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Turner Construction Has the Can Do SpiritNeighborhood plantings and home repairs were all part of the giving back attitude shared by 100+ Turner and Nationwide Children’s Hospital volunteers who adopted 12 homes for a day of improvements.
Steve Allen Angela Mingo CEO Director of Community Relations
October 2011
Dear Neighbor,
October is a time to celebrate our partners. And there are so many to appreciate. Over the summer, hundreds of volunteers from our neighborhoods built community gardens, cleaned up the streets, cultivated new green space and even added a colorful mural.
Several hundred more from companies like Turner Construction, Home Depot, the Columbus Board of Realtors and Kohl’s gave their time and skills, and donated materials to make our neighborhood a better place to live. And how can we forget the churches, United Way and the City of Columbus. What a difference we all made by working together.
EVERYTHING MATTERS TO US BECAUSE EVERYTHING MATTERS TO YOU You’ll notice something new about this newsletter. We have introduced a new logo for the hospital that now includes our promise statement that “When your child needs a hospital, everything matters.” As we prepare to open our new campus next year, we’re focused on the details. Nothing is too small or too large not to receive our full attention.
OCTOBER IS SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL MONTHOne more thing. During October, more children will be walking or bicycling to school as part of Ohio’s Safe Routes to School effort. Please be on the lookout for children during the early morning and afternoon hours. Last year 51,000 injuries were prevented by wearing a bike helmet. We urge all families to adopt this simple safety measure. It’s about saving lives.
A special thanks to all our partners who have helped make this one of the most memorable summers to date. We continue to work hard to be the best neighbor in Columbus, and earn your trust and support.
Kohl’s Volunteer Project One day can make a difference and 30 Kohl’s volunteers proved that true when they rolled up their sleeves and went to work on neighborhood homes in a day long event.
Realtor Care DayLandscaping and beautification, 50+ realtors did it all, transforming a vacant lot on the corner of Heyl and Sycamore into green space. Thanks Columbus Board of Realtors.
Ganther’s Place Park Dedication and FestivalGanther’s Place kicked off the summer by dedicating the new Greens N Things park space with music performed live on their new stage, sponsored by Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
April 5
Aug 6
Friends and Partners Who Care
We Want to Hear From YouPlease contact us with any questions or concerns.
614-355-0715
Community Relations Nationwide Children’s Hospital 255 E. Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215
Farmers Market Mondays 11:30 am – 1:30 pm • 574 S. 18th St.Nationwide Children’s HospitalDon’t miss the last market of the season.
Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families
June 15
June 15
Oct 10
June 15
June 25
Here’s What Our Neighbors are Saying
Benalio Padron has experienced first-hand the positive impact of Healthy Homes. As a security guard at Nationwide Children’s, he lives in a hospital-renovated home on Carpenter Street and is able to walk to work.
He’s now doing his part to make the community even better. Benalio uses his 15-years of training to teach karate to neighborhood children and give them physical activities that instill discipline. It’s his way of giving back.
Saying No to SugarIt’s been more than nine months since Nationwide Children’s Hospital stopped serving sugar-sweetened drinks, and the results have been positive. Staff, visitors and patients are drinking more water, milk, fruit juices and diet sodas. It’s all part of the hospital’s commitment to fight childhood obesity and encourage healthier eating.
For Sale: 799 Heyl Avenue
New Community Garden: 591 Stone Ave Fresh vegetables are finding their way into the food pantry at St. John Holy Rosary from our new hospital community garden planted in May. The garden is a true community effort with Home Depot, Hopewell United Methodist Church, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Franklin Park Conservatory and Scotts Miracle-Gro providing everything from the raised beds, seeds and garden plants to the original construction and regular weeding that makes a garden grow.
Seventy-five volunteers spent a full day building the beds. Over the summer, they planted, watered and tended tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, strawberries, broccoli and other healthy vegetables.
A newly formed garden committee is planning programs on healthy eating, the rewards of tending a garden and how to grow nutritious food.
Housing
West Campus Taking ShapeThe new Research Building III will open next year and will add 680 jobs to the hospital campus. We call Research Building III the future of pediatric care. The focus will be on helping premature babies, finding cures for children’s heart problems, preventing injuries and mathematical medicine.
Southern Orchards Rallies Around New MuralWhen the carryout store across from Livingston Avenue Elementary School was torn down, many in the neighborhood remembered the faded mural painted on the side of the building.
“What’s going to happen to the mural?” asked Katie Radford, past president of Southern Orchards Civic Association.
Soon that question turned into a community cause, and thanks to everyone pitching in, a new mural full of color and vitality today graces the side of the Church For All People on Parsons Avenue and Whittier Street.
Artist Walt Neil returned from Cleveland to work on the mural. Keep Columbus Beautiful provided a $1,000 grant. The mural serves as a gateway to Southern Orchards.
Plant Pride on Parsons The Valvoline Plant Pride on Parsons 2011 Spring Clean Up was a great success with 133 volunteers showing they care about the south side.
Residents from eight neighborhoods, volunteers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and others from The Ohio State University and Chase Bank planted 50 flowerpots, picked up 179 bags of litter and removed graffiti. Contact Keep Columbus Beautiful at 645-2421 to sponsor a pot.
Look What’s New Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families is changing the look of our neighborhood. Nearly 100 homes have been built, renovated and repaired over the last three years with Nationwide Children’s Hospital partnering with the City of Columbus, United Way, and Community Development For All People.
Through our Healthy Homes project, new families have bought 11 new homes and another 11 are available for sale. The hospital has also renovated 30 properties for tenants and another 35 have benefitted from extensive repairs. Over the summer, volunteers from companies, organizations and church groups planted, polished and picked up, making a difference one block at a time.
Darlene Harris has a close connection to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital neighborhood. As a child, her parents moved here to be close to the hospital while Darlene was being treated as a burn victim. She and her family have lived here ever since.
Her Wager Street home was recently given a face-lift as part of the Healthy Homes program. Renovations included a new roof, siding, doors, landscaping and more. Darlene credits the program with revitalizing and energizing the neighborhood.
Workforce/Economic Development
Want to be a Doctor or a DentistAlexa Canady Leadership Conference for Future Doctors and Dentists.
Girls from 7th through 10th grade spent a morning last April at Nationwide Children’s Hospital learning what it takes to become a doctor or dentist. Organized by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the event focused on a diverse group of girls who had the chance to learn about health, medical school, goal setting and leadership.
“Nationwide Children’s Hospital expanded their horizons by introducing them to female doctors in many different fields of pediatric medicine,” said W. Shawna Gibbs, an event organizer.
Education
Soccer Star Meets Local KidsLauren Cheney, the 24-year-old soccer superstar for the U.S. Women’s National Team, visited Nationwide Children’s Hospital on Friday, September 9 talking to students from Livingston Avenue Elementary School about health and fitness. Lauren was a guest of Mended Little Hearts, a support program for parents of children with heart defects and heart disease, sponsored by research cardiologists at Nationwide Children’s and elsewhere.
Cheney was born with a hole between the two chambers of her heart. She required open heart surgery at the age of 3 to correct this condition. Today, she’s a world-class athlete and a testament to what’s possible when living with congenital heart disease.
“The house was in great condition when I moved in.” – Benalio Padron
Did You Know?A child who drinks a 12 oz. can of carbonated sugary soda must walk 45 minutes to burn off the calories.
415 Number of neighborhood people with jobs at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
75 Neighbors and friends participated in the inaugural planting.
Progress on New HospitalConstruction continues on the main hospital with completion set for June 2012, less than a year away. Work now is turning to the interiors to create family-centered care for new patients.
“We appreciate the progress that is being made.” – Darlene Harris
Safe and Accessible Neighborhoods
Health Care Heroes AwardHealthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families was recognized as a Health Care Hero by Business First.
For Sale: 595 Columbus Street For Sale: 898 Heyl Avenue
For Sale: 875 S. 18th Street
Health and Wellness
For Sale: 807 Carpenter Street
Here’s What Our Neighbors are Saying
Benalio Padron has experienced first-hand the positive impact of Healthy Homes. As a security guard at Nationwide Children’s, he lives in a hospital-renovated home on Carpenter Street and is able to walk to work.
He’s now doing his part to make the community even better. Benalio uses his 15-years of training to teach karate to neighborhood children and give them physical activities that instill discipline. It’s his way of giving back.
Saying No to SugarIt’s been more than nine months since Nationwide Children’s Hospital stopped serving sugar-sweetened drinks, and the results have been positive. Staff, visitors and patients are drinking more water, milk, fruit juices and diet sodas. It’s all part of the hospital’s commitment to fight childhood obesity and encourage healthier eating.
For Sale: 799 Heyl Avenue
New Community Garden: 591 Stone Ave Fresh vegetables are finding their way into the food pantry at St. John Holy Rosary from our new hospital community garden planted in May. The garden is a true community effort with Home Depot, Hopewell United Methodist Church, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Franklin Park Conservatory and Scotts Miracle-Gro providing everything from the raised beds, seeds and garden plants to the original construction and regular weeding that makes a garden grow.
Seventy-five volunteers spent a full day building the beds. Over the summer, they planted, watered and tended tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, strawberries, broccoli and other healthy vegetables.
A newly formed garden committee is planning programs on healthy eating, the rewards of tending a garden and how to grow nutritious food.
Housing
West Campus Taking ShapeThe new Research Building III will open next year and will add 680 jobs to the hospital campus. We call Research Building III the future of pediatric care. The focus will be on helping premature babies, finding cures for children’s heart problems, preventing injuries and mathematical medicine.
Southern Orchards Rallies Around New MuralWhen the carryout store across from Livingston Avenue Elementary School was torn down, many in the neighborhood remembered the faded mural painted on the side of the building.
“What’s going to happen to the mural?” asked Katie Radford, past president of Southern Orchards Civic Association.
Soon that question turned into a community cause, and thanks to everyone pitching in, a new mural full of color and vitality today graces the side of the Church For All People on Parsons Avenue and Whittier Street.
Artist Walt Neil returned from Cleveland to work on the mural. Keep Columbus Beautiful provided a $1,000 grant. The mural serves as a gateway to Southern Orchards.
Plant Pride on Parsons The Valvoline Plant Pride on Parsons 2011 Spring Clean Up was a great success with 133 volunteers showing they care about the south side.
Residents from eight neighborhoods, volunteers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and others from The Ohio State University and Chase Bank planted 50 flowerpots, picked up 179 bags of litter and removed graffiti. Contact Keep Columbus Beautiful at 645-2421 to sponsor a pot.
Look What’s New Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families is changing the look of our neighborhood. Nearly 100 homes have been built, renovated and repaired over the last three years with Nationwide Children’s Hospital partnering with the City of Columbus, United Way, and Community Development For All People.
Through our Healthy Homes project, new families have bought 11 new homes and another 11 are available for sale. The hospital has also renovated 30 properties for tenants and another 35 have benefitted from extensive repairs. Over the summer, volunteers from companies, organizations and church groups planted, polished and picked up, making a difference one block at a time.
Darlene Harris has a close connection to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital neighborhood. As a child, her parents moved here to be close to the hospital while Darlene was being treated as a burn victim. She and her family have lived here ever since.
Her Wager Street home was recently given a face-lift as part of the Healthy Homes program. Renovations included a new roof, siding, doors, landscaping and more. Darlene credits the program with revitalizing and energizing the neighborhood.
Workforce/Economic Development
Want to be a Doctor or a DentistAlexa Canady Leadership Conference for Future Doctors and Dentists.
Girls from 7th through 10th grade spent a morning last April at Nationwide Children’s Hospital learning what it takes to become a doctor or dentist. Organized by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the event focused on a diverse group of girls who had the chance to learn about health, medical school, goal setting and leadership.
“Nationwide Children’s Hospital expanded their horizons by introducing them to female doctors in many different fields of pediatric medicine,” said W. Shawna Gibbs, an event organizer.
Education
Soccer Star Meets Local KidsLauren Cheney, the 24-year-old soccer superstar for the U.S. Women’s National Team, visited Nationwide Children’s Hospital on Friday, September 9 talking to students from Livingston Avenue Elementary School about health and fitness. Lauren was a guest of Mended Little Hearts, a support program for parents of children with heart defects and heart disease, sponsored by research cardiologists at Nationwide Children’s and elsewhere.
Cheney was born with a hole between the two chambers of her heart. She required open heart surgery at the age of 3 to correct this condition. Today, she’s a world-class athlete and a testament to what’s possible when living with congenital heart disease.
“The house was in great condition when I moved in.” – Benalio Padron
Did You Know?A child who drinks a 12 oz. can of carbonated sugary soda must walk 45 minutes to burn off the calories.
415 Number of neighborhood people with jobs at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
75 Neighbors and friends participated in the inaugural planting.
Progress on New HospitalConstruction continues on the main hospital with completion set for June 2012, less than a year away. Work now is turning to the interiors to create family-centered care for new patients.
“We appreciate the progress that is being made.” – Darlene Harris
Safe and Accessible Neighborhoods
Health Care Heroes AwardHealthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families was recognized as a Health Care Hero by Business First.
For Sale: 595 Columbus Street For Sale: 898 Heyl Avenue
For Sale: 875 S. 18th Street
Health and Wellness
For Sale: 807 Carpenter Street
700 Children’s Drive Columbus, Ohio 43205 NationwideChildrens.org
Turner Construction Has the Can Do SpiritNeighborhood plantings and home repairs were all part of the giving back attitude shared by 100+ Turner and Nationwide Children’s Hospital volunteers who adopted 12 homes for a day of improvements.
Steve Allen Angela Mingo CEO Director of Community Relations
October 2011
Dear Neighbor,
October is a time to celebrate our partners. And there are so many to appreciate. Over the summer, hundreds of volunteers from our neighborhoods built community gardens, cleaned up the streets, cultivated new green space and even added a colorful mural.
Several hundred more from companies like Turner Construction, Home Depot, the Columbus Board of Realtors and Kohl’s gave their time and skills, and donated materials to make our neighborhood a better place to live. And how can we forget the churches, United Way and the City of Columbus. What a difference we all made by working together.
EVERYTHING MATTERS TO US BECAUSE EVERYTHING MATTERS TO YOU You’ll notice something new about this newsletter. We have introduced a new logo for the hospital that now includes our promise statement that “When your child needs a hospital, everything matters.” As we prepare to open our new campus next year, we’re focused on the details. Nothing is too small or too large not to receive our full attention.
OCTOBER IS SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL MONTHOne more thing. During October, more children will be walking or bicycling to school as part of Ohio’s Safe Routes to School effort. Please be on the lookout for children during the early morning and afternoon hours. Last year 51,000 injuries were prevented by wearing a bike helmet. We urge all families to adopt this simple safety measure. It’s about saving lives.
A special thanks to all our partners who have helped make this one of the most memorable summers to date. We continue to work hard to be the best neighbor in Columbus, and earn your trust and support.
Kohl’s Volunteer Project One day can make a difference and 30 Kohl’s volunteers proved that true when they rolled up their sleeves and went to work on neighborhood homes in a day long event.
Realtor Care DayLandscaping and beautification, 50+ realtors did it all, transforming a vacant lot on the corner of Heyl and Sycamore into green space. Thanks Columbus Board of Realtors.
Ganther’s Place Park Dedication and FestivalGanther’s Place kicked off the summer by dedicating the new Greens N Things park space with music performed live on their new stage, sponsored by Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
April 5
Aug 6
Friends and Partners Who Care
We Want to Hear From YouPlease contact us with any questions or concerns.
614-355-0715
Community Relations Nationwide Children’s Hospital 255 E. Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215
Farmers Market Mondays 11:30 am – 1:30 pm • 574 S. 18th St.Nationwide Children’s HospitalDon’t miss the last market of the season.
Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families
June 15
June 15
Oct 10
June 15
June 25
