
A T A G L A N C E
Every 14 minutes, someone
in the US dies of suicide.
Cincinnati Children’s
researchers are developing
a more accurate tool for
predicting suicide and
saving lives.
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Imagine a typical day — it might be any
Monday or Thursday. As always, the Emergency
Department at Cincinnati Children’s is busy. In
one exam room, there might be a 12-year-old
who fell off his bike and broke his arm.
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Carlos came close to killing himself
when he was 8, 11 and 14. He kept
these suicide attempts a secret until a
year ago, when Cathy Strunk, MSN, RN,
of the Surviving the Teens ® program,
spoke at his school and encouraged
kids to talk with their parents. He did.
Today, Carlos is learning to cope
with depression by talking, going to
faith-based counseling, writing and
exercising. He loves to dance, lift
weights and run.
Carlos and his family are committed
to sharing their story to help others
by raising awareness about
depression and suicide.
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accurately,” says Michael Sorter, MD, director of the Division of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s. “Enhancing our
ability to detect kids at risk of suicide would save lives.”
Now a research team led by John Pestian, PhD, director of the
Computational Medicine Center at Cincinnati Children’s, is taking
a new approach that may provide a groundbreaking advance.
Dr. Pestian and his team are creating innovative computer software that
listens to patients and hears things the clinicians may not. The software
is designed to help clinicians predict patients’ risk of committing suicide
with greater accuracy than ever before.
L E T T E R S L E F T B E H I N D
Dr. Pestian’s specialty is machine learning: teaching computers to think. He’s
teaching them to think about the likelihood that a patient will die of suicide.
He and his team have collected more than 1,300 notes from people who
died by suicide. He mined these suicide letters for cues computers can
be taught to recognize and interpret. First, he had the notes scanned and
transcribed. Then each note was painstakingly annotated by at least three
volunteer readers. The 160 volunteers were surviving family members of
individuals who had taken their own lives. “Their courage was admirable,
even when it led to churning such deep emotional waters,” Dr. Pestian says.
The readers were asked to identify emotions expressed in the letters —
abuse, anger, blame, fear, guilt, hopelessness, sorrow, forgiveness, happiness,
peacefulness, hopefulness, love, pride, thankfulness, as well as instructions
and information.
Dr. Pestian and his team then created algorithms to teach the computer how
to find predictive thought markers in this large set of data. The computer
doesn’t interpret the words, as a human listener does, but finds meaningful
patterns in sentence structure and clusters of words.
To test whether his computer model could accurately recognize thought
markers for suicide, Dr. Pestian conducted a series of experiments. For
the first, in 2005, he used 33 real suicide notes and 33 simulated notes.
He asked 43 mental health workers, including seasoned professionals
and psychiatry trainees, to read the notes and identify which were real.
On average, they were right about 55 percent of the time. His computer
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model was right nearly 80 percent
of the time.
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Encouraged by this promising
result, the research team took the
next step: sentiment analysis. With
funding from the National Institutes
of Health, Dr. Pestian sponsored
an international competition for
scientists who specialize in natural
language processing to create
computer algorithms to classify
emotions in suicide notes.
Anyone who uses Google sees
natural language processing at work,
Dr. Pestian explains. You start typing
a word, and the rest of it pops up.
The software predicts the word you
intend to write. Or perhaps you
search Amazon for a songwriter’s
recent release. Next thing you know,
Google Music has a playlist.
Predicting from structured data
is one thing. Identifying and
predicting an emotion is another,
far more challenging problem.
For the community of linguists
and computer scientists interested
in sentiment analysis, a database
of 1,300 suicide notes was an
extraordinary resource. Twenty-four
teams around the world competed
to develop the most accurate
algorithms for classifying emotions
found in text. The winning entry
was developed by Microsoft Asia’s
research lab. Work continues to
refine and improve the algorithms.
In addition to linguistic structure
and sentiment, Dr. Pestian
is incorporating data from sound
waves and silences, from facial
expressions and genetics — giving
the computer more ways to learn
what we do when we’re getting
ready to commit suicide.
B E L O W | 1 Clinical counselor
Nicole Piersma, LPCC, evaluates
a young patient in the
Emergency Department.
2 Dr. Pestian’s specialty is
machine learning: teaching
computers to think.
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Director, Computational
Medicine Center
Suicide is the third leading
cause of death among 15-25
year olds in the US.
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The accuracy of Dr. Pestian’s approach is being tested and validated
through clinical trials involving real patients in four different emergency
room settings.
In the first small trial at Cincinnati Children’s, suicidal and control group
patients were asked several open-ended questions. Their responses were
recorded and transcribed. The computer model was then put to the test.
It was able to accurately assign the responses to the right group — suicidal
or non-suicidal — at least 93 percent of the time.
Dr. Pestian has now begun a larger trial that will involve 500 adults and
children at hospitals in Cincinnati, Appalachia and Canada.
He looks forward to the day when staff in emergency rooms and psychiatric
hospitals will have a reliable new diagnostic tool at their side to help
them evaluate patients at risk for committing suicide — and above all,
to save lives.
V I R T U A L H U M A N
Can a virtual human become an auxiliary resource to the staff in an emergency
room? Would patients be comfortable, open and honest talking to an avatar?
The mere idea of talking to a computer may sound like science fiction, but it’s real.
Dr. Pestian’s team and research collaborators at sites across the country are
taking artificial intelligence to the next level. They’re creating avatars — virtual
humans — that can move realistically, listen attentively, make conversation and
analyze input faster than any human.
Among the benefits Dr. Pestian foresees: computer avatars could expand staff
resources in communities where mental health expertise isn’t available. The
appearance of the avatars could be adjusted to look like whomever the patient
prefers to talk to — male or female, a friend the patient’s own age or race, a
grandmother figure. “We can make it anything that will help the patient tell us
more,” Dr. Pestian says.
We’ve seen what virtual humans can do in movies. Now Dr. Pestian and other
scientists envision a new, innovative application for clinical care. And believe
it or not, it’s not in a time and galaxy far away. It’s just over the horizon.
about it means people don’t realize
there is help — that things can
get better.”
True to this belief, Nancy talks
openly and honestly about her
husband’s suicide. Looking back,
she can now see little signs that her
husband was suffering. At the time,
though, she didn’t know that his
weight loss and trouble sleeping
were warning signs of depression,
or where they could lead.
Not long after Jim’s death, his friends
organized The Jim Miller Memorial
Mile walk in his memory. The event
soon expanded into the Warrior Run:
The Race for Life — an annual 5K run,
one-mile walk and family festival.
Nancy Eigel-Miller didn’t see it
coming. No one did, really. Her
husband, Jim, was a larger-than-life
personality with a booming laugh
and a soft spot for corny jokes. He
was deeply devoted to his family
and committed to his community —
coaching track, soccer and swim
teams for teens. So when he left
work early one day in 2008, drove
two hours to Chillicothe and died
by suicide, it shook Nancy and their
daughters to the core.
“The thing is, you have to talk about
it,” says Nancy. “No one wants to
talk about suicide or depression, but
if you don’t talk about it, you can’t
remove the stigma or teach people
what signs to look for. Not talking
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A B O V E | 1 The race begins
at the 2013 Warrior Run.
2 Nancy Eigel-Miller established
the Warrior Run to honor her
husband, start people talking
about suicide, and support
Cincinnati Children’s Surviving
the Teens program.
The computer model accurately
recognized responses as suicidal
or non-suicidal at least 93
percent of the time.
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Nancy and her family started the Warrior Run because they not only wanted
a way to honor Jim’s memory, but they wanted to start people talking about
depression and suicide. Proceeds from the run benefit Cincinnati Children’s
Surviving the Teens ® program — a suicide prevention program.
Developed by Cathy Strunk, MSN, RN, Surviving the Teens has three
components: student training, a parent program and a gatekeeper program
for school staff and community members. Each component helps teens,
parents and educators recognize the stressors, warning signs, symptoms and
at-risk behaviors that signal depression or suicide risk in teens. In short, the
program works to help adults and teens predict potential suicides and stop
them before they happen.
It’s a mission that is close to Nancy’s heart. “People often ask why we chose
Surviving the Teens , when Jim was an adult.” She pauses. “Jim devoted his
life to kids, personally and professionally. It’s only fitting that a run in his
memory would help kids understand, predict and avoid the very thing that
took his life.”
After five years, the run has raised nearly $100,000 for Surviving the Teens.
And Cincinnati Children’s plans to expand the program’s reach even further
through a train-the-trainer initiative that will help school staff educate others,
reaching even more teens.
Last year, the Warrior Run drew 1,200 participants from all over the
city. People come for the run and to enjoy the family-focused activities
surrounding the event, but many are there because they, too, have been
affected by suicide. They’re looking to connect and talk about their
experiences, to tell their stories in the hopes that it will stop other
families from going through the same loss.
To Nancy, it’s the most fitting tribute she can think of for her husband.
After five years, the Warrior
Run has raised nearly $100,000
for Surviving the Teens.
$100,000 It should have been routine. The
child had a serious bone infection,
but a common one: osteomyelitis.
A bacterium we all carry on our skin,
Staph aureus, had entered his body.
It went to a bone in his leg and set off a
nasty infection. It was painful enough
to bring him to the emergency room.
We knew exactly what to do.
He’d have to spend a few days in the
hospital. We’d attack the infection
with intravenous (IV) antibiotics
that would get the medicine into his
bloodstream fast. After that blast of
medicine, he’d be able to go home.
He’d complete another four to six
weeks of treatment with IV and oral
antibiotics at home. And that would
be that. He’d be fine.
It didn’t work that way.
About the time he should have been
packing up to go home, he was being
transferred to the pediatric intensive
care unit.
When he should have been back to
school and playing with his friends,
he was fighting for his life against
a raging infection that had spread
through his body.
Cases like this are rare, representing
about 5 percent of all osteomyelitis
cases seen at Cincinnati Children’s.
Peggy Hostetter, MD, director of the
Division of Infectious Diseases wanted
to understand why an infection that is
easily controlled in most patients takes
such an unusual and dangerous turn
in some children.
Her research results shed new light
A T A G L A N C E
Most cases of osteomyelitis
respond to routine treatment.
Some don’t. Research at Cincinnati
Children’s explains why some
children develop a massive,
life-threatening infection.
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on the genetics that impact the course of osteomyelitis — and may allow us
to predict which patients are at risk for massive infection and need unusually
aggressive care right from the start.
Dr. Hostetter is convinced that the high volume of patients at Cincinnati
Children’s, one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the country, reveals
a problem that might not be noticed at smaller hospitals, where doctors
may not see this rare complication, or not see enough cases to recognize
and study it.
“Even if I saw one such child at a smaller institution, I wouldn’t see others,”
she says. “I would think, ‘This is a weird accident. Something’s the matter
here.’ But I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.”
H U N T I N G F O R T H E E X P L A N A T I O N
Dr. Hostetter started by studying information about seven children. She found
no pattern. There were boys and girls. They ranged from 2 to 16 years old. They
were not related. There was no underlying medical condition. They had all been
healthy before this bone infection. Some had methicillin sensitive Staph aureus;
others had methicillin resistant Staph aureus. No one in their families had ever
required hospitalization. There were no mistakes in their care. The children had
been correctly diagnosed and had been given the appropriate treatment.
So, she reasoned, there must be a genetic mutation in the child. How
to find it?
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She turned for advice to a research
colleague at Cincinnati Children’s,
John Harley, MD, director of the
Center for Autoimmune Genomics
and Etiology. He suggested — in
the language of genomic scientists —
whole exome sequencing of trios.
That meant, look at the part of the
genes that contributes to making
proteins — the exon. Map out the
precise order (sequence) of the four
molecules that make up the genetic
code of each exon. Do this for all
23,000 genes for each child and each
child’s parents (the trio).
And once you have all that information,
hunt for genetic variants.
With the computer power and expert
bioinformatic analysis available to
researchers at Cincinnati Children’s,
it’s possible to do studies involving
millions or billions of bits of data.
B E L O W | Dr. Hostetter
checks the extent of a
patient’s bone infection
with radiologist Daniel
Podberesky, MD.
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Four families agreed to provide
blood samples from the child and
both parents so Dr. Hostetter could
study their DNA. She hoped to find
gene variants that could explain
what happened to these children.
She did.
“As a fetus develops, its DNA replicates
very rapidly,” Dr. Hostetter explains.
“Mutations occur. Every one of us has
about 25,000 variants.” These genetic
changes occur in the child and are not
inherited from the parents. For the
most part, they don’t cause harm.
Dr. Hostetter was looking for harmful
variants, changes that would damage
normal functioning of protein in skin,
bone or the immune system. “In each
of the kids we studied, we found a
variant that made a lot of sense,” she
says. Using a prediction program, she
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With the computer power
and expert bioinformatic
analysis available to researchers
at Cincinnati Children’s, it’s
possible to do studies involving
millions or billions of bits of data.
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found that the variants “were predicted to be highly damaging, in the
sense that the protein wouldn’t be able to work right.” Because of these
harmful genetic variants, the Staph aureus bacteria was able to enter the
body more easily and infect the bone. The variants also explain why the
bone couldn’t contain the infection, allowing it to spread throughout
the body.
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Dr. Hostetter hopes to use this discovery to improve care for future patients,
“because this extreme infection is a nasty surprise when it happens. It’s a
nasty surprise from the doctor’s standpoint. Imagine how the parents feel.”
The next phase of her research is to create a gene chip that can test for these
damaging mutations.
Dr. Hostetter envisions the day when a simple test would identify children
at risk for overwhelming Staphylococcal infection as soon as they enter
the hospital, before they go into a downward spiral. Those children
would receive much more aggressive care, including extremely high-dose
bactericidal antibiotics and perhaps orthopaedic surgery to remove the
original site of the infection to minimize the chances of spread.
Preventing the nightmare scenario that puts some children in the ICU
with a life-threatening infection would be a distinctive contribution from
Cincinnati Children’s.
A B O V E | Logan, age 7, and
Brett, age 14, both have chronic
osteomyelitis from a Staph
infection that developed after
an injury. They are being treated
with long-term intravenous and
oral antibiotics. Dr. Hostetter’s
research explains why in rare
cases, this common bone infection
progresses to an overwhelming,
life-threatening infection.
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Doctors and nurses surround
a tiny baby in an incubator.
The newborn, weighing a mere
2 pounds, is not much bigger
than the doctor’s hand.
Born 14 weeks too soon, the baby is
not ready to face the world outside
her mother’s womb. She’s very sick.
In the room, the lights are dimmed
to create a soothing atmosphere, but
emotions are charged. Complications
of preterm birth are the leading cause
of infant mortality. Keeping this baby
alive will be a struggle.
The care team will use every resource
of medicine and technology in the
intensive care nursery. For the parents
and grandparents, there will be tears
and prayers, hope and fear. The baby
will have to be a fighter.
Sadly, this infant’s story is not
unique. Too many babies are born
prematurely, and too many die.
And beyond the terrible personal
and emotional toll, the financial
costs are astronomical. Medical
care for preemies is 10 to 50
times as costly as the care for
full-term babies.
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Prematurity and infant mortality are
complex problems across the country,
but they’re an especially vexing
problem in our own backyard.
In fact, a 2008 report from the March
of Dimes found that Cincinnati had
the fourth highest citywide infant
mortality rate in the country.
And despite efforts by Cincinnati
Children’s and other organizations,
we have not made enough progress.
According to data from the Ohio
Department of Health, in 2011,
9.2 of every 1,000 babies in Hamilton
County died before their first
birthday, exceeding the national
average of 6.05 deaths. In the city
of Cincinnati, more than 13 of every
1,000 died — and in some low income
neighborhoods, the infant mortality
rate was even higher.
“A host of factors contribute to
prematurity and infant mortality,”
explains James Greenberg, MD,
co-director of the Perinatal Institute
at Cincinnati Children’s. “It takes
a long time to change this. It’s a
real marathon.”
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9.2 of every 1,000 babies in
Hamilton County die before
their first birthday, an infant
mortality rate 50 percent
higher than the national
average. Cincinnati Children’s
and partners across the
community are determined
to change the outcome.
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As 1-year-old D’onna grows
and develops, her mother enjoys
learning parenting skills and health
tips at the monthly support group
meetings of Moms on a Mission
in Avondale, a service of Every
Child Succeeds. Now Cincinnati
Children’s, Every Child Succeeds,
TriHealth and community partners
are joining forces to prevent
preterm birth and infant mortality
by launching new, more intensive
efforts to reach moms and their
babies in Avondale and other
high-risk neighborhoods.
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2013 may be a turning point in the race. A new level of collaboration,
investment and creativity is being applied to an old, intractable problem.
Local and national partners are entrusting Cincinnati Children’s with
significant new resources to help move the dial.
F I N D I N G I N N O V A T I V E A N S W E R S
Cincinnati Children’s is the coordinating center for three separate but
complementary initiatives that aim to reduce preterm birth and infant
mortality. Over $15 million in new funding is being infused into
these initiatives.
Like a braid made of strands that cross, these efforts each address a different
aspect of the problem and collectively create a new whole.
W E ’ R E L A U N C H I N G on-the-ground efforts in two low-income
neighborhoods with especially high rates of prematurity and infant
mortality. Improvements achieved from this work will be spread across
the community.
B I R T H H O S P I T A L S across Hamilton County are collaborating
instead of competing, putting new energy behind efforts to build a
countywide infrastructure for reducing infant mortality.
C I N C I N N A T I C H I L D R E N ’ S is leading an innovative collaboration
of major pediatric research centers across Ohio. The research will reveal
new information about the genetic and sociobiological factors that
determine the start of labor.
T A R G E T I N G H I G H - R I S K N E I G H B O R H O O D S
What does the healthcare system look like through the eyes of a young,
low-income, single woman who thinks she’s pregnant?
Is seeing the OB/GYN a top priority? Do her friends and family encourage
her to make an appointment? Does she have a doctor she knows and
trusts? Money for the visit? Transportation to get there? Is she facing more
immediate challenges — social isolation, depression, domestic violence, a
chaotic or unsafe living situation — that distract her from focusing on the
health of her unborn baby?
“A H O S T O F FAC TO R S
C O N T R I B U T E T O
P R E M A T U R I T Y .
I T T A K E S A L O N G
T I M E T O C H A N G E
T H I S . I T ’ S A R E A L
M A R A T H O N . ”
StartStrong is about understanding the barriers that keep women from getting
prenatal care, and learning how to best deliver care and social support to
women in high-risk communities.
Cincinnati Children’s, Every Child Succeeds and TriHealth joined together
in 2013 to launch StartStrong. “It will be transformative,” says Judith Van
Ginkel, PhD, president of Every Child Succeeds. “It’s being developed hand-in-
hand with moms, whose voices and needs are the driving force in the program.”
StartStrong is made possible by a generous $3.2 million grant to Cincinnati
Children’s from Bethesda Inc., parent company for the TriHealth hospital
system, which includes Good Samaritan Hospital, an active partner in the
work. Cincinnati Children’s will contribute another $1 million and will raise
an additional $1 million through philanthropy, bringing the funding for this
project to more than $5 million.
The program will focus first on women in Avondale and later expand to
Price Hill. The two neighborhoods have especially high rates of premature
births and infant mortality.
B I G G A I N S F R O M S M A L L S T R I D E S
“The babies who are at greatest risk of dying are the ones who are born
earliest — the tiny, tiny babies,” says Dr. Greenberg. “If we can shift the
gestational age even a week, it will make a big difference.”
A B O V E | Anita Brentley, MEd,
MPH, is the community engagement
manager of the Avondale/Every
Child Succeeds partnership.
E V E R Y C H I L D S U C C E E D S
Every Child Succeeds (ECS),
a home visiting program for at-risk,
first-time mothers, has a proven
track record lowering rates of
prematurity and infant mortality
among participating families. In
2006, ECS launched an intensive
Avondale/ECS partnership that
provides a strong foundation for
new, expanded work.
J A M E S G R E E N B E R G , M D
Co-director, Perinatal Institute
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Babies born at 26 weeks do measurably better than babies born at 25 weeks.
Those born at 27 weeks do better than those born at 26 weeks. “In that part
of the gestational age range, we can make big gains with what seem like
relatively small shifts,” Dr. Greenberg explains.
To have the biggest impact, StartStrong will focus on women at highest risk
for preterm birth. Some methods that will be tested:
E X P A N D on the proven services of the Every Child Succeeds program.
Be available to all pregnant women, not just first-time mothers. Provide
more frequent home visits. Involve more women in moms’ support group
meetings throughout the pregnancy and for the baby’s first six months.
E N G A G E women in prenatal care as soon as they make any contact with
the healthcare system. If the woman comes to the doctor for a pregnancy
test, offer a same-day prenatal appointment.
P R O V I D E OB/GYNs with a screening tool to help them identify
women at highest risk for premature birth. For those women, provide a
nurse case manager to stay in touch, answer questions, reschedule missed
appointments, coordinate care, and link the women to a medical home and
to community resources.
“There’s evidence that these methods will be effective,” says Robert Kahn,
MD, MPH, who leads several Cincinnati Children’s initiatives to improve
A B O V E | 1 Isis, age 2, was
born seven weeks early. Her
mother now helps other women
in Avondale by serving as a
community liaison for Moms
on a Mission.
2 A planning meeting of the
StartStrong program leaders:
( L - R ) James Greenberg, MD,
Judith Van Ginkel, PhD, and
Robert Kahn, MD.
C A U S E S O F I N F A N T D E A T H
Infant mortality is defined as death
before the baby’s first birthday.
Complications of preterm birth are
the leading cause of infant mortality.
O T H E R C A U S E S
Maternal complications
Birth defects
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Accidental injury
population health, “but we also need to learn from the women we serve.
We’ll be doing a lot of listening. We want to better understand how women
interact with the healthcare system and what barriers they face, so we can
develop a system that works for them.”
With its focus on women at highest risk in two specific neighborhoods and
its commitment to testing ideas and measuring results, StartStrong brings
new rigor to our community’s fight against prematurity and infant mortality.
B U I L D I N G A C O U N T Y W I D E
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E
As StartStrong progresses, a new Hamilton County collaborative will be a
resource for spreading the most successful practices to other neighborhoods.
Cradle Cincinnati was developed by Cincinnati Children’s and the University
of Cincinnati Medical Center in partnership with city and county leaders.
In June 2013, the participants signed a first-of-its-kind memorandum
of understanding agreeing to work together to combat infant mortality.
Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune described the agreement
as “an historic event in regional collaboration.”
Partners in Cradle Cincinnati include UC Health, TriHealth, Mercy Health,
The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati Children’s, the Hamilton County and city
StartStrong and Cradle
Cincinnati give our community
a mechanism to design and
implement a more effective
system of care for mothers
and babies.
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of Cincinnati health departments, the University of Cincinnati College of
Nursing, and the Center for Closing the Health Gap. Initial funding comes
from UC Health.
This unusual partnership includes the major healthcare touch points for
pregnant women and their babies — the hospitals where women give birth;
the public health and hospital-based clinics where many women receive care;
and the emergency rooms and newborn nurseries.
“Hospitals feel a mandate for change,” says Ryan Adcock, program director
of Cradle Cincinnati, “and the collaboration provides an unprecedented
opportunity to identify care delivery and social support models that work best.”
“Consistent, reliable data is crucial in moving forward,” says Dr. Greenberg.
“For the first time, we’ll have a countywide system: uniform definitions,
uniform data collection, uniform data reporting, and uniform metrics
for measuring success.”
And as evidence confirms the most successful approaches, there will be
a system for spreading best practices.
P A R T N E R I N G T O A D VA N C E K N O W L E D G E
StartStrong and Cradle Cincinnati provide a new mechanism to design
and implement a more effective system of care for mothers and babies
in our community.
Cincinnati Children’s is also leading a large-scale, statewide research collaborative
seeking new knowledge to improve health outcomes for newborns.
Funded by a $10 million grant from the national March of Dimes, the Ohio
Collaborative involves over 70 investigators at universities and hospitals in
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus.
U N S O L V E D M Y S T E R I E S
“There are many things we don’t understand about pregnancy and preterm
labor,” says Louis Muglia, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Prevention
of Preterm Birth at Cincinnati Children’s and leader of the Ohio Collaborative.
Why is the risk of prematurity twice as high for African-American women
as for women of European ancestry, regardless of their age, education or
A B O V E | Louis Muglia, MD,
PhD, is director of the Center
for Prevention of Preterm Birth
at Cincinnati Children’s and
principal investigator of the
Ohio Collaborative.
F I V E R E S E A R C H T H E M E S O F T H E O H I O C O L L A B O R A T I V E
E V O L U T I O N O F H U M A N P R E G N A N C Y
Will create an encyclopedia of reproduction, with information about
every gene in the human genome and its relationship to reproduction
and pregnancy outcomes.
G E N E T I C S O F U N I Q U E H U M A N P O P U L A T I O N S
Studying families with a history of repeated premature births for no
identifiable reason to pinpoint genes that contribute to preterm births.
M O L E C U L A R D E V E L O P M E N T A L B I O L O G Y O F P R E G N A N C Y
Will harness discoveries from the collaborative to build animal models
for research on genes that appear to contribute to premature birth.
P R O G E S T E R O N E S I G N A L I N G I N P R E G N A N C Y
M A I N T E N A N C E A N D P R E T E R M B I R T H
Studying how the hormone progesterone works to maintain pregnancy.
S O C I O B I O L O G Y O F R A C I A L D I S P A R I T I E S I N P R E T E R M B I R T H
African-American women have a very high rate of preterm birth, yet
women of Somali ancestry have a very low rate. This study of Ohio’s
Somali community could contribute important information about
environmental and racial disparities in preterm birth.
Cincinnati Children’s received
$10 million from the March of
Dimes to support a statewide
research collaborative.
The research collaborative involves
over 70 investigators at universities
and hospitals in Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Columbus.
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rate — and infants who survive
can have ongoing complications,
including intestinal disorders and
developmental delays. What’s
more, because it predominantly
affects premature and medically
fragile infants, it is a difficult
disease to study and, as a result,
very little is known about NEC.
Even diagnosing the disease and
predicting its severity are difficult.
That’s why, when Cincinnati
Children’s developed the world’s
first infant-sized magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) machine, Dr. South
immediately saw its potential for
research on NEC. Located within
Andrew South, MD, MPH, wears
two hats, professionally speaking.
As a physician in the newborn
intensive care unit (NICU) at
Cincinnati Children’s, he provides
medical care and treatment to the
sickest, most fragile babies in the
Greater Cincinnati region. As a
researcher, he works to learn more
about necrotizing enterocolitis
(NEC) — one of the most common
and deadly ailments affecting the
premature babies he cares for
every day.
Occurring in approximately 10
percent of very low birth weight
infants, NEC has a 40 percent fatality
M A K I N G A N I M P A C T
T H E PA RT N E R S H I P O F D O N O R S
F U E L S B E T T E R R E S E A R C H ,
B E T T E R C A R E
income? What causes this racial
disparity? Why are stress, poor
nutrition and exposure to smoke
associated with prematurity?
“Being exposed to stress doesn’t
magically start labor,” says Dr.
Muglia. “And lack of prenatal care
doesn’t start it, either. These risk
factors have to initiate an underlying
physical response that causes labor
to happen.”
We don’t yet understand the path-
ways that are affected by genetic and
environmental factors. Now, new
tools are being brought to bear on
these mysteries.
Advances in genomics and
computational biology give today’s
researchers an unprecedented
opportunity to study the genetics
and sociobiology of prematurity.
And in an unusually collaborative
effort, the Ohio initiative will utilize
the strengths of major research
centers across the state.
The investigations are organized into
five themes, with researchers at each
institution working on each of
the projects.
“I believe that over the next five to 10
years we’re going to make discoveries
that will change the way we think
about pregnancy and preterm birth,”
says Dr. Muglia. “We have the ability
now to ask questions in ways we
couldn’t have five years ago. I think
we have a phenomenal opportunity
to have enormous impact.”
M I D C O U R S E I N
T H E M A R A T H O N
As promising as the research is, it
will take time. It’s a long race to the
destination. At the midcourse in the
marathon, Cincinnati Children’s is
partnering with community agencies,
donors and others to build a better
care delivery system to improve
newborn health now.
As Dr. Muglia puts it, “We need to
act now using the knowledge we have,
and we need to discover more. The
problem of preterm birth is too big
not to do both.”
A B O V E | 1 In the NICU,
Jeremy, born prematurely,
has progressed to bottle feeds.
2 Neonatologist Andrew
South, MD, MPH, is using the
world’s first infant-sized MRI
in our newborn ICU to study
necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
O H I O C O L L A B O R A T I V E
P A R T I C I P A T I N G S I T E S
C I N C I N N A T I
Cincinnati Children’s
University of Cincinnati
C O L U M B U S
Nationwide Children’s
The Ohio State University
C L E V E L A N D
University Hospitals
MetroHealth System
Case Western Reserve University
Necrotizing enterocolitis has
a 40 percent fatality rate.
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Our strategic plan challenges Cincinnati
Children’s to measurably improve the health
of local children.
I N T R O D U C I N G T H E H E A LT H N E T W O R K B Y C I N C I N N AT I C H I L D R E N ’ S
Leading large-scale efforts to reduce
prematurity and infant mortality is
one of the ways we’re doing this.
Another is by creating the Health
Network by Cincinnati Children’s
to improve the health of children in
our region who are insured through
Medicaid — a large population
that includes both low income
and chronically ill children.
After more than a year of preparation,
the Health Network officially began
on July 1, 2013.
R E - I M A G I N I N G T H E S Y S T E M
Traditionally, hospitals define their
responsibility as taking care of
patients who walk through their
doors. If you’re sick or hurt, hospital
staff is there 24 hours a day to
provide expert care.
The Health Network is different.
C A M I L L E G R A H A M , M D
Interim co-medical director,
the Health Network
It’s a re-imagined system designed
not just to respond when children
are ill but to proactively promote
health and wellness for each child
enrolled in the network.
It’s an approach that will meet
the dual goals of improving child
health while reducing healthcare
costs, says Camille Graham, MD,
interim co-medical director of
the network.
H O M E B A S E
The redesigned system starts by
linking children to a medical
home — a home base responsible
for coordinating care. The medical
home may be in a hospital-based
primary care clinic or a community-
based practice.
Doctors, nurses and social workers
in the medical home pay special
attention to children at risk of
the NICU, this revolutionary MRI is designed and sized specifically to
safely image the most fragile infants while keeping them close to the critical
equipment and care professionals they need. No longer do sick babies need
to be transported from the NICU to an MRI elsewhere in the medical center.
For both clinical and research applications, this unique MRI is nothing short
of transformational.
“The NICU MRI gives us a tool we’ve never had before — one that can
help us lay a baseline for normal development and help us spot abnormal
development more quickly. The potential for discovery with the MRI is
astounding,” says Dr. South.
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Dr. South was able to
initiate the world’s first MRI research project on NEC not long after the
infant-sized MRI was up and running. In fact, the research this technology
enables is so new, researchers using it often are not eligible for funding
from traditional sources, such as the National Institutes of Health.
“Traditional funders typically want to support research that’s seen some
success already. Yet funding is vital to get new approaches — like our NEC
studies — off the ground. We were fortunate to have a family willing to step
in and help us fund this study from the beginning,” Dr. South explains.
Even more remarkable, this family’s generosity isn’t borne of a personal
experience as a patient family in the NICU. It was sparked by a family
members’ experience volunteering to care for fragile babies.
“Using the MRI to study these babies and NEC could lead to a profound
transformation of our understanding of gastrointestinal development.”
Dr. South pauses. “It will help us diagnose NEC earlier, start treatment
sooner, save more lives, and get babies home safely with their families—
where they belong.”
For the family whose gift supports Dr. South’s work, that’s the most
important reason of all. They understand that groundbreaking care starts
with cutting-edge research. And, thanks to their help, Dr. South and his
team may one day see a newborn ICU with fewer cases of NEC and babies
who leave for home sooner than ever before.
“ F U N D I N G I S
V I TA L T O G E T N E W
A P P R O A C H E S O F F
T H E G R O U N D . W E
W E R E F O R T U N A T E
T O H A V E A F A M I LY
W I L L I N G T O S T E P
I N A N D H E L P . ”
A N D R E W S O U T H , M D , M P H
Assistant Professor,
Division of Neonatology
and Pulmonary Biology
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falling through the cracks, and to patients with ongoing medical issues. Care
coordinators may reach out to the family with reminders to keep the child
on track with checkups and vaccinations, follow-up on missed appointments,
offer education to help parents better manage their child’s chronic medical
condition, and connect the family to needed services.
B E T T E R H E A L T H , L O W E R C O S T
The Health Network’s intensive focus on prevention, communication and
care coordination is an approach that promises to keep kids healthier and,
by doing that, to reduce healthcare costs.
Both halves of the equation — better health, lower costs — are consistent
with Cincinnati Children’s vision to be the leader in improving child health,
as well as with the goals of healthcare reform in our state and the nation.
A B O V E | Camille Graham,
MD, says that the Health
Network’s approach will
meet the dual goals of
improving child health while
reducing healthcare costs.
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Cancer survivor
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Eleanor’s 3-year-old well-child
checkup went from routine to
terrifying in a moment. There was
a mass in her belly. She needed
a blood test and scan right away.
“Her dad and I were in shock,” Amy
Sues recalls. “We had no idea. There
were no symptoms. When they sent
us to an oncologist, we kept asking
ourselves: What’s going on? Could
this be cancer? It couldn’t be.”
It was.
Eleanor was diagnosed with
hepatoblastoma, a cancerous tumor
in her liver. It’s a rare cancer that
strikes young children, typically 3
and under.
Fortunately for Eleanor, one of the
nation’s best centers for treatment
of hepatoblastoma was just an
hour’s drive from her home in
Springfield, Ohio.
At Cincinnati Children’s she found
a comprehensive liver tumor care team
that included experts in cancer, liver
disease and transplant surgery —
and a support team that helped her
parents get through the scariest time
of their lives.
“We met amazing people. I can’t say
enough about them,” Amy Sues says,
listing the doctors and surgeons, the
care coordinator who guided her, the
chaplain who comforted her, and
the child life specialists who made
sure Eleanor had fun, even while
going through chemotherapy and
transplant surgery.
Nine years later, Eleanor has prevailed
over cancer.
C O M M I T M E N T T O
S P E C I A L I Z E D P R O G R A M S
There are perhaps 150 to 200 new
cases of hepatoblastoma a year in
the US. In about 40 patients a year,
the best or only option for a cure is
liver transplantation.
Not every children’s hospital has
the multidisciplinary expertise and
institutional commitment to build
a program targeting a disease so rare
and complex.
In fact, the wide range of highly
specialized programs at Cincinnati
Children’s is one of the reasons
we are consistently ranked among
the nation’s top pediatric hospitals.
A T A G L A N C E
Our specialized Liver Tumor
Program offers hope to
children with hepatoblastoma,
a rare cancer that strikes
young children.
W I N N I N G T H E B AT T L E
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When she was 3, Eleanor was
diagnosed with a cancerous liver
tumor and underwent intensive
chemotherapy and a liver
transplant. Today this long-term
survivor is an active pre-teen,
with a love for art and archery.
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The specialized Liver Tumor Program was built on a strong foundation,
says oncologist James Geller, MD, medical director of the program.
Our Pediatric Liver Care Center provided a model for an integrated
approach. Since the center was established in 1985, gastroenterologists and
surgeons have worked together as an unusually cohesive team to improve
coordination of care.
For the Liver Tumor Program, the core team evolved to include oncologists,
pathologists and radiologists, as well as gastroenterologists and surgeons.
Communication and collaboration are hallmarks of their approach to care.
The wide-ranging expertise at Cincinnati Children’s was another critical
element in building the program. Our pediatric surgeons have extensive
experience with liver surgery and transplants in very young children. Our
interventional radiologists are skilled in advanced procedures that target
therapy directly to the tumor. Our oncologists are national leaders in
offering new therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers.
“The Liver Tumor Program is a coalescence of all these strengths,” says Dr.
Geller noting that the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute at Cincinnati
Children’s offers many other highly sophisticated and coordinated programs.
The Liver Tumor Program’s reputation for expert care and superior outcomes
has grown rapidly in the last five years. Today, it annually serves 10 percent
of all children in the US with hepatoblastoma.
T O P R E V A I L , B E A G G R E S S I V E
A simple philosophy underlies the approach to care: The single biggest risk
to the child’s life is the cancer. Attack it aggressively.
The team works collaboratively to ensure that children referred to the
program are seen and evaluated quickly, so treatment can start right away.
Eleanor’s family experienced that commitment to starting treatment as soon
as possible. “Those first days were a whirlwind of tests,” Amy Sues recalls. A self-
described “take charge kind of mom,” she wanted information to understand
and feel confident she was choosing the right path for her daughter.
“It was a balance between wanting to act quickly and not wanting to make a
hasty decision,” she says. “The team was very responsive. They shared the data.
T H E L I V E R T U M O R
P R O G R A M D R A W S
O N T H E W I D E -
R A N G I N G E X P E R T I S E
A T C I N C I N N A T I
C H I L D R E N ’ S .
I like data. I liked the approach, and agreed that transplant was the best
option for Eleanor, and we needed to move forward.” Eleanor’s name was
immediately placed on the transplant list and she began the first of seven
rounds of chemotherapy.
The team’s approach is to attack the tumor and any micro-metastatic disease
aggressively. They start treatment immediately, keep it going right up to
surgery, and resume chemotherapy as soon as possible after surgery, typically
within two to three weeks. Eleanor had four rounds of chemotherapy before
surgery and three rounds with another type of chemotherapy after.
At first, Eleanor’s cancer responded to the treatments. Blood tests showed
the cancer markers were down. But on Halloween, when she was in the
hospital for another treatment, there was an alarming change. The numbers
were suddenly up, spiraling out of control. She needed a new liver soon.
Eleanor enjoyed herself at the hospital’s Halloween party, and then the
family drove home, anxiously waiting for word that an organ was available.
Due to the urgency, her name had moved to the top of the list of children
waiting for transplant organs. Amazingly, the call came the next day.
Their bags already packed and ready, they rushed back to Cincinnati, and
early the next morning, Eleanor was in the operating room, getting a new
liver. She came through the operation well and recovered quickly. “There
was much to be thankful for that Thanksgiving,” her mother says.
R E C O G N I Z E D F O R
E X C E L L E N C E
Cincinnati Children’s ranked
number one for cancer care
and number three overall among
the 10 Honor Roll hospitals in
U.S. News & World Report’s 2013
survey of best children’s hospitals.
Our gastroenterology program
was ranked number three, with
the liver transplantation service
being rated superior.
A B O V E | 1 Gastroenterologist
Kathleen Campbell, MD, consults
with transplant surgeon Greg
Tiao, MD.
2 James Geller, MD, takes a
moment to play with a 3-year-
old cancer patient, Carson,
during a clinic visit.
J A M E S G E L L E R , M D
Medical Director, Liver
Tumor Program
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While her parents learned about immunosuppressants and life after a
transplant, Eleanor went on with three more rounds of chemotherapy.
Because the Liver Tumor Program’s treatment approach is so aggressive, it
requires careful, coordinated care — daily communication.
“I think one of the reasons our outcomes are so good is because we work so
well together,” says gastroenterologist Kathleen Campbell, MD, medical
director of the Liver Transplant Program.
Dr. Geller confers with transplant surgeon Greg Tiao, MD, daily. Following
a liver transplant, care management passes to one of the transplant program’s
gastroenterologists, but “the children are getting chemotherapy, so oncology
stays involved,” Dr. Campbell explains. “We continue to partner, working
together over the long haul for those kids.”
Frequent communication enables the specialists from different disciplines to
focus together on all the medical issues and side effects of treatment that may
occur, and to provide both aggressive and individualized care.
O U T S T A N D I N G O U T C O M E S
From 2000 to 2012, the Liver Tumor Program treated 25 children with
hepatoblastoma with a combination of chemotherapy and liver transplant.
The outcomes are outstanding. All 25 children are alive. Only one had a
recurrence of the cancer, and with surgery and additional chemotherapy,
the child achieved a cure. All have good liver function.
These superior outcomes support the team’s belief that post-transplant
chemotherapy and careful, individualized attention are key to prevailing
over hepatoblastoma.
Eleanor is one of the survivors. She returns to Cincinnati Children’s for
annual visits to the Pediatric Liver Care Center and the Cancer Survivor
Center. But the disease doesn’t define her. Today she’s an active sixth grader
and a Girl Scout. She loves art and has discovered she has a passion and
talent for archery.
L O O K I N G A H E A D
Members of the Liver Tumor
Program are the oncology,
surgery and radiology leaders
of US and European studies
testing new drugs for
treating hepatoblastoma.
TFC board chair Ken Berry has
been there from the beginning.
Like many of the hundreds of
tournament volunteers, Ken
was drawn to the Open because
of its partnership with the
medical center. “I have been a
volunteer with the Western &
Southern Open for 30 years, and
the affiliation with Cincinnati
Children’s is my motivation,” he
says. “I owe a personal debt of
gratitude for what they did for
one of my children. There isn’t a
parent in Cincinnati who hasn’t
benefited, or knows someone who
has benefited, from Cincinnati
Children’s expertise.”
In Cincinnati, professional tennis
is more than a spectator sport. It’s
an important source of support for
Cincinnati Children’s.
Tennis for Charity, Inc. (TFC) is
the charitable arm of the Western
& Southern Open held here in
Cincinnati. TFC gives back to the
hosting city by donating a portion
of the Open’s proceeds to local
organizations. Over the last 30
years, TFC has donated more than
$7 million to advance the innovative
research and clinical care that the
Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
at Cincinnati Children’s provides to
families here in Cincinnati, across the
country and around the world.
M A K I N G A N I M P A C T
T E N N I S FO R C H A R I T Y—
W E ST E R N & S O U T H E R N O P E N
A B O V E | The “Tennis Twins,”
Bob and Mike Bryan, were
among the players in town for
the Western & Southern Open
who took time to visit patients
at Cincinnati Children’s.
( L - R ) Bob Bryan, Brooke
McCollum, Abigail Spears,
Mike Bryan, Raquel Kop-Jones.
Tennis for Charity has donated
more than $7 million to the cancer
program at Cincinnati Children’s.
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With Cincinnati Children’s cancer program ranked the best in the nation
by U.S. News & World Report in 2013, Tennis for Charity was eager to
continue its support. This year, the organization made a $100,000 gift to
our Cancer Survivor Center — a first-of-its-kind program, established here
more than 25 years ago.
As medical advances help improve cancer survival rates, the need for
long-term care and research to improve outcomes also grows. The effects
of disease and treatment on the body can create later health problems,
including an increased risk for heart, lung and kidney disease, intellectual
challenges, fertility issues or secondary cancers. The Cancer Survivor
Center provides lifelong care to pediatric cancer survivors and uses findings
from its leading-edge research to improve the treatments of tomorrow.
“The Tennis for Charity board strongly believes in the work that Cincinnati
Children’s is doing, and we want to do whatever we can to make sure
that success continues,” says Elaine Bruening, CEO of the Western &
Southern Open.
In addition to its financial support, the Western & Southern Open also
brings smiles to the faces of the children and families who come to us
for hope and healing. Each year, players from the Open pay a visit to
Cincinnati Children’s.
“The players love coming in to see the kids,” Elaine says. “They know that
their visit can offer an hour or two of distraction for kids who are facing
incredible challenges. It’s a sobering experience for the players, and a
reminder to appreciate all that they have — whether they are ranked
1 or 101.”
Among the players who visited patients this year were the “Tennis Twins”—
Bob and Mike Bryan, the top-ranked doubles players and 2012 Olympic
gold medalists. Cincinnati and the Western & Southern Open hold a
special place in their hearts. “Cincinnati is where we got our feet wet on
tour,” Bob says. “We’re very proud of what the tournament’s doing for the
kids here at Cincinnati Children’s and all over the world.”
Older brother (by two minutes) Mike agrees. “We love coming here to
Cincinnati. The Western & Southern is like the fifth Grand Slam,” he
says. “But we’re also proud to be part of how the tournament is
supporting this hospital.”
“ I T ’ S A S O B E R I N G
E X P E R I E N C E F O R
T H E P L AY E R S , A N D
A R E M I N D E R T O
A P P R E C I A T E A L L
T H A T T H E Y H A V E —
W H E T H E R T H E Y A R E
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Cincinnati Children’s Champion
As a nonprofit hospital and research
center, Cincinnati Children’s relies on
friends like you to provide hope and
healing to the children and families
entrusted to our care.
Your partnership provides seed money to develop new programs and services. Your support
improves the quality, safety and reliability of pediatric healthcare. Your investment provides
funding for innovative research to prevent disease, advance treatments and improve the lives
of children in Cincinnati, across the nation and around the world.
We are profoundly grateful to those who have chosen to partner with Cincinnati Children’s.
Together, we can advance discovery, save lives and leave a lasting legacy to children. Together,
we can change the outcome.
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lists all donors who gave $1,000 or
more in fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012
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1 8 8 3 S O C I E T Y
C U M U L A T I V E $ 5 M +
Mrs. Lela C. Brown
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Cincinnati Children’s Employees
The Convalescent Hospital for Children
The Cooperative Society
Junior Co-Operative Society
Kindervelt of Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
William Cooper Procter
Estate of Ralph J. Stolle
Toyota
Western & Southern Open
S A B I N S O C I E T Y
C U M U L A T I V E $ 1 M – $ 4 . 9 9 M
Dr. and Mrs. Ira A. Abrahamson Jr.
Ms. Jean L. Abrahamson
American Heart Association
Anonymous (11)
Association of Volunteers
Arthritis Foundation
Estate of Ruth A. Atlas
Autism Speaks
Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan
William Belmont Backs and Louise
Nuxoll-Backs Trust
Bethesda Inc.
Patricia Heekin Briggs
Buckeye Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bunning
Robert Rogan Burchenal Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cambron
Estate of Dorothy S. Campbell
CancerFree KIDS Pediatric
Cancer Research
Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter
The Children’s Heart Association
Children’s Tumor Foundation
Cincinnati Bell, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.
Mr. Reed L. Coen
Dr. Robin T. Cotton and
Ms. Cynthia M. Fitton
Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford
Crohn’s & Colitis
Foundation of America
CURED
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
(National Headquarters)
Charles H. Dater Foundation
Boomer Esiason Foundation
James M. Ewell Charitable
Remainder Trust
Fifth Third Bank and
Fifth Third Foundation
Henry and Elaine Fischer
Michael and Suzette Fisher
Mrs. Barbara J. Fitch
The Flaherty Family
Fondation Leducq
Food Allergy Initiative
Mr. Robert B. Gardner*
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
General Electric Evendale Employees’
Community Service Fund
Emma Margaret Goldman Trust
Estate of Irving Goldman
Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hamlin
The Health Foundation of
Greater Cincinnati
Marjory J. Johnson Trust
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Ms. Lyn M. Jones
D O N O R R E C O G N I T I O N
L I F E T I M E G I V I N G S O C I E T I E S
The generous supporters who make up the Sabin Society and the 1883 Society have made gifts
to Cincinnati Children’s totaling $1 million – $4.9 million, and $5 million+, respectively. Their
partnerships are vital to our success — and play an important role in our recognition as a leader in
pediatric health. Countless lives have been saved due to the passion of donors who support world-class
research and safe, reliable, family-centered care.
G I F T S TO C I N C I N N AT I C H I L D R E N ’ SF I S C A L Y E A R | J U L Y 1 , 2 0 1 2 – J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 1 3
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Supports the most pressing needs of the medical center.
P A T I E N T C A R E A N D S U P P O R T
Provides expert family-centered care and support services
to the children and families entrusted to our care.
C O M M U N I T Y O U T R E A C H A N D P R E V E N T I O N
Supports research-based programs and partnerships that
promote health and help prevent illness and injury.
R E S E A R C H
Advances groundbreaking discoveries to improve treatments and
provide new hope for kids in our community and around the world.
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2 6 %
2 6 %
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$ 9 , 2 8 6 , 7 9 7
$ 9 , 1 1 7 , 9 5 5
$ 5 , 8 0 8 , 4 4 0
$ 1 1 , 0 9 4 , 4 7 0
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Josh Cares
Ida C. Kayser Trust
Robert T. Keeler Foundation
Dorothy M. M. Kersten Trust
Kohl’s Department Stores
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society —
Southern Ohio
The H.B., E.W., and F.R. Luther
Charitable Foundation
Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund
March of Dimes Foundation
Marriott International
Dr. and Mrs. Lester W. Martin
Mr.* and Mrs. Manuel D. Mayerson
Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin
Dr. and Mrs. Nelson Melampy
The Oxley Foundation
Joe and Susan Pichler
Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Place
The Procter & Gamble Fund
Estate of Lova D. Riekert*
Dr. George Rieveschl Jr.*
Dr. Jack Rubinstein Foundation for
Developmental Disorders
John J. & Mary R. Schiff Foundation
Robert C. Schiff*
The Robert C. and Adele R. Schiff
Family Foundation, Inc.
Estate of Leroy E. Schilling*
Roger P. Schlemmer*
Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund
Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts
Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Sheldon
Michael M. Shoemaker Trust
Estate of Louis M. Sloan
Hannah Jo Smith Research for
Leukemia Foundation
Speedway, LLC
St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Joseph S. Stern Jr.*
The Sunshine Charitable Foundation
Mrs. Mary Lou Tecklenburg
Mr. G. Richard Thomas
Walmart/Sam’s Club Associates
and Customers
Louise A. Williams Trust
Estate of Louise S. Wilshire*
Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Zicarelli
T H E L E A D E R S H I P C I R C L E
Cincinnati Children’s is able to change the outcome for families because of
our long-standing partnership with donors. We are happy to welcome our donors
into our newly created annual Leadership Circle. Here we recognize the patients,
families, staff, friends, companies and community organizations who have
made gifts of $1,000 and more in fiscal year 2013. From Friends to Circle of
Champions, each and every donor makes a difference in the lives of the families
we serve. Thank you for your support of Cincinnati Children’s.
C I R C L E O F C H A M P I O N S
$ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 +
I N D I V I D U A L S A N D
F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Anonymous (4)
The John A. and
Marlene L. Boll Foundation
Nancy* and Joe Brant
Mrs. Lela C. Brown
Buckeye Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bunning
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Cambron
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Cassady
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.
Marion Dale Combs
Audrey J. Dick*
DSM Downs LLC in honor of
G. Richard Thomas
The Ficks Family Foundation
Henry and Elaine Fischer
Michael and Suzette Fisher
The Flaherty Family
Gordon John Gilliam
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Mr. Timothy D. Hildebrand
The Kulkarni Family
Mrs. Roberta E. Larrick
Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin
Joe and Susan Pichler
Neena Rao Charitable Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Ritch
Dr. and Mrs. James A. Schiff
John J. & Mary R. Schiff Foundation
The Robert C. and Adele R. Schiff
Family Foundation, Inc.
The Sunshine Charitable Foundation
Mrs. Mary Lou Tecklenburg
Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Zicarelli
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
Adolescent Health Center of
Greater Cincinnati
Rita Allen Foundation
American Society of Clinical
Oncology (CCF)
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
Arthritis Foundation
Autism Speaks
CancerFree KIDS Pediatric
Cancer Research
The Children’s Heart Association
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
The Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky
Honda Dealers
The Convalescent Hospital
for Children
Crohn’s & Colitis
Foundation of America
CURED
CVS Caremark Corporation
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
(Greater Cincinnati Chapter)
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Therapeutics, Inc.
Charles H. Dater Foundation
Dental Care Foundation,
Cincinnati Children’s
Fifth Third Bank and
Fifth Third Foundation
The Gerber Foundation
Hope on Wheels Hyundai Dealers
Department of Immunobiology,
Cincinnati Children’s
Josh Cares
Kohl’s Department Stores
Leukemia Research Foundation
The H.B., E.W., and F.R. Luther
Charitable Foundation
March of Dimes Foundation
March of Dimes of Ohio
Masimo Foundation
NFL Charities
Ohio National Financial Services
Division of Pathology,
Cincinnati Children’s
The Perinatal Institute
Planned Gift Accounts,
Cincinnati Children’s
Dr. Jack Rubinstein Foundation for
Developmental Disorders
Department of Rheumatology,
Cincinnati Children’s
The Simons Foundation
Speedway, LLC
St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Department of Surgical Services,
Cincinnati Children’s
Toyota
Helen G., Henry F. & Louise
Tuechter Dornette Foundation
United Way of Greater Cincinnati
Walmart Foundation
Western & Southern Open
Division of Urology,
Cincinnati Children’s
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There’s nothing more important to Toyota than insuring all families
travel safely. So they partnered with Cincinnati Children’s to establish
a multigenerational program that focuses on the importance of car seats,
educating families about the dangers of texting and driving, as well as safe
behaviors for adults.
Together, we created Buckle Up For Life — a program that stresses the
importance of buckling up every time you get in the car and providing parents
with instruction on how to properly install and use car seats. The six-week
course meets families where they are and addresses the cultural, financial and
educational obstacles that prevent at-risk families from buckling up their
kids. At the culmination of the course, families are eligible to receive new car
seats, car seat installation from a certified child passenger safety technician
and instructions on how to properly install them.
Buckle Up For Life is working. After participating in the program, families
in one pilot city reported they were buckling up their children 92 percent
of the time, compared with just 32 percent prior to the course.
Buckle Up For Life has been so successful that Toyota is eager to see it
grow. The corporation recently committed to an additional $6 million
gift to expand the program, and its impact, to even more cities across the
country. Phoenix, Memphis and Long Island City will join San Antonio,
Houston, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelphia
and Cincinnati as Buckle Up For Life cities.
“This increased funding will allow us to continue our expansion into new
cities while also providing online child passenger safety resources for anyone,
anywhere,” says Latondra Newton, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility
Officer at Toyota Motor North America, Inc. “The Buckle Up For Life
program will help make sure that parents are doing the right things for
their children every time they put them in a vehicle . . . whether or not
it’s a Toyota.”
M A K I N G A N I M P A C T
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Life provides parents with
instruction on how to install
and use car seats.
$6 M I L L I O N
Toyota has committed
an additional $6 million to
expand Buckle Up for Life.
Participating families in one pilot
city are now buckling up their
children 92 percent of the time.
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F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Anonymous (2)
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Berman
Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter
Dr. and Mrs. David L. Goldfarb
The Farmer Family Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable
Gift Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hamlin
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
Andrea, Alex & Aaron Levenson
Liam’s Lighthouse Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Mathile
Hannah Jo Smith Research for
Leukemia Foundation
Mrs. Mary L. Strutz
The Sutphin Family Foundation
Nancy and David Wolf
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
American Association for
Cancer Research
American Association for the Study of
Liver Diseases
American College of Medical
Genetics Foundation
American Lung Association
(Headquarters)
Children’s National Medical Center
Children’s Tumor Foundation
Fifth Third Asset Management, Inc.
FirstGroup America
John Hauck Foundation
Histiocytosis Association of America
The Andrew Jergens Foundation
The Lalor Foundation
Markey Cancer Foundation
Messer Construction Company
Muscular Dystrophy Association, Inc.
Department of Plastic Surgery,
Cincinnati Children’s
PNC Foundation
Ride Cincinnati Foundation
The TeamConnor Cancer Foundation
Thrasher Research Fund
Turner Construction Company
United Way of Greater Cincinnati
C I R C L E O F C O U R A G E
$ 2 5 , 0 0 0 – $ 4 9 , 9 9 9
I N D I V I D U A L S A N D
F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Annie Wallingford Anderson
Foundation
Elizabeth Mendenhall
Anderson Foundation
Mr. James M. Anderson and
Reverend Marjorie C. Anderson
Anonymous (5)
Ms. Gladys R. Glassmeyer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Hildbold
Mr. and Mrs. Terence L. Horan
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Horn
Mick and Melissa Kowitz
Family Foundation
Mrs. Nancy M. Miller
Jeffrey Modell Foundation
Namaste Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Pistole
Pray~Hope~Believe Foundation
Mrs. Trudy Rauh
Robert Rogan Burchenal Foundation
JS Turner Family Foundation
Jovante Woods Foundation
YOT Full Circle Foundation
The Craig Young Family Foundation
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
The ALS Association
American College of Rheumatology
Research & Education
American Orthopaedic
Society for Sports
Anonymous
Auction to Benefit Project SEARCH
The Hartmann-Ryan Team at
Cassidy Turley
Children’s Leukemia
Research Association
Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
Costco Wholesale
CURE CMD
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, Inc.
Fort Washington Investment
Advisors, Inc.
Fosdick and Hilmer, Inc.
General Electric Evendale Employees’
Community Service Fund
The Health Foundation of
Greater Cincinnati
HORAN
Insuring The Children
Macy’s Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric America
Foundation
The Nelson Stark Company
Ohio Credit Union League
Orthopaedic Research &
Education Foundation
Petal-with-Pete Foundation
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Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
University of Cincinnati
C I R C L E O F C A R E
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F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
American Endowment Foundation
Amgis Foundation
The Anning Family
Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D.H. Anning
Anonymous (3)
Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan
Dr. Diane S. Babcock
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Baker
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold R. Barnett
Ted and Kim Beach
Mr. Leonard H. Berenfield
Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Bourgraf
Mr. and Mrs. Elroy E. Bourgraf Sr.
Bourgraf Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert William
Blackmore III
Dr. Janet A. Borcherding
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bray
Dr. Nathaniel A. Chuang and
Dr. Jeannie S. Huang
Clack Foundation, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Brian D. Coley
Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford
Dayton Jewish Federation
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. DiMarco
Mr. Dee Ellingwood and
Ms. Kaycee McGinley
Forker-Smith Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Frank
Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Geiger
Vanessa and Olivier Gillier
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Gusweiler
Kim and Gary Heiman
Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Heiman
The Reuben Herzfeld Fund of
The Greater Cincinnati
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Hirschfeld
Mr. and Mrs. Gary T. Huffman
Marianne and Donald James
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Kantor
Walter and Olivia Kiebach Charitable
Foundation Trust
Ellen and Mark Knue
The Ronald Kuntz Family
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lawrence III
LKC Foundation
Ms. Dee A. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell S. Meyers
James and Mary Miller
Mrs. Mildred M. Niehaus
Ms. Gail Norris
Nina and Edward Paul
Jane and Rob Portman
Mr. William Purdy
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Quinn
Renaissance Charitable
Foundation Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Robinson
The Robison Family Foundation
Ms. Jeanne M. Rosario and Mr.
Matthew D. Baroch
Dr. Frederick C. and
Mrs. Susan H. Ryckman
Ms. Donna L. Schiff
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schiff Jr.
Alan and Cheryl Schriber
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sepela
Rudolph and Marie Simich
Family Foundation
Skyler Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Ali Smajkiewicz
Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Smidt
Jack J. Smith Jr. Charitable Trust
Ms. Elizabeth A. Stautberg
Dr. Joseph T. Stegmaier and
Mrs. Barbara R. Sporck-Stegmaier
Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Still
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stein Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Strange
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard P. Suer
The Richard H. Sutphin
Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Tranter
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel von Allmen
Ms. Beth O. Wade and
Mr. Gary A. Glynn
Mrs. Mauri Willis
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
Academic Pediatric Association
The Allstate Foundation
The American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Financial Group, Inc.
Anonymous
Bahl & Gaynor Investment
Counsel, Inc.
Bear Necessities Pediatric
Cancer Foundation
Belterra Casino Resort & Spa
Carpet Cushions & Supplies, Inc.
Central Parking Corporation
Chico’s FAS, Inc.
Circle K Stores, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cleft Palate Foundation
Crown Productions, Inc.
Dairy Queen Corporation
dunnhumbyUSA
EMC Corporation
Endocrine Fellows Foundation
Epic Systems Corporation
Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for
Cancer Research
GBBN Architects
GE Aviation
General Electric Foundation
Give with Liberty Matching
Gifts Program
Great Clips, Inc.
Hatton Foundation
Hearts Are Trump
Huntington National Bank
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
International House of Pancakes
Kind Cuts for Kids
The Frank J. Kloenne and
Jacqueline D. Kloenne Foundation
Kroger Company
R.G. McGraw Insurance Agency, Inc.
Liberty Mutual Foundation
Linbeck Group LLC
George and Margaret McLane
Foundation
McLane Food Service Inc. #153
Medtronic Foundation
Mitch’s Mission
National Hemophilia Foundation
Ohio Casualty Foundation
Ohio River Valley Combined
Federal Campaign
The Peck Hannaford & Briggs Co.
PEDCO E & A Services, Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Private Client Reserve at
U.S. Bank
RCF Group
RE/MAX
Remke Markets
Jackson Gabriel Silver Foundation
State Farm Insurance
Companies Foundation
THP Limited, Inc.
Truist
Union Savings and Guardian
Savings Bank
Voalte, Inc.
Wellington Foundation
P A R T N E R
$ 5 , 0 0 0 – $ 9 , 9 9 9
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F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Allen
Alpaugh Foundation
Helen T. Andrews Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Ellis Arjmand
Dr. and Mrs. Mark C. Ault
Elana Brophy Memorial Foundation
The Bursk Family
Mr. Jonathan J. Calderas and
Dr. Corinne Lehmann
Robin T. Cotton and Cynthia Fitton
June Craynon and John Craynon
Mr. Thomas J. Danis
The Dayton Foundation
Dr. Dennis Drotar and
Dr. Peggy A. Crawford
Mr. David A. Eddy and
Dr. Nancy K. Eddy
Elizabeth Nichols Forker Fund
Ms. Jane E. Garvey and
Mr. John E. Lanier
Ms. Shelly Shor Gerson
Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Gieseke
Mrs. Jocelyn H. Glass
Robert Gould Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. James M. Greenberg
Beth and Louis Guttman
Dr. Ardythe L. Morrow and
Mr. Kenneth R. Haag
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Hayden III
Dr. Cheryl L. Hoying and
Mr. Joseph L. Hoying
Mr. and Mrs. Dett P. Hunter
Don and Judy Jaquet
Ms. Patricia A. Johnson and
Mr. Aaron Hempfling
Marguerite Rooke Johnston &
Rita C. & John R. Currell Fund
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Joyce
Dr. Robert S. Kahn and
Dr. Jessica A. Kahn
Marie C. Katzenstein*
Tom and Patti Keckeis
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kent
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Kincaid
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Kinman
Mr. and Mrs. David Kissell
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Klare
Edward T. and Blanche C. Korten
Charitable Fund
Arthur and Elizabeth Kuhn Fund
Ada D. Kuhn*
Dr. C. Dean Kurth
The LaRosa Family
Ms. Kathleen R. Larson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Lindner Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Millard H. Mack
Anne S. and James J. McGraw Jr.
Blanche M. and Herbert A. Metzger
Memorial Fund
Dr. Lili H. Miles and
Dr. Michael V. Miles
Mr. Glenn Miller
Ms. Anne K. Morton
Olivia J. Murray Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Suresh Nirody
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Oliver
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Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Sall
Mr. and Mrs. Brett Schappacher
Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Schorr
Mrs. Mary Jane Schubert
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Steinman III
The Robert and Christine Steinmann
Family Foundation
Mrs. Caroline F. Sutphin
Max Richard Thornsbury Foundation
Mr. Jason Tonich
Ventress Family Foundation
Marilyn and Thomas Zemboch
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
American Holistic Nurses Association
Anonymous
AFLAC
AK Steel Foundation
American Board of Internal Medicine
Ameritas
The Archiable Electric Company
AtCor Medical, Inc.
Avaya, Inc.
Bernstein Allergy Group, Inc.
The Cambridge Charitable Foundation
Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research
Cardinal Solutions
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Children’s Tumor Foundation
Cincinnati Bell, Inc.
CM Personnel Services, Inc.
Cotswold Foundation
Deloitte
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
First American Financial
Corporation
First Watch Restaurants, Inc.
The General Mills Foundation
Genesys Telecommunications
Laboratories, Inc.
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Greater Cincinnati Automobile
Dealers Association, Inc.
The Highfield Foundation
HKS
J. II Fire Systems, Inc.
Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Kicks for Kids
Kokosing Construction Company, Inc.
Ligocyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Live Nation Worldwide, Inc.
LJS Partners LLC
Lonestar Steakhouse
Lundbeck Inc.
Marriott International
Maxwell C. Weaver Foundation
Mercedes-Benz of Fort Mitchell
Morris Furniture Co., Inc.
Pomeroy
The Scoliosis Foundation
Sharefax Credit Union, Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
The Towerbrook Foundation
TriHealth Corporate Offices
TriVersity Construction
United Dairy Farmers
Vanguard Charitable
Endowment Program
Williams Foundation
Xavier University
S P O N S O R
$ 2 , 5 0 0 – $ 4 , 9 9 9
I N D I V I D U A L S A N D
F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Anonymous (2)
Ms. Brenda K. Bingaman
Mr. Erik Bjerke
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Brown Jr.
Mr. James Bush
Mr. and Mrs. Bret A. Caller
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Cassidy III
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Coombe
Drs. Sandra and Jay Degen
Mr. and Mrs. William O. DeWitt Jr.
Mr. Howard D. Elliot
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne I. Fanta
Dr. and Mrs. Michael K. Farrell
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher
Kate Furlong and Jim Walker
Beth Joanna Habbert Memorial Fund
John and Carrie Hayden
Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Hayden
Mr. Michael J. Hoogeveen
Dr. Margaret K. Hostetter
Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Jacob
Mr. Robert G. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Terry S. Karageorges
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Koch
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Koenig
Karen and Jay Kratz
Dr. Ann W. Kummer and
Mr. John R. Kummer
Denise and John Kuprionis
Ms. Amy L. Lanham-Bailey
Mrs. Ruthi Levering
Dr. Philip and Barbara Lichtenstein
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Locaputo
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Martin
Dr. and Mrs. James J. McCarthy
Mr. Powell McHenry
Mr. and Mrs. Maxim I. Meyers
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Orr
Oxford Community Foundation
Mrs. Dorothy M. Pandorf
The Richard and Dorothy
Pandorf Foundation
Dr. John P. Perentesis and
Dr. Stella M. Davies
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Quill
Mr. William R. Remke
The Gabrielle B. Reynolds Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Riccio
Ms. Brandy Rorabacher
Rose Family Fund
Ms. Barbara Ruehlman
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saporito
Mr. William Saxton and
Mrs. Courtney Campbell-Saxton
Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Schell
Dr. David P. Schor and
Ms. Susan M. Elek
Ms. Molli Schuler
Schwab Charitable Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Sellers
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Seta
Ms. Amy Settlemyre
Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Shaw
Mr. David S. Smith
Dr. Parke G. and
Dorothy M. Smith Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Strauss
Mr. Daryl Strother
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sullivan
Dr. Junichi E. Tamai and
Dr. Tanya E. Froehlich
Bruce S. and Caroline C. Taylor Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Valentine
The Schiff family has a longstanding commitment to local philanthropy.
Through the Robert and Adele Schiff Family Foundation, they have made
an impressive impact on education and children’s health issues. As a two-
time cancer survivor, Beth Schiff, and her husband Jim, were eager to support
the Cancer Survivor Center at Cincinnati Children’s through a gift to the
Cincinnati Cancer Center.
Beth survived a battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was 17 years old.
As a pediatric cancer survivor, Beth was eligible to be treated in the Cancer
Survivor Center at Cincinnati Children’s. “It was one of the most amazing
experiences. I was surrounded by an enclave of medical professionals who
had a complete understanding of my medical experiences and health
issues,” Beth shares.
It’s that complete understanding that helped guide Beth’s treatment during
her bout with breast cancer, which many pediatric Hodgkin’s survivors face.
“As a longtime survivor, I feel so fortunate to be the beneficiary of the type
of work being done by Cincinnati Children’s,” Beth says. “So much progress
has been made in curing and treating pediatric cancers, but there is so much
more work that needs to be done. It’s an honor and a privilege to support
the important research at Cincinnati Children’s.”
M A K I N G A N I M P A C T
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FA M I LY
A two-time cancer survivor
and her family contribute to
support research and help
others fighting cancer.
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Mr. Jeffery A. Vaughn
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Webster
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Weiper
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wertz
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. White
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Whitsett
Mr. Brian R. Wildman
Wong Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Wright
The Zaring Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Zaring III
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
Al Neyer, Inc. Foundation
Anonymous
ATM Solutions, Inc.
Bank of America Matching Gifts
The Bistro Group
Bricker & Eckler, LLP
Bruegger’s Enterprises, Inc.
Catholic Healthcare Partners
Dempster Family Foundation
cHc Manufacturing, Inc.
Ferguson Enterprises’ Chipping
In For Children
The Cincinnati Reds
Cintas Corporation
Cintas Document Management
The Columbus Foundation
Controlled Credit Corp.
CO-OP Financial Services
Corporex Companies, Inc.
CTS Telecommunications
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
(Greater Cincinnati Chapter)
DNK Architects, Inc.
Duke Energy
Eaton Corporation
Every Child Succeeds,
Cincinnati Children’s
Ezis & Blume, DDS, LLC
Frost Brown Todd, LLC
General Electric United Way Campaign
Graydon Head & Ritchey, LLP
Carol and Ralph V. Haile Jr.,
U.S. Bank Foundation
Hartke Hanks
Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics
Megan Hoogeveen
Memorial Foundation
IBM Corporation
Interim HealthCare of Cincinnati, Inc.
International Business Machine
International Paper Foundation
Jostin Construction, Inc.
Keating, Muething & Klekamp, PLL
KiZAN Technologies LLC
KLH Engineers, Inc.
Kolar Design
Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
The Lubrizol Foundation
Mason, Schilling & Mason CO., LPA
Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc.
The Mead Foundation
Meijer
National Christian Foundation
Netscout Systems
Nikon Instruments Inc.
Office of Disability
Employment Policy
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet
ORACLE
Department of Pediatric Surgery,
Cincinnati Children’s
Perfetti Van Melle USA Inc.
Pete Gaietto & Associates, Inc.
Primrose School
Franchising Company
The Procter & Gamble Fund
R.S.V.P. Home Care, Inc.
RoundTower Technologies, Inc.
Ruttle Design Group, Inc.
The Success Group, LTD.
Symantec Corporation
Thompson Hine LLP
Time Warner Cable
Total Quality Logistics
Two Smiles One Hope Foundation
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Warren County Career Center
Young Professionals,
Cincinnati Children’s
F O U N D E R
$ 1 , 8 8 3 – $ 2 , 4 9 9
I N D I V I D U A L S A N D
F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Dr. Raouf S. Amin and
Dr. Amal H. Assa’ad
Dr. Wynndel P. Baldock and
Mrs. Elisabeth E. Baldock
Bruce Family Foundation
The Butler-Reid, Washington
Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. A. Cris Collinsworth
Mr. Tim Cornelius
Mr. and Mrs. Dannah J. Crosby
Mrs. Katharine M. Davis
Mr. Louis C. Graeter II
Mr. Thomas W. Griffiths
The Reverend Dr. Daniel H.
Grossoehme and The Reverend
Henrietta H. Grossoehme
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Harang
Mr. and Mrs. Gary B. Hayes
Mrs. June Hoffman
Arlyn T. Johnson*
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Josephic
Ms. Joyce J. Keeshin
Mr. Chris D. Lah
Mr. Edgar E. Loyd
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton L. Mathile
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua K. Mayers
Dr. Jaclyn W. McAlees and
Mr. Marcus McAlees
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Moody
Dr. and Mrs. Louis J. Muglia
Ms. Laura C. Nixon
Mr. Matthew R. Patrick
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Pence
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Radaszewski
Mr. Raja Ram
Dr. Janet B. Reid and
Dr. Calvin W. Washington
Dr. and Mrs. J. Robb Reinshagen
Richard D. Reis Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Brad A. Rife
Reuben B. Robertson Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Rutz
Dr. and Mrs. S. Andrew Spooner
Mrs. Verna L. Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thomson III
Mr. and Mrs. John Waltz
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
Ace Hardware Foundation
American Lung Association of the
Midland States
Cafco
Cincinnati Wholesale Ice Cream, Inc.
Delta Community Credit Union
Fink Foundation
General Electric Credit Union
IBM Employee Services Center
Katz, Teller, Brant & Hild
Money Mailer, LLC
Nutricia North America, Inc.
Prestige Technical Services, Inc.
S3C, Inc.
F R I E N D
$ 1 , 0 0 0 – $ 1 , 8 8 2
I N D I V I D U A L S A N D
F A M I L Y F O U N D A T I O N S
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Agricola
Dr. and Mrs. Alessandro de Alarcon
Dr. Maria H. Alonso
Mr. Mohammad Alotaibi
Anonymous (2)
Mr. and Mrs. James Barter
Dr. Lesley L. Breech and
Dr. Jack B. Basil
Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Bauer
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Baverman Jr.
Mrs. Cindi Bedinghaus
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Beiting
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Beiting
Mrs. Lois G. Benjamin
Mr. Chris Bergs
Mrs. Arlene Bertellotti
Dr. and Mrs. Jorge A. Bezerra
Mr. Travis S. Bible
Mr. Carl M. Bimel Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy A. Blackburn
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Blanton
Ms. Susan Boresow
Mr. Jon Bormet
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Bradley III
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Branson
Mrs. Eleanor J. Brenan
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Briggs Jr.
C A R O L I N EA G E 1 1
Ran in the Warrior Run
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Mr. James M. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brown
Dr. Rebeccah L. Brown and
Mr. Dan O. Jones
Dr. Pamela I. Brown
Mr. Paul H. Brown
Daniel and Emily Brummett
Stephen and Diedra Burns
Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Buttari
Mrs. Tiffanne Campbell
Ms. Barbara Campbell
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Cebo
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel I. Choo
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Cirino
Dr. Douglas F. Clapp
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cochran
Mr. Reed L. Coen
Dr. Mitchell B. Cohen and
Dr. Morissa Cohen
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Cohen
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Collins
Julie Corwin
Lewis and Marjorie
Daniel Foundation
Dr. Bernard Dardzinski
Mr. Jon Dareff
Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Davies
Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Delk
Janice and Dan Demmerle
Dr. and Mrs. Scott E. Dillingham
Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Dimond
Richard and Susan Dineen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Dinn
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Donelan Jr.
Dr. Lorah D. Dorn
Mr. Kenneth C. Dunn and
Dr. Melodie G. Blacklidge
Mr. and Mrs. Barry N. Ehrnschwender
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Elder
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Elkus
Gene and Neddie Mae Elkus
Family Foundation
Mr. Stanley Ellington
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ellis III
Dr. and Mrs. Ravindhra G. Elluru
Mr. Gilbert Embry
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Erpenbeck
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Farmer
Ms. Jena Feichtner
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Feldmann
Mr. Dale Ferris
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Fisher
Mr. Robert Flaig
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy D. Focht
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Ford III
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Frey
Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Frye
Dr. and Mrs. Rodney P. Geier
Dr. Judith B. Van Ginkel
Mrs. Deane B. Godfrey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Goering
Rick and Kimberly Goins
Mrs. Amanda J. Goldsmith
Mrs. Irene E. Goodale
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Gougeon
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley M. Govert
The Charles M. Grant Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. John H. Greinwald Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Gribbell
Ms. Dulcey Griffith
Mrs. Elizabeth Lovett Grover
Mr. Joel Grubbs
Ms. Julien R. Guttman
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Haas
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Habel
Mr. Joseph W. Hagin II
Hainline Family Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Handel
Mrs. Michele Hanson
Dr. John Harley
Robert & Helen Harmony Fund
For Needy Children
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Hartlage
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hartlage
Mr. and Mrs. John Hartz
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Hastings
Mr. Jeffrey D. Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Helpling
Adrienne Henize
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Henke
The Mark P. Herschede Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Herschede
Dr. Andrew D. Hershey and
Dr. Gurjit Khurana Hershey
The Herzog-Beckman Foundation
Dr. Robert B. Hinton and
Dr. Andrea C. Hinton
The Homan Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Howe
Mr. and Mrs. Harlyn J. Hubers
Mr. Raymond A. Hummel
Mr. and Mrs. Brett T. Hungerford
Dr. Stacey Huppert
Mr. and Mrs. Dave A. Igel
Ms. Tracy Inman
Mr. David Jackson
Ms. Margaret Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jarnicki
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Jernigan
Dr. and Mrs. Alan H. Jobe
Dr. Kaalan Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Tony L. Johnston
Mr. Robert A. Johnston
Dr. and Mrs. Blaise V. Jones
The Juilfs Foundation
Dr. Karen A. Kalinyak and
Mr. Joseph G. Martin
Ms. Judith M. Kalpin and
Mr. John N. O’Brien
Dr. Tina Kaminsky
Milton Kantor*
Mr. and Mrs. J. David Karam
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew V. Kayes
Ms. Lisa A. Keegan
Mr. Paul A. Kelly
Mr. Kenneth Kemen
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Kemp
Ms. Vasiliki Keramida
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kerechek
Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Kiessling
Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Kimball
Mr. Dennis W. King and
Dr. Eileen C. King
Mr. and Mrs. William B. King II
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kitzmiller
Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Koch
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Koenig
Mr. and Mrs. Chase M. Kohn
Dr. Catherine L. Krawczeski and
Mr. Richard A. Krawczeski
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Krier
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Kroger
Mr. Henry R. Kruspe
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Lapinsky
Mr. and Mrs. Simati L. Laupola
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lavender
Mr. Ernest Lawhorn
Mrs. Carolyn Lear
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. LeBlond
Mrs. Ruth Lebow
Terry and Virginia Tranter came to support Cincinnati Children’s through
an extraordinary set of circumstances. Five years ago, Terry was in the
security line at the San Francisco International Airport when he began to feel
dizzy. Within seconds, he was in sudden cardiac arrest. Fortunately for Mr.
Tranter, the person behind him was Cincinnati Children’s anesthesiologist
Nancy Hagerman, MD, who immediately began CPR and assisted two other
bystanders in using the airport’s wall-mounted portable defibrillator —
saving Terry’s life.
He wanted to thank the stranger who saved his life, and after a little digging,
Terry was able to uncover the identity of his guardian angel. “When I found
Dr. Hagerman, I was impressed that she worked for a nonprofit with a great
mission, and the more I learned about Cincinnati Children’s, the more
impressed I became.”
To show his gratitude to Dr. Hagerman, Terry has donated nearly $30,000
to support the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and the Pediatric
Advanced Life Support (PALS) programs at Cincinnati Children’s —
programs that train people to step in and change the outcome in situations
just like Terry’s.
“I have two framed pictures of Dr. Hagerman — one at home and one at
work. Every time I see them, I am reminded that the only reason I am able
to be where I am today, or any day, is because of Dr. Hagerman. I will never
forget her gift of life.”
M A K I N G A N I M P A C T
T E R R Y
T R A N T E R
To thank the stranger who saved
his life, Terry Tranter has given
nearly $30,000 for life support
training programs.
$30,000
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Mr. and Mrs. John W. Leikhim
Mr. Gregory L. Lewton
Mr. Terrence Loftus
Dr. Jennifer M. Loggie
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Long
Elizabeth and Wayne Luessen
Dr. Maurizio Macaluso
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Malik
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Martin
Mr. David Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Mayers
Dr. and Mrs. David C. Mayhaus
Ms. Kristin L. McAllister
Ms. Debee McAteer
Mr. and Mrs. Randall M. McCorkle
Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. McDonald
Mr. Robert W. McDonald
Ms. Vicki M. McIver
Daniel H. McKinney*
Ms. Sharon M. McLeod
Professor and Mrs. Arthur F.
McMahon III
Mr. Besse Medical
Ms. Mary J. Megginson
Mr. R. Scott Mezger
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Millar
Mr. Kelly T. Miller
Abby and Jake Mitchell
Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Mucenski
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Muething
Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Myer III
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Nagengast
Mr. Jason W. Napora and
Ms. Alison Momeyer
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Nash
National Philanthropic Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Newton
Mr. Mark Newton
Ms. Debbie H. Ogden
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Olson
Mr. Wilby S. Tolson Jr.
Mr. James N. Trumble II
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Turner Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Ullner
Carl S. and Stephanie M. Vorhoff
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher and
Kathleen Vuturo
Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ward
Dr. Gary D. Webb
The Weichert Kranbuhl
Family Foundation
Mr. Richard A. Weiland
Dr. and Mrs. Derek Wheeler
Mrs. Joyce R. Wilhelm
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Willett
Dr. and Mrs. J. Paul Willging
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Williams
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Witte
Dr. and Mrs. Eric P. Wittkugel
Ms. Virginia G. Wittmer
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Woeste Jr.
Ms. Sally Woliver
Wood-Byer Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Wooer
Linda Workman, RN, PhD
Dr. Stavra Xanthakos and
Dr. Helmut Roehrig
Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Yauss
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Yeakle
C O R P O R A T I O N S ,
F O U N D A T I O N S A N D
O T H E R N O N P R O F I T S
Abbott Laboratories
AGAPE Instruments Service, Inc.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
American Modern Insurance Group
American Scaffolding, Inc.
America’s Charities
Ashley Ward, Inc.
Association for Research
in Otolaryngology
Bayer Becker
Best Buy Children’s Foundation
BHDP Architecture
Borcherding Buick GMC
Buffalo Wild Wings
Carmike Cinemas, Inc.
CDW Corporation
Champion Window Mfg. & Supply
Charles Schwab Foundation
Cincinnati Buick LMA Group
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
Cincinnati Precision Instruments, Inc.
Cronin Ford/Kia
Custom Glass & Glazing, LLC
Cytek Development Inc.
DeBra-Kuempel
Destination Imagination
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
Duke Energy Matching Gifts Program
Eleven Management, LLC
Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
EXLService Holdings, Inc.
Family Achievement Center, Inc.
FASCOR
Fiehrer Buick GMC
Foxx Construction, LLC
Gas America Charitable Foundation
GHG Timing, LLC
Goering & Goering Attorneys at Law
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. O’Neill
Mrs. Christine Opdycke
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Owen
Dr. Shobana Pandian and
Dr. Joseph Eapen
The Honorable and
Mrs. Ronald A. Panioto
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Panioto Jr.
Paul and Roberta Pappenheimer
Mr. Jatin Patel
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Paxson
Dr. and Mrs. William S. Pease
Mr. John C. Peebles
Mrs. Vivian Planck
Dr. Sheldon Polonsky
Ms. Leonora J. Polonsky
Mr. Jay R. Purdy
Drs. John and Judy Racadio
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Raible Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Ramseur
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Rands
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Rauh
Ms. Lori H. Reinhart
Mr. Ken Richardson
J. Erin Riehle
Mr. Ken Riffe
Mr. and Mrs. Danny L. Roark
Ms. Terri A. Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Roeder
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rogers
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Rowane
Mrs. Susan Rutkowski
Dr. Michael J. and
Dr. Meilan M. Rutter
Dr. and Mrs. Howard M. Saal
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C. Saladonis
Mr. Robert Santangelo
Ms. Mary A. Schell
Mrs. Judith M. Scherer
Mr. and Mrs. Alan G. Schmidt
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Schmitz
Mrs. Joan E. Schraml
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Schwab
Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Scott
Mr. James L. Scott
Ms. Jenn Mobilio Sennett
Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Shaffer
Laura M. Shamp
Mr. John M. Shepherd
Mr. Andrew M. Shott and
Dr. Sally R. Shott
Mr. and Mrs. William Shurman
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Shutt
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Sims
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Sluzewski
Mr. James R. Smale and
Ms. Martha A. Kelly
Mr. James C. Spaeth and
Mrs. Marcia M. Spaeth
Paul and Karen Sparling
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sowar Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Speed
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Spohr
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Springer
Mr. Christopher Stahl
Lori J. Stark
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Stecher
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence R. Steenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Steinert
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram H. Steinhard
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Steinke
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Strasser
Gary and Myrna Stuart
Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Stuempel
Ms. Kathleen M. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Terp
Mr. G. Richard Thomas
Mr. James W. Thompson
Dr. Nathan Timm and
Dr. Kimberly Daly
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas U. Todd
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Tomlinson
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Mr. and Mrs. Elroy E. Bourgraf Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Bradbury
Joe and Nancy* Brant
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Bratburd
Mrs. Mary E. Briggs
Mrs. Lela C. Brown
Mr. Peter W. Bushelman
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Cambron
Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Cassady
Ms. Michelle B. Christian
Dr. Douglas F. Clapp
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cochran
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.
Mr. Reed L. Coen
Mrs. Charlene F. Combs
Marion Dale Combs
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Conner
Mrs. Lois A. Cooper
Robin T. Cotton and Cynthia Fitton
Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford
Mrs. Geraldine Crawford
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Daniels
Mrs. Barbara R. DeGarmo
The Gorilla Glue Company
Grifols Therapeutics, Inc.
Hart Productions, Inc.
Haworth Inc.
Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.
Department of Home Care Pharmacy,
Cincinnati Children’s
Human Arc Corporation
InterAct for Change
Johnson Investment Counsel, Inc.
Johnstone Supply/Controls Center, Inc.
JTM Provisions Co. Inc
Key Foundation Matching Gifts
Leesman Lighting
Lehn Painting, Inc.
Macy’s Foundation
Market Precision Inc.
Matrix Companies
MC Mobility Systems, Inc.
Medical Recovery Systems
The Mended Hearts, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Deitschel Jr.
Dr. Alexander M. Della Bella
Barbara Dellerman*
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. DeWitt
Mr. and Mrs. William O. DeWitt Jr.
Audrey J. Dick*
Ms. Lynne Downs
Mrs. Linda Drasnin
Ms. Jane R. Dummer
Mr. and Mrs. Todd M. Duncan
Ms. Donna S. Eby
Dr. and Mrs. Franklin J. Edge
Joan T. Ehas*
Ms. Anna M. Elsasser
Ms. Gladys R. Elsasser
Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Essig
Mr. and Mrs. David Falk
Dr. and Mrs. Michael K. Farrell
Ms. Terri J. Feie
Mr. Michael D. Finch
Michael and Suzette Fisher
Mrs. Barbara J. Fitch
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon R. Flowers
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Frank
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Friedlander
Merck Company Foundation
Mom Brand Sales
Money Mailer, LLC
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global
Impact Funding Trust, Inc
Mueller Roofing Distributors, Inc.
Neyer Properties Inc.
Northgate Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep
Northgate Ford/Northgate Lincoln
Dennis Ott Builders, Inc.
Paragon Financial Group
Partec North America, Inc.
Performance Automotive Network
Perry Interiors, Inc.
Quality Magnetite, LLC
RED212
Reece-Campbell Inc.
Regency Realty Group, Inc.
August A. Rendigs Jr. Foundation
Reid Rizzo Foundation
Resource International
Mr. Robert B. Friedman
Dr. and Mrs. William M. Fye
Ms. Alice M. Geier
Mrs. Susanne E. Geier
Dr. John A. Gennantonio and
Dr. Margretta E. Gennantonio
Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Giesel
Gordon John Gilliam
Ms. Gladys R. Glassmeyer
Mrs. Dolores S. Goldfinger
Mr. Wayne C. Gover
Dr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Grabowski
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Hallam
Mrs. Margaret H. Hamer
Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hamlin
Mrs. Marilyn H. Harra
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Hatala
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hayden
Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Heyman
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Hildbold
Mr. Timothy D. Hildebrand
Ms. Kathleen L. Hill
Mrs. Barbara Hoekenga
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace R. Holzman Jr.
Ms. Shawn Hooper
Rite Aid Corporation
Rod-Techs, Inc.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Schneider’s Scrap Metal, Inc.
Semler Industries, Inc.
Smith Appraisal Service
StarShine Hospice Advisory Board,
Cincinnati Children’s
Sweeney Associates Agency
Tactical Advantage Group, LLC
Terracon Consultants
Tri State Bleeding Disorder
Foundation
U.S. Bank
U.S. Charitable Gift Trust
UCB, Inc.
United Way of Greater Stark County
Vistage
Willie’s Lakeview, Inc.
W I L L I A M C O O P E R P R O C T E R L E G A C Y S O C I E T Y
The William Cooper Procter Legacy Society recognizes and honors friends of Cincinnati Children’s who inform
us that they have included the medical center in their will, estate plan or other deferred gift arrangement. Named in
memory of Colonel Procter, whose visionary gift established our research endowment, this society acknowledges these
generous individuals who have chosen to leave a legacy to improve children’s lives for generations to come.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D.H. Anning
Anonymous (15)
Ms. Carole J. Arend
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Aronow
Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan
Dr. Diane S. Babcock
Dr. Earladeen D. Badger
Dr. Corning Benton*
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Beshear
Dr. Francis M. Biro and
Ms. Nancy L. Bloemer
David D. Black*
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Blinn
Mrs. Beatrice Bluestein
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Blum
Drs. Thomas F. and Barbara W. Boat
Dr. and Mrs. Ira A. Abrahamson Jr.
Ms. Jean L. Abrahamson
Dr. and Mrs. Richard I. Abrahamson
Dr. Ann L. Akeson
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Allen
Mr. Robert A. Anderle
Mr. James M. Anderson and
Reverend Marjorie C. Anderson
I S I S A G E 2
Born seven weeks early
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Mr. and Mrs. Terence L. Horan
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Humphreys
Dr. and Mrs. Joe F. Inman
Ms. Barbara A. Jackson
Dr. Richard L. Jackson and
Dr. Judith A. Harmony
Mrs. Betty K. Johnson
Ms. Lyn M. Jones
Mrs. Mildred A. Jones
Ms. Margaret H. Jung
Dr. Jennifer M. Loggie
Mr. George B. Lott and
Ms. Barbara N. Wurth
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Lyons
Mr. and Mrs. Millard H. Mack
Dr. Harold K. Marder and
Dr. Jewel D. Slesnick
Dr. and Mrs. James M. Marrs
Dr. and Mrs. Lester W. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Dale L. McGirr
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. McGraw
Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin
Dr. J. Scott McMurray
Dr. and Mrs. Nelson Melampy
Reverend and Mrs. Roger L. Meredith
Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Meyer
Michael J. Middleton*
Dr. Lili H. Miles
Mr. John N. Miller
Ms. Judith E. Miller
Glenn and Carol Montague
Dr. Anthony J. Mortelliti and
Dr. Gisella Mortelliti
Mrs. Marjorie Motch
Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Myer III
Mrs. Gayle R. Nesselhuf
Mr. and Mrs. Joel L. Newberg
Dan and Kris Neyer Family
Virginia L. Niemeyer
Mr. Paul L. Niklas
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Okenfuss
Dr. Sonya G. Oppenheimer
Mr. Maurice E. Oshry
Mr. Bruce A. Pavlech
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Pease
Kroger Pettengill*
Ruth B. Phillips
Dr. Steven M. Pilipovich
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Pistole
Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Place
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Planes Jr.
Dr. Mark A. Kahn
Mrs. Olga D. Kanuschak
Molly E. Kaplan*
Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Kauder
Mr. Aloysius F. Keller
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Kimball
Mr. Allen J. King
Mrs. Margaret W. Kite
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Koetters
Mrs. Gladys M. Kurtz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Raines
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rauh
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Rauh
Dr. and Mrs. J. Mark Reed
Dr. and Mrs. David M. Rider
Reverend Mr. Luis O. Riva Saleta
Andrew F. Robbins Sr.*
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Robbins
Robert Rogan Burchenal
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Robinson
Mrs. Phyllis M. Romanow
Ms. Andrea T. Rosenthal
Mrs. Ruth F. Rosevear*
Dr. Robert R. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Snowden M. Rowe
Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Russell
Dr. Frederick C. and
Mrs. Susan H. Ryckman
Ms. Arlene J. Sansone
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Sathe
Ms. Donna L. Schiff
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schiff Jr.
Roger P. Schlemmer*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schmidt
Dr. Rosemary E. Schmidt and
Mr. Robert C. Kanter
Ms. C. Jean Schroer
Mrs. Mary Jane Schubert
Mr. and Mrs. Phil F. Schultz
Dr. William J. Scott Jr.
Kenneth and Lois Sears
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Sharrock
Dr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Sheldon
Mrs. Kathleen A. Sherlock
Mr. Andrew M. Shott and
Dr. Sally R. Shott
Ms. Miriam R. Siegel
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Smith Jr.
Dr. James F. Steiner
Mrs. Mary Stern
Dr. Beatrice C. Lampkin
Mrs. Roberta E. Larrick
Ms. Kathleen R. Larson
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lerer
Dr. and Mrs. James L. Lessard
Dr. Joseph E. Levinson and
Dr. Sophia M. Levinson
Dr. Philip and Barbara Lichtenstein
Dr. John R. Liu and
Ms. Kari A. Jodal
Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Stevenson
Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Stix
Ms. Kathleen J. Stotler
Dr. C. Frederic Strife and
Dr. Janet L. Strife
Dr. and Mrs. David M. Sullivan
Mr. G. Richard Thomas
Mr. James L. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Tobias
Dr. Joseph C. Todd
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas U. Todd
Dr. and Mrs. Randolph T. Travis
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Vankalker
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Wacksman
Mrs. Saundra E. Walker
Dr. Brad W. Warner and
Dr. Barbara B. Warner
Dr. Richard B. Warriner III
Mr. and Mrs. Todd Washburn
Mr. Dustin J. Waters
Mr. and Mrs. Barry S. Weinstein
Mr. Harvey M. Weitkamp
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Welch
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wert
Dr. Clark D. West
Mrs. Patricia P. Whitaker
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Whitsett
Dr. and Mrs. J. Paul Willging
Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wilmott
Sharon A. Wing
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Womack
Mrs. Jean E. Wommack
Mr. and Mrs. J.R. and Linda Wood
Mrs. Joan R. Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Woodiwiss
Dr. and Mrs. Frank C. Woodside III
Ms. Lynne T. Wu
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Zanotti
G. Richard “Dick” Thomas is a Cincinnati native, local businessman and generous
philanthropist who has always had a strong commitment to supporting his
community. When his granddaughter, Emily, was born with Down syndrome
in 1995, Dick and his wife, Jane, turned to the experts here at Cincinnati
Children’s to improve the outcome for not only his family, but for all families
who have a child with Down syndrome.
In 1995, Dick and Jane gave the initial donation to create the Emily Ann Hayes
Down Syndrome Research Fund. The fund has fueled important research on
the effects of Down syndrome. However, research is just a piece of the puzzle, so
the Thomas family partnered with Cincinnati Children’s once again to establish
the Jane and Richard Thomas Center for Down Syndrome. This center provides
a wide range of medical care, therapeutic services and support to children with
Down syndrome, coordinated through a single, comprehensive program.
The next generation of the Thomas family is continuing their parents’ legacy in
making a significant impact for the Down syndrome community. Through their
family foundation, DSM Downs, the Thomas children — Sally Thomas Hayes,
Margo Thomas Steinbaugh and David Thomas — recently made an additional
$600,000 commitment to expand the services the Thomas Center provides.
“While so much has been achieved since Emily was born, there is still so much
more that needs to be done in the areas of research and treatment for those
with Down syndrome,” Sally, Emily’s mother, says. “Supporting the Thomas
Center will help make those advances.”
M A K I N G A N I M P A C T
D S M D O W N S
The Thomas family has
committed an additional
$600,000 to expand
services for children
with Down syndrome.
$600,000
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William Belmont Backs and
Louise Nuxoll-Backs Trust
Mary S. Belville Trust
Estate of Everett C. Branaman
Estate of Helen M. Branaman
Estate of Raymond Buse III
Estate of Madge Chidlaw
Katherine E. Cooke Trust
Estate of Audrey J. Dick
The Edward and Edna Frances T.
Everlien Charitable Trust
Estate of Jacob Gerlach
Estate of Arie J. Geurtz
Jean and Robert Hake Charitable Trust
Estate of Joseph W. Heideman Jr.
Juliet C. Muller Helmsworth Trust
Estate of Helen M. Hurm
Estate of Molly E. Kaplan
Estate of Marie Katzenstein
Ida C. Kayser Trust
Robert A. and Marian K. Kennedy
Charitable Trust
Dorothy M. M. Kersten Trust
Estate of Sarah M. Kienzle
Estate of Dr. Serene C. Low
Otto Luedeking Trust
Estate of Alice E. McIntosh
Estate of Mary P. Melvin
Estate of Gene A. Mitchusson
Marion H. Morrison Trust
Betty H. Palmer Charitable
Lead Trust
Estate of Dr. Joseph Rauh
Charles W. Scott Trust
Michael M. Shoemaker Trust
Estate of Carol Ann Sulau
Estate of Nelson T. Wethington
Louise A. Williams Trust
Bernal R. Woodward Trust
Estate of Marian A. Zimmerman
E S T A T E S A N D T R U S T S
Throughout our history, Cincinnati Children’s has benefited from thoughtful friends who have provided
for the future needs of the medical center. With grateful appreciation, we honor the memory of these
donors who provided a gift during the past year through their estate plan.
I N H O N O R O F
Ms. Breanna M. Barber
Mr. and Mrs. Lee E. Bartels
Mr. Matthew K. Bormet
William Breidenstein
Nathaniel Brown
Ms. Maya Collins
Dr. Robin T. Cotton and
Ms. Cynthia M. Fitton
Carter John Davis
Mr. Colin E. Davis
Dr. and Mrs. Prasad Devarajan
Ms. Isabella R. Dickman
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Drackett
Ms. Bernadette Dunklin
Master Manish Eapen
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Gilsdorf
Mr. Henry Hamblen
Ms. Eleanor R. Hartlage
Ms. Emily A. Hayes
Bailey A. Hemingway
Mr. Henry W. Kastner
Dr. Helen Kranbuhl
Ms. Kathryn Leikhim
Dr. and Mrs. Marc A. Levitt
Mr. Aidan Milmoe
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Nystrom
Mr. Samuel Santangelo
Mr. Liam P. Sayre
T R I B U T E G I F T S
When donors make a gift in honor or memory of a loved one, our
patients benefit from their generosity. We thank the families and
friends of the following individuals, who have had $1,000 or more
donated in their name.
Mrs. Catherine A. Schneider
Amber V. Semler
Mr. Brayden S. Shindler
Mr. G. Richard Thomas
Mr. Max D. Torem
Ms. Kelly Ulrey
Owen Vonderhaar
Dr. Ann Weichert
Mr. Owen West-Poley
I N M E M O R Y O F
Neil A. Armstrong
Regan Leigh Arnold
Ryan Aschenbach
Merideth Baum
Jake Miller Brannon
Nancy F. Brant
Elana R. Brophy
Steven A. Cirino II
Bruce W. Cochran
Ryan Coffey
Katharine Pierson Cooke
Hannah Davidson
Esther R. Dine
Gerald Dingledine
Rowan Dinn
Richard Dooley
Dr. Harold Downing
Bennett Drach
Dorothy M. Effler
John Fariello
Doug Feld
Gerald J. Ficks Jr.
Marie Foppe
Ezra J. Forbes
Dr. David N. Glass
Joseph M. Gruber
Sydney L. Hartz
Jennifer Holotko
Addison G. Hornstein
Sara Hudson
Elizabeth M. Igel
Leo G. Johnson
Samuel J. Johnson
Alice T. Kruspe
Regina Levenson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M.
McCaffrey
Carol L. McKenzie
Harold D. Melvin
Harold L. Melvin
Julia G. Melvin
James W. Moore
Mary Susan Moyer
Janie Newton
Dr. Robert W. Niehaus
Richard A. Pandorf
Kroger Pettengill
Dr. Joseph L. Rauh
Walter Ruddy
Mary J. Rumpke
Ruth Ruscher
Steven M. Scherer
Dr. William K. Schubert
Sylvia Schwab
Daniel A. Sehlhorst
Paul D. Seiter
Amy J. Smith
Mr. Henry and Iris Spira
William B. Switzer
Tobin Talbert
Tommy Van Hamilton
Jonah C. Varney
Candace Virgin
B E C K H A M A G E 7
Cancer survivor and
Cincinnati Children’s Champion
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T H E C O O P E R A T I V E S O C I E T Y
G I F T $548,000 P R E S I D E N T Nancy Sorg
Our first auxiliary, the Cooperative Society has served
Cincinnati Children’s for 130 years. In addition to
financial contributions, members of the Cooperative
Society also give generously of their time. Members
volunteer for the Division of Child Life and Recreational
Therapy, the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy
Children, and the sewing room.
K I N D E R V E L T O F C H I L D R E N ’ S
H O S P I T A L M E D I C A L C E N T E R
G I F T $480,000
C I T Y P R E S I D E N T Charlotte McBrayer
Our largest fundraising auxiliary, Kindervelt is widely
recognized as one of Greater Cincinnati’s outstanding
volunteer organizations. With nearly 1,000 members in
groups around the region, linked by a citywide board
of trustees, Kindervelt truly lives its mission to “have
fun while raising funds” for the patients and families of
Cincinnati Children’s. In its more than 40-year history,
the women of Kindervelt have contributed over $16
million to the medical center.
A U X I L I A R I E S
United by a common interest in supporting the
medical center, Cincinnati Children’s auxiliaries have
been essential to our success. If you would like more
information about our auxiliaries, or if you wish to join
in their important work, please call 513-636-0293.
J U N I O R C O - O P E R A T I V E S O C I E T Y
G I F T $305,450 P R E S I D E N T Kathy Cassady
Established in 1910, the Junior Co-Operative Society
operates and staffs the Gift Shops at Cincinnati
Children’s Burnet and Liberty campuses. The Gift Shops
are filled with a wonderful selection of toys, games, cards
and books to lift the spirits of hospitalized children. All
proceeds from the Gift Shops are donated to the medical
center. Their dedicated volunteers live by their motto,
“the more you shop, the more we give.”
A S S O C I A T I O N O F V O L U N T E E R S
G I F T $37,195
P R E S I D E N T Jeane Elliott
The Association of Volunteers has supported the
Convalescent Hospital for Children, an affiliate of
Cincinnati Children’s, for more than 40 years. To raise
funds, the association sponsors the Cincinnati Arts
& Antiques Festival each year. This four-day antique
show, held in October, is one of the largest and finest
in the country.
F U N N Y C O M P A N I E C L O W N S
G I F T $12,569P R E S I D E N T Donald Bachmann
Since 1983, the Funny Companie Clowns have been
delighting children and adults throughout the community,
while raising money for Cincinnati Children’s. The
25-member volunteer auxiliary performs at holiday parties,
company picnics, birthday parties and festivals, and has
raised nearly $200,000 for the medical center.
$ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 +
Cincinnati Walks for Kids
Celestial Ball
Sophie’s Angel Run, Inc.
$ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 2 4 9 , 9 9 9
Memorial Cancer Research
Golf Outing
Passport to Forever
Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund
Tee Off for Project SEARCH —
Fifth Third Bank Golf Outing
$ 5 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 9 9 , 9 9 9
Sample, Savor & Support
StarShine Hospice Golf Classic
$ 2 5 , 0 0 0 – $ 4 9 , 9 9 9
Annual Golf Outing Benefiting the
Center for Infants and Children
with Special Needs
Bluegrass for Babies
Cincinnati Dance Marathon
Children’s Charitable Care
Golf Outing
Katie Linz Foundation
Miami University Dance Marathon
Pray~Hope~Believe 5k Walk/Run
Steinert US, Inc. Golf Outing
The Warrior Run: The Race for Life
$ 1 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9
Auto Expo 2013
Champions Fore Cincinnati Children’s
Ferguson Enterprises’ Chipping in
for Children’s
Hearts are Trump
Hope Swings Eternal —
Crown Productions, Inc.
Lakota East National Honor Society
Lip Dub Benefiting Spina Bifida
Mitch’s Mission
Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati
StarShine Hospice Cornhole Classic
Rusty Ball
Tri-State Society of Healthcare
Engineers Charity Golf Outing
Win a Wine Cellar
$ 5 , 0 0 0 – $ 9 , 9 9 9
Alexandria County Market —
County Market Days
Bengals Intrasquad Scrimmage
Liam Nolen Bradley
Memorial Golf Outing
Catholic Kolping Society/Seth Stevens
Memorial Soccer Tournament
Chase Bank
Chipping in for Children
Han’s White Tiger Tae Kwon Do
Break-a-Thon
Kicks for Kids 16th Annual
RGI River Run
Loop for Lana — Elana Brophy
Memorial Foundation
Olivia J. Murray Foundation
Golf Outing
Neurosurgery Chiari Carnival
Quad State Pediatric
Dentistry Education
The Plaid Open
The Spirit Of Cincinnatus
St. Ursula Academy Orange and
White Flag Football Game (2012)
Max Richard Thornsbury Foundation
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Walk for EB
$ 2 , 5 0 0 – $ 4 , 9 9 9
St. Ursula Academy Orange and White
Flag Football Game (2013)
Becca’s 3rd Annual Legendary
Run for a Cure
Cincy-Cinco Latino Festival
Circus Mojo with Jerry Springer
For the Love of Doug
Foster Care Donations
Kendall’s 3rd Annual EB Walk
Lakota Optimist Club of West Chester
Lebanon Lodge #26F. & A.M.
Golf Outing
Loveland Fraternal Order of Eagles
3006 Christmas in July
McNick for Cerebral Palsy —
McNicholas High School
Rob’s Kids
S P E C I A L E V E N T S A N D C O M M U N I T Y O R G A N I Z A T I O N S
Special events bring people together to benefit our young patients, while building awareness of the medical
center and children’s health issues. Cincinnati Children’s thanks each and every volunteer and supporter who
gave time, talent and resources for an event that benefited the medical center. Those events that raised $1,000
or more are listed here.
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Songs of Hope
Southern Ohio Loggers Chapter
Torch Relay
Warren County Career Center
Auctioneer Program
William Henry Harrison
High School — DECA
Xavier University 2012 Baseball
Golf Outing
$ 1 , 0 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9
Acoustic Night at Scotty’s
Arts and Crafts for Amy
Beck Family Foundation
Family and Friends of Mia Bowser
Cincinnati Children’s Young
Professionals Cans for a Cause
with MadTree Brewing
Cheviot Lodge No. 755
Knights of Pythias
Cincinnati Friends of Charity
Cincy Kids 4 Kids
Community Christian Academy
Destination Imagination
Boogy-ing for Babies
Florence Lodge 33
Gold Wing X Toy Ride
Green Crest Golf Club
Christmas Walk
Healthworks! Race
Jane’s Saddlebag 1st Annual
Wine Festival
Kiwanis Club of
Kenwood-Silverton-Madeira
Madeira City School District
The Melting Pot of Cincinnati
The Moms Club of West Chester
Mother of Mercy High School
“Cat Attack”
Our Lady of Grace
Our Lady of Lourdes School
Peyton’s Kidney
Pulling for the Kids
Ronald McDonald House
Charities of Greater Cincinnati
S3C Golf Outing 2012
S3C Golf Outing 2013
Saint Susanna Parish
St. John the Baptist School
Sycamore Presbyterian Church
Amanda Thomson Charity
Piano Recital
Villa Madonna Academy
Viper Club of America
White Elephant Auction in
Memory of Paul Seiter
Willie’s Hidden Valley
Xavier University Dance Marathon
C H A I R S
The Division of Allergy and
Immunology Chair
The Richard and Geralyn Azizkhan
Chair of Pediatric Surgery
The William F. and Rebecca A.
Balistreri Chair of
Pediatric Hepatology
The William S. Ball Chair of
Radiology Research
The Corning Benton Chair of
Radiology Education
The Thomas Boat Chair of
Pulmonary Medicine
The Kevin E. Bove Chair of
Pediatric Pathology
The Hubert and Dorothy Campbell
Chair of Pediatric Pulmonology
The Lee Ault Carter Chair of
Pediatric Ethics
Division of Cellular and Molecular
Immunology Chair
The Clark-Helmsworth Chair of
Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
The Robin T. Cotton Research
Chair of Pediatric Otolaryngology
The Alvin H. Crawford Chair of
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
C H A I R S A N D F E L L O W S H I P S
We are grateful to the individuals, families, corporations and foundations
that had the vision to establish permanent endowment accounts to benefit
the children and families we serve. Their investment in the future of the
medical center provides ongoing support for salaries, equipment and
laboratory costs that are necessary to create new knowledge to advance
and improve child health.
C AT R I C E A G E 1 1
Family has been touched
by suicide
The Alvin H. Crawford Chair of
Pediatric Spine Surgery
The Robert L. Creedon Chair of
Pediatric Dentistry
The Division of Critical Care
Medicine Chair
The EMSC Chair for Pediatric
ER Medicine
The Gunnar Esiason/Cincinnati Bell
Chair of Life Sciences Research
The James M. Ewell Chair of
Pediatric Research
The David G. and Priscilla R. Gamble
Chair of Neonatology
The Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology Chair
The David N. Glass Chair of
Pediatric Rheumatology
The Emma Margaret and Irving
Goldman Chair of Pediatric
Ophthalmology
The Carolyn Hamlin Chair of
Otology Research
The Marjory J. Johnson
Chair of Brain Tumor
Translational Research
The Marjory J. Johnson Chair of
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
The Marjory J. Johnson Chair of
Vascular Tumor
Translational Research
The Neil D. Johnson Chair of
Radiology Informatics
The Rob and Jessica Kahn Chair of
General and Community Pediatrics
The Samuel and Molly Kaplan Chair of
Pediatric Cardiology
The Dorothy M.M. Kersten Chair of
Pediatric Gastroenterology
The Kindervelt Chair of Pediatric
Pulmonary Biology
The Deb Kleisinger Chair of
Novel Cancer Treatment
The Othilda Krug Chair of
Child Psychiatry
The Beatrice C. Lampkin Chair of
Cancer Biology
The Beatrice C. Lampkin Chair of
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
The Joseph E. Levinson Chair of
Pediatric Rheumatology
The Luther Foundation Research
Chair of Pediatric
Pulmonary Medicine
The Lester W. Martin Chair of
Pediatric Surgery
The Robert and Sarah McLaurin
Chair of Pediatric
Neurosurgery Research
The C. Nelson Melampy Chair of
Pediatric Anesthesiology
The A. Graeme Mitchell Chair of
Human Genetics
The M. Susan Moyer Chair of Pediatric
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The Robert Myers and Mary
Colgate Shoemaker Chair of
Pediatric Endocrinology
The Sonya Oppenheimer Chair of
Developmental and
Behavioral Pediatrics
The Division of Pathology Chair
Pathology Development Chair
The Aaron W. Perlman Chair of
Pediatric Rehabilitative Medicine
Translational Pulmonary
Science Chair
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The B.K. Rachford
Chair of Pediatrics
The Louise W. and Joseph L. Rauh
Chair of Adolescent Medicine
The Pauline and Lawson Reed Chair of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
The George Rieveschl, Jr.
Chair in Research
The Jeff Robbins Chair
The Thelma and Jack Rubinstein
Chair of Pediatric Developmental
Disorders and Intellectual
Disabilities
The Richard Ruddy and Barbara
Wriston-Ruddy Chair of Pediatric
Emergency Medicine Research
The Frederick C. Ryckman Chair of
Pediatric Surgery
The Albert B. Sabin Chair of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
The Schlemmer Family Chair of
Pediatric Research
The Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
The Junior Co-Operative Society
Fellowship in Pediatric
Infectious Diseases
The Ida C. Kayser Fellowship in
Pediatric Pulmonology
The Edward L. Pratt Fellowship in
Pediatric Medicine and Nutrition
The William K. Schubert Chair of
Pediatric Research
The Curtis Sheldon and Jeffrey
Wacksman Chair of
Pediatric Urology
The Frederic and Carolyn Silverman
Chair of Pediatric Radiology
The Charles H. Sloan Sr., Olive
Louise Sloan, and Charles H.
Sloan Jr. Chair of General
Pediatric Research
The StarShine Chair
The Ralph J. Stolle Chair of
Pediatric Immunology
The Janet L. Strife Chair of
Radiology Quality and Safety
The Division of Pediatric
Surgery Research Chair
The Tecklenburg Family Chair of
Pediatric Literacy
The Transplant Hepatology Chair
The Katherine Stewart Waters Chair of
Experimental Hematology and
Cancer Biology
The Edward F. Scully Fellowship in
Pediatric Endocrinology
The Lena K. Suter Fellowship in
Genetic Diseases
The Reginald C. Tsang
Fellowship in Neonatology and
Pulmonary Biology
The Carl Weihl Chair of General and
Community Pediatrics
The Clark D. West Chair of
Pediatric Nephrology
The Louise M. Williams Chair of
Pediatric Nephrology
F E L L O W S H I P S
The Richard Akeson Fellowship in
Molecular Biology
The William George Bauer
Fellowship in Pediatric
Hematology/Oncology
The Mary Louise Burton Fellowship in
Pediatric Gastroenterology
The Ruth Knittel Dietz Perinatal
Research Institute Fellowship
The Katharine S. and Gerald J. Ficks
Fellowship in Neonatology
The Andrew Jergens Foundation
Fellowship in Pediatric
Endocrinology
The Junior Co-Operative Society
Fellowship in Pediatric Diabetes
The Josef F. Warkany Fellowship in
Human Genetics
The Frank C. Woodside and
Dinsmore & Shohl Fellowship
in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Adler
Mr. and Mrs. Justin K. Akin
Alpha Delta State, Delta Kappa
Gamma Society International
Alyssa’s Coloring for a Cause
Amazon.com
Ameda
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas D. Arbino
Arnold Printing Company
Ms. April Baker
Barnes & Noble
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold R. Barnett
Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Bell
Bennett’s Beavers
Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Berger
Mr. R. Scott Boll
Books for Cure
Books-A-Million
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis J. Bottleson
Breads of the World, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Browning
Caitlin’s Smiles
Campbell County FOP Lodge 10
Cengage Learning
Chica Bands, LLC
The Child Life Council
Chili’s Bar and Grill
Cincinnati Carvers Guild
Cincinnati Cyclones
The Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati Woodworkers Club
Cincy Kids 4 Kids
Cintas Corporation
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Clawson
Coca-Cola Refreshments
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.
Coney Island
Mrs. Barbara W. Cook
Covidien
Crayons to Computers
Andy and Jordan Dalton Foundation
Dave and Buster’s Inc.
Deloitte
Mr. Jason Dickman
Drawing Dreams Foundation
dunnhumbyUSA
Entertainment Promotions
Mr. Andrew Farrell
FCHS
Dr. and Mrs. James Fitzpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy D. Focht
Mr. Grant Forster
Gatlinburg Convention
and Visitors Bureau
GE Aviation
Girl Scout Troop #42599
Good360
GPW & Associates
Happy Blankie, LLC
Jeffrey Thomas Hayden Foundation
Ms. Patty Henry
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Heringer
Ms. Connie Hernandez
Ms. Beth Hueber
IKEA West Chester
John W. Reiley Elementary School
Mr. Christian Johnson
Kai’s Love Hats
Keegan’s Spirit Foundation
Kenton Elementary School
Kids Wish Network
Kings Mills Elementary School
Kirlin’s Hallmark
G I F T S I N K I N D
We thank the following individuals, corporations and organizations that
helped ease the stress of our patients and families with their donations of
toys, services and other non-cash gifts, valued at $1,000 or more.
L O G A N A G E 7
Being treated for
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Kirstin’s Kloset
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Klein
Kroger Company
Creating Smiles for Kids—
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Ladrigan
and Family
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Linden Elementary School
Locust Corner Elementary School
Loveland Fraternal Order
of Eagles 3006
Macy’s Foundation
Main Street Market
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Mr. Scott R. Meister
Messer Construction Company
Mom’s Club of Liberty Township
Money Mailer
Mr. Chase J. Morrison
Mrs. Pauline A. Murrie
Nehemiah Manufacturing
Company, LLC
Newport Aquarium
Oasis Golf Course
The Ohio State University
College of Veterinary Medicine
Ms. Catherine A. O’Toole
Pillows of Hope —
Ms. Katie E. Dickert
Ms. Kelly Prindle
Quilts for Kids, Inc.
Mr. Ryan N. Ramer
Rapidfire Entertainment
Jessie Rees Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene K. Reis
The Richter & Phillips Company
Rob’s Kids
The Alicia Rose “Victorious”
Foundation
Ms. Elaine Sachetti
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Sandoval
Greg and Valerie Schube
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Seta
Sharefax Credit Union, Inc.
Ms. Debbie Sharp
Ms. Jan M. Shroy and
Mr. Michael A. Conroy
Skyline Chili of Middletown
Mr. Ken Smith
Society of American Magicians
Ms. Doris E. Sockman
Sodexo
St. Ursula Villa Kindergarten
and 1st Grade Daisy Troop
Dr. Mark C. Steinhoff
Mr. John Stephenson
Team Anna Banana
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Tippets
United Food and Commercial
Workers Local 75
Women’s Network
University of Cincinnati
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Ventura
Village Care Center
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Vonderhaar
Mrs. Joni Wainwright
Wall Pops
Mr. Jahad Washington
White’s Tower Elementary School
Mr. and Mrs. James Wineinger
Wyoming Middle School
Young Presidents Organization Inc,
Cincinnati Chapter
Youth Engaged for Successful Lives
*Deceased
N O T E
As a nonprofit hospital and research center, we are grateful for all gifts
made to Cincinnati Children’s. Unless otherwise noted, this report lists
all donors who gave $1,000 or more in fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012 through
June 30, 2013). We have made every effort to be accurate and complete
with this listing. Should you find an error or omission, please call the
Department of Development at 513-636-6378.
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O U R L E A D E R S
O F F I C E R S O F T H E B O A R D
Thomas G. Cody, Esq.
C H A I R M A N
Michael Fisher
P R E S I D E N T A N D C H I E F
E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E R
Vicki L. Davies
T R E A S U R E R
Elizabeth A. Stautberg, Esq.
S E C R E T A R Y
B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S
Sharry Addison
Robert D. H. Anning
Carol Armstrong
Richard G. Azizkhan, MD
Lynwood Battle
Michael S. Cambron
Willie F. Carden Jr.
Lee A. Carter
Thomas G. Cody, Esq.
David Dougherty
Nancy Krieger-Eddy, PhD
Michael Fisher
Vallie Geier
Louis D. George
Beth Guttman
Michael Hirschfeld, Esq.
Mark Jahnke, Esq.
Joyce J. Keeshin
M. Denise Kuprionis, Esq.
Peggy Mathile
Jane Portman
John Steinman
Arnold W. Strauss, MD
Pamela Terp
Felicia Williams
Craig Young
T R U S T E E S E X O F F I C I O
Rt. Reverend Thomas Breidenthal
T H E E P I S C O P A L D I O C E S E
O F S O U T H E R N O H I O
S. Kay Geiger
P R E S I D E N T
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky PNC
Financial Services Group
Gary “Doc” Huffman
P R E S I D E N T A N D C E O
Ohio National Financial Services
N O T E
Lists reflect leadership
as of June 30, 2013.
F O U N D A T I O N B O A R D
S. Kay Geiger, Co-chair
Gary “Doc” Huffman, Co-chair
Kit Andrews
Thomas Brennaman
Bret Caller
Thomas G. Cody, Esq.
Alvin Crawford, MD
Barbara Fitch
Beth Guttman
Michael Hirschfeld, Esq.
Patrick Lafley
Jon Lawhead
Peggy Mathile
Phyllis McCallum
Michael McGraw
Jane Portman
J. Scott Robertson
Liza Smitherman
Peter Strange
Allen Zaring IV
P H Y S I C I A N A M B A S S A D O R S
John P. Perentesis, MD, FAAP
Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH
A U X I L I A R I E S
Nancy Sorg
P R E S I D E N T
The Cooperative Society
Kathy Cassady
P R E S I D E N T
Junior Co-Operative Society
Charlotte “Char” McBrayer
P R E S I D E N T
Kindervelt
T R U S T E E S E M E R I T I
Ralph Burchenal
Barbara J. Fitch
Kroger Pettengill
Geoffrey Place
S E N I O R M A N A G E M E N T
Michael Fisher
P R E S I D E N T A N D C H I E F
E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E R
Richard G. Azizkhan, MD
S U R G E O N - I N - C H I E F
Elisabeth Baldock, PhD
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Human Resources
Brian D. Coley, MD
R A D I O L O G I S T - I N - C H I E F
Dwight E. Ellingwood
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Planning and Business Development
Michael K. Farrell, MD
C H I E F - O F - S T A F F
Scott J. Hamlin
C H I E F O P E R A T I N G O F F I C E R
Cheryl Hoying, PhD, RN
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Department of Patient Services
Marianne F. James
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Information Services, and
Chief Information Officer
William M. Kent
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Infrastructure and Operations
Uma R. Kotagal, MD
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Quality, Safety and Transformation
Charles Dean Kurth, MD
A N E S T H E S I O L O G I S T - I N - C H I E F
Mark Mumford
C H I E F F I N A N C I A L O F F I C E R
and Senior Vice President, Finance
Frederick Ryckman, MD
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Medical Operations
James A. Saporito
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Development
Elizabeth A. Stautberg, Esq.
G E N E R A L C O U N S E L A N D
S E N I O R V I C E P R E S I D E N T
Legal and Public Affairs
Arnold W. Strauss, MD
P H Y S I C I A N - I N - C H I E F ;
C H A I R
Department of Pediatrics,
University of Cincinnati;
D I R E C T O R
Cincinnati Children’s
Research Foundation
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F I N A N C I A L R E P O R TF I S C A L Y E A R | J U L Y 1 , 2 0 1 2 – J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 1 3
C O N D E N S E D B A L A N C E S H E E T F Y 2 0 1 3 F Y 2 0 1 2
A S S E T S Cash and Equivalents $249,190 $169,667
Marketable Securities 259,916 258,903
Patient Accounts Receivable, Net of Allowances
for Uncollectible Amounts 223,850 214,355
Other Current Assets 132,255 126,599
C U R R E N T A S S E T S 8 6 5 , 2 1 1 7 6 9 , 5 2 4
Property and Equipment, Net of Accumulated Depreciation 908,535 840,978
Funds Held in Trust 62,803 3,678
Other Long-term Assets 65,873 81,324
Interest in Net Assets of Supporting Organizations 1,111,650 937,327
T O T A L A S S E T S $ 3 , 0 1 4 , 0 7 2 $ 2 , 6 3 2 , 8 3 1
L I A B I L I T I E S
A N D N E T
A S S E T S
L I A B I L I T I E S
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses $239,891 $227,089
Current Portion of Long-term Debt 26,995 20,365
C U R R E N T L I A B I L I T I E S 2 6 6 , 8 8 6 2 4 7 , 4 5 4
Long-term Debt 494,274 467,223
Other Long-term Liabilities 286,807 441,819
T O T A L L I A B I L I T I E S 1 , 0 4 7 , 9 6 7 1 , 1 5 6 , 4 9 6
N E T A S S E T S
Unrestricted Net Assets 710,714 397,514
Temporarily Restricted Net Assets 170,437 156,702
Permanently Restricted Net Assets 1,084,954 922,119
T O T A L N E T A S S E T S 1 , 9 6 6 , 1 0 5 1 , 4 7 6 , 3 3 5
T O T A L L I A B I L I T I E S A N D N E T A S S E T S $ 3 , 0 1 4 , 0 7 2 $ 2 , 6 3 2 , 8 3 1
(Dollars In Thousands)
O P E R A T I N G R E V E N U E S A N D E X P E N S E S F Y 2 0 1 3 F Y 2 0 1 2
O P E R A T I N G
R E V E N U E S
Net Hospital Patient Services Revenue $1,332,851 $1,245,557
Professional Services Revenue 263,380 252,401
Research Grants 157,693 149,858
Other Operating Revenue 177,581 162,987
T O T A L O P E R A T I N G R E V E N U E S 1 , 9 3 1 , 5 0 5 1 , 8 1 0 , 8 0 3
O P E R A T I N G
E X P E N S E S
Salaries and Benefits 1,162,116 1,072,522
Services, Supplies and Other 491,944 474,033
Depreciation 110,378 119,574
Interest 14,247 15,926
T O T A L O P E R A T I N G E X P E N S E S 1 , 7 7 8 , 6 8 5 1 , 6 8 2 , 0 5 5
A V A I L A B L E T O R E I N V E S T I N T H E M I S S I O N $ 1 5 2 , 8 2 0 $ 1 2 8 , 7 4 8
M E A G A N A G E 1 4
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S T A T I S T I C A L H I G H L I G H T S F Y 2 0 1 3 F Y 2 0 1 2 F Y 2 0 1 1 F Y 2 0 1 0 F Y 2 0 0 9
P A T I E N T S Admissions (includes short stay) 30,804 30,579 30,951 32,981 31,217
Average Length of Stay (days) 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.1 4.4
Emergency Department Visits 127,376 124,274 121,875 125,130 114,985
Patient Encounters 1,161,009 1,144,858 1,087,260 1,078,798 1,003,079
O U T P A T I E N T
V I S I T S
Primary 78,905 65,347 65,446 65,915 60,243
Specialty 828,743 832,317 797,280 793,814 735,926
Test Referral Center 63,403 65,247 29,868 28,374 29,635
S U R G I C A L
P R O C E D U R E S
Inpatient 6,237 6,365 6,141 5,667 5,667
Outpatient 25,951 27,094 26,168 25,492 24,669
Surgical Hours 45,655 44,240 42,874 40,825 39,462
P E O P L E Active Medical Staff 1,493 1,572 1,516 1,498 1,442
Total Employees 13,852 12,932 12,654 12,368 11,666
Full-time Equivalents 11,799 10,976 10,781 10,455 9,871
O W E N A G E 9
At the cancer survivor picnic
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, a 501 (c3) nonprofit organization, is a teaching affiliate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The
medical center is accredited by The Joint Commission; Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities; and the Association for the Accreditation of
Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. We have been awarded Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for quality patient care
and nursing excellence. Our pediatric residency training program is approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Cincinnati Children’s
affirmatively seeks to attract to its staff appropriately qualified persons of diverse backgrounds. The medical center does not discriminate against any employee
or applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation or
status as a disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam conflict.
Cincinnati Children’s ranked third among all pediatric hospitals in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report survey of best children’s hospitals.
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