Memorial Hospital Foundation Receives Estate Gift The Memorial Hospital foundation has received a gift in the amount of $180,000 from the estate of John and Edythe Meyer of Long Beach. Edythe and her husband Cmdr. John M. Meyer were married in 1947 and spent years traveling the world together.  They retired to the Gulf Coast after careers in the Air Force and as a hairdresser.  Edythe was also an artist and truly found her niche while living in Japan where they were stationed with the US Air Force. The Meyer gift, one of the largest estate settlements received by the
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Memorial Hospital Recognized by ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation   GULFPORT, Miss. —Memorial Hospital ThinkFirst Chapter was recognized as the 2016 Chapter of the Year by the ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation at its annual conference in Chicago, Ill. on May 1.   The Chapter of the Year award recognizes a high-performing chapter that demonstrates exemplary service and productivity. It is based on conducting activities supporting each of the core components of the ThinkFirst mission—education (brain and spinal cord injury prevention), research and advocacy.   “We were thrilled to receive this award on behalf of all of our community partners,” said
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Memorial Hospital Announces Burdonne Young Scholarship Recipients The Memorial Hospital Foundation has announced the winners of the 2016 Burdonne Young Scholarships. The scholarships are named in honor of the late Burdonne Young, former nurse for Memorial for over 50 years. These scholarships are awarded annually to dependents of Memorial employees enrolled as a full-time, undergraduate student at a college or university in the Fall of 2016 or are currently enrolled at a university. Memorial Hospital Foundation selects six candidates to receive the Burdonne Young Scholarships. The Scholarships are made possible by Memorial employees who donated funds through the Foundation Employee
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 28, 2015 MEDIA CONTACT: Janet Stuart (228) 867-5292 ▪ jstuart@mhg.com   Memorial Receives Donation in Memory of Baby Rose Watts   GULFPORT, Miss. —Memorial Birthplace and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) mothers received care packages, in loving memory of Rose “Rosie” Margaret Watts, from her parents Allison and Mark Watts on December 16, 2015.   The Watts held a charity drive, on November 7, 2015, to collect comfort and toiletry items for new mothers staying at the hospital while their child is in the NICU. The charity drive collected enough items for 118 mothers to receive
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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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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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The Memorial Hospital Foundation will receive $26,500 in grant funding for the Foundation’s Breast Imaging Special Needs Patient Fund from the Susan G. Komen “Central Mississippi Steel Magnolias”. The goal of the Foundation’s Breast Imaging Special Needs Patient Fund is to help patients in need of mammograms, MRI’s and Ultrasounds. Women or men who are uninsured or underinsured may apply for funding at Memorial Hospital. With this grant, the Foundation will assist hundreds of special needs patients. The Central Mississippi Steel Magnolias’ service area includes 59 counties in Mississippi including the Gulf Coast. Memorial Hospital Foundation has been a grant recipient of
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  Photographed Left to Right: Elizabeth Haney, Tanner Nielson, Zachary Ladner, Alex Denette, Sarah Rimmer, Emily Malley The Memorial Hospital Foundation has announced this year’s winners of the Burdonne Young Scholarship. The scholarships are named in honor of the late Burdonne Young, former nurse for Memorial Hospital for over 50 years. These scholarships are awarded annually to dependents of Memorial employees enrolled as a full-time, undergraduate student at a college or university in the Fall of 2015 or are currently enrolled at a university. This year, Memorial Hospital Foundation was able to select six candidates to receive the Burdonne Young
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On Friday, February 6th members of the  9th grade student council  at Gulfport High School visited Memorial to deliver stuffed animals to the Pediatric Unit.  The stuffed animals were donated as part of a community service project by the 9th grade student council.  Wayne Laubmeier, Manager of the Pediatrics at Memorial appreciated the donation. “We are truly grateful to these young students for thinking of us.”  We will use these toys to provide comfort to our young patients while they are in the hospital.    
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(Top L to R:  Paul Bertucci, FEB Distributing; Hannah Oliver; Clay Wagner, Hancock Bank; Tayla McKinney; Hannah Fitzpatrick; Chevis Swetman) (Top L to R:  Roianne Newman-Gutierrez; Teneala Spencer; Chevis Swetman; Haley Mount; Kaitlynn Snow) The Memorial Hospital Foundation has announced this year’s winners of the Burdonne Young Scholarship. The scholarships are named in honor of the late Burdonne Young, former nurse for Memorial Hospital for over 50 years. These scholarships are awarded annually to dependents of Memorial employees enrolled as a full-time, undergraduate student at a college or university in the Fall of 2014 or are currently enrolled at a
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GULFPORT, Miss. — On Monday, May 12, Jessi and Becca Hebert presented Memorial Foundation with a check for $3,241.00 to be donated to the Memorial Foundation  Breast Imaging Fund.  Jessi worked together with the student body and with the Lady Irish softball team to raise funds for the Dollars For Diagnosis project, which began in 2011.  Since the inception of this program, St. Patrick Catholic High School has donated a total of $12,680.76.  This includes matching gifts from Butch Oustalet and The First, a National Banking Association. Dollars For Diagnosis is a fundraising project at St. Patrick Catholic High School. 
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(L to R): Tara Owens, HR Analyst, Grand Biloxi Casino; Michael Miller, Slot Supervisor, Grand Biloxi Casino; Jill Champagne, Memorial cancer patient; Susan Lee, HR Engagement Specialist, Grand Biloxi Casino; and Shay Smith, Marketing Specialist, Grand Biloxi Casino.   GULFPORT, Miss. — Grand Biloxi Casino employees delivered 33 purple goodie bags to patients at Memorial Cancer Center Infusion Clinic on April 2. The bags included snacks, juice, lip balm, a word find book, and a handwritten card from third-grade students at Anniston Avenue Elementary School in Gulfport.  The Purple Bag Project was developed by 5-year-old Abby Warren. Abby made a
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GULFPORT, Miss. — The Kiwanis Clubs of Division 14, an anonymous donor with Gulf Coast Community Foundation, and Memorial Hospital Foundation purchased and delivered a new Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to Pass Christian Middle School in Pass Christian, Miss. on April 10. AED’s are used to restore the normal rhythm during cases of life threatening cardiac arrest. In 2008, the Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District of Kiwanis International began purchasing AED’s for schools in the three state districts. Since the inception of this program, 32 AED’s have been purchased by local Kiwanis Clubs for schools on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Learn more
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GULFPORT, Miss (01/09/14) – Memorial Hospital recently received a Starlight Fun Center mobile entertainment unit containing the latest gaming system that rolls bedside in hospitals to provide distractive entertainment and therapeutic play for pediatric patients. The unit was donated by Starlight’s Global Office.  For children facing surgery, enduring long outpatient treatments or fighting loneliness after hospital visiting hours have ended, Starlight Fun Center units provide a comforting break and important distraction. Nurses, physicians, Child Life Specialists and parents report back to Starlight that the system greatly improves the experience of hospitalization for their children. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf
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GULFPORT, Miss – The Great Southern Club has been an advocate for Memorial since 2011, making donations to the Breast Imaging Special Needs Fund to assist underserved women in our community needing breast imaging diagnostic services.  To date, they have donated $5,503.00 have assisted over fifty (50) women.   On December 5, representatives from Great Southern Club presented Memorial Hospital Foundation with a check for $1,861.00 to be applied to our Breast Imaging Special Needs Fund. Longtime Assistant Manager at Great Southern Club, Denise Bartula said “We have received letters from women who have been assisted with this fund, thanking us
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