There are more than 900 babies delivered annually as local hospital serves all of Oxford in obstetrics
By Mark Schadenberg
Heart FM is again proving its significant role in the community of Oxford County is more than a radio station with great music, local news and promotion of happenings around the county.
Heart 104.7 FM will be assisting the Woodstock General Hospital raise money on Oct. 12 – dollars for a specific facet of healthcare in Oxford, and that’s the pediatric department and in particular the equipment need for a top-rated maternal child (obstetric) department.
The ‘Give Thanks To Your Hospital’ Radiothon is set for Thursday, Oct 12, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Many of the pictures on this entry
are from the www.wgh.on.ca website
Everyone knows how hospital funding works, especially when new technology is discussed as fundraising projects are often hosted for better and more medical equipment.
It could be the annual Dairy Capital Run in May or a significant corporate donation, but the end result is the hospital seeks money for something on their wish list, which the provincial government has yet to grant the Woodstock facility for Ontario funding. Hospitals are expected to balance their books and not buy buy buy when its budget considers any wish-list item.
A golf tournament every July also raises significant money and profile for the local hospital’s needs.
From the Woodstock Hospital Foundation on Facebook:
The Heart FM Give Thanks to Your Hospital Radiothon is an exciting new event in Oxford County. It is a day designed to bring together our community through the power of stories and radio. The Radiothon will be held on Thursday, October 12, 2017 when Heart FM broadcasts live from Woodstock Hospital. Proceeds from the Radiothon will support the Maternal Child Department at Woodstock Hospital, the designated birthing centre for Oxford County. With over 920 babies delivered annually at WH we need to continuously invest in the technology required to deliver, monitor, and care for newborn babies and their moms.
The Heart FM Give Thanks to your Hospital Radiothon will run from 6 am-6 pm. During these twelve hours stories will be shared about the Maternal Child Department at WH and listeners will be encouraged to call in to donate or stop by to make a donation.
‘Listen. Call. Donate’ is the slogan for the radiothon.
Heart FM has a great community-minded crew led by Dan Henry, who has worked at the station since it signed on. Henry has been a co-chair of the United Way of Oxford, committee member for Relay For Life for the Cancer Society, a long-time volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters in Woodstock, and a community person for many other charities. When you add in Lainger and Sabrina from the morning show, Cody Hayward, news director Chris McMillan, and a cast of thousands (of listeners) it is a combination for success for the Woodstock hospital.
Paul Laing & me
Heart FM program director Dan Henry (from left),
Jan Cunningham from the Oxford office of the Canadian Cancer Society,
and mid-day announcer Cody Hayward.
It truly is hard to believe when November arrives, the Woodstock hospital will already be 6 years old.
Many people from the local business community play important roles in the foundation, including current board president Ann Ash, plus Connie Lauder (City Council member) as vice chair, along with Paul Green, Pat Logan, Bill Mackesy, Greg Boddy, Paul LeRoy, Jenna Morris, secretary Dianne Langner, and treasurer Cheri Palmer.
Diagnostic imaging is a fancy term for everything ranging from ultra-sound to x-rays to MRIs to an echocardiograph machine.
Is the femur broken? Is there a blocked artery? Is there a tumour?
This past January, the hospital purchased addition ultra-sound equipment from various donations received by the foundation.
At full capacity, the hospital has 178 beds, 350,000 sq ft, has a work force of about 600, and serves most of Oxford County, and as Heart FM notes in its on-air promos for the Oct. 12 Give Thanks To Your Hospital Radiothon, the Woodstock hospital is the dedicated site for babies to be born in Oxford.
Natasa Veljovic
The management team is led by president and CEO Natasa Veljovic, chief operating officer Perry Lang, chief financial officer Kathy Lavelle, and chief of staff Dr Malcolm MacLeod. The board of directors includes another list of local people on the board of trust (management) team, including mayor Trevor Birtch, city and county council member Deb Tait, chair Brent VanParys and vice chair Rick Shaheen.
If you want to learn more about how great the local healthcare facility is, you should spend some time looking at www.wgh.on.ca and then listed to Heart FM on Oct 12.
The goal is to raise $25,000. I will make a contribution and then I will challenge all Realtors in Oxford to meet my pledge.
LINKS:
www.heartfm.ca
www.heartfm.ca
http://www.heartfm.ca/news/local-news/celebrating-20-years-of-the-woodstock-hospitals-dialysis-unit/
2011 TV News Story:
My November 2011 Blog:
Mark Schadenberg, Sales Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty
Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
Contact Mark Schadenberg today:
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter: markroyallepage
Facebook: Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
Discussion . . . Direction . . . Determination . . . Destination
Subscribe to my newsletter today by emailing: mschadenberg@rogers.com
No comments:
Post a Comment