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Foundation Launches 2009 Friends of Union Hospital Annual Drive

11/13/2009

Improving Care for Life

Union Hospital has been going through a very positive transformation with the building of Union East, and is about to embark on the next phase of advances at the Terre Haute campus with extensive renovations to Union West. Two of the departments remaining in Union West are Hux Cardiovascular Center and Maternal and Child Services, including Labor and Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Obstetrics and Pediatrics.

These two departments will undergo space expansion and upgrading of technology and equipment. Union Hospital Foundation wants to help these two departments in their quest to be the best by encouraging the Friends of Union Hospital to designate their Annual Drive gifts for baby warmers for Labor and Delivery or for a heart and lung machine for the Hux Cardiovascular Center. Please join us in making the first days of our newborns' lives comforting and assist us in prolonging the lives of our family members, friends, and neighbors.

Maternal and Child Services

A Warmer Welcome for Newborns

In 2008, 1,614 babies were born at Union Hospital. Keeping healthy babies healthy is an important task for the nurses of the hospital's Labor and Delivery Unit, where they work to balance human touch with medical technology. Utilizing advanced equipment enables nurses to spend more time interacting with parents and helping to make the birth a wonderful and miraculous experience.

Union Hospital Foundation has set a goal of $100,000 to provide five GE Panda Baby Warmers for the delivery rooms. These bathe the baby in soothing warmth and keep the caregiver cool and comfortable at the same time. The nurse can turn on the Panda Warmer well in advance of delivery and know that the newborn's first bed will be warm when the infant arrives.

Hux Cardiovascular Center

Pumping Life into Center's Capabilities

To expand the surgical capabilities of Hux Cardiovascular Center, Union Hospital Foundation has set an Annual Drive goal of $135,000 to purchase an additional cardiopulmonary bypass machine for the Center.

During open-heart surgery, a procedure performed more than 242 times at Union Hospital in 2008, this machine, also known as a heart-lung machine, is used to take over the functions of the patient's heart and lungs. It keeps oxygen-rich blood flowing throughout the patient's body, so the surgeon can carefully stop the heart while the vital organs continue to receive blood and oxygen. The heart-lung machine allows the surgeon to perform very delicate, life-saving procedures without interference from bleeding or the heart's pumping motion.

As of May 11, 2010, 208 gifts and pledges had been received totaling $108,238.16.

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