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Supporting Vaughan’s new hospital

Driving past the future site of Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital last fall, Elvio De Meneghi knew the time was now.

He and his brother, Ivonis, had always believed it was important to do what they could to improve the community in which they lived. Supporting their community’s new hospital was the most impactful way to do that.

The De Meneghi family’s transforma-tive gift pledge of $3 million to the Ex-ceptional Care Belongs Here campaign for Mackenzie Health is driven, very simply, by a desire to ensure that their community would finally have the health care it needs.

“We, as a family and business owners rooted in Vaughan, said very early on, we need to do this,” Ivonis says. “It was

an easy decision for us. The need for a hospital in this community is dire.”

The De Meneghis are the founders and owners of Lormel Homes – named after their mother and father, Lorenzo and Melina – one of the GTA’s premier real estate developers and builders.

Elvio and Ivonis, and their wives, Vicki and Lora, waited for the opportunity to invest in what they feel is the most important service a community can have – a hospital with specialized services, close to home.

Losing their mother to cancer 10 years ago, sadly, put a spotlight on this need for the family.

“You don’t recognize what you don’t have until you need it,” Elvio says. “Mom had to travel outside of our

community almost daily for treatment. It was just the way it had to be. But if we could have stayed closer to home for her care, that would have helped.”

The brothers have six children between them and core family values and tradi-tions learned from their parents have always been top of mind.

“Our parents come from very humble beginnings,” Elvio says. “We tried to raise our kids the way we were raised – to understand traditional values of hard work and the need to give back to your community.”

Immigrating to Canada from Italy in search of work in 1956, Lorenzo De Meneghi worked three jobs to save enough to buy himself a car and secure a place to live. In 1963, he met the love of his life, Melina, who had also left

The De Meneghi family, including Elvio (left) and Ivonis, along with father Lorenzo, has made a transformative gift pledge of $3 million to the Exceptional Care Belongs Here campaign for Mackenzie Health.

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Thank you, Dr. G. Soon-Shiong and his team when I had back surgery. No more pain. Thank you so much.Pat

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Italy for the opportunities Canada had to offer. They were married six months later.

In 1970, Lorenzo and two others founded Royal Plastics, which became North America’s largest PVC profile manufactur-er. He retired in 1994.

In honour of the family’s generosity, the corridor that connects the Magna Emergency to the state-of-the-art Medical Imaging department will be named The Lorenzo and Melina De Meneghi Boulevard of Care.

The brothers agree this is how their parents would have wanted to give back for their fortunate life.

“It is the artery that connects patients and families to a very critical and life-saving service,” Ivonis says.

“The technology within Macken-zie Vaughan Hospital is impres-sive. It is comforting to our fam-ily to know that Vaughan will be receiving the most advanced medical technology available.”

Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will be the first hospital in Can-ada to feature fully integrated “smart” technology, with

systems and medical devices that communicate directly to maximize information ex-change for the best patient care.

“Our goal as a family is to help make sure it (the hospital) is there when we need it, when our children need it and when future generations need it,” Elvio says.

They hope their gift will send the message that full commu-nity support is crucial to this important project. “We aren’t the type of family to put our-selves out there and share what our passions and interests are, but we feel that if our gift helps to inspire others to come on board, then we’ve done our job,” Ivonis says.

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9/11 changed every-thing for nine-year-old Tricia.At school, the little girl imagined planes flying into the building, black smoke billowing, and the walls col-lapsing around her and her big sister in a nearby classroom. She felt panic overwhelm her as she worried about her parents being in an accident.

The boisterous, exuberant child be-came quiet and withdrawn, shadowing her sister at school and her mother at home.

“I had this fear that only my mom could take away,” Tricia says. “I don’t know how to describe it.”

“I would be in class crying, everything had changed, it was a different me,” she says, still struggling more than a decade later to explain the feelings that once overwhelmed her. “I could feel it wasn’t me, it scared me.”

Her mother trusted her instincts, knowing something was seriously wrong.

“Right away, I knew it was a disor-der, a condition, that needed to be treated,” Clair says. “It became my mission to get her the right help.”

Tricia was seen by a child psychia-trist, who diagnosed her anxiety dis-order and referred her to the Shaw Clinic, Child and Family Service, Mental Health Program at Macken-zie Health for individual, group and family counselling.

Her physician began working with Tricia to determine the required medication for her disorder, but things got worse before they got better, Clair recalls.

Getting her to school was a daily struggle, her marks plunged and she

continued to have crying jags in class. At home, she lashed out at her family, often becoming hysterical with fear, yelling until she could hardly breathe.

“All those years, I was quiet, and when I began to get treatment, it all came out — just to my family,” Tricia says.

Weekly sessions at the Shaw Clinic’s anxiety disorder group immediately helped Tricia to feel “normal” again.

“I thought I was the only one, then I saw all these different people in group — we all had different (anxieties) — and I felt I belonged somewhere for the first time.

“The biggest part for me was seeing I wasn’t alone, that’s when I went back to being me.”

While Tricia worked hard with her psy-chiatrist, therapist and social worker to develop the skills to cope with her disorder, and her independence grew,

she continued to require constant contact with her mother.

“I’m the type of mother who would do anything for my child,” Clair says with conviction, thinking of the many occasions on which she left her work to be by Tricia’s side after receiving a frantic phone call.

“As a mother, you are desperate. I’ll never forget how desperate I was to get her help, it consumed me, it broke my heart.”

School remained a struggle for Tricia, with her mom acting as her strongest advocate, meeting with teachers and the principal to get her daughter the support and acceptance she required. The anxiety limited Tricia’s ability to focus and severely impacted her cogni-tive functions.

Tricia studied hard with the tutors her parents hired, but as soon as she was confronted with tests at school, the

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Clair went on a mission to get help for daughter Tricia, who today is on the honour roll at teachers college and successfully managing an anxiety disorder, thanks to the support of the Shaw Clinic.

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lessons she had successfully learned at home flew from her mind.

“She would literally hand in blank tests,” Clair says. “My daughter was a fighter, she did not want this to define her. She taught herself to learn things — she knew everything at home — but when she got to school, she forgot it.”

Clair says the family couldn’t afford the thousands of dollars it would cost for the tests the education system required to provide accommodation.

As the academic decline continued, other issues began to emerge, in-cluding depression, attention deficit disorder (ADD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and dramatic weight gain from the medication.

“What do we battle today?” Clair says, recalling the realm of Tricia’s once daily struggles. “Is it anxiety? Is it fear? Is it depression? Or her eating her emotions away?”

In Grade 8, with the encouragement of her Shaw Clinic team and family, Tricia set her mind on accompanying her class on a trip to Quebec City.

Clair had attempted to prepare the teacher to provide the support Tricia would need away from home, but he admitted to Clair later that he had brushed aside the concerns about Tri-cia until he “actually saw the real fear in her eyes”.

Tricia cried throughout the eight-hour bus trip there and balked at taking part in the activities with her class-mates. Clair had promised Tricia she would “jump on a plane” to bring her home if required, but with the support of parents who accompanied the class on the trip, she restrained herself when Tricia’s calls began coming in.

“The turning point was that trip to Quebec City,” she says. “I did it! I felt if I could do that, I could do anything.”

She decided she would prove wrong the teachers who had told her she

“wouldn’t amount to anything”.

“I always knew I wanted to be a teach-er,” Tricia says, her face lighting up. “I needed that trip to Quebec City to tell me I could do it.”

“I’ll be a different kind of teacher (than those who didn’t support me). I’ll be very understanding, sympathet-ic, supportive and caring.”

Her marks slowly began rising, from 50s and 60s to 80s and 90s, and then honour roll.

“The Shaw Clinic taught me how to deal with my anxiety, but also taught me life skills, how to take care of my-self, how to do homework,” Tricia says. “In that room, I was normal, and that was everything — they saved my life, gave me a childhood.”

Tricia finally received the educational support she required when she was identified as requiring an Individual-ized Accommodation Plan (IAP) on starting high school. Clair says, how-ever, as Tricia mastered the success strategies she learned at the clinic, that support wasn’t necessary.

“An assignment that might take most students 2-½ hours takes me three days. I’m OK with that, I’m in a rou-tine, and the end goal is teaching.”

Today, Tricia is steps away from

achieving that goal and is successfully managing her anxiety disorder. She is in teachers college, with a perennial presence on the Dean’s List.

She lives away from home and is in a stable relationship with her longtime boyfriend. She continues to meet challenges head on — whether it’s taking the subway or planning a trip to Greece this spring.

The deep bond between mother and daughter is readily apparent when the two are together. They are proud of the journey they have travelled together and are deeply gratefully for the excep-tional care and support Tricia and her family received at the Shaw Clinic, so close to their home.

“Once you’re in, you’re family,” Clair says of the clinic.

They want to share their story with others, in the hope of creating more understanding and acceptance of peo-ple with mental health conditions.

“Tricia wants to be seen and heard. Awareness of mental health has come a long way,” Clair says, adding she would tell other parents to “trust your instinct, trust the system, be an advocate, fight for your child — keep an open mind and you’ll create an amazing adult.”

As far as society has progressed in its understanding of mental illness, Tricia chose not to be identified by her last name for this story out of concern it could impact her career.

“I have no shame, I will tell my story and be an advocate; however, I’m here, society is there,” Tricia says adamant-ly, using her hands on the table to indicate a gap. “We are so close, but we’re not there, it’s sad, still people don’t understand.

“I’m so open about it, and (most peo-ple are) so accepting. It’s such a shame, I could be turned down for a job be-cause I have mental health issues.”

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In that room, I was normal, and that was everything — they saved my life, gave me a childhood.Former Shaw Clinic patient, Tricia

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Support of community partners growing

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Summer Fresh owners Susan and Mary Niczowski celebrated the holidays by giving back to their local hospital.

Celebrating RBC’s support of Mackenzie Health Foundation at the annual Family Skate were Francesco Sorbara, MP Vaughan-Woodbridge (from left); Rina Pillitteri, RBC Regional Vice-President for Vaughan and King Township; Altaf Stationwala, President & CEO, Mackenzie Health; Vaughan Councillor Tony Carel-la; Niki Gastis, Senior Major Gifts Officer, Mackenzie Health Foundation; Leo the Lion, RBC Mascot, and Vaughan Regional Councillor Gino Rosati.

Summer Fresh Foodsparty raises $15,000Though there is no better reason to indulge in shopping than the holiday season, Summer Fresh Foods gave guests an even better incentive to spend big on amazing items, all in the spirit of giving back.

Sisters and Summer Fresh Food’s Founders, Susan and Mary Niczowski treated guests to delectable food and cocktails and a broad selection of hol-iday shopping items at their event in November, with a portion of proceeds totalling $15,000 in support of the Ex-ceptional Care Belongs Here campaign for Mackenzie Health.

The RBC Family Skate team raised a record-breaking $38,000 for Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital. The 2017 event filled the Woodbridge Memorial Arena last February with families, community leaders and RBC staff for a day of skating and celebrations for a community excited about their future hospital.

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Angie Lo, Owner, Shoppers Drug Mart Vaughan Mills, presents proceeds on behalf of their gener-ous customers with Steven Del Duca, Minister of Transportation, MPP Vaughan, and Ingrid Perry,

President & CEO, Mackenzie Health Foundation.

Shoppers Drug Mart Growing Women’s Health campaign Mackenzie Health’s Woman and Child Program was again the grateful beneficiary of the Shop-pers Drug Mart Growing Women’s Health Campaign (formerly Tree of Life) last fall.

Twelve locations across the region – a significant increase in participa-tion this year – asked their custom-ers to donate to their local hospital, raising $20,000 for Mackenzie Health.

Community events are a critical component of the Foundation’s annual fundraising goals. Individuals, groups and com-panies can organize a fundraising event and donate the proceeds to Mackenzie Health Foundation. By hosting an event benefiting Mackenzie Health, you are contributing financial support and raising vital awareness to improve health care for our community. If you are interested in hosting an event to benefit Mackenzie Health, please visit mackenziehealthfoundation.ca or contact Daniel Salvatore at 905-8831212, ext 7496, [email protected]

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 375 marks milestoneDevoted community group and longtime friends of the Foundation have reached a milestone of support to Mack-enzie Health that spans over four decades.

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 375 has given more than half a million dollars to their hospital on behalf of their members and loyal following of community donors.

The Legion has invested in virtually every area of Mack-enzie Richmond Hill Hospital, and the impact of each investment is felt community wide.

Their gifts have contributed to the purchase of a brand new MRI, the opening of the John and Josie Watson Breast Health Clinic, as well as the Paul B. Helliwell Minimally Invasive Surgical Suite, new patient bedside monitors and an enhanced family lounge for Palliative Care patients and families.Branch President Julian West (right), on behalf of the Royal Canadian

Legion Branch 375 presented Tammy Bucci, Senior Major Gifts Officer, with a cheque marking a milestone of more than $500,000 in donations and decades of support of Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital.








We took Mackenzie Health’s vision and planning principles and distilled (the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital) design down to three major areas: people, nature and technology.Stuart Elgie, Stantec Architecture principal architect

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That rumbling sound you’re likely to hear in the vicinity of Major Mackenzie Drive and Jane Street this summer could be Levi-athan, the tallest roller-coaster at Canada’s Wonderland. Or it could quite possibly be construction machin-ery, expected to be kicking up dust mid-summer at the 25-hectare site of the new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital.

But when the doors open to the city’s first hospital in 2020, the design process will have solved any site-spe-cific environmental noise, including the sounds generated by thrill-seekers across the way, notes Stuart Elgie, Stantec Architecture senior principal architect and business centre sector leader.

As the prime architectural consultant on the Vaughan project, Stantec is responsible for the hospital’s design. The award-winning firm, which last year received the prestigious Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for its work on Toronto’s Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, also coordinates disci-plines such as mechanical, structural, information technology and electrical.

So, what are the unique architectural needs of a state-of-the-art 342-bed hospital environment? There is palpa-ble excitement as Elgie unpacks the design philosophy behind the 1.2-mil-lion-square-foot health facility.

“We took Mackenzie Health’s vision and planning principles and distilled them down to three major areas: people, nature, and technology,” Elgie says. “It’s pretty exciting for us because we see hospitals and health care facilities as incredibly important civic infrastructure to any communi-ty. Hospitals are not necessarily just machines, they’re more about creating a humanistic view of space.”

The element of people is the founda-tional design driver of any hospital

project, Elgie says, and Vaughan is no exception. The design considers the experience of the patient, as well as those of family, friends, caregivers and the diverse medical and hospital staff who put in long hours under that roof, often under stressful conditions.

“The hospital needs to be able to accommodate the full range of human emotion,” he says. “With the Wom-an and Child Program, there will be moments of incredible celebration. Elsewhere, there will be incredibly heart-wrenching moments. The hospi-tal has to be able to stretch itself and provide a place and space for all of that to occur.”

When you consider the large well of evidence that supports the restorative power of good design, it’s possible to see hospitals as a hub for helping com-munities stay healthy, Elgie adds.

And, according to plan, that philos-ophy is physically and symbolically represented at the hospital’s primary entrance, which faces south toward Major Mackenzie Drive.To one side is the learning and development space, which will feature a high-fidelity simulation suite for medical training, classrooms and an auditorium. On the other side is a library, accessible to all interested in health and wellness. All of this positions Mackenzie Health to become a hub for health education.

The link between a hospital’s design and its relationship to healing has been documented for the better part of three decades. And this is where na-ture makes its entry as a design driver.

Consider a groundbreaking study by environmental psychologist Dr. Rob-ert Ulrich. He found that patients with a view to a leafy landscape, on average, healed one day sooner than patients whose view was a brick wall.

The hospital boasts three courtyards,

a terraced garden, daylight through-out the building and at the end of all corridors, expansive windows and orienting views to the south.

Elgie adds that a human-centred approach to design reduces stress and anxiety and helps people to more easily find their way around.

If you’re wondering what enables these design principles, look no further than technology. Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will be the first smart hospital in Canada.

Infrastructure Ontario and Mackenzie Health awarded Plenary Health the fixed-price contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new Mack-enzie Vaughan Hospital. The Plenary Health team includes Plenary Group (Canada) Ltd., PCL Investments Canada Inc., PCL Constructors Canada Inc., Stantec Architecture Ltd., and Johnson Controls Canada LP.

Visit mackenziehealth.ca/mvh.

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Accreditation with exemplary standing

Mackenzie Health has received Accred-itation with Exemplary Standing for the second consecutive evaluation – a pres-tigious milestone that few organizations have achieved.

Mackenzie Health met 99.8 per cent of the more than 1,800 standards – everything from governance, communication, and patient engagement to infection control and clinical care – in the review by Accred-itation Canada to achieve this highest level of accreditation.

The standing confirms Mackenzie Health’s commitment to going beyond national and international standards of excellence in providing safe, high-quality health care, according to Mackenzie Health CEO and President Altaf Stationwala.

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If everyone gave back to local charities, longtime Mackenzie Health Foundation volunteer Lee Zanetti has no doubt that our community would be a much better place for all.

“No matter what you make or what you have, every little bit adds up to make a big difference,” says the former Foundation board member and gala signature event co-chair.

She knows firsthand that it is the generosity of the community that more often than not makes up for the shortfall in funding for hospital equipment.

For the first time, the Zanettis have expanded their annual giving to include a legacy gift. This type of charitable donation can be made through the estate-planning process and included in a will. It gives donors, such as Lee and husband Rob Zanetti, an opportunity to make a meaningful donation that resonates far into the future, and helps ensure registered charities such as Mackenzie Health Foundation continue to be a vital, life-giving presence in the community for generations to come.

“We supported Mackenzie Health Foundation with a legacy gift

because it’s our local hospital, and we strongly believe in giving back to the community,” says Lee, adding that three of their four children were born at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital.

“I’m hoping our legacy gift will help improve access to the best possible care for everyone in the community.”

There are many ways you can demonstrate your commitment to high-quality health care, but perhaps there’s no better time to think about your legacy than this month, which is National Leave a Legacy Month.

What began more than 10 years ago by the Canadian Association of Gift Planners as a national campaign that encourages people to bequeath a gift to a charity or cause close to their hearts continues today at a grassroots level run by dedicated volunteers.

A gift of assets to Mackenzie Health Foundation may enable you to make a greater donation than otherwise possible. A legacy gift may be given now or in the future and, no matter what form of gift you choose, you can direct your donation to an area of the hospital for which you have an affinity or the Foundation’s endowment to help fund life-saving equipment and technology for generations to come.

As a legacy gift donor, you will be invited to join the Legacy Society, a special honour recognizing your commitment to the hospital’s current and future growth. You’ll also get updates on activities and invitations to Legacy Society social events.

For more details, contact Tammy Bucci at 905-883-1212, ext. 7805 or email [email protected].— Kim Champion

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Making a legacy gift provides tax benefits

Estates and trusts lawyer Jag C. Gandhi has spotted a growing trend in her practice: clients are making legacy gifts from a socially conscious perspective.

For her clients, ensuring that a charity benefits from the estate provides an example to family members about the importance of giving.

“Doing that can send a powerful message,” says Gandhi, who serves as a director on the Mackenzie Health Foundation board.

A good place to start the conversation about planned giving is with a trusted financial advisor, accountant, or lawyer with estate planning expertise.

Federal charitable contribution rules were relaxed in 2015, providing more flexibility for legacy gifts, which can provide considerable tax benefits, credits and exemptions.

Your legacy gift may include:• A bequest in your will;• Stocks, bonds, mutual funds;• A life income arrangement such as a charitable remainder trust or gift annuity;• Property such as art or real estate;• A new, full or partial-paid insurance policy and;• RRRPs and RRIFs.

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13th Annual Run for Vaughan Canada’s Wonderland, 1 Canada’s Wonderland Dr., Vaughan. Visit runforvaughan.com.

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Vaughan Pizza Fest Woodbridge Fairgrounds, 100 Porter Ave., Woodbridge. Visit vaughanpizzafest.com.

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Concerned Citizens of Canada Car Rally Canada’s Wonderland, 1 Canada’s Wonderland Dr., Vaughan.

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Vaughan in Motion Golf to Cure Cancer Redcrest Cardinal Club, 17700 Keele St., King. Visit vaughaninmotion.com.

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RE/MAX Premier Golf Tournament Copper Creek Golf Club, 11191 Hwy. 27, Kleinburg. Visit supportingvaughanhospital.com.

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