The changes and milestones we have celebrated this year reflect the ever-changing, growing community needs in health care and a resounding demonstration of generosity to answer those needs. Please enjoy our 2011 Circle Newsletter and we hope you will remember the responsible and effective ways we reinvest your generosity right back into the community.

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For example, since 1986, our donors have made gifts in support of the increased health care services delivered by Mease Countryside Hospital. What began as a satellite clinic on McMullen Booth Road has been transformed over 25 years to a busy hospital campus and a community fixture in health care, with Centers of Excellence in Heart, General Surgery, Cancer, Orthopedics and Women and Children’s services. You deserve a congratulatory round of applause for the role you have played in creating this effective community resource.

Congratulations are also in order for your support of the award-winning Morgan Heart Hospital at Morton Plant. It’s hard to believe that only five years ago we witnessed the single largest expansion to ever occur on the Morton Plant Hospital campus. As demand for superior cardiac care continues, we are eager to move forward with the construction of a new Hybrid cardiac surgical suite at Morgan Heart Hospital. Upon completion, Morgan Heart Hospital will be the first and only hospital in the Tampa Bay area with the cutting edge capabilities this new addition will provide.

While we celebrate milestones like these, along with others such as the expansion and new cath lab at Morton Plant North Bay Hospital and the grand opening of the Axelrod Pavilion at Morton Plant Hospital, please recognize that we are not really celebrating buildings and equipment and campus footprints. The cause for our excitement is the knowledge of what these facilities allow us to bring to our patients – benefits like more space to treat more patients sooner, better technology for minimally invasive procedures, shorter hospital stays, better patient experiences, and many comfortable family areas.

Of course, your gifts continue to make our high standards in patient care a reality. Your gifts also help us earn national recognition and maintain local patient satisfaction, and help us attract the best physicians who can then deliver the best care available in Pinellas and Pasco counties.

If you are planning to make a year-end gift before December 31, 2011, we hope you will remember the responsible and effective ways we reinvest your generosity right back into the community. You are instrumental in bringing good health to your family, friends and neighbors, and we look forward to celebrating more milestones in exceptional health care with you in the future. Many thanks for your generosity and compassion.