FY23 Southwest Heart and Vascular Impact

Thank you for your support

I am profoundly grateful for your philanthropic support of heart and vascular services at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. You play a very important role in enabling us to expand services to care for our growing community. Because of you, we have a beautiful, newly remodeled Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Department and a state-of-the-art Cardiac Cath Lab in which to perform life-saving procedures for our patients. You also supported caregiver appreciation and engagement activities.

I am very proud of our cardiovascular services here at PeaceHealth Southwest. Thank you for helping us to ensure that, in the event of a cardiovascular emergency, you and your loved ones will not need to travel far from home to receive safe, compassionate, high-quality cardiac care.

With deepest gratitude,

Don Moore Director for Cardiovascular Services

Cath Lab Two Replacement and New Electric Stretchers

Cardiac catheterization, also known as cardiac cath or heart catheterization, is a medical procedure used to diagnose and treat some heart conditions. It lets doctors take a close look at the heart to identify problems and to perform other tests or procedures.

Recently, philanthropy helped PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center complete a $4 million renovation to one of our six cardiac cathetarization labs. Generous contributions to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation assisted with the replacement of Cardiac Cath Lab Two. The new Cath Lab incorporates state-of-the-art digital imaging technology to ensure that our physicians have access to the very best image quality available during these critical procedures. The new equipment features improved radiation dose reduction technology designed to minimize patient and caregiver radiation exposure.

Thanks to donors like you, the Foundation also provided new cardiac prep and recovery stretchers that are more comfortable for patients and help to reduce caregiver injuries.

We are very grateful to you for helping us offer life-saving cardiac care to our community.

Recent Fund Distributions

made possible by your gifts

 $400,000 for Cardoiopulmonary Rehab Reno

 $35,867 for Cardiac Prep & Recovery Stretchers

 $13,750 toward Cath Lab Two Replacement

 $6,767 for Heart Week Staff Engagement

Cardiopulmonary Rehab Reno

Thanks to you and other generous donors, $400,000 was allocated to support the renovation of PeaceHealth Southwest’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Center located on the 1st floor of the Mother Joseph building. The renovation added 400 square feet of exercise space and two new patient interview rooms. There are also six new pieces of excercise equipment and an updated patient monitoring system that enables heart monitoring for up to 16 patients as they excercise, a 25% increase over the previous system.

Thank you for providing an enlarged and advanced rehab space for patients with cardiovascular and pulmonary concerns!

The Power of Your Giving

$456,384 in recent fund distributions to heart and vascular services

19,469 cardiovascular cases performed in FY22

11% increase in number of cases performed compared to FY21

Your heartfelt dedication to the health of your community is evident with every gift you make.

You make a lifesaving difference.

Your gifts help us provide exceptional cardiovascular care to your family, friends and neighbors right here in our community, close to home, in familiar and nurturing surroundings.

Your generosity allows us to purchase state-of-the-art equipment to keep us at the leading edge of heart and vascular care. You also enable us to upgrade facilities that benefit hundreds of heart and vascular patients every day.

Your leadership inspires us as we continue our Mission of serving those entrusted to our care.

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation

Appreciation for our outstanding Heart and Vascular Team

In honor of National Heart Week, PeaceHealth Southest Medical Center Foundation allocated $6,767 toward the purchase of personalized team jackets to celebrate the Heart and Vascular department staff. We are extremely proud of our compassionte caregivers, and thankful for all they do to provide outstanding care to our community.

Thank you for making this possible!

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The nurses were really amazing during my stay. I really appreciated the continuity of care at night with my RN, James. He made my transition out of surgery much more bearable. I can’t say enough about the quality of these people. I’m grateful for their service.

— Grateful patient

CFRE Chief Development Officer