Last Meeting of 2018
Brian Alexander - Sutter CEO
Wow. President Caron has completed the first half of her year as the leader of our club. Lots of great things are happening. And, to celebrate the holiday season, Dave Bonillo showed up as a living Christmas Tree!
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We were pleased to have several guests. Caron Russell's Cancer Society co-worker Treasa McPherson came to listen to our speaker. Carron's daughter Izzy, home from Oregon State U., accompanied her. Karen Johnson brought her granddaughter Sara. Past President of our club Larry Whitaker showed up. And, Past President Colleen Knight of the Cordelia Rotary Club (near Fairfield) was a guest of Darrell Scott checking our our club for possible membership.
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Wildbill Cook announced that the Community Blood Drive last week exceeded our expectations with 50 sign-ins and 40 qualified to donate.. Not bad for December when our donors have so many other things going on.
David Cesio reminded us that January 5th is our service event to distribute food at the Salt Mine. Put it on your schedule. Karen Johnson reported that if we can get 15 multi-generational attendees we can earn 5 tickets to Disneyland that can be auctioned off at Taste of Italy - coming soon.
It was also announced that Harriet Garland will be hosting a tour of the new Senior Center just following our January 3rd meeting.
Karen also announced that she and Jerry will be hosting a Mardi Gras themed social for our 5th meeting in January. Put it on your schedule.
Art Deardorff announced (on behalf of Darryl Scott who is away enjoying a cruise on the Mexican Riviera) that the membership committee is actively seeking out local business people for membership. In addition, Darrell has a membership committee meeting planned for January 3rd. Art also encouraged members to donate to the Paradise Fire Relief fund that will be given directly to the Paradise Rotary Club Foundation.
The weekly raffle finally produced results. Joann won the drawing and was very excited after winning the big prize by drawing the Ace of Spades!
Our speaker was Brian Alexander, the Chief Executive Office of Sutter Roseville. His presentation brought up some very interesting facts about Sutter Health.
- The activities of the hospital were started in 1943 as a place to treat those injured in World War II.
- The first actual hospital was completed in 1952..
- In 2018, there will be about 18,000 inpatient discharges..
- There is a new emergency center being completed in the center of the facility. They currently have both both an Emergency and Urgent Care facility.
- The Trauma Center is one of the foremost facilities in California. The helicopter pad can land a Blackhawk!. They get a lot of patients due to the proximity to the Tahoe ski area. The facility is staffed by 6 doctors all of who are veterans with wartime trauma experience.
- Rotarian Stan Nader is on the Sutter Health Foundation Board of Directors.
- Jerry Johnson said that the Sutter Health Founation is one of the major sponsors for Tour de Lincoln.
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