Eating disorders platform a natural fit for non-profit behavioral health provider

Town of Summit, Wisc. – Kirsten Haglund, 2008 Miss America, will speak at the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s 2008 Annual Benefit.

During her presentation, Haglund will demonstrate how she has helped raise awareness of the pervasive 

and deadly nature of eating disorders. She will also reflect on her own personal recovery from an eating disorder. 

In the United States, nearly 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting a life and  death battle with an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia. Millions more are struggling with binge eating disorder.

The eating disorders platform correlates with Rogers Memorial’s highly-specialized, intensive eating disorders treatment services. Rogers Memorial offers a full continuum of eating disorders treatment for males, females, adolescents and adults with co-occurring anxiety disorders and employs over 70 eating disorders professionals in its treatment programs.

The Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s 2008 annual benefit will be held on November 8, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Milwaukee. 

The 2008 Annual Benefit will also include a cocktail reception, dinner, silent and live auctions, the presentation of the foundation’s annual “Spirit of Giving” award.  Proceeds from this event will be used to support the patients and programs of Rogers Memorial Hospital. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation at 262-646-1343.

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W. Carl Templer accepts honors for more than 15 years of leadership and service

Town of Summit – The Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) has given a 2008 Trustee Award to W. Carl Templer, Board President of Rogers Memorial Hospital from 1993 to 2008 and current president of the Rogers Behavioral Health System Board.

Templer accepted the award during the Annual WHA Awards Dinner in Green Bay on Sept. 18.

Templer said he was “both humbled and proud” that the WHA selected him as a recipient of the 2008 Trustee Award. “I am humbled because my time with Rogers Memorial has been only a small portion of the institution’s century-long history; I am proud because this recognition shows how far we’ve come.”

The WHA Trustee Award is given to trustees of WHA-member organizations who have made an exemplary commitment to their hospital and to the community they serve.

“Rogers Memorial Hospital’s passions remain intensely focused on bringing the best quality mental health care to most people. Through our partnerships and consulting relationships with several hospital systems, Rogers Memorial Hospital now provides over 45 percent of all of the state’s inpatient mental health care. These partnerships are important keys to the integration of high-quality behavioral treatment into the traditional health care space,” said Templer.

“Carl’s support and passion has clearly been one of the keys to Rogers Memorial Hospital’s growth and development,” said Rogers Memorial President and CEO David L. Moulthrop. “Carl’s support was instrumental in taking us from being that ‘little hospital in the woods’ and helping us become a major player in Wisconsin’s health care community.”

Templer works full-time as the President of Templer Communications & Consulting, Inc., a marketing communications and management company serving business to business and municipal clients, but he’s also a full-time member of Rogers Memorial Hospital’s Governing Board.

“I can count on Carl’s support for just about anything I could ask of him,” said Marion Heinz, the executive director of Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation, the non-profit behavioral health system’s fundraising wing. “He just ‘gets it,’ she said. “His passion is hope, help and healing, and it’s no wonder that those passions are the very passions that drive those of us at Rogers Memorial Hospital,” Heinz said.

“This is more than just business to Carl. This is about saving lives and changing lives.”

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