Monthly Archives July 2015

Hearst Foundation Awards $75,000 grant to Memorial Hospital Foundation

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation awarded its second grant to Memorial Hospital at Gulfport Foundation.  The grant funding will be used to support the expansion of Memorial’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).   In 2010, the Foundation was awarded a grant in the amount of $50,000 to support Memorial’s Infusion Center. As part of the expansion, Memorial’s NICU will transition from an outdated “open ward” style unit to 23 semi-private rooms. The new NICU will have a completed area of 15,509 square feet and increase the capacity to keep pace with community need. “We are so grateful to the Hearst Foundation
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Will Rogers Institute’s Brave Beginnings NICU Grant Program Donates to Memorial Foundation

The Will Rogers Institute’s Brave Beginnings NICU grant program has awarded a $33,000 grant to Memorial Hospital Foundation to purchase a Giraffe Omnibed for Memorial Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).   “We truly appreciate the generosity of Will Rogers Institute’s Brave Beginnings NICU grant program,” said Wayne Laubmeier, Manager, Memorial NICU. “This piece of equipment will provide our team with the proper environment to treat critically-ill newborns.”   The Giraffe Omnibed, by GE Healthcare, is a combination system that brings together the features of both a traditional incubator and a radiant warmer. This supportive microenvironment creates an unsurpassed healing environment
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