Newsletter 4-2-13
Rotary Club of Needham
Tuesday: April 2, 2013
Location: Needham Sheraton
Pledge of Allegiance: Charles Nelson
Song: God Bless America; Led By: Ron Sockol
Prayer: Led by Rev. Darrell Minnich
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Pancake breakfast ads will be sold for placemats; Lois will put notices in newspapers, etc; will be held May 11th in the high school. Tickets to be provided to the 65 coaaches of Needham Little League.
* Carnival fund raiser coming along; Ted met with General Dynamics and they seem to be receptive to our use of their parking lot for the event on Thurs, June 6th thru Sun. June 9th.Will need police detail which Ted hopes will be paid for by Cushing Amusements of Wilmington. We will get half of the rides proceeds and only have to staff the air conditioned ticket booths. Our split will go equally to Needham Rotary and Gift of Life. We will be asked to staff the ticket booth with 2 people:
o Thursday June 6 6-10 pm: 2 shifts of 2 hours each
o Friday June 7\
o Saturday June 8 12 noon-10 pm 4 shifts of 2 hours each
o Sunday June 9 1-6 pm 3 shifts
* Gift of Life was able to leverage $10,400 to $43,000 with matching grants to provide heart surgery supplies to Dominican Republic which saved the lives of 31 children. Some money still left over.
* Spelling Bee: Captain Erica, Glen and Eric all participated in the Needham Spelling Bee at the Newman last Wednesday (see picture). Great job!
. Go Spelling Bee participants!
. Need to attend Foundation Training to keep up with matching grants requirements.
We need to identify ideas by end of June for new fiscal year beginning July 1st.
. Glen Davis solicited matching grant ideas either locally or internationally for next
year. Rick David proposed a matching grant for the new BID Needham Cancer
Center; Lois proposed Needham Schools. Get any ideas to Glen as soon as possible
Guests:
* Rebecca Kovrlija, a co-worker of Chris Teachout
* Murray Linderman, a visiting Rotarian who live in Needham whose home club is the Seattle WA University Club
* John Fogarty, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham, our guest speaker, and Rebecca Covdlea, the hospital’s PR person.
Happy $$$: A lot for the Red Sox who, at this point, have a perfect season (1-0); Murray $10 for his Dad who is celebrating his 100th Birthday in St. Louis. Murray is going to the party, and won’t be with us for 2 weeks; Deb K, HTBH 2 weeks in a row, and grateful for a wonderful Easter; Douug-Happy his wife is going to Florida for a week (think she will see this?);Veishal-HTBH also 2 weeks in a row; A number of members-great to see all our guests; Glen-best wishes to Chris on the Marathon! Bill P for 5 days in Cancun; Chuck for a great trip to Paris (see Facebook for pics);
50:50: Looking for Queen of hearts; Louise Condon had the right ticket #217 but the wrong card. She should get the Daffodil this week! 17 cards remaining and $756 in the pot.
Joke of the day: Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up to heaven he said, "Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me Irish Whiskey!"
Miraculously, a parking place appeared.
Paddy looked up again and said, "Never mind, I found one.!!!
An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut . The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.
He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"
"Just water," says the priest.
The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"
The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He's done it again!"
Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie the bartender, "Pour me a stiff one - just had another fight with the little woman."
"Oh yeah?" said Charlie , "And how did this one end?"
"When it was over," Mike replied, "She came to me on her hands and knees."
"Really," said Charles, "Now that's a switch! What did she say?"
She said, "Come out from under the bed, you little chicken." Tom Savino read 3 bad jokes – Boo Hoo!
Birthdays: Deb Kazarian, although she denies it!
Guest Speaker: John Fogarty, who is the President of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital here in Needham has been President of the hospital for 2 years, having been President of the Catholic Hospital System in Rhode Island.
John pointed out there are great connections between the hospital and Rotary: Rick Davis is Chairman of the BOD; Louise has been active for 10 years; Greg Hoffmeister (George’s son) is also on the BOD.
Some facts about the hospital from 2012;
-58 beds including 7 in intensice care
-3600 admissions in a year
-132,776 out patient visits
-14,700 emergency room visits
--$60 million budget
-Employs 525 people
-They give the equivalent of $870,000 in charity
-Work with 75 Needham vendors
-56 people from Needham work there for $2.5 million in salaries
Surgery sees 15% year over year growth;
Outpatient surgery (day surgery) has been growing at 21% per year
The hospital is very cost efficient compared to the Boston hospitals.
The hospital is experiencing great growth, and have just started torn down an old building and on April 10 will be the ground breaking for new Cancer Center on campus.
There is talk of how Rotary could work with the hospital to enrich both groups and our citizens.
Great talk about a hospital which is clearly on the move. See them on the web at:
where among other things, you will see the queue time in the Emergency Room: currently 4 minutes.