Previous Contributions to Children's Mercy - $328,000

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Children’s Mercy’s Illuminate Project is an initiative to address the mental health crisis among children and teens in the Kansas City area.  Among many other things, this project will help build new mental health facilities at Children’s Mercy including an Acute Mental Health Crisis Center, a Med/Psych Unit, and a partial Hospitalization Program and our donations will help fund such projects.  These facilities (and the associated specialized services they will provide) will ensure that kids who are dealing with such challenges will get the care they need.

A new infusion pump with additional funding being allocated for suicide prevention via Children’s Mercy’s Psychosocial Screening Program and the Illuminate Project. The Psychosocial Screening Program provides screening and intervention services and we hope our contribution will make a difference for kids who are dealing with such challenges.

A new transport ventilator with additional funding being allocated for suicide prevention via Children’s Mercy’s Psychosocial Screening Program.  The ventilator will be used by the Transport team to transport high-risk patients to Children’s Mercy for life-changing treatment.  The Psychosocial Screening Program provides screening and intervention services and we hope our contribution will make a difference for kids who are dealing with such challenges.

Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) with additional funding being allocated for suicide prevention via Children’s Mercy’s Psychosocial Screening Program.  Children’s Mercy has made PPE a fundraising priority during the current Covid-19 crisis.  It includes masks, protective clothing, face shields, eye protection, etc. used to protect patients, their families and staff from the Covid-19 virus.  The Psychosocial Screening Program provides screening and intervention services and we hope our contribution will make a difference for kids who are dealing with such challenges.  

Transcutaneous CO2 monitor with additional funding being allocated for suicide prevention via Children’s Mercy’s Psychosocial Screening Program.  The CO2 monitor will be used by the Respiratory Therapy team who work closely with the Transport team who we have supported on many occasions in the past.  

The Psychosocial Screening Program provides screening and intervention services and we hope our contribution will make a difference for kids who are dealing with such challenges. 

Bronchotron pneumatic ventilator installed in an ambulance for the transport team, used to treat the severest of lung conditions.

EKG/ECG machine for the Specialty Clinics location on Broadway and a  $5,850 donation to Hearing & Speech Clinics for the purchase of hearing aids.

Expansion of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Adele Hall Campus at Kansas City, Missouri location.

Three “Kidzpace Touch2play Fun Centers” for the South location in Overland Park.

VSR Sport system and Invision machine for the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury team at the Blue Valley

location (135th & Metcalf) for the management of concussions.

A hemochron unit (used during the dialysis process), 18 new sets of digital hearing aids for The Hearing

& Speech Clinics, a ventilator and Isollete stretcher for transport team, nurse's station and expansion of the Urgent Care Facility at the South location in Overland Park, a touch screen video monitors for the burn unit, and an educational video cart