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Donations made to Kincardine hospital foundation |
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 Linden Thurber (R) and Don Large (second to right), poppy chairman, of the Ripley Legion, present a cheque for $2,000 to the Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation, represented by president Gregg McClelland (L) and director Norie Dickson  Duncan Hawthorne (L) president and chief executive officer of Bruce Power, presents a cheque for $129,000 to Mary Ann Weickert (C) of the Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation, and Jennifer Cook, past-president of the Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation. The proceeds from the most successful ever Bruce Power Charity Golf Tournament are shared equally between the two foundations | |||||
| The Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation was on the receiving end of some much-needed funding this week. The Ripley Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 440, presented $2,000 from its poppy fund, to go toward the cost of three carts for the Automated Dispensing Machine. The carts will be used to dispense the medication with individually-labelled bar code packaging and labelled bar code at the bedside which requires scanning for an exact match before the medication is disbursed to the patient, said foundation co-ordinator/treasurer Diane Baldwin. Cost of the carts is $50,000 each which includes the lines and software. Three carts are needed at the Kincardine hospital, for a total cost of $150,000. Having this piece of equipment will reduce errors to almost nil. It has CPOE (Computer Patient Order Entry) which is virtually foolproof. This equipment will be big for Kincardine with the safest and best patient outcome. To date, the Ripley Legion has donated $6,500: $1,500 toward the mammogram machine; $1,500 toward the analyzer; $1,500 toward the Bone Mineral Density Machine; and now $3,000 toward the carts for the dispensing machine. Kincardine was also on the receiving end of a substantial donation from the 10th annual Bruce Power Charity Golf Tournament held Aug. 19 at the Saugeen Golf Club in Port Elgin.
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This year was the most successful event ever, with final proceeds
reaching an outstanding $129,000 to be shared equally between the Kincardine
hospital foundation and the Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation. The Kincardine foundation sends a heartfelt thanks to Bruce Power and the many sponsors, donors, participants and volunteers who made the golf tournament such a huge success. Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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