Nantucket’s New Hospital
Details of the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital are rapidly coming into focus
The Gift of a Lifetime
Hackett Family Contributes $6 Million
Patient Spotlight
Saved by the Cottage Hospital
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Letter from our Chairman
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Nantucket’s New Hospital
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The Gift of a Lifetime – Hackett Family Contributes $6 Million
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Saluting Our Community Outreach Committee
10 Leading Together – The Names and Faces of Our Campaign Leadership 12 Event Photos 14 Patient Spotlight – Saved From a Stroke on Nantucket 15 Donor Spotlight – A Serene Place for Healing
The Nantucket Cottage Hospital Foundation was created to advance the mission and programs of the hospital and to
secure its future for the next generation of Nantucketers. Working closely with volunteers, NCH staff, and the Board of
Trustees, the Foundation encourages participation through fundraising, events, community outreach, and communications. Please contact one of the members of the Foundation team to learn how you can be more involved or to answer any questions. You can find us in the Founders Building, or call us at (508) 825-8250.
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Nantucket Cottage Hospital 57 Prospect Street Nantucket, MA 02554
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Kate Bartleman, Events Coordinator | kbartleman@partners.org Terri Burlingham, Administrative Assistant | tburlingham@partners.org Beth Garvin, Campaign Manager | egarvin@partners.org Chris Glowacki, Major Gifts Officer | cglowacki@partners.org
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reetings from Nantucket Cottage Hospital. As chairman of the Board of Trustees, I
am pleased to provide this update on our
campaign to build a new hospital for our island
community. We are entering a very important phase of our efforts to offer all segments of our community the opportunity to participate in working together on this historic initiative.
Milestones is designed to celebrate the donors and
volunteers who are making this new building possible and to provide an update on the project. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we are very grateful to all who
are helping us with their gifts and with their time as we
work to ensure we have the resources and perspectives that will enable us to make the best decisions about preserving quality health care for all Nantucketers.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build
the right hospital for Nantucket. Working with some of
the best health care design and construction firms in the country, as well as members of our island community, we’re designing a center for health and wellness
that will combine state-of-the-art technology with
the warmth and accessibility of the small community
hospital we love. More importantly, it will change and enhance our ability to deliver high-quality medicine – everything from surgery to primary care – on an island 30 miles at sea.
But this is not just a building project – it is an opportunity to rethink how we deliver high-quality and costeffective care, improve our patient experience and innovate through technology. Our existing facility was
built nearly 60 years ago, and through intelligent use over these decades has served generations of islanders.
Nearly all the pieces are now in place to bring the extraordinarily important and complex initiative of planning for the next generations to fruition.
Thank you to everyone who has given or is considering a campaign gift. Now is the time for everyone who
loves Nantucket to help build our new hospital by contributing to this essential investment in the future of the island.
Sincerely,
Kevin Hickey Chairman, Board of Trustees 3
Details of the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital are rapidly coming into focus. Since April when the Town approved the parameters of our site, we have been collaborating with architects, engineers and construction professionals on the schematic designs for the facility, in concert with working groups of community members and staff focused on the patient and visitor experience, our clinical programs, and how we will manage the building project. As we develop our vision of the new hospital, we are beginning the process of securing government approval at the local, state, and federal level. We will have preliminary designs to share in public comment sessions over the next few months. The new building will be roughly 100,000 square feet, which is about 10% larger than the combined square-footage of the existing hospital, medical offices and outbuildings on our campus that it will replace. Unlike our current configurations, the hospital will be designed to maximize privacy, safety, and efficiency in the way health care is delivered today, which will allow us to increase our capacity and provide more streamlined care. The new facility will be located in the space immediately behind the current building, which will be taken down after the new building opens. We’re working with our design teams to create an exterior that balances the island’s architectural heritage and sensibility with the modern health care services inside the walls. The current budget estimate for construction is $60 million, with a total project cost estimated at $85 million. The hospital leadership, architects, and builders have a clear set of priorities and principles that guide decision-making regarding features and costs. We look forward to sharing more designs and renderings of the new hospital in future editions of this newsletter.
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Preliminary Timeline Fall 2015
Schematic design phase
Early 2016
Submit plans for state and local permitting processes
Mid 2016
Complete final designs
Fall 2016
Raise 90% of funds needed for building costs through private donations
Early 2017
With approvals in-hand, construction begins
2018
Construction completed, followed by occupancy of new building
How a New Hospital Will Benefit Our Patients • An additional operating room will accommodate elective and emergency surgeries, as well as C-sections, simultaneously. • Multi-function rooms will create flexibility to meet fluctuations in demand. • Clinical space for ambulatory specialties and procedures will increase, allowing greater capacity to expand specialty offerings. • Unified primary care, walk-in care, and specialty clinic space will increase patient access to our providers. • New technology will be fully implemented, with every patient room planned to be telemedicine capable. • Enhanced privacy and safety will benefit patients, staff and visitors. • Discrete space will facilitate family and social network support and participation in the process of patient care. • Upgraded and efficient infrastructure in a new building will lower our operating costs, making our organization financially sound, and allowing us to invest more resources in programs and services instead of our outdated and aging facility.
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The Gift of a Lifetime
Hackett Family Contributes $6 Million
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he year was 1979 when Jim and Maureen Hackett made their first visit to Nantucket. It was a weekend jaunt to the island on a whim while Jim was attending graduate school in Boston, but Nantucket left its mark on the young couple. They’ve been coming back ever since. More than 30 years later, they’ve made memories here with their four children, and now their grandchildren. They speak about the island community in terms of an extended family. It’s among the many reasons why the Hacketts made one of their largest gifts ever to Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s capital campaign, a $6 million commitment from the Hackett Family Foundation toward the creation of the island’s new hospital. “We want to focus on family, not just the individual family, but the island family: people who live year-round, seasonally, and all the visitors,” said Maureen Hackett. “I’ve always felt that for those who’ve worked hard and have been blessed, we must give back and take care of our family.”
Jim & Maureen Hackett
The gift to Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s capital campaign is just the latest act of generosity by the Hacketts, who have established a philanthropic legacy in their hometown of Houston, Texas, at institutions of higher learning, including Notre Dame, Villanova and Georgetown, as well as on Nantucket.
Much of the couple’s philanthropy has focused on mental health initiatives, including a gift that helped establish the Mental Health Channel, the first web-based outlet devoted to mental health programming, delivered commercial free, 24 hours a day. Maureen Hackett, who was recently honored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals with the 2014 Outstanding Philanthropist award, previously served on the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Board of Trustees for six years, and as the president of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Foundation. The list of worthy charities on Nantucket is long, and the Hacketts have contributed to many, including the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club and other island non-profits. But the hospital was a special case. “I think the hospital takes care of all those other charities – it’s health, a basic human right, and the hospital allows everyone to do what they do on the island in a good and healthy way,” Maureen Hackett said. Hackett has long talked about her own mother, the bread-winner for a family of 11, as an inspiration for her philanthropy. To her, Nantucket Cottage Hospital and its role in the community is a perfect analogy. “The hospital,” she said, “is like the mom of the island. Moms are the glue that holds society together. I think everyone can relate to that.” 6
Extraordinary gifts from other extraordinary Nantucket families include: • Long-time hospital supporters, Jill and Stephen Karp, with their children Jana and Douglass Karp, have indicated their intent to give $5 million through the Karp Family Foundation. A key member of our Board of Trustees, Steve has also provided invaluable support on planning and design of the new hospital.
Commitments of $1 million or more have also been made: Anonymous Donor The Estate of Mrs. Thomas H. Gosnell Erwin and Stephanie Greenberg Foundation Tracey C. and William J. Marshall
In Honor of Patricia G. Newhouse Bruce A. and Elisabeth J. M. Percelay Foundation Bob and Laura Reynolds
Additional commitments of $1-5 million have been made through donor advised funds and foundations that will be recognized as the gifts are received. Campaign Results to Date As of November 30th, 2015, $58.5 million in gifts and pledges has been committed to the Building
Our Future, Committed to Care campaign. Planning support and a $10 million challenge grant from Massachusetts General Hospital inspired donors to invest in this historic initiative.
Leading by example, each member of the Board of Trustees has made a campaign gift, with total commitments from the Board accounting for 25% of the current total.
“The personal investment of each Board member – through their gifts, their time, and their wisdom – made it clear that this campaign is going to be a success. We are immensely grateful for their leadership.” – Margot Hartmann, MD, PhD, President & CEO
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Saluting our
Community Outreach Committee
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n 2012, a group of island residents came together to help us get the word out on the island about this exciting project, rally community support, and solicit their friends and neighbors to get
involved. The original team of Trish Bridier, Robin and EJ Harvey, Liz Winship, Bob and Marsha
Egan and Jean Grimmer grew to include representatives across the island.
Through events, marketing, personal testimonials, letters to the editor, and old-fashioned
doorknocking and phone-calling, this committee was critical to our efforts to help the community understand the need for the new hospital, and secure positive votes at the April Town Meeting to rezone our campus. The committee has now set its sights on helping us finish the campaign and build the new hospital.
The Community Outreach Committee reconvened in September to begin addressing the challenges of the final phase of the campaign. Given its past successes, expect a memorable kickoff event this winter and a very visible campaign presence throughout the spring and summer.
“Our hospital has seen us through all stages of our lives, from the cuts, scrapes and broken bones of our childhoods to the birth of my children. Our experiences have always been positive. There are many non-profits on Nantucket, but Nantucket Cottage Hospital remains the most important to me and my family. Giving ‘time and treasure’ to this great organization brings joy to us.” Trish Bridier, Chair, Community Outreach Committee
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Leading Together
The Names and Faces of Our Campaign Leadership
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antucket is blessed with many things: tranquility, history, and breathtaking beauty. A passionate and compassionate community with the tenacity to weather any storm. The amazingly talented set of volunteer leaders leading our hospital – and our campaign – are among the most passionate. In July, our ranks of leadership grew even stronger. Kevin Hickey became the chair of the Board, and outgoing chair Michael A. F. Roberts continues on the board in the critical role of chair of the Governance Committee. With 40 years of experience in the health insurance, health services and health information technology sector, Kevin brings a breadth of knowledge about health care and its constant evolution. Jack Burke, another trustee with health care leadership experience, joins Bud Carrey as Vice Chairs of the Board.
Michael A. F. Roberts
Maureen Hackett, Campaign Chair since the beginning of the campaign, has transitioned to the role of Honorary Chair of the Campaign and continues to support Trustees Reed Chisholm and Jeanine Borthwick who have taken on the roles of cochairs of the Board’s Development Committee and of the campaign.
Complementing the work of the campaign committee, Trustee Phil Nardone chairs the Marketing and Communications Committee of the Board. An award-winning expert in communications and public relations, Phil and other members of the committee provide an outside perspective to communicate more effectively with our patients, friends, and the community at large. Trish Bridier continues as the leader of our on-island community campaign, working with a growing committee of active volunteers. From the initial outreach regarding the need for a new hospital, Trish and this team have successfully engaged thousands of island residents and visitors. Like the generous donors to the campaign, our fundraising and outreach team reflects generations of Nantucket residents, scattered across the island and across the country. Driven by passion, tenacity and a dedication to ensuring the future of health care on Nantucket, the campaign heads into the next phase with renewed, energetic leadership. 10
Reed Chisholm and Jeanine Borthwick
Campaign Co-Chairs Jeanine Borthwick is passionate about the island as well as health care policy, and was appointed to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Board of Trustees in 2014. Her involvement with the Nantucket Cottage Hospital campaign grew quickly by assisting on solicitations and working with her daughter and the Richardson family in the development, production, and marketing of Nantucketopoly (an island version of the board game that raises funds for the campaign). Jeanine has an extensive background in investment banking and finance. A former Institutional Investor ranked research analyst in the telecommunications and consumer products industries while at Merrill Lynch, she is currently actively involved in fundraising at the Spence School, the Buckley School and Colgate University. When not on Nantucket, Reed Chisholm is based in Boston where he serves as a managing director with Goldman Sachs. He brings a wealth of experience from a career in investment management and board experience at The Dana Hall School, The New England Aquarium, and City Year Boston. He has been a member of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Board since 2013 and has effectively engaged scores of new donors and volunteers through a series of gatherings in New York and Boston. 11
Dr. Margot Hartmann, Wendy Schmidt, Elisabeth Percelay
Carrie Abramson & Jeanine Borthwick
Maya & Robert Tichio, Maureen Hackett, Kevin Hickey, Nan & Chuck Geschke
Laura & Bob Reynolds, Dr. Margot Hartmann
Dr. Hardy Oliver, Jr., Ann Oliver, Carrie Abramson
Barbara & Michael Eisenson, Marion Rosenthal
Arthur Gosnell & Paige Vincent
Melanie Sabelhaus, Bob Brust, Robyn & John Davis
Peter & Elizabeth Wareing
Summer Event Recap Bob and Laura Reynolds hosted an event on a beautiful August evening to thank the early investors in the Building Our Future, Committed to Care campaign to build a new hospital. Additional events are planned on-island and in various locations off-island during the winter months to share up-todate plans, answer questions, and thank and engage the Nantucket community of donors.
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Bob & Marsha Egan, Dr. Rita Chrappa, Lina Gillies
Jason Graziadei, Maria Zodda, John Millar
Courtney O’Neill, Elizabeth Milias, Jessica Murray
Neil & Lauren Marttila
Richard & Kate Glidden, Dr. Rita Chrappa
Jack Burke & Laurie Champion
Pat & Gerry Newton
Sondra & Norman Levenson & Family, Maryellen Burke
Tricia & Jim Lowe
Fall Event Recap Nantucket Cottage Hospital hosted two intimate gatherings over Thanksgiving and Christmas Stroll weekend during the final months of 2015 to thank those who have generously contributed to the
new hospital campaign and engage in conversation about the exciting progress over the past year. We would like to thank Kathy and Ken Kies and Bruce Beni for opening their house on Orange
Street for the Thanksgiving weekend gathering, as well as Chris Quidley for hosting our Stroll event at his Main Street gallery.
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Patient Spotlight Saved by the Cottage Hospital One morning last year John Belash was standing at the bathroom sink of his Nantucket home when he suddenly fell backwards. The 84-year-old island resident didn’t know it immediately, but he was suffering from a stroke. Rushed to Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Belash has only a vague recollection of being on a gurney as he was taken to the hospital’s emergency department. His clearest memory is seeing a doctor on a television monitor consulting with the emergency room physicians at his side. The doctor on the screen was a stroke specialist John Belash at Massachusetts General Hospital who was communicating in real time with Belash’s doctors on the island through Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s tele-stroke program. The clinical team quickly diagnosed Belash’s condition as a stroke. With the guidance of one of the top stroke programs in Massachusetts, Belash received a CT-scan and an electrocardiogram. In addition, Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s pharmacist was called in to mix a dose of tPA, an FDA-approved stroke treatment that dissolves clots and improves blood flow to the part of the brain being deprived of blood. With his initial diagnosis and treatment complete, Belash was transferred by Boston MedFlight helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital. Upon arrival and further medical work-up and treatment, he was greeted by the same physician he had seen on the tele-stroke monitor while in the NCH emergency department. After three nights at MGH, Belash was discharged and returned to Nantucket, enormously grateful for a system that worked precisely as planned to get him the care he needed. The timely, lifechanging save by the medical teams at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and Mass General averted the most damaging potential impacts of Belash’s stroke, including paralysis and loss of brain function. “The immediate response and seamless interaction from the beginning to end was extraordinary, from the EMTs to the Emergency Department and the coordination with MGH,” Belash said. “Everything functioned as it should have. It’s a tribute to how the system worked to give me the best possible treatment.” 14
Donor Spotlight A Serene Place for Healing A remarkable gift from a remarkable family will help create a sense of wellness and healing in our new hospital. In 2010, the Harriet DeWitt Trust pledged $650,000 to Nantucket Cottage Hospital, a gift dedicated to the creation of a healing garden and space for serenity and contemplation in memory of Nancy DeWitt Minus. It is a fitting tribute for one of the founders of Hospice Care of Nantucket, known today as Palliative and Supportive Care of Nantucket (PASCON). PASCON director Charlene Thurston recognizes the impact Nancy DeWitt Minus had on the island community. “Nancy was devoted to ensuring that terminally ill patients in Nantucket received the care that they needed and volunteered countless hours to coordinate the program during its early years. We are deeply indebted to her for the success of our program since.”
Nancy DeWitt Minus
This gift will impact future generations of Nantucketers, and has spanned generations of the DeWitt and Minus family. The gift was made through the estate of Nancy’s mother, Harriet DeWitt, and has been stewarded by Nancy’s son, Stephen. “Ever since my grandmother made her gift, Dr. Margot Hartmann’s passionate commitment to creating a hospital that is right for Nantucket has inspired me. The intuitive and analytical intelligence she has shown would have made my mother and grandmother happy that our gift was made wisely.” We look forward to realizing the vision for this space and honoring the memory of the DeWitt family. “We hope that Nancy’s dedication to providing personal, compassionate care to everyone who needs it – patients, family members, and friends – is honored not just in the garden and serenity spaces, but in all corners of our hospital.” said Dr. Margot Hartmann, President & CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
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