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Wanted: Giraffe warmer

As your community-owned, nonprofit hospital, we are always asking for community support and donations for a special service line, equipment, or other critical need. This year, we need your help to buy a new ‘giraffe’ bed for very premature infants. Most NICU babies start in a warmer and are weaned to an isolette, as their condition improves; however, if there are any setbacks, the infant usually has to be transferred back to a warmer. The ‘giraffe’ bed rapidly transforms from a radiant warmer to an isolette, and vice versa, giving us flexibility in a transitional situation, and an extra measure of timeliness in an urgent one. Fully loaded, these very special beds cost $40,000; so any amount you give would count toward our goal for this purchase!

Close to 400 premature and critically ill infants arrive in our NICU, each year. They come from within our community and from across the Valley, for the state-of-the-art care available at Mission Regional Medical Center. Regardless of where they come from, we pride ourselves on being prepared to receive these 'little miracles' here, and give them a fighting chance at a healthy life.
Won't you join us in the fight by making a year-end donation to The Foundation today?

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