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The Men’s Giving Circle is a group of forward-thinking gentlemen who care deeply about improving the quality of health care in our community. Throughout the year, they gather to discuss men’s health issues in a way that is both fun and educational, including physician lectures, networking socials and educational voting meetings.
Every year, the hospitals of Morton Plant Mease present opportunities requiring funding to the Men’s Giving Circle, who decide as a group where their gifts will be distributed. To ensure all voting members are able to make an informed decision on where their collective gifts are allocated, the program’s grant and/or physician champion leads an educational presentation. Past topics include prostate cancer, nursing recognition, memory disorders, stroke, sports medicine and orthopedic surgery.
Founded in 2016, members of the Men’s Giving Circle are dedicated to promoting and financially supporting the hospitals of Morton Plant Mease through annual gifts of $1,000 or more. In that time, members have collectively granted the hospitals $560,000.
For more information about Men’s Giving Circle, please call Lindsey Daniel, Director of Annual Philanthropy, at (727) 461-8636 or email at Lindsey.Daniel@baycare.org.
Thanks to funding from the Men’s Giving Circle, Mease Countryside Hospital’s Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will now be equipped with LifePulse High-Frequency Jet Ventilators to provide the highest level of respiratory support for our most fragile newborns. The hospital’s 10-bed NICU provides specialized care for newborns by highly trained neonatologists, obstetric and pediatric hospitalists, and certified nurses. Extremely premature infants require highly specialized ventilator management, and having these advanced units on site allows Mease Countryside Hospital to care for these babies close to home – eliminating the need to transfer some patients to St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital.
$100,000
Thanks to grant funding from the Men’s Giving Circle, Mease Countryside Hospital will now be able to upgrade its Interventional Radiology suite with biplane technology to treat complex neurovascular cases, vascular, and a range of non-vascular interventional procedures. Biplane imaging utilizes two rotating cameras, one on each side of the patient, to produce simultaneous and highly detailed images of blood vessels, soft tissue, and blood flow in real-time. 3-D biplane imaging helps our physicians create a “roadmap” to follow the path of blood flow through the patient’s vessels to treat the exact location of disease.
$100,000
The Giraffe Incubator Care Station is a state-of-the-art neonatal environment that promotes natural, peaceful healing while fostering family-centered care and bonding. Additionally, the health care team has improved access to the smallest patients, giving them a better chance at providing successful treatment while maintaining a stable thermal environment that is essential for neonatal healing. In addition, the Care Stations make it possible for parents to participate in the care of the infant, increasing bonding.
$50,000
Morton Plant Hospital will now be able to upgrade to the high-precision Varian TrueBeam Linear Accelerator to help offer new treatment options and new sources of optimism in the fight against cancer. Radiation therapy is instrumental in shrinking tumors, managing symptoms, and improving overall patient outcomes. The Varian TrueBeam Linear Accelerator rotates around the patient to deliver radiation from almost any angle and features improved imaging, real-time tumor tracking, and higher dose delivery accuracy, essential for treating complex cases.
$100,000
Thanks to the support of members of the Men’s Giving Circle, this neonatal transporter is being utilized at Mease Countryside Hospital to transport critical neonates from the main Emergency Department and Operating Rooms to the hospital’s Labor and Delivery Department and NICU. This upgraded piece of technology will allow for safer and more effective immediate stabilization of the preterm infant, which can ultimately lead to decreased length of stay and improved clinical outcomes.
$40,000
Thanks to grant funding from the Men’s Giving Circle, Mease Countryside Hospital will now be able to upgrade its final cardiac catheterization lab with the Philips Azurion image guided therapy platform. This equipment allows clinicians to perform complex interventional procedures such as angioplasty, a minimally invasive catheter-based procedure that opens narrowed or blocked arteries that supply blood to the heart, more precisely. This technology produces real-time images that are projected on a 58-inch, HD screen with such clarity that it allows clinicians to navigate through the tiniest blood vessels with confidence.
$50,000
Employment of respiratory therapists is projected to grow 23% from 2020 to 2030, much faster than the average for all occupations. There is currently a significant shortage of Respiratory Therapists throughout our hospitals. Our hospitals can strengthen the partnership with St. Pete College (SPC) to enhance enrollment. This request is to provide tuition reimbursement for up to 10 graduates while funding one clinical instructor with a focus exclusively on overseeing and coordinating oversight of Respiratory Therapist students
$20,000
Tru-D is a portable UV disinfection system that delivers an automated, measured dose of UVC light to help kill deadly pathogens and common health care-associated infection culprits throughout a room. Compensating for size, shape and contents, Tru-D takes the appropriate time necessary to disinfect every room, eliminating human error in the disinfection process.
$40,000
For patients at the Madonna Ptak Rehab Center at Morton Plant to provide pressure relief, comfort, prevent new skin injuries and heal existing pressure injuries. This 120-bed in-patient rehab and long-term care facility treats patients with limited mobility, advancing age, and complex medical conditions.
$25,000
The prostate cancer program provides community outreach, diagnosis and treatment, and counseling services and support groups. DAISY program rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by dedicated nurses every day throughout the hospitals of Morton Plant Mease.
$20,000 (Prostate) $5,000 (DAISY)
For more than 45 years, Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation has provided philanthropic support to the not-for-profit hospitals of Morton Plant Mease Health Care, including Morton Plant, Clearwater; Mease Dunedin; Mease Countryside, Safety Harbor and Morton Plant North Bay, New Port Richey. The close connection between the hospitals of Morton Plant Mease and their neighbors reveal a unique spirit of giving – a relationship characterized by people caring for the hospitals that care for them.
Donor information is kept strictly confidential. We will not share or sell a donor’s personal information with anyone else, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations without written consent from the donor.
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