JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, who recently retired from Johnson & Johnson as corporate vice president and chief global diversity officer, has donated $1 million toward the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro.
Heisen, a trustee of the hospital, now is a resident of Princeton, but during her time at Johnson & Johnson she served as CIO and was the first woman to be named to the company’s executive committee.
According to PHCS Foundation vice president Joseph Stampe, the donation will, at Heisen’s request, support the infusion suite in the new hospital’s Center for Cancer Care. The suite is to be named in honor of Heisen, whose father died of cancer when she was 9 years old.
Princeton Healthcare’s Design for Healing campaign is hoping to raise $115 million in support of the new hospital at Route 1 and Scudders Mill Road. The hospital is expected to open in late 2011 as a replacement hospital for the current University Medical Center of Princeton. Counting Heisen’s gift, the campaign has raised $91 million.
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Having too many friends who have needed infusions to counter cancer, I can think of no more inspired and humane gift than Ms. Heisen's. How splendid to turn her own loss into a blessing for others.
Posted: 01/13/2010 1:08 pm by Carolyn Foote EdelmannAs a founder of Princeton's Cool Women Poets, and member of US 1 Poets Cooperative and Delaware Valley Poets, I have also read an heard any number of POWERFUL poems on the infusion experience.
When the Infusion Suite and new Center for Cancer Care are launched, a poetry contest and reading by chosen writers would be a most effective tribute to survivors and those who not ultimately fortunate.
At least we know, at this new Princeton facility, gentleness and kindness will mitigate some of the anguish of dianosis, treatment and cure.
Carolyn Edelmann