Wish List
Give a gift.
Change a life.
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The holiday season is the time to share expressions of love, thankfulness and giving. Wish list gifts are a perfect way to comfort the sick and support patients and families in need. You can provide a meaningful life-changing and lifesaving service otherwise unavailable. At Spectrum Health, including Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, we are enhancing the patient experience and meeting urgent needs for patients struggling with medical issues.
Giving is easy. • Choose a gift. s Gifts are listed alphabetically and include the specialty department or community hospital in need of each gift. • Purchase the gift, or a portion of a gift with a share. • Order at give.spectrumhealth.org/wishlistcatalog, call 616.391.2000 or complete the attached form and send back in the postage-paid envelope.
Give comfort and hope… It’s a gift worth giving!
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Adaptive Gardening Tools
121
$25
Your gift provides functional and meaningful opportunities to patients and families. The adaptive gardening tools provide stroke, spinal cord injury and arthritic patients the ability to strengthen muscle and improve coordination while nurturing their green thumb. Using the tools help patients return to a healthy, active and happy lifestyle, which reduces the chance of a sedentary lifestyle, falls or depression. • Continuing Care Rehabilitation • Inpatient Rehab at Blodgett Hospital • Renucci Hospitality House
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Blanket Warmers One Share
122 $ 5,000 123 $100
Give the comfort of warmth on a late night or cool morning during a time of worry. • Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Surgery Preparation and Recovery Area • Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion • Regional Hospitals s Big Rapids Hospital s Gerber Memorial s Kelsey Hospital s Ludington Hospital s Pennock s Reed City Hospital s United Hospital s Zeeland Community Hospital
Digital Camera/Photo Printer One Share
124 125
$800 $50
Create a memorial keepsake for parents dealing with the loss of their baby. • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit • Women and Infant Services
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Exercise Equipment
126 $10 or 127 $25
Purchase resistance bands, gym bags, water bottles and other equipment for those struggling with obesity and help prevent long-term physical ailments. • Continuing Care Rehabilitation • Healthy Weight Center • Pediatric Nephrology
Expressive Art Supplies
128
$25
Your gift of expressive art supplies helps patients financially, physically and emotionally. Earn spending cash, swish a brush, and add a stroke of color to their life. “You have to never give up on them,” said Ranae Couture, program coordinator. “Build on their strengths. Help them find their way in the creative process so they can become confident with their unique style of expression, and this will be healing.” • Cancer Center • Child Life Program • Inpatient Rehab and Nursing Center • Nephrology • Outpatient Surgery Clinics • Pediatric Hematology and Oncology • Pediatric Ophthalmology • Pediatric Orthopedics
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Gas Cards
129 $10 or 130 $25
Help provide needed transportation to families traveling to and from the hospital. Family love and support are essential to the recovery process. • Big Rapids Hospital • Center for Child Protection • The Gerber Foundation Neonatal Center (NICU) • Rheumatology • Pediatric Endocrine Clinic • Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Program • Pediatric Neurology • Pediatric Oncology Resource Team • Pediatric Orthopaedics • Reed City Hospital • United Lifestyles
Incision and Cleft Lip Bears and Educational Videos
131
$20
The surgical procedure developed by Robert Mann, MD, a pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgeon at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, is transforming the journey for children born with a cleft palate. Give confidence and acceptance to children going through cleft palate and cranial surgery. These stuffed bears have stitches just like the patients, providing emotional support to children undergoing cranial surgery. To read more about patients like John (pictured below) go to healthbeat.com • Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery
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iPad Air (32GB) with Shockproof Case and Screen Protector iPad Speakers/Docking Station One Share of speakers and station
132 133 134
$595 $175 $25
The first time in the hospital is a frightening experience for any sick child. The iPad Air is a wonderful distraction and helps reduce the child’s anxiety when receiving painful procedures. • Child Life • Music Therapy • Pediatric Emergency • Pediatric Radiology
Journals
135
$10
Help patients express emotions and chronicle their journey with journals. This keepsake provides a safe place to let go of anger, resentment and fear and facilitates openness to peace and comfort. • Bereavement Services • Centering Pregnancy Program • Hospice • Pediatric Adolescent Medicine • Pediatric Nephrology
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Laptop Computers
136
$850
Support the women’s health unit with access to the outside world and current events and ease the duration of a pregnant mom’s medically required hospital inpatient stay. Reducing stress benefits mom and baby and provides the best opportunity for a healthy birth. • Women and Children’s Center
Lymphedema Sleeve One Share
137 138
$100 $10
Cancer treatment often includes surgery to remove lymph nodes. Normally, lymph nodes filter fluid as it flows through them. Without normal lymph drainage, fluid can build up in the affected arm or leg, and lymphedema can develop. Your gift of compression sleeves will contain the swelling for patients battling cancer. • Cancer Center
Massage
139 $50 or 140 $75
Give the healing touch to patients at the beginning and end of life. Massage stimulates growth for newborn babies and eases pain for hospice patients. • Infant massage • Hospice massage
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Meal Vouchers
141
$25
Some of our families are in need of a healthy, nutritious meal while waiting for their loved ones to heal and need a voucher to eat at one of the hospital cafeterias and restaurants. • Big Rapids Hospital • Blodgett Hospital • Butterworth Hospital • Cancer Center • Gerber Memorial • Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital • Kelsey Hospital • Ludington Hospital • Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center • Pennock • Reed City Hospital • Spectrum Health • United Hospital • Zeeland Community Hospital
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Musical Instruments One Full Share Half Share
142 $1,000 143 $500 144 $ 100
Music therapy is more than music. Music distracts a patient during a medical procedure, records heartbeats to soothe a newborn or parent’s pain in losing a child, and measures alertness of a coma patient. • Cancer Center • Continuing Care • Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital • Neurology • Rehabilitation Home Care
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Nurture Smart Mobiles
145
$100
Your gift of a Nurture Smart Mobile, the most advanced mobile available on the market, to the neonatal intensive care unit provides exceptional visual and auditory stimulation for newborn babies. The mobile is completely disinfectable, has no removable parts that can fall into the crib and offers multiple soft sound options to comfort babies. • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Pediatric Clothing
146
$25
In emergency situations, children come in with clothes that are destroyed or ruined. Your gift of clothing will give children a new outfit to leave the hospital when discharged and will provide comfort during traumatic circumstances. • Child Protection Services • Emergency Department
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Radiant Wraps
147
$60
Your gift provides a fashionable alternative to a hospital gown during radiation treatments. Wraps provide every patient with an extra measure of privacy, comfort, beauty and style. • Cancer Center
Renucci Hospitality House Overnight Stays
148
$45
Your gift will provide a night of comfort to a family member of a patient.
“Thank you so much for providing this beautiful room. My husband had heart surgery yesterday. This will allow me three nights of rest. I live 90 miles away. This room is decorated as wonderfully as any hotel room. I have not had to leave the building for anything. Thank you again for this wonderful service. God bless all of you.” - A recent guest
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Sensory Hammock
149
$260
Pediatric rehabilitation uses sensory treatment to provide children with deep body pressure, to develop coordination and strength. Your gift will help children return home and get back to their regular childhood activities. • Pediatric Rehabilitation
Simulation Lab Programs Help our clinicians practice complex medical procedures in the safety of the simulation lab by purchasing one of several programs. Practice builds confidence and minimizes medical errors.
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Pneumonia leading to respiratory distress in a child with asthma
150
Recognizing and treating dehydration
151
Treating a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis
152
Treating a patient with a ruptured appendix
153
$300 $300 $500 $500
Whitecaps Baseball Outing for 75 patients One Full Share Half Share
154 155 156
$1,718 $500 $250
Your gift of a trip to the ballpark would help boost morale and confidence with a group outing to a local game. • Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery
100 percent of every gift goes to programs and services helping patients and families.
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