A Preview of Vidant Health’s New Cancer Center

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In 2015 Service League of Greenville members pledged $2 million for a Healing Garden as part of the new Cancer Center located adjacent to the East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center.  Once completed, the new facility will provide both inpatient and outpatient cancer services.

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Last month, all Service League members were invited to attend a preview presentation by Vidant Medical Center and Vidant Health Foundation to update us on what has been happening with the cancer center and what our money will be helping to achieve.

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Here are a few highlights from the comprehensive and thoughtful presentations by Phyllis DeAntonio, System Service Line Administrator of Cancer Care for Vidant Medical Center; Elaine Cunningham, Director of Development, Vidant Health Foundation; Varessa Wall, Director of Development, Vidant Health Foundation; Eva Marie Dyba, Major Gifts Officer, Vidant Health Foundation; and, Blair Vick, Event Coordinator, Vidant Health Foundation:

  • The importance of a cancer care center to Eastern North Carolina.

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  • An artist rendering of the beautiful healing garden with meditation labyrinth (lower left).
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Although the exterior of the cancer center is looking to be near completion these day, the doors won’t officially open until 2018.  (You can watch the Cancer Center’s progression on Vidant’s construction cam video.)

Service League members and Vidant team ride a bus past the construction zone on their way to touring an actual mock-up of both an infusion treatment suite and care room.  bus-ride-past-vidant-cancer-center-construction

  • In this mock infusion suite, league members see how patients will be able to view the healing garden provided by their pledge.

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In all, four groups from the Service League attended presentations by hospital and foundation staff.  Our thanks to the dedicated team of ladies who answered our many questions and who share our passion and commitment to the well-being of Eastern North Carolina.

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What We’ve Been Up To: OCTOBER 2016

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service-league-sealService League volunteers were hard at work in the month of October.

Here are just some of the ways we shared our time and talent:

  • Service League Gift Shops & Snack Carts — 670 hours
  • Charity Ball — 86 hours
  • Hope Lodge —  68 hours
  • Hospice House —  88 hours
  • Hospital Activities —  46 hours
  • Layettes — 21 hours
  • Ronald McDonald House —  14 hours
  • Bloodmobile — 19 hours
  • Meetings — 280 hours
  • Other Projects — 337 hours

Total Hours — 1683

Way to go Ladies!

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A Thank You Note To Service League Members

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During Vidant Home Health and Hospice’s Annual Celebration of Life Memorial Service on November 1st, Service League members were on hand volunteering their service with set-up, refreshments and clean-up.

From Angelina Brittle, a note of appreciation and pictures:

Thank you to those who volunteered for the November 2016 Celebration of Life event. The event was well-attended, and it was a beautiful evening with many family and friends, live music, delicious food and camaraderie. Hosting an event with many helping hands makes it much easier, and we so appreciate your willingness to give your time, energy and help setting up the food for all!

 

Sincerely, 

 

Angelina Brittle, BSW
Hospice Social Worker and Volunteer Coordinator
Services League of Greenville Inpatient Hospice
Vidant Home Health and Hospice

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Well done ladies!

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Busy Service Hands At Our Blanket Workshops

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We were 19 members strong at our October blanket workshop and that meant plenty of busy hands to complete 28 blankets.

These cheerful hand-tied, two-ply fleece lap blankets will be given to patients of all ages in the Medical Intermediate or Medical Intensive Care Units at Vidant Health Center.

Well done ladies!  We believe in you too!

The next blanket workshop will be on November 16th.  Service League members interested in participating can sign-up during our November meeting or contact Hospital Activities Co-Chairs — Cathy Marsh & Cassie Causey.

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What We’ve Been Up To: September 2016

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service-league-sealService League volunteers were hard at work in the month of September.

Here are just some of the ways members shared their time and talent:

  • Service League Gift Shops & Snack Carts — 490 hours
  • Charity Ball — 36 hours
  • Hope Lodge —  81 hours
  • Hospice House —  83 hours
  • Hospital Activities —  20 hours
  • Layettes — 112 hours
  • Ronald McDonald House —  24 hours
  • Meetings — 300 hours
  • Other Projects — 480 hours

Total Hours — 1632

Way to go Ladies!

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What We’ve Been Up To — Summer 2016

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service-league-sealWhile Service League members are officially off duty over the summer months, we still manage to squeeze in a few hours of service:

  • Gift Shop & Carts — 299 hours
  • Hospice House —  184 hours
  • Hope Lodge — 241 hours
  • Charity ball — 27 hours
  • Ronald McDonald House — 21 hours
  • Bloodmobile — 14 hours
  • Layette — 5 hours
  • Meetings — 42 hours
  • Other projects —  341 hours

Total — 1174 hours 

Not bad for bunch of vacationers!

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McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge honors The Service League of Greenville

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2016 Volunteer of the Year Award

In April, The Service League of Greenville was honored to receive one of three Volunteer of the Year awards during McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge’s 14th annual reunion. It says:

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Presented to:

The Service League of Greenville

Volunteers of the Year

“In Grateful appreciation of your dedication to Hope Lodge”

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Hope Lodge manager, Katrina Combs presented the award to Service League President Mary Lee Hobbie. (Picture below)

From McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge facebook page:

“The Service League of Greenville has been supporting the McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge since it opened its doors in May of 2002. They have supported Hope Lodge in various ways through their donations of time, money, energy, and love. When guests enter our doors, they are often greeted with a friendly smile and a warm welcome by a member of the Service League. Each year, they provide delicious desserts at the reunion. Thanks, Service League of Greenville, for all the things you do to make Hope Lodge a warm, comfortable, safe environment for cancer patients and their caregivers.”

Thank you American Cancer Society and Hope Lodge!

The Service League of Greenville has long recognized the importance of Hope Lodge in our community.  We are proud and thankful of our current membership’s continued dedication and commitment to Hope Lodge now.  And we are proud and grateful for past actions by Service League leadership and members who recognized the need and raised the funds that helped provide the initial funding for its construction 2002.

Congrats ladies!

Here are just a few of the Service League members who donated food and/or were on hand to help out during the reunion.  Next time you are in Vidant Hospital  stop by and check out the award in our display case just outside of our Main gift shop.

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Our Goal of 100 Pediatric Blankets – Done!

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Hospital Activities Chair Wilma Shackelford lead a merry band of Service League blanket makers through 4 workshops making a total of 102 hand-tied, two-ply fleece blankets.  Young pediatric rehab patients are guaranteed to feel welcome and comfortable during their time at Vidant Medical Center with one of these.

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Congrats to Wilma and all the blanket makers!  Job well done!

Our thanks to everyone who donated time, supplies and money to make this happen.

And special thanks to Susan Thornton for creating Service League labels for the blankets, Connie Bond for sewing the labels to the blankets and Annelle West for her endless help with the project.

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What We’ve Been Up To — Jan. 2016

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Service League ladies have been busy:

During the month of January 2016 our members volunteered a total of — 1867.75 hours

Some of the ways we shared our time and talent:

  • Service League Gift Shop — 520 hours
  • Service League Snack Carts — 652 hours
  • Hope Lodge — 77 hours
  • Hospice House —  61 hours
  • Pediatric Blankets project — 77 hours
  • Ronald McDonald House — 28 hours

Other Service League highlights from the month:

  • Welcoming new provisional members:
  • Fundraising for our Laughinghouse Fund with a jewelry raffle.   Items in the raffle were generous donations from local jewelers.  Big thanks to Baileys, Lautares, Robinson and Elizabeth Richards.
  • Organizing and getting ready for our Charity Ball on February 13th:
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A Heartfelt Thank You To Parker Overton

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SL Thank YouWe want to express our heartfelt thanks to Parker Overton for generously providing lunch for all of our Service League Members on February 1st.

We appreciate your recognition of our ongoing volunteer efforts and contributions to Vidant Medical Center.

And we are grateful for all you have done as Chairman of the Vidant Foundation Board.

Sincerely,

The Service League of Greenville, NC

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