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Equipment and capital projects

 

Nambour Hospital          patients and families

Cost $

Thanks to

Block of land beside Nambour Hospital on which the Reed Charity Foundation is building a $2m accommodation facility to support patients of Nambour Hospital and their families. $600,000 Major donors to the Cancer Centre campaign and Wishlist bequest funds
Oral Health/School Dental Services    
3 Televisions and DVD players for waiting rooms at school clinics, plus educational and/or entertaining DVDs rated G $1,917
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
18 Sony walkmans for all vans and clinics, music programmed for all from primary to high schoolers $3,132 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Portable DVD player able to be used at vans. $89 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
2 Sony CD players with headsets $187 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Range of CDs and DVDs
$130 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Improving Oral Health Service delivery through Lean Thinking Principles $6,000  Wishlist

Cancer Centre Unit            Nambour Hospital

   
Refurbish area of Nambour Hospital and fit-out Cancer Centre with equipment and furnishings $1,400,000 Sunshine Coast community with major supporters including CADET Training and Employment 
Wall mounted flat screen for telemedicine unit $3,680 Rotary Club of Nambour and McDonalds Nambour
Microscope for laboratory $20,000 Wishlist Row For Cancer
Chester Chest mannequin   Zonta International Womens Day Breakfast 2007 & Pamper Packs from Indulge Magazine
Conference phone $1,200 Pantastic Steel Band Charity Night
TV Hire (per annum) $15,000 Wishlist's Cancer Centre fundraising 
Breastscreen Service    
Wheelchair  $475  
An outdoor tranquility garden for patients to relax $7,900 Chris McCormick's THE GOOD GUYS and United Way, Opera On Kings 2007 and Wishlist
Caloundra - Emergency    
TV, DVD for kid's room  and 2 portable pulse oximeters & 2 thermofocus thermometers $3,400 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
IV fluid and blood warmer $4,730  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Propaq monitor with paediatric attachments) LT - non-invasive monitoring $10,000 OOO Ball proceeds in 2006
Paed hand held blood pressure set - all cuffs $300 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Paed Entonox set for fracture reductions $1,300 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Broslow Paed Resusc Pack $3,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Emergency trolley $8,000 Heritage Building Society
Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course
$12,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Propaq monitor with paediatric attachments $32,000
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids (2004)
Transit Unit    
Scales, Manual BP Kit, ECG Machine, Spot Monitor and Spirometer including spirettes  $12,970 Wishlist
Child and Family Health Services    
CELF clinical Evauluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool $973
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Range of equipment, toys and learning aids $10,500
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Equipment/ Resources  $5,869  Wishlist 
Diabetes Unit    
Insulin Pump $8,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Administrative assistance with Diabetes Camps   Wishlist
Nambour Community Health    
Range of educational material and toys
$1,193
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
 Noosa Community Health    
Large Screen Plasma TV and portable CD player  $1,735 Wishlist
Continence Advisory Service / Paediatric Enuresis Clinic    
Toilet aids and paediatric tables and chairs
$3,200
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Paediatric educational resources (toileting dolls eg. Baby Born/puzzles/books) $1,500
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Speech Pathology Services    
Range of educationational material and toys $4,582
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Therapy Resources $1,500  Mix FM's GiveMe 5 for Kids
Paediatric Speech Pathology $3785  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Comprehensive Apahisa Test, Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding, The IFCE Picture Based Resources kit  $2,174  Wishlist 
Child Protection Liaison Unit    
Range of toys and educational material
$775
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Range of equipment and resource tools
$3,000
Buderim Pool Charity Swim 2005
Palliative Care Unit    

Client Biography Service

$4,790 Wishlist
Birth Suite    
3 neopuff resuscitators for existing resus cots
$4,155
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Large TV for inservice education
$200
Wishlist
Televisions and DVD for patient birth rooms
$2,400
Buderim Pool Charity Swim 2005
Maternity Ward    
CTG machine for emergency caesars in the operating suite $31,611 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids 
Giraffe Omnibed $60,129  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
3 x Masimo Pulse Oximeter and 2 upgrades of dash monitor $15,500 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
3 x Vital Signs Monitors $12,618 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Fridge freezer (IUFD / TOP patients) $255
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Lifepak 20 defibrillator $10,674
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Corner lounge
$1,000
Forget Me Not Impressions
4 sofa beds, corner lounge, maternity services booklets (1000) $4,750
Forget Me Not Impressions
8 Dopplers and thermometers $7,700 Wishlist
Bed rail protectors $160 Wishlist
Crockery $360 Wishlist
Furniture for lactation services
$1,200
Forget Me Not Impressions
Workshop on ventilation for SCN staff
$2,000
Forget Me Not Impressions
Chairs for nursing mothers in wards
$17,000
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Warmer - to warm clothings and blankets for neonates $7,500  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids 
Maternity ED    
Textbook of neonatal resuscitation
$802
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Neonatal resus delux instructor kit
$760
Maternity Education Fund - Wishlist
Special Care Nursery    
2 x air oxygen blenders
$5,576
Clubs Smile For A Child
Propac monitor for SCBU and Operating Suite $9,500  Wishlist
3 Printers for Dash machines @ $2,208 each $6,624
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
2 Dash machines (without stands) to complete open care monitoring system $12,435 each $24,870 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Oxygen monitors
$1,425
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Neonatal Ventilation workshop
$1,960
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
2 neopuff resus units
$2,770
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
2 bi-fold metal framed screens on wheels with material inserts $900 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
4 Laerdal Portable Suction Units (4)
$7,156
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
4 Gemini IMEDS with poles
$9,880
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Bili Blanket $5,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
2 air/oxygen blenders $5,576 Clubs Smile For A Child
Low Flow Oxygen Monitors
$1,700
FKP Constructions and Hotel Care Week
Paediatric Development Clinic & Early Intervention Clinic    
Range of toys, educational material
$4,947
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Toys for paediatric rooms  $685 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kdis
Antenatal Clinic    
Range of educational material and toys
$955
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Twin CTG machine
$10,780
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Screens
$1,445
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Curtains
$9,980
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Outreach antenatal: portable CTG monitor for clinics  $15,000  000 Ball & Buderim Aquatic Centre Charity Swim 2008 
Childbirth Education Classes    
Range of toys and educational material
$3,711
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Lactation Services    
Educational material
$3,211
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Emergency Department   Nambour Hospital    
Child Friendly Equipment $4,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Toys for patient treatment area
$2,000
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Large screen monitor and pendant system in paediatric resus bay in Emerg Dep Nambour - the pendant system is a purpose built resuscitation bay for child patients requiring emergency treatment.  It will have all state-of-the-art resus equipment within easy access of the staff which ultimately will mean less treatment and waiting time in the emergency unit of Nambour Hospital.  The large screen monitor will streamline processes for staff who currently view a lot of vital information about a critical patient on a very small screen. $34,200
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Intraosseous needle insertion kits and training equip. $2,165
Private donation to Wishlist
DVD/tv combo unit on trolley $550 Wishlist
Shelving Unit for records $209 Wishlist
Emergency Nursing Paediatric Course (ENPC) run by Australian College of Emergency Nursing (NSW) - 20 participants $24,100
Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
24 staff across the region's emergency and paed departments being trained as "super ventilators" on the new Wishlist-funded Babylog ventilator  $7,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Babylog ventilator  $40,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Childrens Ward    
Sofa beds beside kid's beds $7,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Child size splint packs $7,620 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Breast pump and stand $2,189  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Optiflow and blender system $3,108 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Paediatric ECG Machine $6,154 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Paediatric chair scales, Spenco mattress and a range of DVDs, games and toys $3,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Nursing baby and Vital Sim mannequin $7,442 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
TV Hire $47,500  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids 
Intensive Care Unit Nambour    

 

Transport monitor

 

$20,000

Duporth Tavern's Sportsmans Lunch November 2005/Reed Charity Foundation

Alcohol Tobacco & Other Drugs Service    
Staff training / meditation mats / mediation cushions/stools/supports $3,350 Wishlist
Mental Health service    
Sponsorship of the Fusion Festival October 2009 $8,080 Wishlist
"Healthy Habits" initiative for mental health patients including gym gear, membership etc through Extended Care team $19,000 Wishlist
Mental Health Inpatient Unit    
Quality improvements to the aesthetics and comfort of ward environment within mental health units  $13,750 Wishlist
Security Services                        Nambour Hospital    
LCD monitors to better monitor security cameras in carpark $673 Wishlist
Clinical Measurements    
2 Cardiac event monitors $5,990 Wishlist
Allied Health    
Men's Health Project $1,000 Wishlist
Resources $7,500  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Acute Pain Service    
6 epidural pumps $14,500 Wishlist
Caloundra Hospital    
Toys, toy box and games and child gowns for operating suite at Caloundra $2,000 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
2 wall mounted TVs, games and movies for outpatients department $2,300 Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids
Surgeon's headlamp and light source $6,500 Wishlist 
Rehab and Assessment Unit: funds for work shed, related tools, with installed power  $2,800  Wishlist 
Renal Unit: Hire of 12 TV's $5,040  Wishlist 
Renal Unit: 3 x portable DVD players, 1 x portable Pedal Machine $800  Wishlist 
SOPD: Playstation 2 Unit and games, small 22" TV  $800  Wishlist 
SOPD: 2 x wall-mounted flat screen TV's for patients in waiting room  $2,296  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids 
Hibiscus House    
Books for children, family & friends of Hibiscus House $500 Wishlist
New bus to transport residents $80,000 Wishlist
Bladder Scanner  $15,900  Hotel Care Week 2008 and Energex 
Film Projector - Basic Yamaha sound system package, DVD/VCR comb and optima projector  $1,862  Wishlist 
Wii Sport - therapy $509 Wishlist
Indigenous Health Program    
Young Murri Motheres Program - Healthy Lifestyle/ Eating Project $1,200 Wishlist
     
Falls Prevention    
Falls Prevention Suitcases $3,243 Wishlist
     
Ward 1D    
Hire of TV for patients of the ward $2,160  United Way programme through Chris McCormick's The Good Guys 2008
Geriatric Cognition Assessment Unit    
Bladder Scanner $14,500  Wishlist 
Medical Imaging     
Creatinine and GFR meter $5,881  Wishlist
Funding for puching of the Vision 2008 bundle/package  $41,250  Wishlist 
Logiqbook XP Ultrasound $49,500 Wishlist 
Physiotherapy    
Real Time Ultrasound  $12,705  Wishlist 
Caloundra Physiotherapy Rehabilititon Unit    
Wheelchairs $5,572 United Way programme through Chris McCormick's The Good Guys 09/10
LGE Ward     
LGE Courtyard Upgrade - shade sail $5,360 Wishlist 
Palliative Care     
2 Niki T34 Pumps  $4,600  Wishlist 
Library     
Electronic Books $15,000  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids 
Child Health on Sunshine Coast     
Bluetooth Microphone for cameras  $499  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids 
Operating Suite                 Nambour Hospital     
Plaster trolley for emergency theatre  $1,422  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids  
9 external computer speakers & 9 external harddrives  $2,115  Mix FM's Give Me 5 for Kids  
Ward 2G     
Production of booklets and books for demtia carers  $2,500  Wishlist 
Pet Theraputic Program for CAMU patients  $200  Wishlist 
Social Work     
Social work brochure for Renal Dialysis patients  $1,000  Wishlist 
Juvenile Diabetes  $80,000  Focus of funds raised by the inaugural Sunshine Coast Wishlist Spring Racing Carnival Lunch on September 18 
Community Health Centres     
Installation of video conferencing equipment at Noosa, Nambour and Calounda Community Health Services  $42,000  Wishlist 
Ward 2B     
Equipment for nursing the delirious older patient  $25,000  Wishlist 
Cardiac Care Unit  
Treating Your Angina leaflets $528 Wishlist 
RMO on Call Rooms    
Contribution to the refurbishment of rooms  $1,000 Wishlist 
Sunshine Coast District     
Fit-out of Scenario Based Learning Centre at Nambour Hospital  $150,000 Wishlist
Assistant Nurses to Enrolled Nurses  $39,120  Wishlist 
Education to support a Train the Trainer mode of education and support $6000  Wishlist
Research
 

The Wishlist spent $49,633 on local research projects in 2009. 

A further $15,381 was provided since.

 We previously purchased a $20,000 microscope for the Cancer Centre at 

Nambour Hospital, with proceeds of the 2006 Wishlist Row For Cancer.

 

 

 

 

 

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