How Your Donations Have Helped

“Everything we achieve here at the San we owe to the generosity of our donors and our team - it’s a pleasure and privilege to be associated with donors who help us to build a better facility and continue to look after our community”.

Dr Leon Clark

CEO, Sydney Adventist Hospital

SAH Foundation Annual General Meeting Donations to the Hospital

At the 2012 Foundation Annual General Meeting, SAH CEO Dr Leon Clark accepted a cheque for $800,000 from the Foundation, and thanked all the supporters of the Foundation for their generosity.

 

These funds supported many different areas and projects and assisted in the purchase of the following equipment:

 

  • The Da Vinci Robot
  • Gas Chromatograph/ Mass Spectrometer
  • 825 Littman Classic 11 S.E. Stethoscopes
  • Patient Navigators

 

2010-11 Fundraising Distribution:

  • MRI Guided Breast Biopsy - a valuable tool in breast imaging, more sensitive than traditional imaging such as Ultrasound and Mammography
  • Blood Gas Analyser for ICU - a critical assessment tool for ICU staff, assisting with monitoring of patients on respirators and with breathing difficulties
  • Gas Chromotograph / Mass Spectrometer - used to test therapeutic drugs; will be shared with the Australasian Research Institute
  • 6-cassette Writer - used by Pathologists to analyse biopsy tissues in the diagnosis of tumours
  • O-Arm Intra-operative CT Scanner - used for complex spinal surgical procedures, ENT, intracranial, neurological, orthopaedic and vascular surgery
  • CR Computed Radiography - used in radiography to report on and distribute information to medical and nursing staff
  • Terrarecon Imaging Workstation - used during Cardiac CT studies for high-risk category patients

 

2008-09 Fundraising Distribution:

  • San Day Infusion Centre

  • Day Surgery - Diathermy Machine

  • Hospital in the Home (HITH) - Portable Bladder Scanner

  • Intensive Care Unit - Dialysis Machine; 3 ECG Machines

  • Theatres - replaced medical equipment

  • Pathology - Haematology Cell Counter

  • Renal Dialysis - Portable Ultrasound Machine; Apheresis Machine; 4 Infusion Pumps

  • Sleep Studies - End Tidal CO2 Machine

  • Maternity - Fold-out beds for Fathers

  • Special Care Nursery - Resusitaire; Phototherapy Lights

  • Emergency Care - Defibrillator Machine

  • Jacaranda Lodge - Upgrade of facilities, furniture, kitchen, linen and electrics

  • Bowen Therapy - provided for 12 Months

  • Radiology - Digital X-Ray Machine

Total Donation  $1,400,000

 

Ongoing Fundraising Distribution:

  • Children's Sleep Disorders Unit
  • Healthcare Outreach
    - The Foundation funded a ventilator for surgical purposes in Myanmar  
  • College of Nursing Education
    - Advanced life support Manikin.  
  • Chaplaincy support 
  • Centre for Pelvic Reconstruction 
  • Borody Trust 
    - Two high care maternity room for maternity unit 
  • Jacaranda Lodge
    - Second story addition and refurbishment completed in 1994
  • Sydney Adventist Hospital Museum
  • Urology
    -     Staff conference training and Research funding