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of Hope and Healing We invite you to link your life story with CHOP’s 158-year journey of making the world a healthier and safer place for children. By naming CHOP in your will, or as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, you won’t affect your current cash flow and you can change your decision at any time. No gift is too small, and we welcome you to honor a loved one with your future gift or use it to create an endowed fund to provide lasting support. To create your own legacy of hope and healing, contact Tom Yates, director of planned giving: 267-426-6472 or yatestg@email.chop.edu.
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Our Vision Dear Friends, We have had much to celebrate in the past year. U.S.News & World Report and Parents magazine once again named CHOP the No. 1 children’s hospital in the country. Last year, the Hospital received more than 1 million outpatient visits and more than 90,000 emergency visits. Our surgeons performed more than 26,000 surgeries, including the Hospital’s record-breaking 1,000th fetal surgery, to repair spina bifida in a girl who was born twoand-a-half months later in the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit. It was a year of breaking records: We had our most successful fundraising year ever, far surpassing our fiscal year 2013 goal of $80 million with a total of $130.8 million in donations. This stunning amount represents more than 100,000 gifts of varying sizes from new and longtime supporters, including a landmark $50 million pledge from the Buerger family — the largest single philanthropic contribution in CHOP’s history — to build a state-of-the-art outpatient facility, the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care. Scheduled to open in 2015 on CHOP’s South Campus, this new building will transform not only the future of patient care, but the future of the Hospital. Growing CHOP through new facilities like the Buerger Center and the Karabots Pediatric Care Center that opened last year in West Philadelphia, allows the Hospital to reach more communities where more children and families can benefit from our world-class
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clinical expertise, vital programs and family-centered care. Philanthropy is critical to these efforts — and it is more important than ever if we are to realize the full vision of the Buerger Center, our most ambitious project to date. In addition to breaking records last year, CHOP helped break new ground in pediatric research and medicine. The Hospital made national headlines when one of our patients, Emily Whitehead, became the first child to receive an experimental immunotherapy which cured her of a rare and deadly form of leukemia. Dr. John Maris, director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research, was selected to lead the first ever “Dream Team” dedicated to creating new treatments for childhood cancer. And we launched “Hope on the Horizon,” a volunteer-driven campaign to raise funds to support Dr. Alan Flake’s pioneering procedure that has the potential to cure sickle cell disease in just a few years. We thank you, our generous donor community, for making possible all this, and so much more. Through your philanthropic partnership in CHOP’s mission, you share in each of our remarkable achievements, as well as the small miracles that happen in the Hospital every day: making a suffering patient smile, fixing a heart before a baby is even born, healing an injured child, and giving parents hope. Your compassion and generosity help us build hope and offer better futures to children and families all over the world. Thank you.
Mortimer J. Buckley
Chairman, Board of Trustees
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The Largest Gift in CHOP History Will Revolutionize Pediatric Outpatient Care At right, from left: Alan Buerger, Krista Buerger, Constance Buerger, and Reid Buerger overlooking the construction site on Civic Center Blvd.
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n June 23, 2013, CHOP announced the largest charitable donation in its history: a landmark $50 million gift from the Buerger family toward the construction of a new stateof-the-art outpatient facility. Currently under construction on the Hospital’s South Campus in West Philadelphia, the building will be named the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care. This is not only the largest gift in the Hospital’s history, but also one of the largest naming gifts for a building in Philadelphia. The family gift, made by Alan and Constance Buerger, Reid and Krista Buerger, and Grant Buerger, marks a milestone in the Hospital’s $100 million capital campaign, Building Hope, to fund the new outpatient facility. If you have visited the Main Hospital recently, you can’t have missed the giant structure of steel beams across the street. When it opens in 2015, there will be 15,294 tons of steel in the building, and CHOP will open the doors on the nation’s most advanced pediatric outpatient care facility. “We are extremely grateful to the Buerger family for this transformational gift, which will ensure that CHOP continues to provide Building Hope continued on Page 7 >
Make Your Mark
There are many ways to leave a permanent legacy at CHOP and a personal mark on the Buerger Center. Naming opportunities in and around the facility are available at all levels of support, and these can be a wonderful way to honor a loved one. A sample of naming opportunities for gifts of $500 to $5 million can be found on Page 9.
Learn more at:
chopbuildinghope.org The Campaign The Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care is being made possible by Building Hope, a community-wide effort to raise $100 million toward its construction. Thanks to the Buerger family and their $50 million charitable donation toward the effort — the largest-ever gift to CHOP — we are well on our way.
“The Buerger family’s philanthropic support and that of the entire community will enable children from Philadelphia and around the world to receive the highest level of pediatric care in this state-of-the-art facility.” – Steven Altschuler, M.D., CHOP CEO
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1) From left: Alan and Constance Buerger, and Krista and Reid Buerger with a soccer ball a CHOP patient gave them in thanks for their transformational gift to help fund the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care. 2) Children, special guests who participated in the Carousel Ball video, take center stage in Memorial Hall at the Please Touch Museum. 3) The 2013 Carousel Ball Committee in front of the 1908 Dentzel Carousel.
The 2013 Carousel Ball
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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia celebrated the 39th biennial Carousel Ball at the Please Touch Museum® at Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park. One of the region’s most prestigious social fundraising events, the Ball raised funds for the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care.
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the highest level of pediatric care available to children and families in Philadelphia and around the world,” says Mortimer J. Buckley, chairman of the Board of Trustees. The Buerger Center’s 2.6-acre outdoor plaza and 14,000-square-foot roof garden will offer plenty of room for play and relaxation. Five levels of underground parking for 1,500 vehicles will make it easier than ever to get to the Hospital. Electronic check-in and preregistration will mean shorter wait times. Waiting areas will be filled with natural light and dotted with “wait/play/learn” areas to distract patients and their siblings with educational toys and games. Many of the clinics currently in the Wood Center and Children’s Seashore House will relocate to the 700,000-squarefoot Buerger Center in 2015, to be joined by others in the years that follow. To provide a convenient trip for children who see multiple specialists in a single visit, clinics will share space, forming “neighborhoods” of related specialties. The center is built for collaboration among clinical staffs as well as with CHOP’s medical researchers working nearby. “As a patient family treated at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, we know the infinite value of having a worldclass pediatric facility so close to home,” says Reid Buerger. “As a parent, and as a member of the Hospital’s Board of Trustees, I believe there is no better way to help ensure every child receives top medical care than to invest in a facility that will house the very latest medical expertise and technology.” Alan and Constance Buerger have been longtime donors to CHOP. Together they founded Coventry, a global financial services firm specializing in longevity and mortality risk. Mr. Buerger serves as the company’s chief executive officer, while Mrs. Buerger is its president. They reside in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. Grant Buerger also resides in Philadelphia. He is a freelance writer. Reid and Krista Buerger live in Ambler, Pa., with their two children. Mr. Buerger is a co-founder of Coventry, and Mrs. Buerger is executive vice president. Reid joined the Hospital’s Board of Trustees in September 2012. “The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is a worldclass institution that holds a special place in our hearts,” says Constance Buerger. “It is an honor to invest in a project right here in Philadelphia that has the ability to advance care and reshape pediatric healthcare delivery for children worldwide.” l
Buerger Center Beam Signing The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia hosted a beam signing ceremony on October 30, 2013. 1) In attendance were, from left to right, CHOP Board of Trustees chair Tim Buckley; Alan and Constance Buerger; Reid and Krista Buerger; Steven Altschuler, M.D., CHOP CEO; and Madeline Bell, CHOP president and COO. 2) Patients and families treated at Children’s Hospital and Hospital employees added their signatures to the building’s symbolic cornerstone. 3) Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, Representative James R. Roebuck, and Senator Anthony H. Williams were also present.
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1) The street-level entrance to the Buerger Center will be covered by a glass canopy. 2) A bridge will connect the Buerger Center with the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seashore House. 3) The ground floor dining concourse will be bright and spacious. 4) A welcome desk on each floor will greet patients and families. 5) The main entrance lobby will include a winding ramp. 6) The Buerger Center will also house a physical therapy gym with a two-story rock climbing wall.
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Buerger Center Naming and Recognition Opportunities $5 million • Rooftop Garden A stunning green space, this 14,000-square-foot rooftop, accessed from the sixth floor, will provide unique healing areas for physical and horticultural therapies, as well as a peaceful place of reflection. Landscape architects will create perennial gardens, a water feature and more, all safely enclosed by a high glass wall.
$2 million • Physical Therapy Gym A new physical therapy gym will add more than 5,600 square feet for rehabilitation programs. This state-of-the-art facility will have a two-story rock climbing wall, sports medicine area and mirrored studio space.
$1 to $2 million • Clinical Areas The Buerger Center will ultimately bring together all of CHOP’s outpatient services currently in the Main Hospital, Children’s Seashore House and the Wood Center. Unit naming opportunities include Radiology, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation Therapies and more.
$500,000 • Welcome and Information Desks This area will be the first thing visitors see as they enter a floor. The desks will be located on every level and staffed with greeters to offer directions, general assistance and information.
$250,000 • Water Features in the Plaza Children naturally love water, and the 2.6-acre landscaped Plaza will be accented with three unique water features, including two water walls and a winding canal feature. Each can be named for a gift of $250,000.
$100,000 • Elevator Lobbies on Clinical Levels Patients will travel through the building using a central elevator bank. The light-filled elevator lobbies on each floor will face the landscaped Plaza below.
$75,000 • Oncology Infusion Pods Within the Alex Scott Day Hospital, there are numerous “pods” where children sit for hours as they receive infusions. Outfitted with recliners and televisions, these pods are a home away from home for the day.
$15,000 • Roof Garden Planter Beds Individual spaces within the roof garden can be named in honor or memory of a loved one. These include several perennial and planter gardens.
$10,000 • Patient Exam Rooms Many clinicians and families have provided their input to help us design comfortable, functional and attractive consultation and examination rooms.
$1,000 to $10,000 • Plaza Paving Stones Outdoor paving stones of specified areas within the opportunity to pay tribute Donors may reserve a paver $5,000, $7,500 or $10,000.
varying sizes located in four landscaped Plaza provide an to or recognize a loved one. with a gift of $1,000, $2,500,
$500 • Inscription on the Main Lobby Walkway Gifts of $500 will be recognized on the glass railing of the landing areas located on the Buerger Center’s Main Lobby walkway to the second floor.
To see other naming opportunities and learn more, please visit:
chopbuildinghope.org
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Breakthroughs in Cancer
The Cancer Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia had a tremendous year in FY13, with the news of a major award to support research currently underway and the publication of results from studies of two groundbreaking new treatments.
CHOP-led team wins Stand Up To Cancer grant to combine genomics, immunotherapy
Actor Kyle MacLachlan (center in glasses) poses with, left of center, John M. Maris, M.D., and, center, Crystal L. Mackall, M.D., co-leaders of the Stand Up To Cancer – St. Baldrick’s Foundation Pediatric Cancer Dream Team, along with other team members at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in April 2013 in Washington, D.C.
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A team of the world’s best cancer researchers from seven different institutions, led by John Maris, M.D., director of CHOP’s Center for Childhood Cancer Research, won a $14.5 million grant from Stand Up To Cancer and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to create innovative treatments for particularly threatening pediatric cancers. The project will combine two powerful disciplines that have historically functioned independently — immunotherapeutics and genomics — to rapidly translate promising basic research into targeted treatments that will improve cure rates in children’s cancer. Immunotherapeutics focuses on developing treatments that harness the body’s own immune system to fight disease. Genomics, the field that analyzes the genetic code in DNA, reveals potential targets for disease treatments. This research will exploit the unique feature of molecules on cell surfaces of childhood cancer cells that are not present on normal cells and thus offer targets for treatments, employing bioengineered agents working through the immune system. The researchers on the team have deep expertise in the most lethal pediatric cancers and will combine their talents on a sustained effort to improve cure rates for the four deadliest pediatric cancers: malignant brain tumors, high-risk leukemias, neuroblastomas (which affect the peripheral nervous system) and sarcomas (tumors of bone and other tissue). “Completely new strategies are needed if we are to have curative therapies for all childhood cancers,” says Maris. “Our team hopes to rapidly develop more precise and effective treatments based on the unique characteristics of each child’s tumor.” l
Leukemia treated by T-cells
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On April 17, 2012, Emily Whitehead, a 7-year-old who was facing leukemia that had come back, twice, received an infusion of her own immune cells, reengineered in a lab to attack cancerous cells. The experimental therapy, called CTL019 or CART19, had shown remarkable results in adult patients. Emily was the first child to be treated. The vials of cells represented years of work by a team at CHOP, led by physician-scientist Stephan Grupp, M.D., Ph.D., in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. Scientists are hopeful that CTL019 will be an effective therapy for certain leukemias and lymphomas. In studies at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania, nine of 12 pediatric and adult patients experienced a complete or partial response after T-cell therapy, results that were published in The New England Journal of Medicine in April 2013. Many more must be treated to determine the therapy’s effectiveness and to answer key questions, such as whether the cells provide long-term disease control. But Emily personifies the promise of this experimental therapy. Three weeks after a single infusion of T-cells, a test of Emily’s bone marrow showed no cancer cells. She has experienced a complete remission that has now lasted more than a year. l
In February 2008, a team at CHOP made a significant scientific discovery: mutations in a gene called anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) are present in 14 percent of cases of high-risk neuroblastoma, the most aggressive form of the disease. “ALK is a gene that, when turned on, allows Yael Mossé, M.D. the tumor to grow,” says Yael Mossé, M.D., the attending CHOP physician who led the research. “The discovery allowed us to begin to think of ways to turn it off.” The ALK abnormality also occurs in some adult cancers. Manufacturers had developed a drug, crizotinib, to deactivate the gene in adults. Led by Mossé, a group of research hospitals quickly moved to bring crizotinib to children with certain difficult-to-treat cancers, starting a trial in fall of 2009. Results from the study were published online in The Lancet Oncology in April 2013: The drug achieved partial or complete responses, with very few side effects, for eight patients with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, three patients with inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, and two patients with neuroblastoma. “We are entering a new era of cancer therapy, in which we use knowledge of basic biology to design very specific drugs that target cancer cells, with few side effects on healthy tissue,” Mossé says. l
Generosity Drives Genius
Emily, now 8, has been cancer free for over a year.
Philanthropy was crucial to the discovery of the ALK gene and the research on treatments that discovery made possible. Supporters have included: Jocelyn and John Hillman, parents of a CHOP cancer patient; Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation; friends and family of CHOP patient Andrew Accardi; and the Penn-Pfizer Alliance. Dr. Grupp’s T-cell research that saved Emily’s life was also made possible by many donors, including the Jeffrey Jay Weinberg Memorial Foundation, the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, the Sanford Young Investigators Fund, Eagles Fly for Leukemia, Bradley’s Buddies, Philadelphia Triathlon, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, Dorman Products and other donors.
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he sun momentarily burst through the overcast winter sky on February 6 as donors and dignitaries cut the ribbon on the new Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pediatric Care Center in West Philadelphia. The event was nearly as colorful as the building’s rainbow-hued facade, with greeters in traditional Mexican garb, city officials, trustees, TV crews, hip-hop dancers and even a children’s choir. It was a big day for CHOP and the City of Philadelphia.
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But it was also a big day for Jason and Kiara, who were at the Karabots Center that day for their son’s 6-month well visit checkup. CHOP’s expert pediatricians would check the baby’s growth rate, administer vaccinations and provide the family with a book to read with him. “We’ve never had anything like this place in our neighborhood before,” said Kiara. “It’s a blessing.” The Karabots Center had 27,481 patient visits in its first six months open, and is the core location for CHOP’s top-ranked medical residency training. At the same time, it represents a new model for a healthcare facility, also serving as a hub for community-based programs like Early Head Start, Reach Out and Read, and the Homeless Health Initiative.
The newly opened Karabots Pediatric Care Center is impacting lives across West Philadelphia and beyond.
Aiding those efforts are two donorsupported spaces, the Marjorie and David Rosenberg Reading Room for Reach Out and Read, as well as the Romano Parent Resource Room. The aim is to create an environment that improves the whole lives of children and positions them for future success. Through Reach Out and Read, Karabots Center staff gave away 10,000 new and gently used books in the first six months it was open. Mayor Michael Nutter, speaking at the opening event, called it “a tipping point” for the revitalization of West Philadelphia. “There’s no greater calling, or challenge, than taking care of our kids. This investment, combined with others in the area, demonstrates that this community truly cares about children, their families and the people who work here.” “None of this would have been possible without Nick and Athena Karabots,” said CHOP CEO Steven M. Altschuler, M.D. Giving back is a personal mission for Nick Karabots. “I grew up in New York in a neighborhood a lot like this,” he said. “I was fortunate enough to escape a difficult life, and now Athena and I have the privilege of giving back and providing opportunities to struggling kids and families, so that they too can become successful and productive members of society. And hopefully one day, they too will be in the position of supporting the place that gave to them.” “The Karabots family has given a remarkable gift to the children of West Philadelphia,” said Altschuler. “We couldn’t ask for better friends and partners with CHOP.” l
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Sickle cell disease patient, Montana, 18 months, with her mother.
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hen it comes to sick kids, the sooner a problem is identified and treated, the better the prognosis. Many of CHOP’s patients are toddlers, infants or newborns, but surgeons and researchers at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) work on a whole different timeline: They treat babies before they are even born. Physician-scientists at the CFDT have helped thousands of families, saving babies who would not have survived without early intervention and enabling others to lead vastly better lives as a result of care they received in the womb or shortly after delivery. And they are constantly pursuing better treatments and new procedures to treat other conditions in utero. Alan Flake, M.D., one of the world’s top fetal surgeons and director of the Center for Fetal Research, has spent most of his 30 years in the field working on what could be one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in a generation: a cure for sickle cell disease (SCD).
Hope on the Horizon SCD is the most common inherited disorder in African-Americans, with 1 in 375 babies born with the disease. Named for the abnormal, sickle-shaped red blood cells it creates, which cannot carry oxygen and often block small blood vessels, SCD causes debilitating pain, chronic fatigue, organ damage and sometimes fatal strokes and heart attacks. Sickle cell patients are commonly hospitalized three or four times a year — every fever means going straight to the emergency room. Heartbreakingly, most people with the disease do not live beyond their 40s. Although bone marrow transplants can cure sickle cell disease, the procedure is so risky that it’s usually considered worse than the disease — which is why Flake’s work is so exciting. His groundbreaking treatment involves transplanting stem cells from the mother’s bone marrow — where red blood cells are made — to her child, first early in the pregnancy when the fetus’ immune system will accept the mother’s cells as its own, then again after the baby is born, to cement the
From left: Alan Flake, M.D., director of CHOP’s Center for Fetal Research; Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal; Alfred Liggins III, CEO of Radio One; Steven Altschuler, M.D., CEO of CHOP; journalist Roland Martin; Kim Smith-Whitley, M.D., director of CHOP’s Sickle Cell Center.
process. The child will then be able to produce normal red blood cells and grow up completely symptom free. With charitable support, Flake plans to enter clinical trials for the procedure within three years, and he sees the potential for it to cure SCD as well as a broad range of related immunodeficiency disorders, including thalassemias. Philanthropy has driven Flake’s efforts, starting with the leadership giving of The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation and continuing through support from other private donors and volunteer organizations like the CHOP Women’s Committee and the Community Clothes Charity. However, $5 million is still needed to make this cure a reality. To that end, CHOP created Hope on the Horizon, a volunteerdriven campaign spearheaded by longtime CHOP supporters Darlene Logan, Steve Sanders and Judith Royal, with the goal of raising both awareness of SCD and those critical funds. To promote the campaign and enlist supporters, Steve Burke, chief executive officer of NBCUniversal, and Alfred Liggins III, chief executive officer, president and treasurer of Radio One Inc., hosted an exclusive group of government, business and community leaders at 30 Rock in New York City in February 2013. The evening with CHOP leaders, surgeons, physicians and volunteers was eye-opening for many attendees. “I am proud to be able to contribute to this effort,” Liggins says. “I am convinced CHOP will make this cure for sickle cell disease a reality in the near future, and it is thrilling to be a part of this important work.” l
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Operating Overseas These children and their families, pictured with CHOP clinicians, represent many who benefited from the care provided by the CHOP team in Guatemala.
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3,000-mile airplane flight isn’t the typical commute to work for CHOP surgical advanced practice nurse Antoinette Drill, R.N., M.S.N., C.R.N.P., but then, this was not a typical workweek. In August 2012, Drill and a team of 20 other clinicians from CHOP and other area hospitals traveled to Guatemala to treat children desperately in need of surgical care. The trip was the brainchild of Liz Doolin, a master’s degree candidate in global medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and daughter of CHOP surgeon Ed Doolin, M.D., who worked with her to bring pediatric surgeries to a place where they would have the most impact. Organizing such a trip was no small feat for Doolin. He had to recruit a multidisciplinary team, locate a facility that could support their work in Guatemala and secure funding. The team set up a grassroots fundraising page on giftofchildhood. org and raised more than $35,000 within four months to pay for medical supplies, travel, living accommodations, and food for team members and patients. The effort received a generous gift from the Lynn Saligman League and nearly 100 donations from family members and friends of caregivers on the team. Doolin enlisted the help of an organization called Partner for Surgery to serve as a bridge between his team and the children in need of care. Partner for Surgery spread word of the mission to people in the local mountain villages, where standards of living are poor and there is little access to medical treatment. When the team first arrived at the surgical center, they were greeted by a standing ovation from families, some of which had traveled as long as 10 hours to get there. Equipped with two operating rooms, a 12-bed pre-op area and a four-bed recovery area, the team triaged 74 patients and performed a
Above: Ed Doolin’s team at the Centro de Salud Barbara surgical center in Guatemala. Inset: Liz Doolin with a patient.
total of 64 outpatient surgeries, many of which were life-changing procedures years overdue. One teenager had a type of benign skin tumor that’s usually about the size of a pea but that, left untreated for years, had grown to the size of a grapefruit and was very painful. One 4-year-old child had lived since birth with a tumor that had grown so large she was unable to sit down. A 28-year-old man who had lived since age 2 with a hernia that prevented him from working impressed on Drill the fate many of these children might have met had the team not made the trip. “When you saw these older men come in with hernias … they were large, scarred and painful,” recalls Drill. “If you could avoid that for someone, that’s a win right there, getting them care so they’re not 30 years old and can’t walk … or work.” The mission was the first experience of its kind for many of the clinicians on the team. It opened their eyes to the conditions children in underdeveloped nations live with and opens up a new type of outreach for CHOP. “This was extraordinary and unusual and very exciting, but it shouldn’t be,” Doolin says. “CHOP has the largest pediatric footprint in the world. This will be a regular occurrence.” Doolin and his team recently completed their second annual trip. With donor support, he hopes to expand the trip to twice a year and add specialists in infant nutrition, plastic surgery, urology, and ear, nose and throat. “There’s no doubt that if this trip hadn’t happened, these children would not have been treated,” Doolin says. “This is an area where just a little support can have such a huge impact.” l
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Fiscal Year 2013
CHOP at a Glance Treating children in the Philadelphia region and beyond The CHOP Care Network brings the best in primary and specialty care to the communities where our patients live. Our 50-plus locations in southeastern Pennsylvania and central and southern New Jersey form the largest pediatric health network in the nation. The unparalleled expertise of CHOP’s clinicians and staff also draws patients with complex medical needs from across the nation and around the world. Through both clinical care and innovative research, CHOP truly cares for the world’s children.
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• 1,193,124 outpatient visits, 708,585 of which came through primary care visits • 7,606 inpatient surgeries • 18,342 outpatient surgeries • 90,378 Emergency Department visits
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• More than 797,000 square feet of research space, helping to bring bench discoveries to bedside quickly
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Financial Summary
For the Fiscal Years Ended June 30 Sources of Revenue Net Patient Service Revenue Other Operating Revenue Contributions (1) Research
Total Sources of Revenue
Uses of Revenue
FY 2013
FY 2012*
FY 2011*
$1,849,940,000
$1,678,604,000
$1,547,375,000
105,318,000
103,442,000
86,217,000
65,692,000 218,931,000
$2,239,881,000
46,560,000 66,323,000 184,851,000 189,585,000
$2,013,457,000
$1,889,500,000
FY 2013
FY 2012*
FY 2011*
$1,051,244,000
$977,164,000
$916,048,000
Supplies and Expenses
406,539,000
370,414,000
352,388,000
Depreciation
119,151,000
124,139,000 116,258,000
Salaries, Wages and Employee Benefits
Interest
14,884,000
17,893,000
11,719,000
Research Expenses
327,944,000
299,464,000
293,214,000
Uncompensated Care
105,838,000
73,888,000
70,754,000
Provisions for Programmatic Investments
214,281,000
150,495,000
129,119,000
Total Uses of Revenue
$2,239,881,000
$2,013,457,000
$1,889,500,000
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Signature Events A Year in Review • July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013
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10th Annual 98.1 WOGL Loves Our Kids Radiothon On Sept. 5 and 6, 2012, the 11th annual 98.1 WOGL Loves Our Kids Radiothon broadcast stories of hope and courage, ultimately bringing in $658,000 for patient care programs. Since 2001, this event has raised more than $5.5 million for CHOP.
Blue Tag Gala & Silent Auction On Sept. 8, 2012, 300 guests attended the 2012 Blue Tag Gala at the Hyatt at The Bellevue in Philadelphia. The event raised more than $150,000 to benefit the Sickle Cell Center at CHOP — a record for the event. Guests enjoyed an evening with dinner and dancing. The featured speaker was Kim Smith-Whitley, M.D., director of CHOP’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. Darlene Logan and Steven Sanders co-chaired the event, with Judith Royal serving as vice chair. Nana Kwabena Tuffuor shared his patient experience.
Four Seasons Parkway Run & Walk On Sept. 30, 2012, 9,000 people turned out at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia for the Four Seasons Parkway Run & Walk. The event is the largest annual fundraiser for the Cancer Center and raised more than $850,000 for cancer research and survivorship programs at CHOP. Philadelphia Phillies All-Star pitcher Cliff Lee and his wife, Kristen, served as Honorary Chairs, and the Winner’s Circle sponsors were Philadelphia Insurance Companies and The Grainger Foundation.
The 11th Annual Buddy Walk® & Family Fun Day On Oct. 7, 2012, 3,500 people gathered at Villanova University Stadium for the 11th annual Buddy Walk® and Family Fun Day. The event raised $260,000 for CHOP’s Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) Program. Families enjoyed a day full of games, music, food, moon bounces and fun to promote acceptance and inclusion of people with Down syndrome. Northwestern Mutual – Eastern Pennsylvania was the lead sponsor.
47th Annual Holiday Boutique The 47th annual Holiday Boutique hosted by the Women’s Committee of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Nov. 29 and 30, 2012, raised more than $350,000 to support patient care, research and education programs at CHOP. Trion was the presenting sponsor for the event, which attracted more than 750 attendees to the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa.
“All In” for Kids Poker Tournament On Jan. 17, 2013, the annual “All In” for Kids Poker Tournament was held at the Mandarin Oriental, New York. The event was rescheduled from Nov. 2 due to Hurricane Sandy. Susan and Don Wenger and Family served as honorary chairs, and poker legend Phil Hellmuth hosted. More than $784,000 was raised for the evening’s featured beneficiary, autism research and care at CHOP.
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The 2013 Philadelphia Auto Show Black-Tie Tailgate On Jan. 18, 2013, 4,000 guests enjoyed cocktails, dancing and gourmet cuisine among the finest automobiles in the world at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The event, produced by the Auto Dealers CARing for Kids Foundation, the charitable arm of the Automobile Dealers Association of Greater Philadelphia, raised $450,000 for CHOP’s Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Volunteer Leadership Summit On March 9, 2013, CHOP held its third annual Volunteer Leadership Summit to recognize the exceptional volunteers and organizations that support CHOP throughout the year. At the event, 98.1 WOGL FM received the 2013 HOPE Award for its longstanding support of Children’s Hospital, largely through the 98.1 WOGL Loves Our Kids Radiothon each fall.
Huddle Up for Autism On April 14, 2013, CHOP partnered with the Philadelphia Eagles to host an autism family fun and awareness day at Lincoln Financial Field. The event brought in more than 3,000 participants for field and locker room tours, arts and crafts, games, face painting, and magic shows, and raised $34,000 for CHOP’s Center for Autism Research.
56th Annual Daisy Day Luncheon and Fashion Show On May 2, 2013, the Daisy Day Luncheon and Fashion Show, the largest annual fundraising event for CHOP, was held at the Hyatt at The Bellevue in Philadelphia. Tina Snider and the Snider family served as honorary co-chairs. The event featured speakers Lauren Escoll, a CHOP patient, and her doctor, David Sherry, M.D., director of Clinical Rheumatology. Guests were treated to an exclusive look at designer Stella McCartney’s fall 2013 collection, sponsored by Saks Fifth Avenue. This year’s event raised more than $1.6 million to benefit the Pain Management Program at CHOP. This was also the 15th year that Nancy Wolfson served as chair of the event.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Golf Classic On June 17, 2013, the annual CHOP Golf Classic was held at Seaview Golf Resort in Absecon, N.J. The golfers enjoyed a beautiful day on the links, and the event raised $200,000 for a variety of critical programs throughout the Hospital. The Lynn Saligman League hosted the tournament and Turner Construction returned as the lead sponsor. The event’s honorary chairs were former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Mike Quick and Merrill Reese, the voice of the Eagles.
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