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.
• 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.
• 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)