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barrier oh, we thank you and lisa and 65 letter and none of this would happen without all of you. don't you agree? right from the start i mutt impart a thought that i i'll share with you glad will i i support an a ray of heart and soul i love you madly sfgh and trauma center too you help us when we're feeling badly so let's do our part by some tabletop art we love you madlyly marry let me tell you about our sponsors our perfecting swell and the mary foundation wells

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vehicle shop he always delivers everything that he's got especially, when it comes to delivering toys to the to the. then there's san joaquin barney she's a dream the sfgh gardener making the grounds like pristine even with the water shortage we can relax for a while seems like everything just grows with one glimpse of her symmetric and, of course, dear joe distracting once he was down but then something happened to turn his life all around. he is now changing lives of people i conversation because was sfgh is wrap around success because their winners and it is

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summertime last year let's get started off with the lunch warmer. so this is for the operator we're expecting right after that. so in each realm of the facility. plane crash >> on my way in. this is a disaster.

i role responded to trole resp airport. it was an numerously cadaver. in the first patient i was talking about it, you know, we knew what we were doing we took

several folks inform the operating room and one of them was really hurt. we saw everything from abdominal injuries and a spine fractions that presented us with every kind of trauma that you can image >> we are that in the pedestrian go ice cream room. there were from the nurses aids. there was a day when everything was to be done ♪ ♪ ♪ >> when i was turned back from the operating room we received a

significant amount of patients there are thirty. there was one coming in right after the other >> and there was a bereaving of all the injuries. >> as you looked across the room and saw that everyone was focused i've never been more proud to be a physician at the general hospital. >> we had 50 patients and it was hard to believe this particular disaster. it was destines until about 8 o'clock the emergency department but we had our everyday holiday weekend saturday to take care of and we do >> what was remarkable that day we saw order patients from the

city and we put them in the cue and saw them. >> we were open for everyone that day ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping.) >> this really was a teachable day. one of the things that made it less terrible we were able to respond the way we did >> i think this was the plane crash it reinforced we're capable of doing it everyday. >> i'm really proud of san francisco general hospital everyone was a physician that day. >> it was our finest hour in terms of how we do things here. >> san francisco general is an

amazing place i'm amazed at what we can and do do (clapping.) thank you ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. andrew campbell san francisco and trauma center (clapping). >> thank you for being here today, i'm one of the trauma surgeons at the general hospital. i need to recognize symptom who is special our vips barking

garcia who's standing over there barbara please stand up and we'll give you a hand. (clapping.) she would be our big boss. what a fantastic video where is steve i didn't i want to congratulate here group. at san francisco general hospital trauma center i'm proingd to work with professionals in my field. i'm proud of my number one surgical and surgical trainers after the asia a plane crash the emergency operating room and intensive unit and the radiologist group sfgh they opened their doors for our

underpass group and support staff and those who discharge patients so rapidly we were blown away. it was our finest hour at san francisco general house the only odd thing was seeing homeland security officers in the cafeteria. i had the urge to take off high shoes and go through an x ray machine and assume the position (laughter) the lives that we save would not be possible without the financial support of you who gives us. so many of you who have helped us and the fact you're here today demonstrates your continued support. however, if i can be bold to make one final appeal everyone

at the general sees the difference your help makes every hour everyday and i can each and every one of you to consider making a donation the cards are at your plate. dig deep we need money and help (laughter) please do what you can i thank you and my colleagues thank you and most importantly the patient and families of the folks at general thank you. please give our cards to the host or connect with a volunteer to make a credit cardgentlemen. ladies and gentlemen, to present the next hero award at the afternoon please welcome jim

from chevron energy solutions (clapping) >> great, thank you happy valentine's day. i'm both delighted and honored to be here today representing chevron and our over 6 thousand chevron employees that call san francisco and the bay area their home. as a san franciscan myself i know what a critical role we play and am proud of our programs. i'm especially grifrtd to have with us today at our table 3 representatives of the perry program that aspires women who want to get careers in engineering and have touched over 15 young women. the ficht is named in honor of

the laid jacqueline perry one of the first 10 orthopedic surgeons and countless women. i'd like to recognize from the perry initiative dr. lisa (clappin (clapping) actually, if you watch tv you'll see she was honored with a jefferson community service award with her efforts with the perry initiative and we have dr. sawyer (clapping) and outreach program volunteer nadia (clapping) thank you ladies for joining us and for the great work you do in carrying forward dr. perry's

noocht. now, it's my great opportunity to introduce san francisco general hospitals san joaquin who is memorialized in song as well (clapping) in her 32 years on the staff at san francisco general san joaquin as annoyed her sensitive to patient with a profoundly connection to the earth she created the comfort garden a buff nature space that officer respite from pain. sfart starting in 1984 he uses the hospital champions for growing meals for homes and aids patients (clapping) this effort has expanded and become a program that provides

training and wellness and fresh produce to the hospitals neighbors. i'm proud to give this award to joan carney. joan (clapping) joan that is your cue. here she is. >> okay. thank you. good afternoon. and thank you very much for this award. i really appreciate it. i must say i need to share it with the many folks who helped to make the gardens program a success. the hospital administration and the facilities department big ideas like jeff and laura the

staff and inheritance at the wellness center and especially the garden shop headed up by the lead gardener ann woods whose sitting over here. so how did the garden program get started in 1982 i took a job and in working at the sfgh in the early 1980s you could not be unaware of the aids. it was also apparent that we noted to step up and help out. i finding out found out about project open hand who helped homebound aids patients who noted a homegrown produce so i

started the first food garden at san francisco general and continued for 20 years until the food garden was paved over for a parking lot on campus. i heard about a new group of people who worked at the hospital and want to contact me about growing food on campus for the patients. all right. i don't know if i wanted to try this again. okay. okay i'll meet with them and tell me this will never work i know because i tried and look what happened to any. so i went to the first meeting of what was to become heart bases that's heart b e example t s and my kifrm was rest included u let you but lasted only for 5

minutes as the group praised the garden work our shop had done. after the meeting i felt more hope about the development of this program mainly because of the broad participation. i felt it just could take a how old and become part of the fabric of the hospital. 3 years later we have a guarantee food distribution program called food give away for patients we now grow or have grown everything from basis i will to garlic and is a lent from beans and tomatoes and each year brings new crops and the cumulative knowledge of what

works and what does. i'd like to leave you with a thought. it is from a person who bend from the program. he said if someone i don't know cares enough about me to grow this healthy food and give it to me and show me different ways to prepare it i should care enough about me to make those changes in my life. it made me realize that we all can be healers, healers in our own in the courunique way. thank you

(clapping.) today finally, is my great pleasure to introduce our evenings third hero joe distracting (clapping) age over 6 years ago joe came to the general as a victim of multiple gunshot and stab wounds. his case manager from the san francisco wrap around project helped joe to transform his life. joe now hypotheticals anyone else seminaries to inspire others. he volunteers with wrap around minors with the - to allow minors to talk about the impact

of weapons. joe is ref support for individual how's he attends city college and working for the recycling center his positive number one violate change helped did young people while at the same time helped him to make progress. i'm honored to present this award to joe distracting (clapping.) good afternoon and greetings

i embarked on this road shot 5 times and stabbed in the same day in a neighborhood that doesn't get much recognition for good. after being rehabbed by general it was great work and wrap around case manager and director - (clapping) - i was embraced by information and people that i did not know would be part of my life for a a long time. one of the people was dr. dick take care i had two tubes in my liver that i was shot ♪ the emergency and i had to come to the emergency the next day and i had a dead end look on

life so much was taken from me and i looked at dr. dicker and she said what do you want to do now i said i don't know. she said you know their help; right? and the did i know that this was the woman that had a hand in the wrap around project and was standing next to my mom to help encourage her. the way she said there was help there 0 was nothing to hold onto the but any mother always told me continually and continuously i didn't know what it meant until i saw my nephew make a

decision to be adjusted u judged. something needs to happen and that's to express so i started out volunteering and being a part of the wrap around youths empowerment we take kids to field trips and individual films and entertain their imagination and from there i've been volunteering were the a.d. judgedtion and been a part of the appreciation it's been my success. now those situations of me not having a home was because i made decision not to be prepared at a younger age but now any youngster or young people can do

it regardless of whose there. for people i know who have been there wrap around and my mother and some new people i've met through wrap around their become my family when i come to san francisco. i take this time right now just to take it all in because at some point i did structural it seemed hopes because no one would understand why you would do some things without the support but they didn't know i had all my needs met by the people around me. thank you all you guys. appreciate it

(clapping) >> now, please welcome back to the stage dr. andrea campbell. >> thank you implicit for coming today. and for your ongoing support. before we leave there's one more thing we would like to share you with this video reaffirms why the san francisco trauma center is the heart of the city.

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