Serving
The Western Pennsylvania Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus and Forbes Hospice
Welcome to the Forbes Health Foundation web site. The mission of the Foundation is to raise funds to advance quality health care at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus and Forbes Hospice.
United Way Designation Codes:
618 - Forbes Regional Campus-WPAHS
909605 - Forbes Hospice-WPAHS
Tell us your story! Please share your stories about Forbes by emailing the Foundation at: mgannon1@wpahs.org. Please put "Forbes Stories" in the subject line.
Let us deliver a...
VIP Care Package
Allow the Foundation staff to deliver a VIP Care Package to the Hospital room of a friend or loved one complete with an embroidered Foundation fleece blanket, Foundation canvas tote to take home personal items and discharge instructions, chilled bottled water, the daily newspaper, decaffeinated tea and mug, crossword puzzle book and pen, nail file, helium filled balloon and more all wrapped up with festive bows for $45. Call 412-858-4472 to order. |
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Harmony Ball and Community of Care Awardees
Foundation President Mary Lee Gannon congratulates the 2008 Community of Care Awardees at the Harmony Ball: Dr. Steven N. Sotos - Ed Dardanell Legacy Award; The Forbes Auxiliary represented by Linda Shumaker and Lynn Stabb - Distignuished Service Award; and Eat'n Park Hospitality Group represented by Brooks Robinson - Corporate Partner of the Year.
Click here to view photos from the event. |
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The Highmark Foundation Grants $262,500 for
Redefining Chronic CARE Program
Director of the Redefining Chronic CARE Program Dr. Michael Culig escorts guest of honor Mr. Ed Dardanell into the Ed Dardanell Heart and Vascular Center at its debut. |
The Highmark Foundation has awarded a $262,500 grant to the Forbes Health Foundation to support a new program that uses manufacturing-based quality principles to dramatically change the way heart patients are cared for at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital – Forbes Regional Campus. The new program, called Redefining Chronic CARE, is a three-year concentrated effort that is changing the organizational culture by adopting Toyota production system concepts. St. Vincent College’s Kennametal Center for Operational Excellence is teaching, training and demonstrating the concepts.
Click here to link to the Ed Dardanell Heart and Vascular web site. |
$10.4 Million Raised for New
Ed Dardanell Heart and Vascular Center
Forbes Leads Pennsylvania in Heart Failure Treatment
In a recent Federal study of heart failure death rates, Forbes scored as the only hospital in Pennsylvania to have better-than-average results when compared to 4,453 hospitals nationwide. Only 38 hospitals nationwide were included in this elite group. The Hospital treats more than 700 patients with heart failure each year, and its aggressive and timely management of the condition contributed to its better-than-average score. Treatment measures include providing smoking cessation counseling to patients, performing tests that show how the heart is pumping, and prescribing appropriate medications that are beneficial to patients with decreased function in the left side of the heart.
Legislative and Community Support
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Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell discusses the initiatives of Forbes Health Foundation with Foundation Board Chairman Ed Little on a recent visit to the Hospital.
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Board of Directors
Chairman:
Edward Little
Vice Chairperson:
Michael A. Scoletti, Jr.
John D. Finnegan
Mary Lee Gannon
Dawn M. Gideon
L.P. Gupta
James S. Hamilton
Nancy Kacin
David Natali, M.D.
Christopher T. Olivia, M.D.
Robert F. Petrilli
Robert J. Wratcher
Advisory Board:
Edward L. Dardanell
Gerald E. McGinnis
H. Campbell Stuckeman
For more information contact:
Mary Lee Gannon, CAE
President and Chief Executive Officer
Forbes Health Foundation
2570 Haymaker Road
Monroeville, PA 15146
Phone: 412-858-4472
FAX: 412-858-2351
email: mgannon1@wpahs.org
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