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When
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The
tale of April
3
by
Rotary Reporter Rick Pisani
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All in
the family |
Sphere examined
carefully
Past Prez Larry Duffield made gallant try. |
After a warm-up that sounded like a bunch of alley cats jolted by a live
wire, the club's second rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ballpark”
sounded a little like Simon and Garfunkel but more like Sears and Roebuck.
The singing was not enough to scare the almost capacity crowd from their
seats.
Nikita
reported on having dressed up and participating in the Woodinville All
Fool's Day Parade. She also noted that her track career is blossoming, but
the team is sorely in need of some new supplies (e.g. hurdles). Club
members quickly stepped up to the plate when offered a chance to show
financial support and booster coupons were snarfed up faster than Terry
Jarvis could collect a plate of grapes.
Club Prez Gary offered up a five note and a
standing ovation for “Team 20” the special unit in charge of carrying
out operation 20th anniversary one week earlier. He also reminded us that
our community partner Lil Bit therapeutic riding center has an auction
coming up April 21 at the Hyatt. Lastly, he let it be known that one of
the many Bellevue Rotary clubs was having a walk for kids on April 28th
and more details could be gathered at www.rotarywalks.net
or by calling him at his home or office any time day or night between now
and April 15th! Just kidding, use the webpage and let Gary get those taxes
done.
Roy Williams
reminded us it was Northshore Scholarship Interview season. Gary
pointed out that he has information from Rotary International detailing
how much each club member has contributed toward a Paul Harris Fellowship.
Chris Boland reminded everyone that
this year's Wine and Shine Event is still in need of a theme. He wisely
did not use the cliché that there are “no bad ideas” fully aware that
our club could easily dish up a baker's dozen silly or socially
unacceptable themes if prodded.
Tana Baumler was
sergeant-at-arms and busted Don Fitzpatrick for trying to substitute beer
for merlot at our anniversary celebration. Julian confessed to new wheels
from Bavaria. Fine waivers were issued to those who bought up Woodinville
Track Bonds issued earlier in the meeting. Darryl Eckland was fined for
not ratting on his friends. If I remember correctly, in the movie
Goodfellas, it was a moral plus to not rat on your friends. Nikita was
cited for being scared out of her sarong by a mistaken call to the
assistant principal's office which turned out to be an administrative
mistake. Roy Williams reported a birthday party trip to Dallas was
canceled because the airlines refused to fly into stormy weather pestering
Texas last weekend.
Happy
dollars were flowing as
Steve Dolan reported Grandkid numero six has arrived. Erv was still pumped
about getting to dress up and drive in an official parade. Greg Riggs said
that his sadness at not filling two tables at the Boy Scout Breakfast was
counterbalanced by raising 17000 dollars, a record for that affair.
The raffle table looked like a scene from the
shopping channel, though I don't think that channel normally has two
different brands of tequila. Larry missed the white marble, currently
worth 350 bucks. Ken Kirkpatrick shrewdly took the Tequila. John Ive took
some Swiss chocolate to share with his patients. Jerry Cufley got some
white wine. Burke Barker got Tequila number two. Max got the Easter egg,
leaving the Volkswagen bug model car for Wayne.
Guest
speaker Craig Hendrickson,
CEO of Overlake Hospital,
was introduced by his wife Linda. She kept it short and sweet leaving
ample time for Craig to tell us all about the massive undertaking he
oversees just a few minutes south on 405. Overlake is a not for profit
private facility with 337 beds. It operates 24/7 365 days a year and has
its own power supply, police department, fire department. (It sounds like
the town of Grace except Grace is only open for 365 minutes 24 days of the
year). Overlake is a level three trauma center and has distinguished
itself in cardiac care ( historically some of that distinction can be
traced to the influence of Woodinville Rotarian Roger Stark as Craig
pointed out). Overlake is preparing for the demographic reality
of ongoing Eastside growth by building a new tower that will add 80 new
beds and a brand new trauma center. Group Health will be closing their
Eastside hospital, relocating their specialists across 405 from Overlake
and hospitalizing all of their patients at Overlake. Issaquah is now being
developed by Overlake as an alternate site of care.
The numbers that Overlake deals with are
mind boggling. Overlake has 240 thousand patient interactions per year.
The campus encompasses 1.5 million square feet. There are 2200 employees
and 800 physicians on staff. In a given month, Overlake handles 1500
admissions, 320 deliveries, 800 same day surgeries, 4200 emergency room
visits, 62 trauma cases, 30 heart attacks, and 10,000 outpatient visits.
Craig highlighted that everyone who works at Overlake tries to adhere to
the acronym: ICARE and does their job with integrity, compassion,
accountability, reliability, and excellence. Sounds like a bunch of rotary
reporters at work
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