Your Gifts at Work
2023
- Cancer Fund: Provides cancer patients in need additional assistance in
the form of nutrition during treatment, and other medical-related needs
such as wigs, prosthesis, radiation wraps, cancer patient care bags. Funds
supplies for cancer prevention and education activities such as free cancer
screening events (i.e., colon & breast cancer). Supports the LCMHS
Annual Cancer Survivors Event on June 4, 2023, Annual Camp Bluebird (a
support group & counseling camp for survivors) on Oct 12-14, 2023,
and the new Get Pampered, Feel Pretty classes for our cancer patients.
- Heart Fund: Dental extraction assistance for TAVR patients
- Trauma Fund: Launched the Trauma Center’s Injury Prevention &
Community Outreach Program which includes includes prevention awareness
and outreach programs such as the Annual Trauma Symposium for medical
professionals, the Sudden Impact Initiative (a 360-degree safety program
for high school students) that includes an on-campus mock crash, a tour
of the LCMHS Emergency Dept and Trauma Center, and a mock trial experience),
Stop the Bleed Classes (a life-saving technique: how to apply a tourniquet
and pack a wound) and a National Board-Certified Trauma Nursing Prep Course.
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Women & Children’s Fund:
- Six (6) additional NicView cameras for the NICU Department
- A Mother (“Noelle”) & Infant (“Super Tory”)
Simulation Lab for advanced NICU and Family Birth Center nurse training.
- Alan LeBato LSU Resident Fund: Three (3) Butterfly Ultrasound Devices.
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Unrestricted Fund:
- A “Life Leisure” Activity Station in our Independence Walk
Area for rehab patients
- Three (3) Nintendo Switch packages for use of our pediatric patients.
- Aileen & Hazel Dyer Scholarship Fund: 2 scholars awarded - (1) Radiology
and (1) Nursing.
Because of your generous donations in 2021, the Foundation was able to
provide funding for:
- Vital Care stimulation machine used to help patients that have had a stroke,
traumatic brain injury, Bell’s Palsy, Parkinson’s, and other
neuromuscular conditions
- Rhinolarynzed scope for head and neck exams for throat cancer
- Pero System that produces a highly accurate measurement of extremities
for breast cancer related lymphedema or leg edema in cardiac patients
- (2) Echocardiography beds for cardiology patients
- Transportation gas cards for the under-served cancer patients to pay for
travel to and from treatment
- (300) Cancer care bags given to all patients receiving chemo and radiation treatment
- Therapeutic painting sessions for breast cancer patients and survivors
- (125) Care packs for breast cancer patients at the time of diagnosis
- New tools for Independence Walk and inpatient rehab
- Treatment chair for venipuncture procedures
- Two-step weight bearing platform for orthopedics
- Combination bike and upper body ergometer for outpatient rehab
- Formation of the Nursing Excellence Fund for expanded professional development
- Professional development for nursing staff: Emergency Nurses Association
National Conference and CCRN specialty certification course for twenty
nurses in critical care units.
- Scholarship for a McNeese nursing student
- Enhanced technology and equipment for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)