Are you looking for that gift for someone who has everything?
The St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation has a number of gift ideas for you. You can select an item from our wish list below and make a donation to purchase the item in the name of a friend or loved one. We'll send a card to you noting that a gift has been made in your designee's name and the item you selected. It's simple, easy and it reduces your shopping worries while benefitting a good cause at the same time. Consider our wish list items below and if you find something of interest, please call the St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation at 816-943-2671.
Our Wish List
1. Durable Home Medical Equipment ($30-$50)
- Walkers
- Bath Benches
- Canes
- Bedside Commodes
2. Voucher for Lifeline Setup ($60) for patients going home from the hospital. Whenever an individual needs help, one press of his or her lightweight, waterproof help button activates a small, in-home unit called a communicator. It puts the subscriber in touch with a caring Lifeline Monitor who talks to you to find out what kind of help you need.
3. Food Court vouchers for families who are on limited budgets visiting patients in the medical center ($5 each).
4. Eight durable handicapped accessible benches ($2000 each) for main entrances to St. Joseph Medical Center with your name on a plaque below the bench.
5. Three crash carts replacements ($2500 each).
6. Dinamaps ($2500 each) a vital signs monitor for fast accurate and comfortable readings of temperature, blood pressure and oxygen saturation.
7. O2 sat monitor/pulse oximeter ($1800) for measuring oxygen level in the bloodstream.
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8. Two blanket warmers ($6000 each) to help warm blankets for patients before, during and after procedures.
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9. Empty Arms booklets($300 for 15) for parents coping with miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. The author covers all the feelings, fears and fantasies that come and adds a lot of easy to read and helpful information on physical reaction. There are practical suggestions and support for parents during this time.
10. Miscarriage booklets ($800 for 200). For parents experiencing fetal loss, this booklet deals with feelings, anger, guilt, questions, withdrawal, reaching out, dads, couples, relationships, the statements that hurt, and memorializing the baby.
11. When Hello Means Goodbye booklets ($800 for 200 booklets). This guide for parents whose child dies before birth, at birth or shortly after birth discusses feelings, physical symptoms, naming your baby, autopsies, funeral homes, friends, and more. There are many pages of comforting poems.
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12. Fathers Grieve Too booklets($400 for 200). This booklet for fathers provides helpful information on what you may feel, sections include "Being Angry", "Talking", "Working", "Your Relationship", and "Crying."
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13. Penquin Breast Milk Warmer ($4170) which warms up to four bottles of milk safely and consistently. This equipment reduces the risk of infection and cross contamination and helps babies to maintain thermal stability.
14. Seca Digital Diaper Scale ($177) keeps accurate intake and output on all intensive care babies.
15. Infant Car Seats ($50) for Healthy Beginnings moms and their babies(5 lbs to 22 lbs). Healthy Beginnings is a health promotion program that offers support, education and link to community resources for socially at risk pregnant families. Car seats are provided to families who complete the program.
16. Convertible Car Seats ($80) for Healthy Beginnings moms and their babies (5 lbs to 40 lbs). Healthy Beginnings is a health promotion program that offers support, education and link to community resources for socially at risk pregnant families. Car seats are provided to families who complete the program.
17. Bilichek Noninvasive Bilirubin Analyzer ($1000) for checking newborns for jaundice without the need to take their blood with a heel stick.
18. One hour of childbirth education ($200/hour) for Healthy Beginnings moms and their babies. Healthy Beginnings is a health promotion program that offers support, education and link to community resources for socially at risk pregnant families.
19. One hour of lactation instruction ($100/hour) for Healthy Beginnings moms and their babies. Healthy Beginnings is a health promotion program that offers support, education and link to community resources for socially at risk pregnant families.
20. Nu-Step ($4,530) for rehabilitation therapy patients to challenge endurance if the patient is unable to stand or walk.
21. Wide Parallel Bars ($1600) for rehabilitation therapy patients in wheelchairs. These bars with 38” clearance between beams allows the wheelchair to move between the bars.
22. Home Exercise Program ($1150) gives rehabilitation therapy patients handouts tailored to patients’ specific needs.
23. MetaNeb System ($4,995) for pulmonary patients to improve lung function and reduce length of stay.
24. The Breathe NIOV System ($4999) for pulmonary patients is a non-invasive open ventilation system designed to reduce the work of breathing and promote mobility by helping patients breath more easily.
25. Capnostream20 ETCO2 monitor ($4900/ each or $24.525 for ten) to monitor patients for sleep apnea post-operatively after sedation.