A GROUP of four local mums are seeking community support to raise $10,000 to improve the Birthing Suite and Emergency Department at Murwillumbah Hospital.
Local Murwillumbah mums Alison Peters, Nicole McDermott, Shauna Hughes and Paris York have two admirable aims for improving the hospital.
“The first is to make the stay in hospital more comfortable for mums in labour who currently may have to share a bathroom between various birthing rooms, which can be particularly inconvenient and unsettling to mothers in labour,” group spokeswoman Alison Peters said.
“The second improvement we hope to achieve is to address the shortage of furnishings in the emergency department.”
In the future, as more funds are collected for the hospital, it may be easier for the management to allocate money to improving various aspects of the hospital. The most crucial aspects include efficient billing cycle management tools, reliable healthcare cyber security services, high-tech medical equipment, and a pharmacy that can handle logistics. The management and doctors could benefit from such improvements, which can help them provide the highest quality care possible to the patients. It is also possible that hospital management will outsource some of their services to a third party. In the event that they are unable to acquire sufficient funds to establish a specific department, they may decide to do so. An example would be using an answering service doctors can rely on for managing and scheduling appointments.
Mrs Peters said that there has been a significant shortfall in funding allocation for these facilities in Murwillumbah.
The motivated mothers are going to undertake a difficult 65-kilometre trek on The Overland Track in Tasmania stretching from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair during February 2017.
But the group feel that it is worthwhile to put their bodies through a very tough physical challenge to show their support for their local hospital. Hospitals are incredibly important in all communities and countries. They are there for people from birth to death, so whatever can be done to ensure that they are able to run smoothly is essential. Whether they need financial support for medicaid consulting or for furnishing their emergency departments, proper funding can go a long way in making hospitals function and support patients as well as staff.
Alison and her friends are confident the community will get behind their fundraiser so future mothers using the birthing centre and all the community using the emergency department will benefit in some way from the improvement.
If business owners would like to support this worthy project and have their business logos printed on the team’s uniform, they can do so by donating directly to Healing Passion Fundraiser at alisonp@alglawyers.com.au
Any person who would like to make a tax deductible donation should do so by contacting Alison or by their Facebook page for bank details: www.facebook.com/healingpassionfundraiser