Welcome to The Mount Forest Louise Marshall Hospital Foundation
We are so close! Take a look below for the 2 projects amounting to $24,000 still outstanding. If you can help in some way, please contact our office soon. We would like to start 2012 with a brand new equipment request list with no carry-overs.
In 2011, The Mount Forest Louise Marshall Hospital Foundation accepted the challenge to purchase over $400,000 in equipment. Keeping our hospital well-equipped provides all of us living in the area of Mount Forest ON with top health care while allowing us services close to home.
Thanks to the generosity of individuals and groups, financial support from friends like you has helped us already meet the financing of over half of these projects.
Two lists below explain what still needs to be funded and what has been funded.
Still Needs Funding in 2011
2 Alaris Pumps - inpatients ($7,500 each) Procedure Chair - ambulatory care ($9,000)
Funding or Committed Projects
The Mount Forest Thrift shop provided funding for the following: Ice Maker - inpatients ($4,500) Digital Respirometry - inpatients ($3,000), Doppler with Venous Transducer - inpatients ($3,000), Triple Warming Pod - emergency room ($4,500), and Industrial Refrigerator - support service ($6,000).
Estate of W L Ferguson provided funding for an Ice Maker Dispenser - cafeteria ($5,000)
Estate of E Hockridge provided funding for the following: Patient Beds & Furniture - inpatients, ($50,000), Transcutaneous Bilimeter - obstetrics ($9,000) and Zimmer Tourniquet - operating room ($20,000)
The CKNX Health Care Heroes Radiothon is committed to fund $100,000 for a Nurse Call System
Walk For Cancer Care will consider funding $10,000 for Specialty Surfaces-Therapy Mattresses
The Mary Lynne Forrest Golf Tournament committed to fund $63,000 for 3 Monitor Defibrulators
The Mount Forest Thrift Shop purchased an Isolette ($20,000)
Readathon with St Mary's Catholic School students and Solowave employees has funded the purchase of a Pediatric Scale valued at $4,500
Branston Family has provided $3,000 for a Kangaroo Feeding Pump
Royal Canadian Legion Grant if attained is earmarked to fund $12,000 for a Telemetry Unit with SP02 capability
Estate of Dorothy J Elliott has funded the purchase of operating room equipment valued at $22,000
Estate of Lloyd Bradley when received will fund four projects needed in the operating room, housekeeping and support service valued at $50,000
Designated Memorial Gifts received will fund cancer patient care and oncology department needs
Undesignated Memorial and Honour Gifts and other gifts received will fund training and installation of equipment
Every year, surgical procedures performed by seven medical specialists and local physicians required the use of Louise Marshall Hospital's operating room. Replacement and addition of this equipment means thousands of local residents will continue to receive these procedures close to home.
The Foundation Board applauds Mount Forest and area for this tremendous show of support to keep the Louise Marshall Hospital operating room and oncology unit functional in order to serve family, friends and neighbours of this community. Thanks so very much.
For more Radiothon details and photos check out the Radiothon link on this web site. The 10th Annual CKNX Health Care Heroes Radiothon took place on October 15, 2011.
