Sydney Adventist Hospital Foundation would like to thank the following people and organisations for their generous support.
Foundation Life Members
Mr Peter Weekes
Mr Peter Stone
Mr Peter Cottrell OBE AO
Mr Lynray Wilson
Mrs Mathilda Kerny-Kibble
Mr Allan Broome
Mr Robert E Smith
Wahroonga Rotary Fundraised for San Cancer Support Centre and Jacaranda Lodge
The San’s Cancer Support Centre is a well established and utilised service supported by the NSW Department of Health, run by health professionals and volunteers to assist patients, carers, families and friends to cope with cancer. Services include support groups, counselling, lectures, information sessions, the ‘Look Good, Feel Better’ Program, home visitation for those unable to attend the centre, bereavement support, and the free resource library with tapes, medical journals, books, Cancer Council booklets and DVD’s. Services are free and are open to the entire community.
Jacaranda Lodge provides low-cost residential accommodation for paitents undergoing treatment at the San, and family members.
Plant Sale Helped Buy Chairs for Renal Dialysis Patients
Kenthurst Nurseries kindly donated the proceeds of plant sales at the San’s birthday celebrations in 2007 towards the Foundation’s appeal for new renal dialysis unit chairs. Approximately 350 camellia's, gardenia's, maraya's, english box, mondo grass, lilli pilli's, other hedging plants and Australian native plants were on sale. Owner Harry Chiha and his family made the donation in recognition of what he calls the ‘wonderful treatment’ his wife and family have received at the San in recent years.
Generous Donations Helped Purchase Heart Rehabilitation Equipment
New exercise equipment for the San Cardiac Rehabilitation program - a new Phillips IntelliVue ECG Monitoring System - was donated by John and Yvonne Almgren. The new system allows continuous monitoring of our Phase 11 clients while they are exercising. Each client has an individually structured program with an assessment of their blood pressure, ECG and heart rates during and after exercise. Patients are encouraged to obtain optimal fitness and become confident they can exercise with exertion.
Generous ‘Dinosaur’ Age Tree Donation Beautifies Hospital Grounds
A Wollemi Pine was donated to Sydney Adventist Hospital by former San Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Dr Nic Jools and his wife Barbara in memory of Dr Jools’ close friend and SAH Anaesthetist Dr Warren Walker.
Dr Jools purchased the tree at the October 2005 Sotherby’s auction of the first generation of pines grown outside the wild. 292 of the ‘rare dinosaur era conifers’, were sold after being propagated from cuttings after what has been called ‘the botanical find of the century,’ - the discovery of a small number of the pines by an avid bushwalker in 1994. Ultimately it was identified as a new species in the same family as the Money Puzzle and Norfolk Island Pine - but different and was named the Wollemi Pine. The pine is one of the world’s oldest and most rare tree species. It was known from fossil records and had been thought to be extinct. "This is the equivalent of finding a small dinosaur alive on Earth." – Professor Carrick Chambers, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
At the commemorative tree planting Dr Jools spoke of the three ‘Cs’ that he believes describe both Dr Warren Walker and the San – “competency, caring and compassion”.
Donation Assists with Maternity
Dr Ian Borody, a popular San Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, is remembered forever with the generous donation by his family towards the SAH Maternity Labour Ward Observation Area.
