November 2016
November 2016
Calendar of Events
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Update
Happy Birthday,
McLane Children’s!
McLane Children’s
celebrated its fifth birthday
in early October with food
and fun for the community,
and a new name!
Thank you to all our Children’s Miracle
Network Hospitals partners who work
so hard to help our patients!
2016
2017
December 5–16
Child Life Toy Drive
Bring a new, unwrapped toy
to the McLane Children’s
front desk
April 8 | 10:00 am
Annual Egg-Stravaganza!
McLane Children’s Medical
Center front lawn
December 8 | 6:00 pm
Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony
McLane Children’s Medical
Center front lawn
April 14
“Stand Up” against child abuse
McLane Children’s Medical
Center front lawn
April 28 | 7:30 am
Foster Care Conference
Temple College
November 2016
May 2-9
Ronald McDonald Family
Room Food Drive
McLane Children’s
Medical Center
December 16 | 8:30 am
Breakfast with Santa
McLane Children’s Medical
Center Café
Bella Buerger, 6
CMN Champion for Texas Logan Parker attended Midnight Yell at
Texas A&M to promote the Aggie Belles Dance Marathon benefiting
McLane Children’s.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: ECMO
Precious Time
John L. Boyd, III, MD, MBA, CPE
President & Chief Medical Officer
Ellen D. Hansen, RN, BSN, MS
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Nursing Officer
Jeremy J. Ksionda, CFRE
Philanthropy
Deke Jones
Marketing
Brenda Wallin
Marketing
Love’s Travel Stop balloon campaign raised $3,089,
a 25% increase over last year!
MCLANE CHILDREN’S
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation
MS-20-S103
2401 S. 31st Street
Temple, TX 76508
Congratulations to Smith Dairy Queens, the top fundraising franchise in
the United States! Their 16th Annual Terry Omar Smith Memorial Golf
Classes raised an amazing $110,860!
Amy McLane
Elizabeth McLane
Dr. Michael Middleton
Melissa Mullins
Pat Mullins
Joe Nesbitt
Amy Smith
Bill Woodward
For the Kids group at Baylor University danced the day away at its annual
dance marathon on October 8th. The group raised a total of $10,952 at
this event, an 82% increase over last year! Congratulations, For the Kids!
Dr. Robin Battershell
Scott Cosper
Bill DiGaetano
Alicia Dunn
Sam Fulcher
Marsha Haney
Neil Haney
Bo Harvey
McLane Company celebrated its 10th Annual Charity Sporting Clay
Shoot on October 5th. The event raised $105,000 for Children’s Miracle
Network! Thank you to McLane Company for being such a wonderful
partner to CMNH!
Bella Buerger, 6, loves being her mother’s little helper. In November 2012, equipped
with her own Bella-sized skimmer and brush, the two-year-old set out to clean her family’s
backyard pool…by herself. And then everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
Fortunately, everything started going
right not long after her mother, Elysia,
pulled an unconscious Bella from the
water. Although Mrs. Buerger’s cell
phone had died, a neighbor’s father
happened to pull up and called 911.
An EMT in training was jogging by the
house and took over CPR until help
arrived. Then a ten-minute helicopter
flight brought Bella to the emergency
department at Baylor Scott & White
McLane Children’s Medical Center
where a team was waiting for her.
“I was in shock,” Mrs. Buerger
says. “I had no comprehension of
the severity of it at that time. I just
put my trust in those doctors, nurses
and the first responders to just do
what they needed to do.” Bella wasn’t
breathing and had no heartbeat. Her
body temperature was less than 88
degrees. “In that situation, time was
of the essence. Luckily, someone
suggested ECMO,” Mrs. Buerger says.
Extracorporeal Membrane
Oxygenation therapy, or ECMO, isn’t
generally the first tactic emergency
physicians turn to. The ECMO machine
takes over or partially supports the
function of up to three organ systems:
the heart, lungs, and kidneys. This
allows those systems to rest and heal.
“It is the most support you can be on,”
says Joshua Greer, the ECMO program
coordinator at McLane Children’s, “but
you hope you don’t get to the point
that you have to use it.”
The McLane Children’s team
brought the ECMO machine down to
the emergency room for Bella, another
diversion from the norm because of
its size. The complicated machine can
take up a whole room and didn’t fit
in the elevator along with the gurney
and staff, so Shelly May, RN, rode on
top of the cart with the machine to
monitor Bella.
“IN THAT SITUATION, TIME
WAS OF THE ESSENCE.
LUCKILY, SOMEONE
SUGGESTED ECMO.”
— Elysia Buerger
A NEWSLETTER BY THE SCOTT & WHITE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION FOR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF MCLANE CHILDREN’S