Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital continues with annual membership drive
Auxiliary fundraising supports equipment needs at VMH ... The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is now holding its annual membership drive. The Auxiliary is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services and needed equipment. Pictured above, left to right, are some members of the Auxiliary with hospital medical staff including Ann Roed, Auxiliary Secretary; Callie Thorson, RN, Emergency Room (ER) Supervisor; Connor Meyer, Respiratory Therapist; Sherrie Hunstad, Auxiliary Member; and Donnalee Osland, Auxiliary Treasurer. They are pictured by the new carbon monoxide detectors the Auxiliary purchased for both the ER and OB departments at the hospital. All of the funds the Auxiliary receives through memberships and fundraisers go back to the hospital for equipment. Membership enrollment forms are available at the main entrance of Veterans Memorial Hospital. Submitted photo.
The members of the Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) are actively recruiting new and returning members to join them during their annual membership drive which is going on now.
The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital, 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 October, a garage sale in the spring and their annual membership drive each July. All the money the Auxiliary receives goes back to the hospital for equipment.
The Auxiliary has purchased numerous items for the hospital, including OB Birthing Beds, an Emergency Room (ER) cart, an infant hearing screening machine, a NuStep exercise machine, an EKG machine, the Maternity Services Birthing Tub, flat screen televisions for patient rooms, a fetal heart monitor and infant warmer for OB, a noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubinometer, patient weigh beds, blanket warmers and an infant hearing screening machine. The Auxiliary funding has also helped renovate the outpatient treatment room at the hospital, and also helped fund the new 3D digital mammography machine and, most recently, new surgery sterilizers.
The Auxiliary meets monthly the second Monday of each month, at 1 p.m., in the ICN Conference Room at Veterans Memorial Hospital with refreshments served.
Auxiliary membership dues are just $10 for active members and $15 for inactive members. Membership enrollment forms are available at the main entrance of the hospital. For more information, call Auxiliary President Bev Larson-Needham at 563-568-4287.
