Press launch from Dominican Hospital:
Sept. 10, 2021
Dignity Health Dominican Hospital has acquired $65,000 in funding from the Ladies of Wellness (WoW) Council, an area girls’s giving society. A program of the Dominican Hospital Basis and based in 2018, the WoW Council’s function is to offer monetary sources to help and develop girls’s well being companies at Dominican Hospital.
“Few neighborhood hospitals have the instruments and packages akin to these discovered at Dominican. It’s only with neighborhood help and invaluable involvement from members akin to our Ladies of Wellness Council that we will present enhanced well being and wellness companies for our sufferers. WoW has been tremendously profitable, elevating over $200,000 in membership help since 2018. With the fixed development of curiosity, engagement, and generosity, we’ll proceed to make an impression for years to return.” says Alexandra Van Zanen, Philanthropy Supervisor, Dominican Hospital Basis.
Every member of the Ladies of Wellness (WoW) Council commits a minimal of $1,000 yearly to help important applied sciences, packages, and companies for ladies at Dominican Hospital. The Council meets thrice yearly to be taught extra about Dominican Hospital’s present girls’s well being companies and thrilling new developments from key physicians and medical workers. Council members work to determine and perceive the necessity for brand spanking new or improved packages, gear, or services, and to foster new relationships. They’ve the chance to evaluate challenge proposals put forth by the hospital and vote with their pool of funds to find out which proposals obtain funding.
“All through its 80-year historical past, the mission and values of Dominican Hospital have been formed by visionary feminine founders and senior leaders,” mentioned Dominican Hospital President Nanette Mickiewicz, MD. “It’s only becoming that at this time, the extremely influential girls of the WoW Council ought to assist keep on the hospital’s legacy of bettering affected person care now and into the long run.”
The WoW Council chosen the next initiatives as recipients of this yr’s $65,000 donation:
- Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Program- $35,000
In collaboration with the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s workplace, Well being Companies Company, Monarch Companies, Santa Clara Valley Medical Heart, and Dominican Hospital, an area SAFE Program is obtainable to our neighborhood at Dominican Hospital. Companies are offered at no cost to an indivual who has been sexualy assulted with prices coated by means of the dedication of neighborhood companions. The Ladies of Wellness Council funds will help the annual price of medicines and laboratory testing for put up publicity prophylaxis (PEP) to forestall the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis, and/or sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
- Wellness Heart Out of doors Space – $30,000
Funds will remodel the Wellness Heart out of doors area to be applicable and secure for remedy and train. The renovation of the out of doors patio will enhance the provision for train particularly for our senior and disabled inhabitants. A deck surrounded by handrails is a necessity for seniors who’re most susceptible to falls. It will likely be pivotal for remedy offering a degree and practical floor that’s ADA compliant. The Heart will function an important hub to roughly 8,000 neighborhood members in quite a lot of companies and packages. The constructing will embody Dignity Well being Care Coordination, Private Enrichment Program (PEP), a wellness suite with state-of-the-art health gear, a neighborhood useful resource room with demonstration kitchen, neurological wing, and lecture rooms fitted with A/V expertise for digital instruction and schooling.
- An nameless WoW member felt strongly about supporting Dominican’s remedy workforce in help of dementia care with an extra contribution of $4,000 to fund Posey Aprons.
Dominican serves many sufferers who’ve Alzheimer’s, dementia, or different types of cognitive decline. Whereas hospitalized these people typically expertise larger misery or agitation. The funds will help the acquisition of posey exercise aprons which is able to assist soothe and distract sufferers by offering tactile stimulation. Aprons might be single use and offered to the sufferers on discharge of the hospital for continuous use. The aprons might be used as one element of the affected person and behavioral help plan to assist lower anxiousness and emotional misery, and enhance affected person security and help.
- As well as, a number of WoW members stepped as much as personally contribute greater than $2,500 in the direction of the Dominican Hospital Worker Lactation Room Refresh challenge for working moms.
“Every year WoW members have the distinctive alternative to nearly view shows from varied care suppliers relating to the present patient-focused wants at Dominican Hospital. This gives our members with perception into the entire workings of the hospital and exhibits how a lot workers go above and past to make sure that Dominican stays revolutionary and ahead pondering with regards to girls’s well being companies accessible to our neighborhood,” says Toby Alexander, WoW Chair.
Dominican Hospital gives large ranging girls’s well being packages and companies. Maternity companies embody quite a lot of pre-natal beginning preparation and health lessons, superior perinatal care with an onsite Degree III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in partnership with Stanford Youngsters’s Well being | Lucile Packard Youngsters’s Hospital Stanford, and post-natal new parenting lessons. As an authorized Child-Pleasant® hospital, newborns at Dominican are instantly positioned skin-to-skin on their moms after beginning to bond and make their first feeding makes an attempt. In addition they keep in the identical room with their mother and father all through their time within the hospital. Breastfeeding lessons for expectant mother and father in addition to breastfeeding help following beginning are supplied on the hospital by means of Worldwide Board Licensed Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs), who’re on-site each day to offer educating and counsel.
Moreover, Dominican Hospital provides the one complete Most cancers Heart within the Monterey Bay space. Many packages are offered particularly for ladies, together with wig fittings, diet lessons, counseling, and different companies to offer help for remedy and restoration. Dominican acknowledges the distinctive cardiac care wants of girls, sponsoring free cardiac threat screenings for ladies and performing essentially the most complicated cardiac circumstances within the area. The hospital additionally provides minimally-invasive gynecological surgical procedure utilizing state-of-the-art robotic expertise, leading to superior outcomes and sooner restoration.
To be taught extra concerning the Ladies of Wellness Council, go to supportdominican.org/women-of-wellness-council.
This press launch was produced by Dominican Hospital. The views expressed listed below are the creator’s personal.
