Spring Edition Welcome to the Spring Edition of In Good Health. Spring blossoms are appearing on tree branches, and the sun is shining more often than not. A beautiful way for nature to herald the arrival of a warmer season and the end of winter. As the year continues to
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Our raffles to raise money to purchase a new palliative care bed have been a resounding success!
We are proud to announce that with the support of our community we have raised the $12,000 needed to purchase a palliative care bed for the Werribee Mercy Hospital’s Palliative Care ward. We were really overwhelmed by the generous donations given to us by local businesses as prizes for our raffle hampers.
A new renal chair for dialysis patients has been purchased with your support
We are proud to announce that your generous donations during our 2021 Renal Dialysis Appeal have provided the Werribee Mercy Hospital’s Renal Dialysis Unit with a new renal chair. This chair will help kidney patients in our community receive quicker access to dialysis, and enable the Renal Unit to process more patients.
Raffle winner of $500 Pacific Werribee Voucher to help raise funds for new palliative care bed
Our lucky raffle winner of the $500 Pacific Werribee voucher, Jenny Jimenez, is pictured collecting her prize. We are grateful to everyone that entered our raffle and helped raise money towards the purchase of a palliative care bed. 100% of proceeds from our raffle will go towards this much-needed purchase.
Bunnings generous donation to refurb Emergency Department garden area
Bunnings Werribee and Bunnings Hoppers Crossing banded together to kindly refurbish the Werribee Mercy Hospital’s Emergency Department garden area. The project involved erecting a gazebo and paving the area. Bunnings also donated equipment and materials for the hospital to use in the future. Thank-you Bunnings for continually supporting your communities! A
Winter 2021 – In Good Health Newsletter
Winter Edition Winter is upon us and it’s getting mighty chilly in Melbourne. At the time of writing this newsletter Victoria is in the middle of its fourth lockdown, which can be a difficult time for many people for lots of different reasons. We will get through this together, and
Our 1st Prize Winner of our Easter Raffle
Molly is the happy recipient of the 1st Prize Hamper in our Easter Raffle. Her huge smile is proof winners are grinners! There were 8 fantastic hampers to give away, and we’d like to thank Maddy from Prime Residential Property Management in Point Cook for assisting with the raffle draw.
EZ-IO Drill kindly donated to Werribee Mercy Hospital by local business owner, Anu Aggarwal
Local resident and business owner of Find My Real Estate, Anu Aggarwal, was a patient at Werribee Mercy Hospital when he experienced thunderstorm asthma. His extreme gratitude for the wonderful staff that helped saved him has driven his desire to want to give back. After a coffee with the Werribee Hospital
Autumn 2021 – In Good Health Newsletter
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2021 is well and truly here, and we are so relieved that we can currently move about our community and carry out our work in a less restricted fashion than the previous (surreal) year! On that note, I would like to wish you all a Happy New
Funds raised to upgrade outdated Mental Health Line
The Werribee Mercy Hospital manages mental health services across Melbourne’s South West, operating a 24-hour mental health triage line for people in acute mental distress and for referrals to support services. The line receives upwards of 25,000 calls each year, and the pandemic has created an unprecedented and fast-escalating demand.
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