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Rushville Eagles donates to Rush Memorial Hospital Foundation
For the second consecutive year in a row the Rushville Eagles Lodge (No. FOE 2036) has helped the Rush Memorial Hospital Foundation to receive a grant for the Sheehan Cancer Center.
How this came about is a lesson in teamwork: The Rushville Eagles group had sent representatives to a convention. Larry Tompkins, Steve Jessup and Ellis Herbert listened to the speakers at a convention meeting, brought back the grant information and forms, talked it over at the Lodge, and called the hospital to ask if RMH still needed equipment for the cancer building.
Of course, things are always needed; a new building has to be filled with all the accouterments of caring for patients.
After completing the grant application, the grant was returned to Larry, and he made sure it was signed by the local Eagles trustees and mailed on to Harold Wineinger, Indiana State Secretary of the FOE. It then was directed to the Director of the Art Ehrmann Cancer Fund, in Ohio.
The parameters of the grant required that it be used for cancer equipment needs. This year a blanket warmer, dinamaps, an ice machine, IV poles, and Flo-Gard Volumetric Infusion Pumps were asked for. The total grant awarded was $21,106.10.
This equipment will go directly to the Sheehan Cancer Center on the third floor of the new Medical Office Building, located on 13th and Main, adjacent to the hospital.
Now all treatment rooms will have equipment and will not have to share infusion pumps, poles, and dinamaps.
Thanks to the Eagles grant, the blankets will be warmed on-site and not travel from the hospital only to arrive no longer warm at the third floor cancer suite.
Chartered in 1944, F.O.E. has become a leader in philanthropy. The Eagles main philanthropic causes are: Cancer, Kidney Research, Heart Research, Diabetes, and the Ronald McDonald House.
Special thanks go to Rushville Eagle club members for making this grant a reality.
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