A Defibrillator could save your life

The Giving Thanks to the Golden and District Hospital 2018 is focusing on raising funds for a new Lifepak Defibrillator for the Trauma room at a cost of $24,096.

Atrial fibrillation, often called AFib or AF, is the most common type of heart arrhythmia.

An arrhythmia is when the heart beats too slowly, too fast, or in an irregular way.

When a person has AFib, the normal beating in the upper chambers of the heart (the two atria) is irregular, and blood doesn’t flow as well as it should from the atria to the lower chambers of the heart (the two ventricles). AFib may occur in brief episodes, or it may be a permanent condition.

To learn more, click the link below.

Centre for disease control and prevention

Nine percent (9%) of people over the age of 65 have AFib!! In a room of 20 people, it is almost certain that one will suffer from AFib. In the USA an estimated 130,000 deaths occur each year and the death rate has been rising for the past decade as the population ages.

Lifepak Defibrillator

In February 2018 my heart went into permanent Atrial fibrillation. I was lucky as I have a pacemaker, implanted in 2011, which took control of the heart rhythm.

Would the next patient be so lucky?

With less than a week to go, the 2018 fundraiser stands at $5,550 so we still need your support.

Can you help with a donation today??

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Keith W Hern
Friend of the Golden & District Hospital.

$100,000 milestone surpassed

With a $50 donation from Kaye Jankovic last night, the total funds raised by the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital from all four fundraisers since 2015 reached the $100,000 milestone.

Thank you Kaye and all the other donors that have made this significant milestone possible. A list of Supporters for 2018 can be found on the Canada Helps donation page.

Community helping community! It's amazing what can be achieved when we all work together.

With less than a week to go, the 2018 fundraiser stands at $5,550 so we still need your support to meet our goal of $30,000. Can you help with a donation today??

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Keith W Hern
Friend of the Golden & District Hospital.

At $5,150 with just one week to go

With just one week before the Thanksgiving holiday, the donations for the 2018 fundraiser, the fourth annual fundraiser, total $5,150.
In the 3 years prior the Friends have raised a total of $94,800, money that has been used to buy equipment that stays in Golden at the hospital or Durrand Manor.
The total raised to date since 2015 is now $99,950. We are so close to a one hundred thousand dollar milestone for the Friends of The Golden & District Hospital.
Who will be the next person to donate $50 to achieve that milestone.

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Keith W Hern
Friend of the Golden & District Hospital.

Post Anesthetic Recovery Room Monitors

The Post Anesthetic Recovery (PAR) monitors
have drastically improved our monitoring in the recovery room. 

The monitors allow multiple patients to be closely monitored by the nurse simultaneously and enable equipment to stay dedicated to the patient, traveling into the operating room with them instead of cleaning equipment between patients and rooms. 

This also helps trend the data collected to help detect changes quickly. 

The Golden & District Hospital already has one monitor but another would be very useful and improve the efficiency of the staff. 

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Keith W Hern
Friend of the Golden & District Hospital.

ACL surgery now in Golden

Friends of the Golden & District Hospital funds bought this ACL Drill: 

Our visiting orthopedic surgeons now complete ACL surgeries in Golden. The ACL drill is an essential piece of equipment for the surgery.

It's a piece of equipment you hope never to need, but very glad to have!

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Keith W Hern
Friend of the Golden & District Hospital.