Funding Priorities
St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI)
For more than 30 years, the medical and technical team at
St. Luke’s MSTI has provided advanced comprehensive
cancer care to more than 80,000 patients from 38 states and
10 foreign countries. St. Luke’s MSTI includes sites
in Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Fruitland, and Twin Falls. Within
the next few years, all five locations need to be expanded,
renovated, or built due to the growing population in the
area. Your support will help us continue to provide the very
best in cancer treatment.
Goal: $500,000
St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital
In a perfect world, children would never have to go to the
hospital. The next best thing is providing them with the
finest care so they can heal quickly. St. Luke’s Children’s
Hospital cares for the sickest, poorest, and most vulnerable
children. As a “hospital within a hospital,” our
unique services include an Emergency Department designed
and staffed just for kids, Intensive Care Units for newborns
and children, Child Life specialists to help each child adjust
to the hospital, maternal/child transport services, a Children’s
Specialty Center, and a Hospital School. Last year alone,
more than 50 sub-specialists cared for more than 50,000 children.
Help us with this important community asset: the only Children’s
Hospital in Idaho.
Goal: $250,000
St. Luke’s Women’s
Health Care
More than 28 percent of the babies born in Idaho take their
first breath at a St. Luke’s Labor and Delivery Unit.
This is why we believe that caring for children’s medical
needs starts with taking good care of moms. St. Luke’s
Women’s Services offers special programs including
Birth and Parenting Classes, Maternal Fetal Medicine Program,
Antepartum Unit, Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby Care Units,
9 Women’s Unit, and Women’s and Children’s
Continuing Education. Please support St. Luke’s
as we care for the women and babies in our region.
Goal: $150,000
St. Luke’s Center for Heart
and Vascular Health
More than 35 years ago, the first open heart surgery in Idaho
was performed at St. Luke’s, and we now perform more
heart procedures than any other hospital in Idaho. For
decades, our specially trained doctors, nurses, technicians,
pharmacists, and respiratory therapists have been providing
superior care for heart patients. The full-service Center
for Heart and Vascular Health is as extensive and advanced
as any in our region. The community also benefits from Idaho’s
only accredited specialized Chest Pain Center and St. Luke’s
Heart Safe Community, a program that helps to provide automated
external defibrillators (AEDs) to schools and local non-profit
services and organizations.
Goal: $250,000
St. Luke’s Advanced Surgical Technology
Providing the latest technology to our patients and physicians
has always been a top priority at St. Luke’s. Today,
we have state-of-the art operating rooms where the delicate
work of surgeons is supported with the best and newest equipment
and software. Our numerous robotic-assistive devices allow
surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgeries that reduce
scarring and trauma and result in a faster, less painful
recovery and shorter hospital stay. Cutting-edge image-guidance
systems (Vector Vision) allow orthopedists, neurosurgeons,
and ear/nose/throat (ENT) specialists to better pinpoint
problem areas for joint replacements, tumors, and aneurysms.
Advancements in the field are monitored for best practices
and best equipment to ensure that St. Luke’s patients
receive up-to-date care with state-of-the-art equipment.
Goal: $250,00
St. Luke’s Hospice and
Home Care
St. Luke’s Hospice, the only not-for-profit hospice
program in Boise, provides compassionate end-of-life care
for patients in their own homes, surrounded by loved ones.
Hospice offers expert medical care, pain and symptom management,
and emotional and spiritual support tailored to the individual
patient’s needs and wishes. Home Care is provided to
allow independent living and to help patients of all ages
heal at home. A gift of $75 will provide hospice or home
care for one person for one day.
Goal: $200,000
Advanced Educational Opportunities for Nurses and Other Practitioners
Patients at St. Luke’s experience superior health
care in large part because of the excellence of our nurses
and other practitioners. St. Luke’s encourages and
supports continuing education for all care providers. Gifts
to help care providers with continuing education and recognition
will help assure continued superior care at St. Luke’s.
Because of our nursing excellence, St. Luke’s is one
of few hospitals in the country to be designated a Magnet
Hospital.
Goal: $100,000
Imagine having cancer, yet not being able to afford gasoline
to make the daily trip required for chemotherapy or radiation.
Imagine being off work, sometimes for months at a time. Additional
support for patients and their families in need can make
a critical difference. Your support enables St. Luke’s
to provide those in need with important basics such as temporary
housing, meal vouchers, and medication.
Goal: $50,000
SimBaby – Human Baby Simulator
A human baby simulator has the realistic anatomy and physiologic
functions of a real baby, allowing the simulator to mimic
a limitless number of clinical functions. Emergency
physicians, Rapid Response Teams, pediatric physicians, nurses,
new staff in PICU, CCU, ICU, and other practitioners can
practice treatment interventions in a realistic learning
setting. St. Luke’s has already purchased a mobile
SimBaby and SimMan to expand practitioner training in the
rural areas of Idaho. Our new SimBaby, along with a stationary
SimMan, will be used for local training.
Goal: $100,000
Digital Mammography
It is St. Luke’s goal that 75 percent of all women
40 years and older receive a screening mammogram at least
every two years by the year 2010. To help us meet that goal,
St. Luke’s is moving to next-generation-technology
digital mammography units. On a digital image, contrast,
brightness, and magnification levels can be adjusted, assisting
the radiologist in making an accurate and timely diagnosis.
Digital technology also helps reduce the amount of radiation
exposure a woman receives. St. Luke’s has purchased
six units to date, and plans to purchase five more units
for sites in our region. Please join us in this important
advancement in women’s health.
Goal: $500,000
Cancer Prevention and Education
Early detection and education have dramatically increased
the number of people who are surviving cancer. Cancer prevention,
through education, is our goal at St. Luke’s MSTI,
where we provide community education and free cancer screenings
to help stem the occurrence of cancer. Your gift will help
purchase and distribute self-testing kits for colorectal
cancer; support community education efforts such as Fun
for Life, a program for young children to learn healthy
habits; support community health fairs; provide support
for community prostate and skin cancer screenings; and
help build an interactive St. Luke’s MSTI website
that will provide access to cancer resources for patients,
families, and the community. Goal:
$100,000
St. Luke’s Children’s
Hospital School
Children with severe and chronic illnesses miss a significant
amount of school. In partnership with the Boise School District,
St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital School not only
helps children remain at grade level, it also gives them
hope. When it is time to return to the regular classroom,
the Hospital School teacher assists the students, classmates,
teachers, and parents with re-entry. In its first two years,
more than 400 children attended the Hospital School or were
assisted in transitioning back into their regular classrooms.
Goal: $130,000
St. Luke’s Mother Baby
Unit
The Mother Baby Care Unit is designed to provide a professional,
individualized approach in meeting the needs of new mothers
and their infants. The unit provides care to both low-risk
and high-risk postpartum patients. Care includes stabilization
of the infant after typical and stressful deliveries and
monitoring the infant’s adjustment to life. Special
procedures in the nursery include circumcision, some minor
surgeries, some orthopedic interventions, phototherapy, and
hearing screens. Encouragement and individualized care are
given to infants and families involved in adoption, as needed.
Mothers and babies leave the unit with an enhanced measure
of competence and confidence.
Goal: $100,000
Research – Today’s
Research, Tomorrow’s Healing
St. Luke’s is proud to be the major partner of the
first and only biomedical research institute in Idaho. We
use patient-oriented research to advance medicine and provide
better care for the people of our region. By providing assistance
to scientific faculty and students, we are stimulating the
pursuit of medically related careers, and increasing the
basic knowledge about the causes of disease. St. Luke’s
is building a legacy through its vision to become a leader
in biomedical research not only in Idaho, but in the nation.
