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What Your Gift Supports
The Valley Hospital Foundation supports The Valley Hospital and Valley Home Care. Your donation can be given “unrestricted,” meaning the Foundation can determine the greatest need at a given time. Donors can also designate their gift to a specific clinical service at The Valley Hospital and Valley Home Care.
At the Hospital:
Rapid response and skill in assessing and acting in life-threatening situations are the hallmarks of Valley’s Mobile Intensive Care Unit, which in 2004 responded to 7,200 calls. The MICU acts as an Emergency Department in the field, treating and stabilizing patients in critical situations. Valley has four MICU vehicles, of which 2 are on duty at all times. This year a gift to Valley’s Annual Fund will help replace two vehicles with fully equipped new ones, complete with the latest equipment, including 12 lead EKG technology.
In 2004, more than 5,700 lifesaving procedures were performed in Valley’s four Cardiac Catherization Laboratories, where interventional cardiologists diagnose and treat cardiac artery disease minimally invasively. Valley’s four Cardiac Catherization Laboratories are taxed beyond their capacity. Your gift to Valley can help to provide two new, state of the art Cardiac Cath Labs, as well as to replace the technology in two of the existing labs.
More than 3,200 babies are born at Valley each year and approximately 12% of them spend some time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU.) A team of four neonatologists care for between 12 and 20 infants every day. The unit currently has 15 beds and an isolation room. Having up-to-date equipment is essential for this unit. The number of babies admitted to the NICU has increased steadily. New bassinets, respirators and a new central monitoring system are needed. Your contribution can help give a tiny patient a good start in life.
At Valley Home Care:
The journey through loss and grief is difficult and lonely. Children and adolescents need a safe place to express the grief, anger and fear related to loss -- thereby developing important coping skills. The Journeys program works with children and adolescents age 3 through 17 who are affected by the serious illness or the death of a loved one.
Children who have been diagnosed with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses need special attention so they can enjoy the pleasures of everyday living. Valley Home Care’s Butterflies Program provides comprehensive home care and palliative care services for children and adolescents, and their families. The Butterflies team delivers hospice care to the child and specialized bereavement services for parents and siblings after the death of the child. Medicaid and private insurance do not fully cover the operating costs of this program, making it necessary to seek donations.
Valley Hospice provides care at home to persons who are terminally ill. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death but affirms life, emphasizing quality through symptom control provided by an interdisciplinary team. Hospice empowers patients to live their lives to the end with dignity and comfort while involving families and loved ones in providing care. Private donations are important in order to continue to provide our high quality of care. Gifts can also be made in honor of or as a memorial to a loved one.
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