Community help needed to fund new Emergency Services Department: Workers pictured here are pouring and smoothing the new concrete floors.
Construction of a new Emergency Services Department is moving forward at Sparrow Clinton Hospital in St. Johns. Underground work on water and electrical supply lines is completed, foundations and floors have been poured and the bare bones of the new facility’s structural steel frame will soon be erected.
With construction underway, Sparrow Clinton Hospital now launches the final phase of its Right Here, Right Now Capital Campaign – the public campaign to raise much-needed community funds to underwrite the $5.7 million cost of this vital project.
Leading this important fundraising drive are capital campaign steering committee members Dave Hunt, William Brewbaker, Ron Huard, Gary Brya, Bruce Fandel, Dan Matson, Craig Bishop, Nick Bancroft, Don Rademacher, Liz Nobis, and Pat and Becky Feldpausch.
Major gifts to date have come from individuals, foundations, farms, service organizations, Sparrow Clinton Hospital Auxiliary, and area businesses.
“Organizations and individuals in our community have shown unprecedented support of the hospital with their generous gifts during the quiet phase of this campaign,” says David Hunt, chairman of the Right Here, Right Now Capital Campaign. “We are inspired by their most generous support, but more help is needed.”
Emergency patient visits have more than doubled since the current department was built in 1998. This increase in visits spurred construction of a new facility better suited to the needs of the community.
From private, high-tech treatment rooms to innovative patient-flow efficiencies, the new Emergency Services Department is designed to maintain and enhance the quality of care with comfortable, first-class accommodations for patients and families. Facility features include 10 private rooms and two trauma treatment rooms as well as an exclusive lobby, family conference room, patient observation area, centralized nursing station, and decontamination treatment room.
“We are reaching out to residents of all the communities served by Sparrow Clinton Hospital, asking for their support of this vital project,” Hunt adds. “Building this new, leading-edge facility will provide you and your family with immediate, local health care when care is most needed. We need everyone who depends on the hospital’s emergency services to consider making a donation to this campaign.”
Later this month, a Right Here, Right Now Capital Campaign brochure will be mailed to area households. For more information about the project and how you can help, call the Sparrow Clinton Hospital Foundation at 989.227.3396.