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AHP Pacific Regional News
This time of year many of us are busy with special events, preparing year-end appeals and gearing up for all the holiday festivities. Before the year gets away, I wanted to update you on our plans and activities for the AHP Pacific Region. Thanks to the leadership of co-chairs Linda Dickson, MBA and Mark McCampbell, CFRE and their outstanding organizing committee, the 2005 AHP Pacific Regional Conference in Seattle, Washington, was huge success. The conference attracted 120 attendees, 30 newcomers and 23 exhibitors. In addition, the AHP Advanced Course, offered for the first time at the regional conference, attracted 12 participants and the AHP Primer had 23 in attendance. Many thanks to Sharon Capece for securing $16,000 from 10 sponsors for the conference. Be sure to mark your calendar for April 23-25, 2006 and attend the AHP Pacific Region Conference at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla in San Diego. I am pleased to announce that Bill Littlejohn, Senior Vice President and CEO of Sharp Healthcare Foundation is the chair and has chosen the theme Creating the Margin of Excellence: Best Practices in Healthcare Philanthropy. This is one conference you don’t want to miss! I am pleased to announce that Mary Anne Chern, FAHP, ACFRE is the newly elected AHP Pacific Region Director-Elect for 2005-06. In addition, Mark McCampbell is the Washington State Representative and Crystal Torres is the Regional Foundation Chair. Please join me in welcoming Mary Anne, Mark and Crystal to the Pacific Region Cabinet. View the 2005-06 AHP Pacific Region Cabinet roster. I’d like to congratulate Karen A. Bisko, CFRE; Teresa Farr, CFRE; Elizabeth A. Liles, CFRE; and Pamela M. Werner, CFRE for achieving their CFRE designation this year. For information on the AHP Advanced Course in Health Care Philanthropy or the FAHP designation and exam dates contact AHP at ahp@ahp.org or visit the Web page. In closing, I want to remind everyone of how important transparency and accountability is for our industry, so be sure to stay abreast of the benchmarking initiatives that are being developed by AHP. It has been a busy year and I am looking forward to another successful year
for the AHP Pacific Region in 2006. Hope to see you soon!
Dear Colleagues: I am honored – I think! – to chair next year’s AHP Pacific
Regional conference in San Diego. We are devoting the conference to best practices
in health care philanthropy. I am sure that much of the content presented will
find its way into the AHP Resource Information Center – supported by
the Foundation – that will benefit all our colleagues throughout the
country. Others may share their presentations at the international conference
for which the Foundation provides scholarships. You may want to consider
participating in the conference either in terms of planning or presentation.
Please let me know of your interest.
San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital Expansion The San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital, located in Banning, California, has launched a $126 million expansion, with ground-breaking to take place in the fall of 2006, and completion expected by 2010. Being the sole provider of health care in the Pass area, and building upon its existing reputation of excellent care, “the expansion will take our hospital from 70 beds to 192 beds and add approximately 200,000 square feet of floor space in a six story tower,” reported Gary Curto, Director of Development for the hospital. Included in the first phase is the expansion of the Emergency Department to 24 exam/treatment rooms and a 16 bed Intensive Care Unit. The expansion is primarily driven by the projected increase in population and meeting SB 1953 requirements by 2010. - Information submitted by Sarah Clapp, Director of Special Services, Eisenhower Medical Center Foundation, Rancho Mirage, California Nurses to the Gulf The administration of Eisenhower Medical Center, at the suggestion from staff nurses, sent a team of 10 nurses and caregivers to the Gulf Coast on September 6 to provide medical aid to Mississippians devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The volunteer nurses spent close to two weeks in the storm-struck Gulf cities of Biloxi and Waveland, Mississippi, providing inoculations against tetanus and other diseases to those left in the hurricane’s wake. Their experience was chronicled by two reporters from the local newspaper, The Desert Sun, who also traveled separately to cover the nursing team’s efforts. The medical center underwrote the cost of the nursing team who took medical supplies and the necessary medications to administer to those in need. It was truly a life-changing experience for the team – working from a parking-lot turned base camp. “Each of them gave of themselves and we’re happy to have them back, safe and sound,” stated Louise White, Chief Nursing Officer at Eisenhower. “They did some great work. Now they need to recover, too.” - Information submitted by Sarah Clapp, Director of Special Services, Eisenhower Medical Center Foundation, Rancho Mirage, California Greetings From Alaska!
"AHP Alaska" says hello to the “lower 48” states. We have only 5 members in Alaska. Three of these members work at Providence Hospital in Anchorage; one at South East Regional in Juneau, and one at Central Peninsula in Soldotna. A correct scale map of Alaska, overlaid on the “lower 48” states below emphasizes the great distances between providers in our state. This may help members to see the geographic challenge inherent in serving our patients and in organizing face to face encounters. Nevertheless, it is an interesting opportunity – this effort to friend-raise at home. - Information submitted by Sue Caswell, Grants Coordinator, Central Peninsula General Hospital, Soldotna, Alaska
Many development offices and foundations raise funds through raffles. This is particularly true at events. What seems like a benign and often fun practice may in fact get you in trouble. Many states across the country have laws governing raffles. Is your office in compliance? It is certainly worth looking into. For those of you in California, state rules are summarized below, with FAQs to help navigate the requirements. California Raffle Regulations As of July 1, 2001, the California State Attorney General’s Office requires charitable organizations to register raffles in advance and to complete post-raffle reports. A partial excerpt from the Attorney General’s website (http://caag.state.ca.us/charities/raffles.htm#forms) states: “In California, charities and certain other private nonprofit organizations may conduct raffles to raise funds for beneficial or charitable purposes in the state. This exception to the general constitutional prohibition against lotteries requires that at least 90 percent of the gross receipts from these raffles go directly to beneficial or charitable purposes in California. Additionally, a nonprofit organization, unless specifically exempted, must register with the Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts prior to conducting the raffle and file financial disclosure reports on each raffle event.” One can conclude from reading the rules in greater detail that a hospital conducting a raffle on behalf of itself is exempt from raffle registration. A Foundation (a separate 501(c) 3), however, and its associated organizations such as a Women’s Auxiliary that raise money on behalf of the hospital probably are not. FAQs from the California Office of the Attorney General’s website
- Information submitted by Nancy Gregovich, DeLauro & Associates, San Diego, California
Dear Fellow AHPers, As is the case when we are communicating with our prospects and donors, we want to offer you a newsletter that is interesting, relevant, timely and informative. Because we have nine states in the AHP Pacific Region, there is considerable variation in relevant topics as well as in interest and appropriate data. One thing does remain constant, however. As development professionals, we have a responsibility to our organizations as well as to our donors to stay well informed and update to date on current issues. With this newsletter, we have attempted to provide a variety of topics by encouraging state representative or cabinet members to submit a brief update about news in their state. Witnessing the rapid change in health care, fundraising and legislative agendas that influence both is something that we all have experienced. It continues to be quite a challenge to stay abreast of all the news. We hope this newsletter is one that you will read and enjoy. Please let us know what you would like to read about in this newsletter and if you find this publication helpful. Please contact me or your respective cabinet member or state rep as indicated on the Cabinet list with suggestions and comments. We are always eager to hear from you. Thanks,
Have you read the "Ask AHP eFAQs" lately? This is a great way to get ideas on fundraising, grant makers, career moves and more! Consider printing the advice and suggestions gleaned from this information packed site for future reference! Just another great reason to join AHP!
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