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Media Release
January 1, 2008
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contact Jodi Cecil at 930-7200 ext 4801
Upland Hills Health Donates Used Equipment
Father Miller and Upland Hills Health Plant Operations
employee Mike Bourne stand next to the latest trailer
they loaded up for donation to the Bluefields Mission
in Nicaragua. |
With new buildings comes new furniture and upgraded equipment
for Upland Hills Health. What to do with the bulk of unneeded
items?
Those items are finding a new home in Nicaragua.
Father Miller, a priest in the LaCrosse, WI area, is collecting
our unneeded furniture, medical equipment and more, including
an X-ray machine, a suction machine, a Hoyer lift, and
hospital cribs.
Father Miller has made three trips to Dodgeville
to pick up items, which will be shipped to Bluefields Mission
in Nicaragua this summer. The mission operates clinics
with volunteer doctors and will greatly benefit from the
donations from Upland Hills Health.
Father Miller, who
worked at the mission on Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast
for 12 years after being ordained, is related to some Upland
Hills Health employees.
Lynn Hebgen, Assistant Administrator
of Nursing, Pharmacy and Social Services at Upland Hills
Health, helped coordinate the contact between Father Miller
and Upland Hills Health. Hebgen’s husband is Father
Miller’s first cousin. She has collected items for
him in the past to send on to Nicaragua, and contacted
him with this new opportunity for donations.
“I saw
the opportunity to donate items that we would no longer
use,” explained Hebgen, “We are very fortunate
here to have the newest in technology and comforts for
our patients. The people of Nicaragua and other countries
have very few resources to care for their sick and injured.”
So
far, Upland Hills Health has donated approximately $10,000
worth of equipment and furniture to the mission.
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