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 and Gympie patients and their families.
Over $50
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.
Wishlist Therapy Dogs
Pet therapy touches humans psychologically, physically, mentally and emotionally. Fund a Wishlist Therapy Dog for a year for just $2,500.
Under $10,000
Improving Cultural Safety in CYMHS Waiting and Clinic Rooms
Help create more welcoming, culturally inclusive spaces for children and young people accessing mental health care at The Hub, Maroochydore. Guided by consultation with Cultural Healing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teams, improvements to waiting and clinic rooms will help young people feel safer, more comfortable and supported to engage in care. Illustration only.
Cost: $4,550.80
Lactation Clinic Breast Feeding Chairs
Many mothers struggle with breastfeeding after leaving hospital. Our Lactation Clinics provide vital support, but current seating limits comfort and positioning. With your help, we can fund specialised feeding chairs to improve outcomes for mothers and babies across the Sunshine Coast.
Cost: $4,876
Cancer Care Patients Financial Hardship Through Treatment
For people facing cancer and severe financial hardship, paying for food or transport can become a barrier to treatment. Your donation will provide food and fuel vouchers to patients assessed by hospital social workers, helping ease financial pressure and support access to essential care.
Cost: $5,000
Replacement Outdoor Furniture for Waratah Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit
Cost: $5,771.70
Paediatric Acute Emergency Management Plan
Children with rare or complex medical conditions need emergency care tailored to their needs. Your support will help make their individual care plans readily available through hospital electronic records and train staff to use them, giving treating teams timely access to critical information when it matters most.
Cost: $7,000
Enhancing Staff Wellbeing Through Outdoor Space Development
Help transform an underused outdoor area into a welcoming space where hospital staff can take a break and connect with colleagues. Thoughtful design, more greenery and improved comfort will create a more inviting environment to support the wellbeing of the people who care for our community. Illustration only.
Cost: $9,992.15Priority items under $50,000
Vein Finder and Stand
For patients with hard-to-find veins, inserting an IV can mean repeated attempts, pain and anxiety. Help fund a vein finder and stand for Ward 3C and the same-day treatment area at Sunshine Coast University Hospital, supporting staff to locate veins and reducing the distress of difficult IV insertion.
Cost: $10,370
LymphaTouch Pro for Lymphoedema Patients
After cancer treatment, patients live with painful swelling and limited movement. The LymphaTouch Pro can change that, reducing discomfort and restoring function. Your donation can bring this life-changing therapy to patients who currently go without in our public health service.
Cost: $11,525
Paediatric Development Pharmacist
Funding a Senior Pharmacist to carefully review medications for children with complex medical issues, freeing up doctors to see more patients and reducing overall wait times.
Cost: $35,700
Clinical Education Tech Upgrade
After eight years, we’re replacing our iSimulate patient simulators with new technology, including two advanced tablets that create lifelike medical scenarios. This upgrade will enhance training for our healthcare professionals and improve patient safety.
Cost: $23,500
Transforming Lives with Robotics
Help us bring a ReJoyce Workstation to Nambour Hospital’s Day Rehabilitation Unit. This advanced robotic device boosts upper limb rehabilitation, offering scalable, intensive therapy that improves patient outcomes. By combining robotics with traditional therapy, it enhances patient engagement and frees up therapists to do what they do best.
Cost: $23,000
Calm Fairies
The Calm Fairy helps anxious kids feel safe and calm in hospital. Ongoing funding is needed to continue this valuable service.
Cost: $20,000 per year.
Priority items over $50,000
Point of Care Ultrasound
Help bring bedside ultrasound to General Medicine patients at Sunshine Coast University Hospital, including some of our region’s most frail and vulnerable people. This equipment will give clinicians real-time information to guide diagnosis, treatment decisions and safer procedures, supporting timely care at the bedside.
Cost: $68,051.25
Two “Cool Babies” Arctic Sun Devices
Every minute matters for newborns with brain injury at birth. The Arctic Sun cooling devices safely control temperature within the critical six-hour window, protecting fragile brains and stabilising babies for transfer. Your support can give these infants the best start.
Cost: $79,100
Clown Doctors
Bring laughter and smiles to sick children at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. Help continue this program.
Cost: $215,000.
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 [email protected] to find out more
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