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Examples of Funded Programs and Services


  1. Alzheimer Caregiver Program
  2. Art posters for patient rooms
  3. Arts & crafts supplies for pediatric oncology
  4. Bicycle safety education program
  5. Blanket warmer for bone marrow transplant patients
  6. Bone Marrow Transplant volunteer tissue typing
  7. Brain injury information booklets
  8. Cancer Survivors Day Celebrations
  9. Cardiothoracic surgery patient education programming
  10. Cherished Portraits program, a free service for families of children with life threatening illnesses, at end of life, or who have had a child die.
  11. Computers for patients on ventilators in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
  12. Critical care ambulance
  13. E-mail a Patient program
  14. Emergency Treatment Center Teen drinking/driving education program
  15. Eyeglass cases for ambulatory surgery patients
  16. Furry Friends - Certified Dog and Family Pet Visitation Programs
  17. Geriatric nursing fall protection programming
  18. Geriatric psychiatry activity room
  19. Heartbeats hospital choir music and supplies
  20. Helen K. Rossi Volunteer Guest House
  21. "Here's Looking at Me" program
  22. Hope Lodge
  23. Hospital tutoring program
  24. Hydrotherapy shower cart for burn patients
  25. Incentive prizes and waiting room toys for pediatric radiology
  26. Labor & Delivery family visitor waiting area
  27. "Look Good, Feel Better" program
  28. Medical Intensive Care Unit Waiting Room
  29. Memories Video Program for patients with life-threatening illnesses
  30. Mother's Milk Bank
  31. Music system for MRI patients
  32. New Ronald McDonald House van
  33. Nursing Clinical Education Center Library
  34. Palliative Care Unit furnishings
  35. Parent Connection and neonatal reunions
  36. Patient needlecraft supplies
  37. Patients' Library support
  38. Pediatric clothes closet
  39. Instruments and music library for Music Therapy program
  40. Player piano for main lobby
  41. Reach Out And Read program
  42. Reading materials for Day of Surgery lounge
  43. Recliner chairs for renal patients
  44. Relaxation system for burn patients
  45. Ronald McDonald House remodel
  46. Scholarships for Speech Camp
  47. Scholarships for Junior and College student volunteers
  48. Sleep kits for "Hush campaign" pilot
  49. Snacks for the Day of Surgery lounge
  50. Socks and stuffing to make sock monkey dolls for pediatric patients
  51. Staffed bus trip for Pulmonary Rehab patients
  52. Statewide poison control 800 number
  53. STAXI wheelchairs house-wide
  54. Surgical Intensive Care Unit waiting area remodel
  55. Teaching folders for surgical patients
  56. Touching Hearts pediatric bereavement programming
  57. Turbans for patients with hair loss and neurosurgery craniotomy patients
  58. TV's for each patient station in Dialysis
  59. Web TV for Bone Marrow Transplant patients
  60. Weekly patient Bingo programming
  61. White boards for communication at patient bedside

 

 

Last modification date: Tue Sep 22 10:39:13 2009
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