Wentworth-Douglass Charity Classic raises over $206,500 : Seacoast health news
Wentworth-Douglass Charity Classic raises over $206,500
DOVER – The Wentworth-Douglass Foundation raised $206,515 for programs and equipment for the hospital’s Women and Children’s Center at the 28th annual Wentworth-Douglass Charity Classic on June 21.
“This event is a wonderful reminder of the power of community,” said M. Jacqueline Eastwood, chair of the Wentworth-Douglass Foundation Board of Directors. “The Charity Classic raises critical funds for the Women and Children’s Center that allows our clinical team to provide the highest-quality of care for pregnant and post-partum women and our smallest and most vulnerable patients. We are grateful to our community, our corporate sponsors, our golfers, and volunteers who helped make this annual event a rousing success. We are excited to announce we have raised $206,515 thanks to their generosity, and support.”
The Charity Classic welcomed 144 golfers for a great day of 18 holes of golf at Cochecho Country Club. Golfers teed up for the 9 a.m. start followed by an awards luncheon and program, and had the chance to win a raffle prize to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and bid on trips, weekend getaways, tickets to sporting events, spa packages and other items during a live auction with local auctioneer Mark Fodero.
A favorite tradition of the Charity Classic is the Fund-A-Need program, which raises funds for specific strategic needs of the Women and Children’s Center. This year, the goal was to raise funds to purchase the GE Omnibed Giraffe Carestation; a critical piece of equipment that regulates temperature, provides a safe incubator, and reduces environmental stress for premature babies.
“The support generated for our Fund-A-Need Program is amazing,” said Geoffrey Ness, president and CEO of Nessit, Wentworth-Douglass Foundation Board Member, and chair of the Wentworth-Douglass Charity Classic Committee. “Through the generosity of this group of golfers, we were able to raise nearly $13,500 toward the cost of this piece of equipment, which was an incredible success and a huge help to the hospital!”
The winners of the Charity Classic received a trophy and green jackets. The 2022 winning foursome came in 16 under par and was represented by Michael Whitman and Eric Beauregard of Bangor Savings Bank and Richie Stover and Josh Trivilino of Omada Technologies. Both companies were also sponsors of the event.
Special thanks to the Charity Classic corporate sponsors that helped to make the day a success: Demoulas Foundation; LOCALiQ; Summit Land Development; Newburyport Bank; Service Credit Union; First Seacoast Bank; Sodexo; AHEAD; Rubrik; Rand-Whitney Container; Dermatology & Skin Health; Saltwater Collective; Nessit; Stonewall Kitchen; Eastern Bank; Sprague Floor Covering; Seacoast Emergency Physicians; Binnie Media; Townsquare Media; Real Property Management Seacoast NH; Holy Rosary Credit Union; Ross Furniture; StorageTek; SERVPRO; Omada Technologies; D.F. Richard Energy; Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network; Knights Construction LLC; ALPCO; Cross Insurance; Lou’s Custom Exhaust; Vigilant Capital Management; Central Park Garage; Port City Pretzels; Flagship Press; Parker Mountain Comfort Wraps; Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Medical Staff; E4H Environments for Health Architecture; Hannaford; and Roberge Energy.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center receives AHA awards
LEBANON, NH – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, a member of Dartmouth Health, has received four American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines® quality achievement awards for Resuscitation and Stroke for its commitment to treating in-hospital cardiac arrest and stroke, ultimately helping to improve survival rates.
The American Heart Association has granted the following Get With The Guidelines awards to DHMC for resuscitation: Resuscitation Gold Adult Population, Resuscitation Gold Pediatric Population, Resuscitation Silver Neonate Population.
Each year, more than 300,000 adults and children experience an in-hospital cardiac arrest, according to the American Heart Association. Survival from cardiac arrest largely depends on timely medical emergency team response and effective CPR.
“DHMC is committed to improving patient care by adhering to the latest resuscitation guidelines,” said Scott T. Slogic, director of Life Safety and Respiratory Care at DHMC. “Get With The Guidelines makes it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work on a daily basis, which studies show can help more patients who have cardiac arrest survive. The end goal is to ensure more people in our region can experience longer, healthier lives.”
For stroke, DHMC received the Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite.
DHMC also received the American Heart Association’s Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Honor Roll awards. To qualify for Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite, hospitals must meet specific criteria that reduce the time between a patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-busting drug alteplase. Target: Type 2 diabetes aims to ensure patients with type 2 diabetes, who might be at higher risk for complications, receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when hospitalized due to stroke.
“Because of our commitment to excellence and continual improvement in stroke care, DHMC has once again been recognized by Get With The Guidelines to consistently provide the highest quality and most up-to-date treatments to our region,” said Timothy G. Lukovits, MD, medical director of the Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Program at DHMC, and Shawna S. Malynowski, BSN, RN, MBA, manager of the Stroke Program at DHMC, in a joint statement. “It is through diligence, dedication and teamwork that we are able to monitor, recognize and improve systems of care allowing us to continually evolve and be the center of choice for stroke care.”
Wentworth-Douglass to provide athletic training services to Marshwood High
DOVER – Wentworth-Douglass Hospital is teaming up with Marshwood High School in South Berwick, Maine, to provide athletic training to the “Hawks” for the upcoming 2022-2023 season.
The addition of Marshwood High School means that Wentworth-Douglass will provide athletic training services to eight local schools during the upcoming academic year.
“Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital offers one of the most comprehensive, integrated musculoskeletal programs in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, southern Maine, and northern Massachusetts,” said Kendra Langus, PT, DPT, senior director of rehabilitation services at Wentworth-Douglass. “We are very excited to be entrusted with the care of the athletes at Marshwood High School. Athletic trainers are a critical factor to ensure athletes are prepared for competition and practice.”
The partnership with Wentworth-Douglass will give Marshwood access to an athletic trainer and the hospital’s sports medicine programming.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Wentworth Douglass and Mass General Brigham in supplying various medical care for our student athletes here at Marshwood,” said Marshwood Athletic Director Rich Buzzell. “Our goal is to provide our student athletes with the best possible experience and innovative care in dealing with sports injuries and restoring our injured athletes back to their best possible condition.”
In addition to Marshwood, trainers from Wentworth-Douglass will spend the upcoming season working with athletes from Dover High School, Spaulding High School, Somersworth High School, Portsmouth High School, Oyster River High School, Farmington High School and Great Bay Community College.
Wentworth-Douglass earns AHA 'Gold Plus' awards
DOVER – Wentworth-Douglass Hospital has earned multiple “Gold Plus” awards from the American Heart Association’s “Get With The Guidelines” program, for demonstrating a commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines for the treatment of heart disease and stroke. This is the first time the program at the hospital’s Center for Heart Health has earned a Gold Plus Award.
The awards won by Wentworth-Douglass include:
• The American Heart Association’s Gold Plus Heart Failure Award, with Target Heart Failure Honor Roll and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll recognition.
• The American Heart Association’s Gold Plus Stroke Award, with Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll recognition.
Kim Chapman, heart failure program manager at the hospital’s Center for Heart Health, says following the rigorous guidelines ultimately leads to shorter recovery times, fewer hospital readmissions, and more lives saved.
“This award is recognition of all the hard work that the heart failure team is doing to improve medication adherence, provide early follow-up care, and enhance patient education,” Chapman said. “The goal of Wentworth-Douglass’ Heart Failure Clinic is to reduce hospital admissions and help patients improve their quality of life in managing this chronic condition. With the addition of our Advanced Heart Failure Program at Pease and the CardioMEMS program we are able to care for patients in all stages of heart failure.”
Wentworth-Douglass’ Primary Stroke Center has won multiple Gold Plus awards and this recent award is a continuation of the staff’s effort to focus on patient-centered care.
Cathy Danforth, clinical nurse leader of the hospital’s stroke and sepsis programs, stressed that every patient’s stroke experience is unique, and that the hospital works closely with all stroke patients from the moment they’re admitted, through discharge planning, to make sure their individual needs are met.
“For the past four years the Wentworth-Douglass stroke care team has consistently met and exceeded the American Heart Association’s guidelines,” Danforth said. “The recognition represents the commitment and collaboration of all Wentworth-Douglass clinicians caring for stroke patients to provide high quality, evidence-based care to improve outcomes and prevent disability.”
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Wentworth-Douglass Charity Classic raises over $206,500
