GLENDALE ADVENTIST MEDICAL CENTER FDTN ADVENTIST HEALTH GLENDALE FOUNDATION
1509 Wilson Terrace, Glendale, CA 91206 www.adventisthealth.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Adventist Health Glendale Foundation was established to solicit and manage contributions for Adventist Health Glendale. Expenditure of Donor funds are made primarily to, or on behalf of Adventist Health Glendale.

The Adventist Health Glendale Foundation provides a fundraising function to support the mission of Adventist Health Glendale and programs to improve the quality of life and health in our community. The funds are transferred to the hospital based on the grantors and donors intent. A significant portion of Management and General expenses are paid for by Adventist Health Glendale and accounted for as a department of the hospital in its support of the Foundation. The following story illustrates how Adventist Health Glendale is able to provide quality care for our community and why our Foundation has such a passion for raising funds to continue improving the care we can provide: Jacob Nalbandyn is 34 years old, in good physical shape, exercises regularly, eats healthy and leads what he describes as an average lifestyle. At his age, you wouldn't expect Jacob to have a heart attack. Thats also what he thought. I was having lunch, and all of a sudden I felt discomfort in my chest, sort of weird, recalls Nalbandyan, married and the father of two young children. The Glendale resident and attorney was in San Diego that day on business. But it was a heart attack and Jacob is quick to credit Adventist Health Glendale emergency medicine physician Dr. Anthony Cardillo and interventional cardiologist Dr. Amir Sadrzadeh Rafie, along with the hospitals ER and cardiology teams, for saving his life. The pain wasnt excruciating, it was just discomfort in my chest, Jacob adds. For a classic heart attack, you think of going to your knees, gasping for breath. It might be indigestion, might be heartburn. I thought, lets get back home to Glendale and see what happens. If I feel worse, Ill go to the ER. In retrospect, Jacob shudders at his decision to drive himself back to Glendale. "I was foolish," he says. Fortunately, he made the trip without further incident and arrived home safely. But when he was still feeling a tightness in his chest and asked his wife Armine what she thought, her response was immediate: Grab your things and get to the ER. Since joining the hospitals ER team 13 years ago, Dr. Cardillo has attended to thousands of patients with chest pains. Despite the patient's age and the fact that he didn't have any cardiovascular risk factors, and with a near normal ECG when he arrived in the ER, Dr. Cardillo astutely diagnosed Jacob with a heart attack. Jacob had suffered, in medical terms, a STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction). This is a very serious type of heart attack when at least one of the major coronary arteries that supplies blood to the heart is completely blocked. He was transferred immediately to the hospitals Cath Lab, Dr. Rafie and his team performed successful balloon angioplasty and stenting of Jacob's blocked coronary arteries. The hour-long procedure reopened blood flow to portions of the heart that were restricted. According to Dr. Rafie, there was 100 percent occlusion of one of the major coronary arteries. Jacob also had blockage of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery, known among cardiologists as a widow-maker, and at any moment he could be struck with another attack. The following afternoon, Jacob was discharged from the hospital to go home. To experience a massive heart attack, get that taken care of with four stents, and be checked out the next day like nothing had happened, it was incredible, Jacob adds. This entire experience was life-changing in many ways. Even within my circle of friends, there was like a shockwave. Everyone was in disbelief. Clearly, I owe everything to Dr. Cardillo. Dr. Rafie and the Adventist hospital staff. Jacob wants to share his story to help educate others. If this happens to you, dont be as foolish as I was, he says emphatically. I was lucky on a number of occasions that same day. It was like I hit the Lotto four times in a row!Compassionate, high-quality patient care; life-saving and life-preserving medical and surgical services; advanced treatments in a community-based hospital; essential emergency services-these are the reasons our donors choose Adventist Health Glendale as their charity of choice. For more information on the work that we do, visit us at www.adventisthealth.org/glendale/pages/our-foundation.aspx.

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