Big cheque: Kyabram District Health Service board member Chris Motton, with Ladies Auxiliary members Marg Chalker and Heather Fehring, and KDHS board chair Dale Denham.
Kyabram District Health Service (KDHS) hosted the Ladies Auxiliary last Friday afternoon to thank the group for donating $20,000.
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The funds will go towards furniture for the Sheridan Aged Care facility.
“We are very thankful and appreciative of all the efforts and the money raised,” KDHS board chair Dale Denham said.
“The Ladies Auxiliary are a big part of KDHS and we hope to continue the relationship going forward.”
The Ladies Auxiliary has worked with KDHS since 1933. In those 89 years the group has helped tremendously, from washing linen, making beds, and helping patients when staffing was short.
The auxiliary has donated $250,000 to KDHS since 2001, alongside many other items to make the hospital more homely, from new beds to medical equipment.
The kiosk which is open to staff and the public wouldn’t have come to fruition without the auxiliary, who opened it in the 1960s. They were responsible for staffing and rostering, to ensure it was open for everybody.
“Without the auxiliary the hospital certainly wouldn’t be in the position we are today,” Mr Denham said.
He said the large sum of total donations showed how tirelessly the group had worked for KDHS.
“KDHS will be forever indebted to the contributions of the auxiliary and today we want to acknowledge and show gratitude for all that has been accomplished.”
Hospital helpers: Members of the KDHS Ladies Auxiliary with KDHS Chief Executive Anne McEvoy (left).
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