Our Wish List
Wishlist is committed to improving local public health services, and one way we do this is through our Wish List. Our goal is to find donors who will fund the equipment and service support needs on this list.
Have a look at our current Wish List below. Many of the equipment funding applications we have placed on the most recent Wish List are needed for Gympie Hospital, so we need the Gympie public and hospital staff to rally in gathering contacts who can help fund these items.
| Area Requesting | Description | Total Cost |
| Kawana Waters State College | DRUMBEAT - Building resilience in Young people for Later Life. | $20,000 |
| Gympie Dept of Emergency | Blood Warmer | $3,550 |
| Gympie & Nambour Emergengy Dept | Improving access to mental health service for Gympie consumers through use of videoconferencing. | $22,100 |
| Cardiac Investigation Unit | Purchase of respiratory function lab | $80,000 |
| Cardiac Investigation Unit, Nambour | Specialised computer software and hardware to reduce the wait time for holter monitoring within the current service offered by CIU and to enable expansion to support a remote cardiology service at Gympie hospital. | $35,496.62 |
| SOPD Gympie | Equipment | $21,000 |
| Extended Services Unit | Quality Palliative Care | $26,496 |
Here is an amazing recent example of how our Wish List works:
Early in 2011, the District Director of paediatrics at Nambour General Hospital applied to Wishlist for $36,000 to fund Diversional Therapy (including music therapy, yoga and play sessions) for patients of the Children’s Ward, as having qualified therapists attend the ward works to reduce anxiety and insomnia for children facing ongoing medical treatment and help the healing process through gentle physical activity.
We placed this funding request on our Wish List, and Woolworths quickly came on board through their Woolworths Children’s Hospital Appeal, giving Wishlist $21,000 to direct to the Children’s Ward at NGH.
We’d also dedicated the $6,500 raised from the PJT Charity Bowls Day 2011 and funds raised from the Rock the District Hospital Staff concert towards the initiative, so along with Woolworths’ contribution had $30,500 towards funding the diversional therapy.
When we wrote to thank Woolies for their generous $21,000 contribution and informed them that with their donation we now had nearly enough to fund the initiative, we immediately got this reply from Michael Muller of Woolworths:
“We can't see the program ‘nearly’ funded, so let's just say our contribution this year will be $26,500, and then along with the other fundraisers you have had, the program should be fully funded.” Needless to say, we are thrilled and so grateful to our local Woolworths stores for their incredible generosity, and happy to anounce the Diversional Therapy has just begun at Nambour Hospital.
How can you help?
Every donation of $2.00 or more is fully tax deductible!
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