On June 8, 2009 37 volunteers were recognized for their multiple years of service to Enloe Medical Center and the community.  The service pin recipients were as follows:

5 Year Pins: Claudia Beaty, Barbara Carey, Ruthie Cooper, Kim Cross, Ann Haun, Pat Jacobs, Colin McLeod, Gail Raleigh, Faye Swanson

10 Year Pins: Elva Boone, Joyce Bradish, Carol Brooke, Molly Bussard, John Hopkins, Hal Howard, John Lechner, Donna Looney, Eddie McClure, Margarete Olson, Muriel Parinella, Erlinda Peek, Jolene Price, JoAnn Thurman, Becky Tibessart, Marilyn Williams

15 Year Pins: Tom Ferrara, Nina Foster, Lorene Hunter, Malama MacNeil, Pat Mauck, Virginia Wrangham

20 Year Pins: Lois Cox, Floyd Herendeen

25 Year Pins: Eyvonne Clayton

30 Year Pins: Cecil Bray, Marie Hoyt, Joyce Mead

The steel beam signed at the October 29, 2008 Beam Signing Event for the community, has been placed at the top of the new bell tower.  The white signed beam sits horizontally just under the roof of the bell tower structure and will be visible from 5th Avenue and Magnolia until the outer facade of the building is complete.  Stop by and take a look at our progress!

As part of Nurses Week and Hospital Week recognition, the Enloe Foundation awarded 16 scholarships totaling $13,500 to Enloe employees to support furthering their education.

-Amber Genato - Claudine O. Bell and Helen L. Head Nursing Scholarship

-Stacie Crain - Janis K. Anderson Graduate Nursing Scholarship

-Stacy Passalacqua and Stacy Vincent - Golf Tournament Nursing Scholarship

-Lindsay Burrows, John Canalia and Besabe Chirre-Arana - Nurse’s Day Scholarship

-Paulette Foley, Griselda Perez, Raynell Walker - Local Community Commitment to Nursing Scholarship

-Anne Murphy, Amanda Wilkinson - Men’s Associate Enloe Employee Scholarship

-Shannon Claiborne, Tiffany Leonard, Andrea Mitten, Kimberly Pospychalla - Enloe Employee Scholarship

The scholarships are made possible by generous donations from community members, employees and volunteers.  A committee of Foundation Board members and community members selected the recipients.

The 24th Annual Enloe Foundation Golf Tournament presented by WindChime of Chico Assisted Living & Memory Care will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at Butte Creek Country Club.  The Enloe Foundation would like to thank WindChime of Chico Assisted Living & Memory Care for their second year as the Title Sponsor of the Enloe Century Project and the Golf Nursing Scholarship.  To learn more about the event and the many sponsorship opportunities, call 530.332.4550 or visit www.enloe.org/golf.  We hope to see you there!

Are you a social person?  Would you like to help bring a smile to someone’s face?  If so, you may be able to help us in the Enloe Gift Shop. 

The Enloe Gift Shop is more than just the cute boutique off the main lobby of Enloe Medical Center.  Catering to hospital staff, visitors and patients, it offers a pleasant diverson to the serious comings-and-goings of the medical center.  Volunteers who run the shop have an opportunity to bring smiles to people’s faces, whether ringing up a sale of flowers for a visitor’s ailing friend or suggesting birthday gift ideas to a busy nurse.  “The foremost goal of our volunteers is to provide a comforting place where family and friends of patients can get away from the hospital atmosphere,” says Mary Wahl, volunteer Gift Shop Manager.  “Listening is what we do best!”

Gift Shop hours are 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.  To learn more or to get started as an Enloe Volunteer, call Roseanna Galindo-Kuhn, Director of Volunteer Services, at 332.4575 or visit www.enloe.org/volunteers.

The first-ever Enloe Gala held on Saturday, March 21, 2009 was a huge success with 264 people in attendance, raising $45,309.  Proceeds benefit the enhancement of the family lounges on the second, third, and fourth floors of the existing tower.  Planetree concepts will be used to create warm and inviting spaces for families and friends in these lounges, which will continue to be used when the Century Project is complete.  Work on these enhancements is scheduled to begin in late summer and should be completed by November of this year.  The Enloe Foundation thanks Gala Committee co-chairs Jennifer Eddlemon and Renee McAmis, the entire Gala Committee, Special Events Coordinator Heather Henson, and all who participated in making this event such a success!

To view pictures of the event, please visit: www.enloe.org/gala.

The Enloe Foundation thanks the Chico Emergency Physicians Medical Group for its recent commitment of $250,000 to the Enloe Century Project.  The 14 physicians in the group provide around-the-clock coverage in our Emergency Department.  Along with supporting the needed expansion, the gift has another significant meaning.  “A generous donation like this shows the group’s long-term commitment to the community and hospital,” said Robert Adams, Vice President of the Enloe Foundation.  Dr. Voelker, MD, FAAEM, president of the physician group, explained: “It is important to us to invest in an entity we care about.  We also hope that our gift may encourage others to donate time or money to enhance services.”  Members of the physician group are not employed by Enloe Medical Center, but work together as independent licensed practitioners to care for patients at Enloe.

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“You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.” -Winston Churchill