St.
Luke's Magic Valley Health Foundation
2005-2006 Funding Priorities
Be Sure the Right Care is Right Here
Your support will help SLMV continue to provide current services, while enhancing its capabilities to care for everyone from fragile newborns to adults with heart disease.
No matter the size, your gift is important and appreciated, and will help meet local health care needs now and into the future.
Capital Equipment for enhanced SLMV patient services and improved health care outcomes...
- Acute Care Specialty Beds
These specialty hospital beds promote greater comfort, as well as staff and patient safety. Each bed features built-in scales to weigh the patient, and mattresses specially designed to maintain and promote skin health, thus improving patient outcomes. Fundraising Need: $500,000
- Cardiac Monitoring Technology
Thanks to a portable cardiac monitoring system, patients on the general medical/surgical unit at SLMV can have their heart status closely monitored outside the intensive care unit. Updating the system with new, state-of-the-art technology, including alarm capabilities, will enhance patient safety. Fundraising Need: $250,000
- Neonatal Warmers and Incubators
The quiet, warm, and comforting environment provided by neonatal incubators is vital to the care and development of ill and premature infants. These beds allow easy access to the tiniest patients, and include built-in scales and specialized mattresses. Fundraising Need: $160,000 (8 beds at $20,000)
- Pediatric Cribs
SLMV is dedicated to the health and safety of children. These cribs provide the safety and security young children need while undergoing important treatment and therapy. Fundraising Need: $25,000 (six cribs)
- SurgASSIST
As surgical technology continues to evolve, SLMV is committed to staying on the cutting edge with equipment such as SurgASSIST. This computer-powered surgical stapling platform provides unique levels of access, precision, and patient safety for procedures that require numerous surgical stapling applications. Fundraising Need: $45,000
- Endoscopy Tower
SLMV has made great strides in minimally invasive procedures over the past two years, and is dedicated to continuing these high-quality procedures that reduce scarring and trauma to surrounding tissues and result in faster, less painful recovery and shorter hospital stays. This commitment requires periodic maintenance and upgrade of SLMV current Endoscopy towers. Fundraising Need: $60,000
Endowment funding the future of our local health care programs...
- Children At Risk Evaluation Services (CARES) Endowment
CARES provides comprehensive evaluation services in times of suspected child abuse. The CARES clinics in Twin Falls and Burley provide interviews, forensic medical exams, scholarships, education for non-offending parents and counseling referrals. Working with local law enforcement and child protection agencies, CARES minimizes trauma to children and their families and helps them move toward healing. An endowment fund ensures that CARES will be available to our community’s children for years to come. Fundraising Need: $500,000
- Nursing Continuing Education Endowment
This endowment provides continuing education grants to SLMV nursing departments, nursing education, and to individual nurses seeking to further patient care skills and techniques. Fundraising Need: $100,000
- Safe Kids Endowment
The Safe Kids Endowment provides support for important child safety education and injury prevention programs offered through the Magic Valley SAFE KIDS Coalition. Fundraising Need: $100,000
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General Endowment
- The Foundation’s General Endowment provides support for health care programs of greatest need as determined by the Foundation Board of Trustees. Fundraising Need: $1,000,000
Community Programs “Sometimes our community needs can best be met by going outside the hospital walls.” – Bill Southwick MS, RN
- Breast Cancer Outcome Improvement
Idaho has the lowest mammography rate in the US and Health District V, which includes Magic Valley, and is tied for the lowest mammography rate in Idaho. Just 33% of Twin Falls County women over age 40 received a screening mammogram in 2004, leading to a high rate of advanced stage breast cancers and many preventable deaths. Through this program, uninsured, underinsured and new patients will be educated about the lifesaving importance of early detection and the resources available to help obtain screening exams. The ultimate goal of this critical program is to increase the Magic Valley’s screening mammogram rate by 10% each year, or 900 additional women. Fundraising need: $103,500.
- Free Heart Screenings
Over the past three years, SLMV has provided a free heart screening service to more than 3,000 Magic Valley residents. This screening includes an analysis of multiple risk factors including personal history, blood pressure, body fat, weight, cholesterol and blood sugar. The screening is culminated by a counseling session with a registered nurse who makes recommendations based on each participant’s results. Our goal is to continue this service and expand it to include additional south central Idaho residents. Fundraising Need: $50,000
- Aquatics Program
Specialized therapy helps many who bear the devastating effects of arthritis. Following therapy, a continued exercise program is essential. While an aquatics program provides an excellent means to continue the exercise, many people cannot afford a membership to a fitness center with a swimming pool. This program will provide needed financial assistance so that our community members with arthritis can continue the therapy necessary to achieve reduced pain and a healthier, more satisfying life. Fundraising Need: $2,000
Patient Care Services to offer best practices, advanced procedures, and a helping hand to those who are ill or recovering from injuries...
- Palliative Care Services
Palliative care provides pain and symptom control to patients who have a serious or complex illness that is potentially life threatening. This service supports the ongoing revaluation of difficult decision-making, relieves burdens on care providers, enhances continuity of care, and improves the overall quality of life for the patient and family. This program requires special equipment and services, patient and staff education, and community awareness of palliative care options. Fundraising need: $300,000
- Specialty Skin Products
Air mattresses, specialty beds, and skin care products are necessary to provide optimal skin protection for long-term or immobilized patients at SLMV. Fundraising Need: $40,000
- Cancer Patient Emergency Fund
Patients receiving care at St. Luke's MSTI -Twin Falls sometimes lack the funds to provide for their most basic needs. This fund assists in providing groceries, utilities, vehicle repairs, and medications when other community resources are not immediately accessible or available. Fundraising Need: $30,000 annually
SLMV strives for excellence in everything they do; yet they can provide even better care to people in the Magic Valley through:
- Development of important new programs
- Purchase of advanced medical equipment and technology
- Offering additional services in the community
Continuing area of need:
Magic Valley Needs Heart Services
When a heart attack begins, Time is not on your side...
If you're in the Magic Valley, the heart services team at SLMV is ready to help you.
Are you ready to help them serve you better?Since SLMV's heart catheterization lab opened in 1997, the number of patients served has exceeded all expectations. In 2004, 939 heart patients visited the lab for diagnostics and interventions. Some of these patients arrived while a heart attack was in progress!
Use of the cath lab increases as the Magic Valley population grows and ages. All improvements such as the upgrade of the cath lab must come from the hospital's net operating margin or from philanthropy.
Your support of the renovations at the heart catheterization lab at St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center is important to our community. Without the availability of state-of-the-art cardiac services at SLMV, Magic Valley patients would have increased travel time, increased hospitalization, delayed treatment, increased costs and less than optimal outcomes.
The Foundation is the only non-profit/charitable organization in the Magic Valley that supports the needs of the community through the medical center. In turn, the SLMV is the only health care facility in the eight-county area of Magic Valley that provides cardiac diagnostics and interventions for heart patients.
Continuous support for today's technology and equipment to treat and diagnose patients is needed more than ever as the cost of new and better systems increases. Your support is needed to enable the SLMV Health Foundation's vision of continually enhancing the health care of the community, especially for heart patients.
Your support will help SLMV continue to provide current services, while enhancing its capabilities to care for everyone from fragile newborns to adults with heart disease.
No matter the size, your gift is important and appreciated, and will help meet local health care needs now and into the future.
Give so we can do more! Give to the St. Luke's Magic Valley Health Foundation.
Donor Tax Advantage
The Internal Revenue Service allows deductions to qualifying donors of charitable gifts. These charitable contributions and the methods by which they are made to the SLMV Health Foundation should be discussed with your tax or legal advisor.
