Author: Claire Gedde

Log A Load For Kids raises $8,700 for PA Children’s Hospitals

by Claire Gedde

The Pennsylvania forestry community recently raised a generous donation amount for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) designated PA Children’s Hospitals by conducting a Log A Load For Kids Pheasant Hunt Sporting Event at the Warriors Mark Wing Shooting Lodge near Gintner, PA.

Under the Log A Load For Kids Program loggers (and others) donate the value of one load of logs (or any amount) to help critically ill and injured children at Children’s Miracle Network designated Children’s Hospitals.

Thirty-six hunters braved subzero wind chill weather to participate in the 2017 Log A Load For Kids Pheasant Hunt and along with 28 sponsors and six direct donations raised the overall $8,710 donation amount for PA Children’s hospitals. The event sponsors are: A.M. Logging, AgChoice Farm Credit, Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring, Ashville VFW Post 4315, Bingaman & Son Lumber, Blue Ox Timber Resources, C & C Smith Lumber Co., Cam & Craig Koons, Deer Park Lumber Co., Delullo Trucking, Duane Cameron, Dwight Lewis Lumber Company, Energex Corporation, Jim and Linda Finley, Klines Equipment, Kuhns Lumber Company, Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Paul Lyskava, Pennsylvania Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Committee, R. J. Hoffman & Sons, Renno Brothers Lumber Company, Richard Lewis, Rorabaugh Lumber Co., Salem Hardwoods, Shultheis Roofing, Stella-Jones, Alan Wegard, Wheeland Lumber Co., and Foster F. Wineland Inc.

This Annual Log A Load For Kids Pheasant Hunt is hosted by the Pennsylvania Forest Products Association (PFPA) and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association (PFA). PFPA Membership Representative Bob Long served as overall manager for this Log a Load Event. One of the original founders of this Log A Load Event that started 25 years ago, Bob once again exhibited his longstanding personal commitment to the Log A Load For Kids Program and to Pennsylvania Children’s Hospitals.

 

Photo 1 – Thirty-six hunters and sponsors raised $9,000 for PA CMN designated Children’s Hospitals at 2017 Log A Load For Kids Pheasant Hunt.

Photo 2 – Successful pheasant hunters Dan Anna (left) and Bob Rorabaugh (right)

Photo 3 – Hunt participants enjoy a prime rib beef  luncheon at the Warriors Mark Lodge

New Children’s Transport Vehicle – Funds Provided by Children’s Miracle Network

by Claire Gedde

Today, officials with Vidant Medical Center, Vidant EastCare and the Vidant Medical Center Foundation launched the new children’s transport vehicle with a splash of water to make it official.

Vidant EastCare is an advanced critical transport service that is committed to providing the highest level of care for the people of eastern North Carolina. Staff identified a need for a transport vehicle to be added to the EastCare fleet that was specifically outfitted and designed to care for infants and children during their journey to the hospital.

Children’s Miracle Network – Greenville, NC provided the funds for this new specialized vehicle, which means that the money raised to pay for it came from right here in eastern North Carolina. Children’s Miracle Network is a fundraising arm of the Vidant Health Foundation.

More than 1,500 patients a year are transported to the James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital in order to receive specialty care in the neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit, general pediatrics, or kids’ immunosuppressed specialty unit (KISU).

“We are so fortunate here in eastern North Carolina to have access to higher levels of pediatric specialty care such as cardiology, hematology/oncology and neurology, just to mention a few,” said Brian Floyd, president, Vidant Medical Center. “And now we have a vehicle designed for our pediatric patients to get them to this specialty care.”

A dedicated children’s hospital transport team will provide transport services for sick infants and children throughout eastern North Carolina. The team is comprised of intensive-care trained nurses who are skilled at providing the specialty care many of these children need from the onset of transport to the arrival at the Maynard Children’s Hospital. With the addition of the new children’s transport vehicle, this team will be available 24/7 by helicopter or ambulance whenever a child in the region is in need.

“Specialized equipment such as an incubator for babies born prematurely allows the children’s hospital transport team members to provide high quality care throughout the entire transport process,” said Dr. Ryan Moore, co-medical director, Maynard Children’s Hospital. “Attending physicians in our specialty units in Maynard Children’s Hospital provide guidance to the team members via frequent updates regarding the patient’s clinical status.”

Joining Floyd and Moore in the official launching of the vehicle were Joel Butler, president of Vidant Health Foundation, and Scott Sampey, senior administrator of Vidant East Care.