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Campaign Launch: Our Health Our Hospital, Our Future Each year for the Vital Signs Campaign, a list of priority medical equipment is identified and approved by the Medical Advisory Board. This year the list of needed medical equipment totals $753,800. Because PCH requires this new equipment to continue providing quality care to Islanders the hospital foundation will need the help of the communities PCH serves. PCH has been serving Islanders for nearly a century. For many years now, raising funds for new medical equipment has been and continues to be, the exclusive responsibility of our communities. The generosity extended each year throughout our Island communities has enabled us to bring good health to life here at PCH Foundation. Last year alone, many generous supporters helped raise the largest campaign goal in our history, a large part of which was a new Digital mammography Unit, which is now in place and operating at PCH. This year in our Vital Signs Annual Equipment Campaign we are raising funds for new scopes for the Endoscopy Unit in Ambulatory Care. Both colonoscopes and gastroscopes are needed at a total cost of $125,000. Over 3500 patients were received endoscopy procedures last year alone. As Marilla Millar will attest, scopes save lives. The new … View full news story.
Grant Thornton Returns as Par Sponsor Grant Thornton partners Blair Dunn, left and Peter Murray, right present the Grant Thornton of Summerside’s donation of $1000 to Margo Thompson of the PCH Foundation’s Golf Committee. Grant Thornton has come on board to support the Prince County Hospital Foundation Women’s Golf Classic. Their gift makes them the sponsor of the “10th Hole Social” which will take place at the Stanley Bridge Country Resort following the tournament.
Answering the Call…Bell Aliant Sponsors Golf The Prince County Hospital Foundation is proud to announce Bell Aliant as the Eagle Sponsor for the Second Annual Women’s Golf Classic. Bruce Howatt, Vice President of PEI for Bell Aliant, far right, and Anne Marie Ellis, Executive Assistant at Bell Aliant, far left, present $2500 to Heather Matheson, PCH Foundation Managing Director, second from left and Josette Martin, participant, in support of this tournament Their donation will provide prizes such as gloves, golf balls and tees. This will help to ensure the foundation can devote all funds raised to new gastroscopes and colonoscopes for PCH. The Women’s Golf Classic will take place on September 25th at Red Sands Golf Club in Clinton.
McInnes Cooper Presents the Second Annual Womens Golf Classic McInnes Cooper Presents the Second Annual Womens Golf Classic
What is Ambulatory Care? John Campbell says visiting ambulatory care allowed him to receive needed treatment while avoiding a hospital stay. “We can drop in and we don’t have to be here all day,” said Campbell in an interview this year. The Linkletter man (Pictured with nursing grad Erica Jones) had been receiving IV medications periodically. These treatments are one of the services available at the ambulatory care unit at Prince County Hospital in Summerside. Ambulatory care is care delivered on an outpatient basis. The department was the first of its kind on P.E.I. The need is increasing. Trends for day procedures have increased to the point where much equipment purchased for the hospital over the past three years has been dedicated to this unit — over $530,000 worth since 2006. This year, the need for this unit will reach a record high of $241,300. The department, the first visible after entering the lobby, is critical to the well being of our communities. Anyone needing an endoscopy procedure, chemotherapy or IV medication will access ambulatory care. Many health problems do not require hospital admission and can be managed on an ambulatory basis, including blood tests, endoscopy, IV infusions, electrocardiograms, vacuum assisted closures and even … View full news story.
Gladiator Golf On Monday, June 22nd, 2009 the Prince County Hospital Foundation will host their first annual Gladiator Golf event to help purchase an ECG cart for the Ambulatory Care unit at Prince County Hospital. A volunteer team of four “gladiators” has accepted the challenge to golf 108 holes and be part of the “longest day of golf” event at the Summerside Golf and Country Club. In 2009, the PCH Foundation aspires to raise over $753,000 for medical equipment. The Ambulatory Care unit, responsible for the care of over 12,000 patients last year, requires an ECG cart valued at $15,000.00. This key piece and a host of others are all part of an annual campaign that equals over $241,000.00 in this department alone. Our “gladiator” goal for this new golf initiative is to raise both awareness and the funds necessary to purchase this important health care item for our hospital…and we need your help. Prince County Hospital treats thousands of Islanders each year and your help matters to each of them. Please help us raise the funds needed for medical equipment this year, by pledging a gift today. And remember, for every $10 you pledge, you are entered in our Grand Prize … View full news story.
National Bank of Canada Pledges $4500 Summerside National Bank branch manager Mark MacAusland, centre, and Dallas Kelly Commercial Banking-Agribusiness manager with National Bank, right, recently presented Percy Affleck, of Prince County Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors, with a gift of $4500. National Bank has pledged to make this gift over the next 3 years to the PCHF’s annual equipment campaign.
Front Desk Volunteers Win Harry T. Holman Award Summerside, PE The Harry T. Holman Award is presented annually by the Prince County Hospital Foundation “to a volunteer or a volunteer group who has made a significant contribution to Prince County Hospital and the people it serves.” The award is named for Harry T. Holman Jr., a well-known Summerside merchant who devoted countless volunteer hours to Prince County Hospital, and served as the president of its board for 20 years. When the Award was first presented in 1984, it was most fitting that the first recipient was Harry T. Holman himself. This year, the PCH Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Harry T. Holman Award are the Front Desk Hospitality Volunteers. When you enter the Prince County Hospital you are first greeted by the smiling faces of our Front Desk Hospitality Volunteers. Their helpful ways and pleasant demeanors have graced PCH for over 11 years ago. Since that time, patients and visitors have been greeted upon entry and assisted in their needs at PCH. Over 200 volunteers have been trained for this role with a total of 46,000 volunteer hours committed to date. Volunteer Services Coordinator Deanna Heckbert says, “Volunteers offer direction and support but … View full news story.
Digital Mammography in Place Recently, 3 crates, 2 pallets and several boxes arrived at Prince County Hospital. Inside those boxes were the hopes and dreams of a brighter future. The much touted Digital Mammography Unit has arrived and the future has become the present. For much of 2008 we talked about the difference this piece of technology will make for Island women. Now it is time to make those dreams a reality. Our caring communities, the PEI Government, and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation all pitched in to ensure that patients at PCH have access to the best breast cancer screening equipment. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, in late April the new mammography unit was operational and screening began. Photo: Mammography Coordinator Heather Bulger assists patient Marlene McNeill with the very first Digital Mammogram performed at PCH and on PEI.
Ambulatory Care…A Step in the Right Direction Marcia Leard, Clinical Leader in Ambulatory Care, left, sits with Priscilla Pollock, a patient using the VAC wound therapy system. Priscilla is one of over 12,000 Islanders who visited the Ambulatory Care Unit at Prince County Hospital last year (not including the oncology unit). This year, as part of the Vital Signs Annual Equipment Campaign Ambulatory Care needs $241,300 worth of equipment, including key items such as ECG carts, IV pumps, colonoscopes and a gastroscope. Since the new Prince County Hospital opened 5 years ago, the number of procedures performed in Ambulatory Care has steadily risen. This year improvements to the much used equipment in Ambulatory Care are …a step in the right direction.