The Carry On Shop pop up team enjoyed a successful pop up sale in the Anne M. Pinkard SON building on 4/16/24 selling logo and clothing to students, faculty and staff!
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In preparation for a Pop-Up Shop of Johns Hopkins Logo Wear on April 16, Women’s Board members toured the new and ongoing construction at the School of Nursing. Exciting renovation of the Anne M. Pinkard building has created a beautiful space, The HUB, for the Pop-Up which will feature Nursing logo apparel. It is fitting that the shop will be in the Pinkard building as it honors Nan Pinkard, president of the Women’s Board from 1968 to 1972, who was elected as a full member of the Board in 1977. The School of Nursing Pop-Up will certainly enjoy the success of other Carry On Shop logo ventures.
Photo: Pedro Robles, School of Nursing staff, Pam Babij, Leslie Strunge, Beth Gregory, Kathy Abbott, and Ellen Meyer, Women’s Board Carry On Shop team.
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The Women’s Board has raised over $25 million to support patient care at The Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1927.
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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.
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
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.
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.
The COS team has truly enjoyed the four Farmer’s Markets that they have participated in. The weather was beautiful. They shared congeniality while promoting the Women’s Board, the Carry On Shop, Gift Shops, Renewal and all our the awesome contributions to the Hospital that the Women’s Board has made since 1929.
Time to shop – Visit the online offerings for Johns Hopkins logo items, via the Women’s Board web site, to see what’s new. Adding to the wide range of performance Under Armour wear, branded merchandise is now available from a pen set to a carabiner badge holder with a Dome cover to a variety of water bottles. Let’s not forget the Padfolio and a black enamel fireside camp mug!