Your philanthropic investment in Morton Plant Mease Foundation will provide the margin of excellence to achieve our unprecedented $110 million 2nd Century Campaign goal by 2012. Upon completion, the 2nd Century Campaign will develop a comprehensive program committed to the unique health care needs of women and children, provide a coordinated continuum of cancer care, and expand and renovate the facilities at Mease Dunedin and Morton Plant North Bay Hospital.

• Cancer Campaign, Chaired by Ruth duPont: $10 million
• Doyle Women's and Children's Health Initiative, Chaired by Roz Doyle: $25 million
• Campaign for Mease Dunedin Hospital, Co-Chaired by Nancy Ridenour and Sonny Thornton: $10 million
• Campaign for Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, Chaired by Dewey Mitchell and Honary Chair Marsha Starkey: $5 million 
   

Cancer Campaign - Planning for a Brighter Future
You shouldn’t have to leave behind family, friends and the place where you feel most comfortable to get the most advanced and compassionate cancer care. As the community’s leader, Morton Plant Mease offers many options to identify and treat breast, prostate, lung, brain, gynecologic and other cancers. Our comprehensive services include the most advanced diagnostic and clinical procedures available, all performed by board-certified oncologists, radiologists and surgeons. Morton Plant Mease is committed to providing excellent cancer care in a supportive setting to help our patients and their families achieve the best quality of life.

This year marks the highly anticipated groundbreaking of the new Shirley and Harvey Axelrod Pavilion. The Axelrod Pavilion will be a state-of-the-art facility on the Morton Plant Hospital campus, thanks to a lead gift by Benefactor Shirley Axelrod.

This forward-thinking building will focus on cancer and feature the new home for an expanded Susan Cheek Needler Breast Center, relocation of Carlisle Imaging Center and the offices of Dr. Peter Blumencranz and Dr. Kathleen Allen, as well as other oncology physicians. Moving the breast center to the new Axelrod Pavilion will provide one location for comprehensive breast health, including the capacity for a dedicated breast MRI, breast-specific Gamma imaging and positron emission mammography.

For more information on how you can become involved with our Cancer Campaign, please contact Ernestine Bean, vice president of Development, at (727) 461-8644. 


Doyle Women's and Children's Health Initiative
Everything You Need, Anywhere You Are 
The Doyle Women’s and Children’s Health Initiative provides Morton Plant Mease with the foundation to deliver leading-edge health services ready to help women and their families take important steps toward a lifetime of well-being. This year marks the first phase of the evolving $25 million capital campaign with the renovations to Morton Plant Hospital’s gynecology inpatient unit on the third floor of the hospital’s Barnard Building – providing 20 new private rooms – “Designed by Women for Women.” Other than Obstetrics, this marks the hospital’s first-ever floor exclusively for women.

The Doyle Women’s and Children’s Health Initiative will also offer a consolidated location for women’s services at Morton Plant Hospital in the future Doyle Women’s and Children's Pavilion – scheduled to begin construction next year. This will open the door for a new and expanded waiting area, classrooms, gift shop, OB assessment center, NICU, labor and delivery rooms in the Sarah Walker Women's Center and postpartum rooms.

For more information on the Doyle Women’s and Children’s Health Initiative, please contact Ernestine Bean, vice president of Development, at (727) 461-8644.


Campaign For Mease Dunedin Hospital
From your brain to your back, from your hips to your knees, neurosurgery, orthopaedic and spine care are expanding fields of medicine. As the complexity and demand for these procedures grows, Mease Dunedin Hospital is evolving with a new critical care unit and the construction of a state-of-the-art surgery department. This multiphase project, scheduled to be completed by 2011, will provide more than 51,000 square feet of renovation and an additional 4,000 square feet of new construction.

Featuring 20 private rooms and a family lounge in a spa-like atmosphere, the new CCU was designed to offer greater comfort and convenience. Rooms are equipped to allow caregivers 360-degree access to patients, and include advanced patient monitoring systems, nurse documentation stations, flatscreen TVs, and more. For completely incapacitated patients, eight rooms are equipped with ceiling mounted lift systems to move patients safely and with ease.

The $12 million OR expansion project, scheduled to open in 2011,  will increase the number of ORs from four to seven and double the size to meet the increased demand for neurosurgeries and orthopaedic procedures and the state-of-art equipment necessary to perform them. This includes digital equipment and voice activation to view X-rays and other test results through voice command, as well as a fully integrated electronic medical record system.

For more information on the Campaign for Mease Dunedin Hospital, please contact Amanda Fisher, director of Development, at (727) 725-6368.
 

Campaign For Morton Plant North Bay Hospital
With the completion of the Starkey Medical Tower and its new Medical Arts Building, Morton Plant North Bay Hospital is well on its way to creating a modern community-based medical complex to serve the West Pasco community for generations to come.

“By doubling the size of our campus and adding the latest available technology and equipment, the expansion in effect creates a new hospital campus,” said John Couris, chief operating officer, Morton Plant North Bay Hospital.

The new hospital campus features:

• The four-story, 56,000 square foot Starkey Medical Tower with new private patient rooms, increasing the total number of patient beds at Morton Plant North Bay by over 25 percent to 154 beds. The Starkey Medical Tower also includes a new Intensive Care Unit (ICU), cardiac unit, medical surgical unit, new respiratory care services and community education facilities.
• The new three-story, 45,000-square-foot Medical Arts Building is the center for outpatient care and offers an expanded four-bed sleep disorders center, outpatient lab, outpatient rehabilitation services and an enclosed, connected walkway to the main hospital. All patient registration services have been centralized to the Medical Arts building which has a covered walkway connecting it to the hospital. The building also contains offices for primary care physicians and specialists, a new addition to the Morton Plant North Bay campus.

In addition to the Starkey Medical Tower and Medical Arts Building, additional features planned for completion later in 2010 include:

• Renovations to the Mitchell Rehabilitation Hospital
• Renovations to the hospital’s emergency room with four additional beds
• A fitness trail along the hospital’s water retention area with exercise stations
• New physician’s lounge