Baystate Health Foundation Inc
Advancing Care, Enhancing Lives
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Baystate Health Foundation is working to address the financial needs of Baystate Health.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Baystate Health
With roots dating to the founding of Springfield Hospital in 1883, Baystate Health has been providing high-quality and compassionate healthcare in the Pioneer Valley for more than 140 years. With a workforce of nearly 12,000 team members, Baystate Health is one of western Massachusetts’ strongest economic engines. With more than 980 beds on average across our five hospitals, we are working to make healthcare accessible to people in our region. We also see patients through our Baystate Home Health & Hospice offerings.
As an integrated academic health system, the advancement of knowledge is a major component of our mission. Serving as the regional campus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, we educate and train current and future caregivers – preparing much of our region’s health care workforce to meet patients’ needs for years to come.
In service of our mission, we work to bring healthcare out of the hospital and into the community. We serve our local community through our many health initiatives, including supporting community-based organizations, developing programs that help prepare our young people for future success, and advancing early interventions in wellness and nutrition.
Baystate Home Health and Hospice
Baystate Home Health provides high quality care, expressly tailored to meet each patients’ needs. Our home health team works together to ensure a safe and swift recovery from illness, accident, or surgery in the comfort of home.
Baystate Hospice offers medical expertise through our extensive network of caregivers to support patients facing a serious or life limiting illness. Each patient and family is cared for by our certified and experienced nurses, therapists, social workers, hospice aides, spiritual and bereavement counselors, and volunteers. This care team works together, with both the patient and family, to bring understanding, comfort, dignity and a sense of peace, as each patient journeys towards the final stage of life.
Baystate Home Health serves patients throughout Hampden, Hampshire and western Worcester counties.
Baystate Franklin Medical Center-Baystate Northern Region
Baystate Franklin Medical Center is a not-for-profit 89-bed hospital in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Rooted in a rich tradition of almost 125 years of service and accountability, our highly skilled team is committed to advancing care with our state-of-the art facilities and technology.
Baystate Franklin houses a new $26 million surgical center and the talented surgical teams of the Baystate Health network. Our spacious pre-surgery, recovery, and family waiting areas offer privacy and comfort with natural light, healing gardens, and other amenities.
Our multidisciplinary approach gives you access to specialists from across the Baystate Health system, offering comprehensive and collaborative medical treatments close to home.
Baystate Wing Hospital
Baystate Wing Hospital offers a broad range of medical, surgical, and psychiatric services. Our expanded, comprehensive Emergency Department (ED) provides comprehensive emergency services for adults and children around the clock. The ED includes a six-bed critical care unit and is a primary stroke center designated by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. We're recognized for stroke care with the Get With the Guidelines® Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Silver Plusquality achievement award from the American Heart Association.
Our hospital offers comprehensive, personalized, and high-quality inpatient and outpatient behavioral health and addiction treatment services through the Griswold Behavioral Health Center and the Center for Geriatric Psychiatry.
Baystate Medical Practices located in Belchertown, Ludlow, Monson, Palmer, Wilbraham, and Ware offer extensive outpatient services and primary care in the Baystate Wing Hospital service area with specialists in adult family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric medicine.
Baystate Noble Hospital
Baystate Noble Hospital is a 85-bed acute care community hospital helping people in the Greater Westfield community. The hospital offers direct access to world-class technology, diagnostics, and specialists. Baystate Noble's skilled and compassionate nurses and medical support staff offer an ideal combination of “high tech” and “high touch,” complementing an outstanding team of doctors. The newly-renovated Fowler Unit provides behavioral health services such as suicide screening and assessments.
Services include obstetrics and gynecology, emergency, laboratory, gastroenterology, surgery, cardiopulmonary services and rehab, cancer care, behavioral health, urology, neurology, inpatient rehabilitation, and diagnostic imaging including 3D mammography.
Baystate Children's Hospital
Baystate Children's Hospital (BCH), a 110-bed and 57-bassinette hospital located within Baystate Medical Center, is the only accredited full-service children’s hospital in western Massachusetts and provides primary and advanced medical care to babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
BCH features the region's only neonatal and pediatric intensive care units and includes the only emergency department for children, the Sadowsky Family Pediatric Emergency Department, and the region’s only Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center.
Baystate Community Health Centers
Baystate operates three community health centers that serve residents in the city of Springfield, MA. They are Baystate Brightwood Health Center Centro de Salud, Baystate High Street Health Center and Baystate Mason Square Health Center.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Baystate Health Foundation raises funds to support all Baystate Health hospitals, facilities, programs, and services.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Baystate Health Foundation raises funds through a variety of methods, including annual giving, gifts of gratitude, tribute gifts, events, employee giving, gift and estate planning, and endowment.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Baystate Health Foundation has a team of individuals that support our efforts to raise funds through annual giving, gifts of gratitude, tribute gifts, events, employee giving, gift and estate planning, and endowment.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Baystate Health Foundation continues to support all Baystate Health hospitals, facilities, programs, and services through funds raised. The foundation continues to build awareness of the organization and it's events, philanthropic projects, and opportunities to give.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Baystate Health Foundation Inc
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Ms. Deana Hall
Bank ESB
Term: 2019 - 2021
Mr. Mark Teed
Teed Capital Management
Term: 2019 - 2021
Jeffrey A. Amanti
Advanced Manufacturing
Andrew W. Artenstein
Baystate Health
Vincent J. Cardillo
Maeva Dental Advisors
Steven M. Dane
CohnReznick, LLP
Maureen James
Skoler Abbott
Mark A. Keroack
Baystate Health
Raymond McCarthy
Baystate Health
Michelle Megas-Ditomassi
James P. Sadowsky
Ali R. Salehi
Columbia Manufacturing, Inc.
Nancy L. Shendell-Falik
Baystate Health
Mark R. Tolosky
Aram Vartanian
Vartanian Custom Cabinets
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.