Annual Giving Campaign 2010 Donations

As part of its 2010 Annual Giving Campaign, the West Park Hospital Foundation donated items to several WPH departments, totaling $50,000.

Long Term Care Center

• Automatic Lift Chairs: Provide better comfort and safer positioning for residents and staff when transferring in and out of recliners.
• Bladder Scanner: Performs an ultrasound on patient’s bladders instead of catherization.
• Dinatap Vital Signs Monitor: Provides consistent and accurate readings for a patient's blood pressure, pulse, respirations and oxygen saturation.
• Six electric beds

Rehab Services and Cardiopulmonary (to benefit patients in the cardiac rehab program)

• Nu-Step Recumbant Stepper
• SciFit Arm Ergometer

Spirit Mountain Hospice House

With the direction and help from The WPH Foundation, the Spirit Mountain Hospice will became a reality with the groundbreaking Oct. 6! The WPH Foundation, along with the dedicated Spirit Mountain Hospice staff, realized the community need and is building an 8-bed hospice house right here in Cody.

After enlisting the services of hospice professionals who closely examined the region’s population dynamics, disease occurrences, age demographics and the hospital’s financial capabilities, Spirit Mountain Hospice has determined that a new 10,000 square foot hospice house will include:

• 8 private inpatient bedrooms with private bathrooms, family nooks and patios
• Meeting rooms, living room, kitchen/dining room, small chapel, nurses station, counseling rooms, laundry room
• 24/7 professional staff including registered nurses and certified nursing assistants
  Additional staff includes: social workers, chaplaincy and volunteers
• West Park Hospital will provide pharmacy, meals, medical supplies and administrative support

With these facts in hand, coupled with the knowledge that Spirit Mountain Hospice can serve enough patients to keep an inpatient hospice house financially viable, community leaders agreed to help initiate a $2.8 million capital campaign. Funds will be used to build, furnish and equip a state-of-the-art inpatient hospice house to ensure care of patients and their loved ones as they experience the final stage of life.