VMH Auxiliary membership drive now on

The members of the Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital are actively recruiting new and returning members to join them during their annual membership drive.

The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. The Auxiliary also holds annual fundraisers, such as the Women’s Health Day Luncheon each fall, the Pillow-Perk in early November, the Masquerade sales and their annual membership drive each July. All the money the Auxiliary receives goes back to the hospital for equipment. They have purchased numerous items for the hospital, including a new patient weigh bed, maternity services birthing beds, a new mammography viewbox for Radiology, two digital cameras, two ice machines, a chemotherapy chair, blanket warmers, a NuStep exercise machine, an EKG machine, flat screen TVs for all the patient rooms, a labor tub, a fetal heart monitor, a fetal heart monitor and infant warmer for maternity services, a noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubinometer, and, most recently, they helped purchase the new 3D digital mammography machine in the Radiology Department at the hospital.

The Auxiliary meets monthly the second Monday of each month, at 1 p.m., in the ICN Conference Room at Veterans Memorial Hospital.  They also hold a monthly Euchre Marathon tournament to raise funds the third Thursday of each month.

Auxiliary membership dues are just $5 for active members and $12 for inactive members. Dues can be paid at the main entrance to Veterans Memorial Hospital or given to any current Auxiliary member. For more information, call Auxiliary President, Nona Sawyer at 563-568-3105.