How Your Support Helps
Our Wish List ranges from funding innovative medical research to purchasing vital equipment and upgrading services, your support will change the lives of Sunshine Coast patients and their families.
Under $5,000
Accommodate a Family
Make a very real difference to families facing a health crisis. You can help a family stay together by providing a night’s stay at a Wishlist accommodation facility. Cost: $80 per night.
Wishlist WiFi
Wishlist WiFi is available throughout SCUH to benefit patients and improve their hospital experience. Funding of $1,200 per year supports the maintenance and operation of this service.
Delta Therapy Dog Program
Pet therapy touches humans psychologically, physically, mentally and emotionally. Fund a therapy dog for a year for just $1000.
Under $10,000
One-armed Wheelchairs
Loss of movement impacts physically and psychologically. The SCUH Rehabilitation Unit urgently need 2 one-armed wheelchairs ($7,070 each) to give patients the ability to move towards companionship, a glass of water or to sit in the sunshine without having to wait for busy nursing staff.
Priority items over $10,000
Biplane Unit
Did you know 1 in 4 people will suffer a stroke in their lifetime? And the Sunshine Coast is one of Queensland's busiest stroke units? With your help, we can fund a life changing medical device - a 3D imaging machine called a Biplane Unit. This machine will help establish the region's first clot-retrieval service, sparing patients the journey to Brisbane for time-critical treatment. Your donation will give stroke and brain aneurysm patients the best chance for recovery. Every minute counts, every dollar counts.
MRI-Compatible Ventilator
An MRI-compatible Hamilton ventilator is needed for newborn babies at SCUH in the Neonatal Unit. This equipment on the Coast would enable babies younger than six months to receive an MRI locally, rather than transporting critically ill or vulnerable newborns to Brisbane. $85,000.
Dad’s Group
An innovative program to operate out of Wishlist Centre to combat isolation amongst new fathers. Dad’s experience perinatal anxiety and depression too. Supporting new dads also supports their families and ultimately contributes to health child development and addressing broader social issues such as isolation.
Gympie Patient Transport
Lessen the stress and burden of travelling long distances for specialist appointments. Help fund our Patient Transport Service connecting Gympie Hospital patients with specialists at SCUH and Nambour Hospital. Cost: $256,000 for two years.
Youth Support Program
Did you know approximately 20 percent of adolescents are estimated to have a chronic physical, developmental, behavioural, or emotional condition? Wishlist needs donations to fund an Adolescent and Young Adult Care project to improve the health of more than 120 young people aged 12-25 each year through the delivery of a Chronic illness Peer Support program. Cost: $97,513
Bust the Boredom
Our youngest patients sometimes need to wait for up to two hours at SCUH to see their treating doctor or specialist in an outpatient setting. We need your help to install an interactive screen to keep children calm and distracted before their appointment. Cost: $67,000 for two interactive units.
Calm Fairies
The Calm Fairy helps anxious kids feel safe and calm in hospital. Ongoing funding is needed at $13,000 per year.
Music Therapy
Music soothes the soul. Ongoing funding is needed to continue this program for palliative patients and create a lasting memory for families. Cost: $43,000 per year.
Clown Doctors
Bring laughter and smiles to sick children at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. Help continue this $200,800 program.
You or your business can sponsor a local research project and be kept up to date with the project progression and have the researcher provide regular updates to you, your team and your supporters. Email us at info@wishlist.org.au to find out more
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