Highest Priority Needs

Each year our Hospital needs new and replacement medical equipment. The Meaford Hospital Foundation is asked to raise funds for these important needs. The government doesn't pay for most new medical equipment. It's only through the caring support of the community that we continue to have a well-equipped hospital.

Over the years the Meaford Hospital Foundation has, through the generosity and support of its donors, been able to provide funding for capital equipment at the Meaford General Hospital.

Just to give you an example:

2006/07 - $851,000 (includes PAC, MRI)
2007/08 - $764,205 (includes MRI, PACs, C-Arm)
2008/09 - $273,402 (includes MRI, PACs)
2009/10 - $637,000
2010/11 - $467,000
2011/12 - $382,000

Current Needs

Family Health Centres

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $125,000.00

Support for the North East Grey Family Health Centre is ongoing. Thornbury Medical Centre is complete Meaford Medical Centre is in process

Education

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $4,000.00

Continuing support of staff education is cruital in this day and time due to ever changing capital equipment needs, technique/technology changes and process improvements.

Chaplaincy

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $6,500.00

The Meaford Hospital Foundation supports the chaplaincy program.

Emergency Department

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $141,882.00

Equipment and Improvements in Meaford Hospital Emergency Department. - ER Triage Renovation ($75,582) - Portable Ultrasound Machine ($51,000) - Monitor for Trauma ($15,300)

Medical Surgical

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $121,959.00

Needs (Includes Day/Night Care) - Hi/Lo Beds ($13,362) - NIBP With Set ($4,080) - Glide Scope ($11,539) - Lap Chole Set ($30,600) - Shoulder Accessory Kit ($8,160) - Cautery Machine ($20,400) - Smart Driver Duo Instruments ($30,248) - Screw Kit ($3,570)

Physiotherapy

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $5,287.00

Recumbent Cross Trainer

Mammography

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $200,000.00

Every one of us has been touched in some way by cancer. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and it is estimated that 1 in 9 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. As with all cancers, early detection is the key to successful treatment. Mammograms help save lives by finding breast cancer in its earliest stages. The two existing mammography machines at the Owen Sound Regional Hospital are over 17 years old and at the end of their useful life. Because of recent problems with one of the machines, Grey Bruce Health Services (GBHS) has decided to install 2 new digital mammography units as quickly as possible. The digital mammography tests can be done in half the time it takes with the current machines and the images appear almost instantly. The high resolution images allow doctors to more easily spot potential problems and can be transmitted electronically to a specialist anywhere in the world. The GBHS Board has approved a tender for the immediate purchase of one unit with plans to replace the second one very soon. The two new digital machines and the renovations necessary to house them will cost an estimated $1.6 million. The regional Owen Sound Hospital (OSH Foundation) as well as the Foundations of the other Hospitals in the GBHS family are all raising money for this critical need. You may have received a donation request from one of them. A full 13% of the 9,000 women who undergo a mammogram in Owen Sound each year come through the Meaford Hospital as their initial contact for hospital based care. As our share, Meaford Hospital Foundation has pledged $200,000 to the Regional Mammography Campaign. We ask you to please give generously to help us meet this pledge. You can help all women from Meaford and across Grey Bruce - wives, mothers, daughters, aunts and nieces - with your donation to the Meaford Hospital Foundation Mammography Campaign.

Engineering and Other Patient Care Items

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $45,659.00

- Wheelchairs ($4294) - Replace patient room windows ($32,946) - Cargo Van ($5,406) - Patient Privacy Curtains ($3,013)

Safety - Wanderguard

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $32,640.00

WanderGuard systems provide independence and a secure and caring environment for people who may be at risk as a result of a tendency to walk or move about. Bracelets are provided to each person at rish. Monitors are installed on exterior doors, in hallways or lift doors.

Lab - Coagulometers

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $57,120.00

Automated coagulation machines measure the ability of blood to clot.

Patient - Vitals Monitors

Number Required: 1
Funds Needed: $12,160.00

A vitals monitor is a medical device that, once properly attached to a person, counts the number of times a person's heart is beating per minutes and observes respirations to determine how many beaths the person is taking during a specific time period. Information such as heart rate measurement, respiratory rate, temperature and blood pressure is provided. It may also provide an alarm when any of the vitals being monitored fall outside of normal parameters.