Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital membership drive is on now
VMH Auxiliary membership drive continues ... The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is now holding its annual membership drive. The Auxiliary is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services and needed equipment. Pictured above, left to right, are Auxiliary members Cindy Barness, Rose Ann Mark, Elaine Eadie, sitting, and Ann Roed with the NuStep machine purchased by the Auxiliary last year for Rehabilitation patients. All the money the Auxiliary receives through memberships and fundraisers goes back to the hospital for equipment. Membership enrollment forms are available at the main entrance of Veterans Memorial Hospital. Submitted photo.
The members of the Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) are actively recruiting new and returning members to join them during their annual membership drive which is going on now.
The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. The Auxiliary also holds annual fundraisers, such as the Women’s Health Day event each fall, the Pillow-Perk in October, a garage sale in the spring and their annual membership drive each July. All the money the Auxiliary receives goes back to the hospital for equipment.
The Auxiliary has purchased numerous items for the hospital, including two OB Birthing Beds, an ER cart, an infant hearing screening machine, an EKG machine, the Maternity Services Birthing Tub, flat screen TVs for patient rooms, a fetal heart monitor and infant warmer for OB, a noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubinometer, the 3D digital mammography machine, patient weigh beds, blanket warmers, carbon monoxide testing machines for ER, new surgery sterilizer, a NuStep Machine for the hospital’s Rehabilitation department and most recently a new iSTAT Chemistry and Blood Gas Analyzer for the Laboratory.
The Auxiliary meets monthly the second Monday of each month, at 1 p.m., in the ICN Conference Room at Veterans Memorial Hospital with refreshments served.
Auxiliary membership dues are just $10 for active members and $15 for inactive members. Membership enrollment forms are available at the main entrance of the hospital. For more information, call Auxiliary President, Bev Larson-Needham at 563-568-8168.
