Since 1927, The Women’s Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital has funded and supported advancements in patient care. In addition to managing the gift shops on the JHH campus, The Board operates two resale stores in the Baltimore area and is the driving force behind many other charitable ventures.
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RENEWAL New Hours
Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Employees and staff of Johns Hopkins are major customers of logo wear for COS and the Gift Shops. In many cases, they are allowed to wear logo apparel at work. With a strong core of volunteers as well as the support of its manager, John Sizemore, and Kelly Mc Cloud, who fortunately hasn’t quite retired, COS is in a position to stage Pop Up stores at outlying medical facilities like White Marsh and Greenspring Station and at the Farmers’ Markets held on the medical campus.
On a scorching hot day in July, COS volunteers waited on customers at White Marsh in the parking lot under a canopy. They sold $4000 in logo wear – and have been invited back. Next time to an indoor location!
On another not quite so hot day, in the parking lot of the Greenspring Pavilions, over $5000 in logo wear was sold. Of help was a large email order one clinic placed in advance to guide what merchandise to bring.
Crucial to the success of these two Pop Ups was the support of the department of Ambulatory Care Services. Bert Ficke reached out to the department, which enthusiastically promoted the Pop Ups, and treated customers to ice cream cones. The shops became a summer social venture!
At the east Baltimore campus, COS hosted another successful event for Johns Hopkins alumni, arranged by Sandy Seward.
In addition to the Pop Ups, COS had a booth at three of the Farmers’ Markets on the Jefferson Street pathway. Joan Quinn organized volunteers who, along with selling logo items, were able to acquaint students, faculty, staff, and hospital visitors with the Women’s Board and COS. An added bonus for the COS group was delicious foods, crafts, and fruit and vegetable for them to purchase!
Honor Roll of COS Volunteers
Pam Babij, Bert Ficke, Nadine Fontan, Ann Harris, Pam Hindsley, Ellen Meyer, JoanQuinn, Anne Robotham, Sandy Seward, Leslie Strunge, Mary Zlotowitz
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24th Johns Hopkins Golf Classic
Golfers at the 24th Johns Hopkins Golf Classic relax and enjoy sliders after their rounds. Generous sponsorship support, especially from Title Sponsor Baird Private Wealth Management and Titanium Sponsor Venable, along with gorgeous weather, guaranteed a successful event for the Women’s Board, providing funds to benefit patient care and provide scholarships in medicine and nursing at Johns Hopkins.
Thanks to a grant from the Women’s Board, the first successful egg retrieval for In Vitro Fertilization has been completed at the east Baltimore Johns Hopkins Hospital!
The Johns Hopkins Fertility Center routinely provides services at Greenspring Station where the embryology laboratory is located. For some women, however, complex medical conditions, require advanced hospital-based anesthesia care for the small surgical procedure needed to remove eggs from the ovaries. Prior to receiving the Women’s Board grant, the Fertility Center was not able to perform egg retrievals at the main Johns Hopkins hospital due to lack of specialized equipment needed for egg retrieval and transport to the laboratory at Greenspring Station.
Eggs retrieved from the ovaries are highly precious and extremely fragile. They must remain at exactly 37 degrees Celsius. Any shifts in temperature can destroy their viability. To perform hospital-based egg retrievals requires an incubator with a microscope in the operating room to identify and isolate the eggs, a warmer to maintain temperature, a transport incubator to safely transfer the oocytes to the embryology lab, and a specialized ultrasound to safely perform the procedure.
Now, thanks to Women’s Board funds for purchase of this equipment, the Center has successfully begun its hospital-based egg retrieval IVF program. There is a waiting list of patients for this service that includes women with special anesthesia requirements because of heart defects, sickle cell disease, and a history of organ transplants. While many of them cannot carry a pregnancy themselves, they can safely undergo the small surgical procedure for removal of eggs from their ovaries under the guidance of Johns Hopkins multidisciplinary teams. Then their dreams of having a biological child will become a reality with the help of a gestational carrier.
Funds from the Women’s Board provided the incubator and scope, ultrasound, and mobile isolette that made this program a reality. The Fertility Center is grateful to the Board for the generosity that made this possible.
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The world of the Carry On Shop
Customers of the Carry On Shop come from six of the seven continents. Daily visitors include students, researchers and residents from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Oceana. Antarctica coming soon!
Recently a Bloomberg School of Public Health student from Ethiopia came to COS looking for a winter coat. She had mistakenly left hers on the airplane when returning to Baltimore after winter break. She found a beautiful suede/shearling jacket at 50% off and was more than thrilled!
Two days later a researcher from the Indian continent came into the shop to decompress after a long week, and take advantage of the 50% off sale. She left with a ¾ length fur (half off the already good COS price), numerous work jackets including Lafayette 148, Boden, and Talbots, a
dress or three, women’s size10 shoes, and an overcoat for her husband, to name a few of her finds. We were delighted to have helped as her personal shopper and grateful that her purchases support the mission of the Women’s Board to support Johns Hopkins.
The Carry On Shop is part of a lively, thriving, international community on the East Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Campus.
Stevie Daniels came to shop. She loved what she saw, and returned to Renewal two days later — with a WMAR camera team to film a feature on the store! The video footage shows the many departments, outstanding choices, and sophisticated display of clothing, accessories and jewelry at Renewal. Susan Posner gave an outstanding presentation of Renewal as shopping for a cause, promoting sustainability, and providing affordable fashion. Susan says somehow a 90-minute visit turned into a fabulous 2-minute television feature. Stevie says she is now a 100% regular customer!
Last week, as two friends paid for their finds at Renewal, they said they knew by waiting a few days for Black Friday, they would save 30%. They went ahead and purchased at full price fearing their treasures would be sold by then. At the Carry On Shop, a visitor from France bought first copy a new item — the colorful, upbeat new book Let’s All Go to Baltimore!
The Carry On Shop hosted an after-hours event for the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation on Oct 24. It was a time to eat, drink, mix and mingle, and comb the treasures of the shop. The event introduced the Carry On Shop and the Women’s Board to members of the Johns Hopkins community who may not be aware of all the Shop and the Board do to help support patient care at Johns Hopkins.
If interested in having an event such as this, please email The Carry On Shop at [email protected] and someone from the committee will be back in contact with you.
The Gift Shop on the ground floor of the Outpatient Center is now open, freshly renovated, twice its former size, and well stocked with attractive merchandise. Items range from Johns Hopkins logo wear and gifts, to greeting cards, toys and puzzles, snacks and beverages. Need a touch of jewelry bling or reading glasses, chargers or batteries? The Gift Shop has them. Time to visit this convenient location just down the escalator from the main Hospital building. Halloween gifts now are 20% off. Holiday items coming soon! Shop to help the Women’s Board fund advances in patient care at Johns Hopkins.