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Hospitals in New Hampshire want to work together to provide relief to those
affected by Hurricane Katrina so they adopted a hospital that was severely
impacted from this storm.
Hancock Medical Center, in Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi, was in the eye of the hurricane. It sustained
substantial damage. Many of the hospital’s 500 employees lost their homes.
Hancock Medical Center’s immediate need is to help members of the Hancock
Medical Center family get reestablished. The New Hampshire hospital community
adopted Hancock Medical Center and its employees.
The Partnership for Hancock Relief fund, coordinated by the New Hampshire
Hospital Association, is accepting donations for direct financial aid for
Hancock Medical Center employees who suffered personal losses. Contributions are
tax deductible and 100% of all contributions go toward direct relief.
This will be a long-term effort. We will work with Hancock Medical Center as it
gets back on its feet to identify other employee and facility needs that we can
work together to help meet.
NHHA Executive Vice President
Kathy Bizarro visited Hancock Medical Center in February and returned to New
Hampshire with stories of courage, strength and spirit. Click
HERE
to see Kathy's presentation of her visit, which includes photos of HMC's
recovery progress and the staff that's working so hard!
Please join the Partnership for Hancock Relief by making a contribution now.
Click HERE to
download the Partnership for Hancock Relief donation form. Click
HERE to see Hancock
Medical Center's hospital equipment wish list.
For more information about the Partnership for Hancock Relief,
contact Kathy Bizarro at kbizarro@nhha.org
or (603)225-0900.
November 3, 2005
Hospitals and Wal-Mart team up to help Hancock Medical Center
Six weeks after New Hampshire hospitals created the Partnership for Hancock
Relief, they are answering a new call for assistance to help a hospital in
Mississippi recover from Hurricane Katrina, thanks in part to collaboration with
the world’s largest retailer.
Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, asked NHHA for equipment
and supplies necessary to offer in-patient services as reconstruction continues.
The wish list includes large items such as beds, stretchers, x-ray machines,
exam tables and a fetal monitor, and smaller items like scales, chairs and blood
pressure cuffs.
Once again, hospitals in New Hampshire rose to the challenge.
They checked their own inventories and came up with dozens of items, worth tens
of thousands of dollars, to donate to the partnership's adopted hospital.
Wal-Mart generously stepped in to solve the logistical problem of shipping all
of the donated equipment. Wal-Mart sent out three trucks to make stops at nine
hospitals all over the state on Thursday, November 3: Cheshire Medical Center in
Keene, Manchester’s Catholic Medical Center and Elliot Hospital, Exeter
Hospital, Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Littleton Regional Hospital,
Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, New London Hospital and Speare
Memorial Hospital in Plymouth. The loads from those three trucks will then be
loaded onto one truck, which will begin a 24-hour journey to Hancock Medical
Center on Friday morning.
Three Wal-Mart trucks hit the road early to pick up donations
from hospitals across the state
A Wal-Mart truck makes a stop at Speare Memorial Hospital in
Plymouth
Corrinne MacDonald of Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester
helps load one of the stretchers being donated
November 3, 2005
Partnership receives donation from Northway Bank
The Partnership for Hancock Relief received $5,000 from Northway Bank. Bank
president and CEO William Woodward presented the check to NHHA president Mike
Hill on November 3. Northway Bank's Community Counts Award usually goes to
people or organizations in New Hampshire, but the bank was made aware of the
Partnership from Androscoggin Valley Hospital and Speare Memorial Hospital.
Northway Bank believed the situation in the Gulf Coast warranted donation to
Hancock's health care workers.
Northway Bank is the result of the recent merger of The Berlin City Bank and
Pemigewasset National Bank.
Northway Bank president and CEO William Woodward, second from
left, presents a check for $5,000 to NHHA president Mike Hill, second from
right. Speare Memorial Hospital president and CEO Michelle McEwen and
Androscoggin Valley Hospital CEO Russ Keene, far right, look on.
October 25, 2005
Hancock Medical Center has sent the Partnership its
wish list of
equipment and supplies necessary to move to the next phase of recovery.
HMC opened its emergency department a couple of weeks ago and are working hard
to open 15 inpatient beds on their first floor very soon.
New Hampshire's hospitals are encouraged to review the list and consider which
items they can donate. The list will be updated on this page as the requests are
fulfilled.
Click
HERE to view a video clip of Hancock Medical Center (choose Video #5 -
"Medical Center Perseveres". It was done by CBS News on September 1, 2005. It
shows what the hospital went through and what the facility looks like after the
hurricane.
Click
HERE for a
PowerPoint presentation that describes Hancock Medical Center and what happened
to it and the city of Bay St. Louis during the hurricane. Feel free to download
the file and use it to promote the Partnership for Hancock Relief.
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