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“Everyone is normally so busy, but when the doctors and grateful
families get to sit down together and spend time together, you see their
mutual respect and appreciation. It’s so rewarding.”

—MEGAN FRANKEL

coordinators are juggling a lot of balls. Finding What encourages you about
people to fill those roles and creating a culture healthcare philanthropy?
where they can thrive is a challenge, and Lisa
does it so well. She leads by example in that Lisa: As Megan mentioned, bringing the
balance of compassion and tenacity—and she physician and grateful patient together is
always has an open door to help triage a very encouraging. I still remember one doctor
complicated case for one of our families, in particular when we gave him one of our
celebrate a victory, or be a shoulder to cry on. Service Excellence Awards. He was so
appreciative and expressed how helpful every
level of gift is. It’s hard to describe how
What’s something you inspiring it is to see that and know the funding
love about your job? we give these doctors is really making a
difference. It’s powerful.
Lisa: After a long career in the widget world, I
truly love helping people. It feels good at the
end of the day knowing you made a difference What do you see as the future for
for someone. I also love our staff. The team is healthcare philanthropy?
so strong and supportive of each other and Megan: People tend to see headlines of these
the families who call. It really is a remarkable multi-million dollar gifts and think that’s
environment of collaboration. medical philanthropy. But at Healthnetwork
we get to see directly how any size gift,
Megan: I love when we have the opportunity whether it’s $10K or $50K or $200K—actually
to host dinners where we give grants to will make an impact. Dr. Prince and Dr. Klein,
doctors to support their research. To see the who both have articles in this magazine, talk
gratitude reciprocated between the doctor about how donations from Healthnetwork
and a family that was helped is probably one members are launching new projects and
of the most meaningful things we get to do. helping develop new technology.
Everyone is normally so busy, but when the When you can get doctors and patients
doctors and grateful families get to sit down connected, people are motivated and inspired
together and spend time together, you see to give back. Being on the cusp of medical
their mutual respect and appreciation. It’s breakthroughs is thrilling. When people see
so rewarding. the amazing things happening in medicine,
they want to support it—they just need to
know how. Getting doctors and patients
together is a big part of that, and we hope to
see it happening more and more in the future.

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