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Elaine and Rick Jones

Mar 18, 2024 Comments Off on Elaine and Rick Jones
November 3 @ 12:29 pm

This is our community and St. Helena Hospital is our hospital. The realities of healthcare are such that we must all do what we can to economically support a hospital of this caliber and make our community a better place for all to live.

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Valerie and Bob Peebles

Mar 18, 2024 Comments Off on Valerie and Bob Peebles
November 3 @ 12:29 pm

Longtime Napa County residents Valerie and Bob Peebles have been supporting the Foundation for 20+ years. They have also graciously chosen to include the Foundation in their estate plans, and wanted to share how good that decision feels: “We feel so fortunate to be spending the rest of our lives…

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Andy Schweiger

Mar 18, 2024 Comments Off on Andy Schweiger
November 3 @ 12:29 pm

You could say I learned to tolerate pain from a young age. By 14, I could tell you how bone-on-bone pain felt between the top of my right legbone and my hip socket. (Answer? Not good.) Then came what I call ‘the body cast era.’ That was when the pain…

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Deborah and Kenneth Novack

Mar 3, 2024 Comments Off on Deborah and Kenneth Novack
November 3 @ 12:29 pm

As residents of St. Helena, we have realized how fortunate the community is to have first class health care available to it. Those facilities are available only because of past, present and future philanthropy and we are pleased and proud to have had an opportunity to be part of those…

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Leslie Mansfield

Nov 27, 2023 Comments Off on Leslie Mansfield
November 3 @ 12:29 pm

Leslie was in disbelief when she was diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer in June 2013. Guided by her trusted medical team, Leslie underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment, a double mastectomy, and an ovariectomy. After overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds, you can imagine Leslie’s shock upon hearing devastating news just…

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Jim Smith

Nov 27, 2023 Comments Off on Jim Smith
November 3 @ 12:29 pm

Complaining of severe chest pain, Jim called for his wife, who raced to his side. As a nurse, “I immediately went into survival mode,” recalls Lorinda, who started CPR as Alura called 9-1-1. First responders arrived, attempting – unsuccessfully – to revive Jim. After more than an hour, the paramedics…

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