By Kayla Price, Executive Director, Hopkins County Healthcare Foundation
Sulphur Springs, Texas – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation is offering a huge thank you to the local community for its support of this year’s Snowflake Campaign! The campaign raised over $7,500 and recognized over 75 individuals with snowflakes.
As a means of saying “thank you,” the Foundation is using funds raised through the Snowflake Campaign as well as a matching gift of $10,000 from the CHRISTUS Foundation and a $7,700 gift from the health care providers to purchase one new state-of-the-art critical care bed to be used by CHRISTUS Mother Frances – Sulphur Springs’ ICU department.
“We are so excited to have this new bed in ICU! This bed really helps patients to heal and improves outcomes. Thank you to the Foundation and all the donors who have made this possible,” shared Alyssa Flatt, ICU director of CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs.
This new bed will provide the latest technology for patient care and safety. Not only does it protect the patient by reducing bedsores and fall risks, but it also keeps both patient and hospital associate safe by aiding with turning and repositioning of the patient. In addition, it helps to calm the patient by playing music, and it can speak to the patient in 26 languages.
The Foundation will continue to raise funds for four additional critical care beds. CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs is also purchasing five new beds so that all ten ICU rooms will feature a new critical care bed.
Foundation Board Chair Maleta Reynolds offered her appreciation to the community for its support. “No matter how great our needs have been the past twenty-five years, the citizens of Hopkins County have provided funds and encouragement. Thank you to those who donated to the Snowflake Campaign this year. Each of those gifts has made this new ICU bed possible.”
The Stryker Critical Care Bed normally costs $34,900 each, however CMFH-SS was able to negotiate a discount bringing the cost to $21,900 each. With the funds raised through the Snowflake Campaign, the matching gift and the health care providers donation, Hopkins County citizens will benefit from a new ICU bed.
If you are interested in donating toward the purchase of the remaining four critical care beds, please contact the Hopkins County Health Care Foundation, an IRS 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization, at 903-438-4799.
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