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October 11, 2012
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UPDATES: Your Voice is Being Heard.
October 5, 2012
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UPDATES: Your Voice is Being Heard.
It has been less than a month since we began our public awareness campaign to raise support for our St. Mary’s Medical Center, yet much has been accomplished. We owe our thanks to all of the community that has shown support by participating in our social-media campaign, sharing their personal stories on Facebook, signing the on-line petition or marching in the Fall Fun Festival Parade. The number of ’Likes’ on Facebook and signatures for our petition are just one indication of the campaign’s support in building awareness and supporters of our goals in Greater Blue Springs . We have reached exponentially more people through many forms of media. Here is a summary of our activity over the past month:
- Faces for St. Mary’s has been featured in articles in The Examiner, The Kansas City Star, and The Kansas City Business Journal.
- Faces for St. Mary’s formed an advisory committee represented by concerned community members, city staff and officials, a retired St. Mary’s associate, and past and current members of the St. Mary’s Foundation and Auxiliary Board of Directors. This group includes Mayor Carson Ross, City Administrator Eric Johnson and Deputy City Administrator Todd Pelham, Brien Starner- President of the Blue Springs Economic Development Corporation, Susan Culpepper- St. Mary’s Auxiliary and City Planning Commissioner, Gary Showalter- Blue Springs Chamber of Commerce and St. Mary’s Auxiliary, Julius M. Oswald- Past Chairman of the Foundation Board, Charlie Cockerell, M.D., Patricia Hatley, PhD.- St. Mary’s Auxiliary, Bobbi Austin- past associate, and Mary Pat Burson, RN- past St. Mary’s associate and past Chair of the Paul Splittorff Memorial Golf tournament.
- On September 13th, representatives of the advisory council met with Fleury Yelvington, CEO of Carondelet Health, Annette Small, CEO of St. Mary’s, and David Ireland of Carondelet Health. Representatives of Carondelet stated that their board, as well as Bishop Robert Finn, have made keeping the Catholic identity of the institution a priority in selecting a bid.
- September 18th, The Board of Carondelet Health received our statement of mission, goals and convictions concerning our support for St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue Springs. A copy of our declaration was forwarded by their board to the leadership at Ascension Health. We received a reply from the Carondelet Board expressing their appreciation for the passion of our support.
- A personal note and copy of our statement of mission, goals and convictions concerning our support for St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue Springs was sent to Bishop Robert Finn, Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph asking for his prayers and support.
- A group of 50 supporters wore ‘Faces for St. Mary’s’ t-shirts and walked in the Fall Fun Festival Parade and distributed 1000 push cards and 500 stickers along the parade route. SEE PHOTOS HERE
- Faces of St. Mary’s made a presentation at the September membership luncheon of the Blue Springs Chamber of Commerce, and followed that with a presentation and Q&A with the chamber’s Board of Directors at their monthly meeting.
- Central Jackson County Fire Protection District presented a resolution of support for St. Mary’s Medical Center and all of its participation and activity in the community supporting the primary health care needs of Blue Springs and surrounding cities. READ ABOUT IT HERE
- Kris Ketz of KMBC, Channel 9 recorded a news segment on the Faces of St. Mary’s campaign to be aired Sunday night (10.7.12) at 10PM and again on Monday (10.8.12) morning. KMBC will link our website and Facebook page to their pages.
- Faces for St. Mary’s- Blue Springs Facebook paged topped 400 ‘Likes’ which is a milestone for our page in terms of the algorithm category and the exposure and reach provided by Facebook. JOIN US HERE
We are expecting an announcement anyday regarding the bid winner for the Carondelet Health Group. Regardless of which health care group wins the bid, Faces for St. Mary’s will continue to be vocal in raising awareness. We will continue to build our base of support.
Our campaign is now entering the most critical stage in terms of awareness and volume.
We need the winner of the bid to know about Faces for St. Mary’s and the message of our constituents on what they expect for medical service and the continued presence of St. Mary’s. Fleury Yelvington committed to doing everything she could to arrange a meeting between our group and the prospective buyer of St. Mary’s.
Please join us by continuing to spread the awareness of our campaign. WE DO NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Support Faces for St. Mary’s with your donation, and help us to raise the volume of this campaign!
Central Jackson County Fire Protection Department Supports Faces for St. Mary’s
September 28, 2012
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THANK YOU
CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
FOR STANDING BEHIND US
IN THIS CAMPAIGN!
“If you follow CJC fire, you know we are committed to the communities we protect. There is nothing more important to the men and women of the Central Jackson County Fire Protection District than to make our communities as safe as we can for the residents, businesses, and visitors. One important external partner in the service we provide is St. Mary’s Medical Center. There are discussions about closing St. Mary’s and CJC wants to formally express its support for the hospital and our belief in St. Mary’s Medical Center and the need to keep it open. The CJC Board of Directors passed resolution #2012-08 to show that support.”
Check out the Central Jackson County Fire Protection Department Facebook Page ——> HERE!
Letter to Carondolet Ascension Health
September 21, 2012
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Faces for St. Mary’sFACES FOR ST. MARY’S MISSION, GOALS AND CONVICTIONS CONCERNING OUR SUPPORT FOR:
ST. MARY’S MEDICAL CENTER, September 18, 2012
Blue Springs is one of Missouri’s largest cities comprising almost 60,000 residents and ranking as the tenth largest city in the state and in Greater Kansas City. Our community in many ways is more like the small town from which we grew, like rallying behind and supporting our local residents, organizations, causes and institutions. We proudly support our public schools that are ranked at the top in Missouri and nationally. In the current tough economic times we’ve twice supported tax increases at the ballot to strengthen the service of our police and fire departments. Year after year hundreds of supporters have contributed thousands of volunteer hours and tens of thousands of dollars to support the mission of our local faith-based hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center. There remain many active community leaders in Blue Springs that were here in 1981 when funds were first raised and used to break the ground for St. Mary’s Hospital, and many people have supported the campaigns and fundraisers for the medical center ever since. St. Mary’s is fully embraced by the heart and soul of Blue Springs, and we all recognize the loss of our community hospital would be devastating.
Our community has come together with one voice to support the continuation of St. Mary’s Medical Center as the primary, critical center of health care services for the citizens of Blue Springs and many surrounding cities into the future. Our primary goal and interests are that St. Mary’s Medical Center continues to operate as a full service medical center with its Catholic affiliation. This is key and critical to the economic well-being, growth and health goals of Blue Springs and patrons of its medical services. St. Mary’s Medical Center contributes to the quality of life in our community and region like few other entities, and the presence of a the medical center is a significant contributing force for why residents, families and companies have located here and would consider investing and growing their business in our community. St. Mary’s is the second largest employer in Blue Springs and is an irreplaceable economic and quality of life contributor to our identity. St. Mary’s Medical Center provides primary and critical health care services for Blue Springs and surrounding communities as far away as Sweet Springs, which is half way to Columbia, Missouri. St. Mary’s supports many local physicians in the surrounding office complex which serve the general and specialty health care needs of our citizens, and who have moved their families and practices to our community.
The Blue Springs community feels that it is important that St. Mary’s maintain the name and identity which has been established. The community values the Catholic, faith-based and mission-driven identity and goals of St. Mary’s Medical Center practice of care. It is important to the Catholic community within and beyond our city limits that we maintain a Catholic, faith-based hospital presence in Eastern Jackson County providing medical services in a region exceeding 325,000 residents. It is imperative that our local hospital continues to be an involved community partner offering preventative health care services tied to the needs and well-being of our citizens and civic organizations. It is also important that St. Mary’s maintains community outreach and communication through a local and representative board comprised of community representatives reflecting our character and interests.
Blue Springs has developed over the past four years a robust and growing relationship with the University of Missouri at the highest levels sharing the goals of developing and growing the Missouri Innovation Park to be anchored by MU as a primary long-term growth and development strategy, which will impact every aspect of Blue Springs’ future going forward. This relationship is designed to foster and create partnerships between the University and both public and private sector entities, particularly in the fields of science, human and animal health care. St. Mary’s has initiated valued and mutually beneficial relationships with the University of Missouri, Blue Springs EDC, Blue Springs Chamber of Commerce, City and many others reflecting a shared interest and collaboration with our local medical center.
Signed,
Faces for St. Mary’s
Grab your Kansas City Star — Neighborhood Section
September 12, 2012
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Great thanks to the Kansas City Star for helping us to
BE HEARD yet once more!
As of today:
We have over 310 likes —> Join and share us HERE!
We have over 490 petition signatures —> See and Sign HERE!
OUR Community is absolutely amazing! We want you to know, we ARE being HEARD by YOUR actions.
Faces for St. Mary’s will be walking in the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest Parade this Saturday. If you would like to join our community to continue this strong voice, please email us at info@facesforstmarys.com!
The stories continue to come in and they are filled with joy and some with sadness, yet the overall message is that the loss of St. Mary’s would be a TRAGEDY according to a fellow supporter:
“If St. Mary’s hospital closed..that would be, in one word, a TRAGEDY. The entity to cause such an economical disaster to the community, especially in these uncertain times, not to mention the thousands that have had generation after generation of family members choosing St. Mary’s for all of their medical needs..well let’s just say, I don’t think that corporation would have a very high regard in most peoples’ minds. Hopefully the new buyers will do the ‘stand up thing and not take away the livelihood of hundreds, if not thousands of families, and deny ours, and surrounding communities the outstanding and personal care you simply cannot get at a larger hospital.” ~ Alissa S
If you are interested in donating to help keep this campaign going, please go —-> HERE!
YOU are making a difference!
YOU are the voice!
YOU are the Faces for St. Mary’s!
Let’s make Wednesday a great one and please stay tuned for more updates as we are HEARD!
Have you picked up The Examiner?
September 9, 2012
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Special thank you to Mr. Jeff Fox at The Examiner for getting our story out there!
We are proud to have such a great community that understands the importance of St. Mary’s Medical Center to Blue Springs and the surrounding communities!
Check out The Examiner story —-> HERE!
Check us out on Facebook —-> HERE!
We can not THANK YOU enough for your support! YOUR words, YOUR stories, YOUR support are what is going to make a difference!
As of today, we have over 320 signatures, over 240 supporters on Facebook, and endless stories.
Our hearts are filled with joy as we continue to BE HEARD!
If you are interested in donating to help keep this campaign going, please go —-> HERE!
YOU are making a difference!
YOU are the voice!
YOU are the Faces for St. Mary’s!
Have a great Sunday and stay tuned for more updates as we are HEARD!
THANK YOU
Welcome to Faces for St. Marys
August 31, 2012
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