Rick Haines is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aultman Health Foundation. Serving in this role, Rick leads a fully integrated healthcare system, which includes Aultman Hospital; Aultman Deuble Heart and Vascular Hospital; Aultman Specialty Hospital; Aultman Orrville Hospital; Aultman Alliance Community Hospital; AultCare; and Aultman College.
With 1,032 beds, over 1,000 providers and a team of more than 7,000 employees, Aultman is Stark County’s largest provider of healthcare services and Stark County’s largest employer. Haines has more than 40 years of work and experience with the Aultman Health Foundation as he held positions at Aultman Hospital including personnel coordinator, director of budgeting, director of patient accounts and associate vice president of finance.
Prior to his current role, Haines served as the President and CEO of AultCare for 20 years. During his tenure, the company was named one of the Best Insurance Companies by U.S. News & World Report five times within six years for its Medicare Advantage (MA) Plan, PrimeTime Health Plan. The MA Plan also received a prestigious five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2017 and 2022.
Haines’ volunteer work includes past board chairmanships with the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce and Kent State University Stark. He also previously served on national boards for the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). As a long-time supporter of the local community, he and his wife, Vicki, led an annual fundraising campaign for United Way of Stark County. Haines holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from Kent State University.
This year’s Ohio Rotary Presidents-Elect (PETS) has chosen a very special group to support:
My Very Own Blanket is dedicated to warming the heart of every child in the foster care system and other youth in need with their own blanket, to give them a feeling of comfort, security, and most of all, a SMILE.
PETS has set a goal of Ohio Rotarians donating 16,000 blankets to be distributed to children throughout each district. We need your help to reach this goal!
How can you help?
1. Join us at our blanket-making event with our Interact Students on Wednesday, March 30th from 3:00-5:30 at the Canton Symphony Orchestra’s Zimmerman Center, located at McKinley High School where we will work together to make it easy to assemble fleece blankets from kits that the club has purchased.
2. Grab a kit to make at home! This is a great opportunity to get spouses, children, and grandchildren, neighbors, and friends involved with our project.
Kits will be available at Friday meetings, or if one needs to be dropped off to someone, email Jennie George or Rich Micelli and we can arrange to have a kit delivered. These blankets take about 60-90 minutes to make. Blankets are due by Friday, March 25th.
To sign up for the blanket day, to get a blanket kit, or for more information please contact Jennie George at jgeorge@cantoncpc.org or Rich Micelli at rmicelli@ymcastark.org
Last week was a special meeting for me. We had the honor of having 40 participants in person and on Zoom listening to Dr. Sarah Bolton from The College of Wooster provide some great insights into their college. Additionally, we were also joined from Cherkasy Ukraine on Zoom from my friend and fellow Rotary Past President Konstantin Salenko, Rotary President as he discussed the humanitarian issues currently taking place as his country fights for freedom and democracy. We raised some incredible funding for humanitarian aid. Come to the lunch this Friday and I’ll bring you up to speed on what your club accomplished. You are an amazing group!
Please don’t forget that we have a few other projects that are in play right now. The Spring Raffle is an essential fundraiser, and we are moving a bit sluggishly. Please jump in and help move this project along. We only have a couple of weeks left to hit our goal. Next on tap is the My Blanket project followed by the Pack the Bus in April.
At our meeting on Friday March 4, 2022, President Mark welcomed 39 Rotarians, both in person and on Zoom, plus guest, Emma George, Jennie George's daughter.
We had the distinct pleasure of hearing from not only Dr. Sarah Bolton, President of the College of Wooster, but also PP Konstantin Salenko of the Rotary Club of Cherkasy, Ukraine via Zoom.
Secretary Paula provided this info:
On This Date in History:
1789 – The U.S. Constitution went into effect as the governing law of the United States, the date having been established by Congress.
1887 – Helen Keller meets her teacher and “miracle worker”, Anne Sullivan.
1918 – Just before breakfast, Private Albert Gitchell of the U.S. Army reports to the hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of the cold-like symptoms of sore throat, fever and headache. Soon after, over 100 of his fellow soldiers had reported similar symptoms, marking what are believed to be the first cases in the historic influenza pandemic of 1918, later known as the Spanish flu.
1994 - The larger-than-life comedic star, John Candy, dies suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 43.
1966 – John Lennon makes his first of many controversial statements: “We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus”.
Rotary Fun Fact:
Rotary Club 29 of Oklahoma City is the largest club in the world with 615 full and 22 honorary members.
If you've ever attended our annual 4-Way Test Speech Competition at Canton Rotary, then you know what an AMAZING job these McKinley High School Speech & Debate Team members do applying the 4-Way Test! It really is a meeting NOT to be missed!
Well, we're happy to announce that this Competition is now BIGGER & BETTER!
First of all, there has been an addition of one more speaker to round us out at FOUR contestants.
Secondly, the Board has approved additional support of the program by increasing the prize money that the participants will receive:
1st place ……$300
2nd place…….$200
3rd place……. $100
4th place …….$100
Thirdly, the Board also approved an additional $300 to sponsor the McKinley speech team with their events. That totals up to $1,000 in additional support to this fine program and their excellent team members!
So, stay tuned for a new date, so you can plan to attend the Canton Rotary 4 – Way Test Competition between four McKinley Students, with the winner earning the right to represent us at District 6650 competition on April 2nd at the Fairways Golf Club in N. Canton.
These students are extremely well-trained by long-time coach, Manuel Halkias, and Kitty Burgett, and their teams consistently place at or near the top in state, local, and regional competitions.
You do NOT want to miss this chance to see these top-quality teen speakers at this meeting!
BTW…. I will need 3 judges to score their presentations. Please let me know if you are interested in helping! Jeff Scott
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