How You Can Help
Over the years, Sutter Lakeside Hospital has provided Lake County with numerous new services, always striving to provide for all the community's health care needs right here in Lake County.
Today, through the continued generosity of our community we are planning and building for the future health care needs of the community, including the establishment of new programs in illness prevention.
About the Lakeside Wellness Foundation
The Lakeside Wellness Foundation supports the Wellness Center and the Hospitals’ community health programs. Going beyond hospital and clinic care, Sutter Lakeside Hospital is committed to improving the health of the community through innovative, holistic wellness programs and services geared toward health promotion and illness prevention. Our goal is to inspire people to make changes that will move them closer to their desired goals and a healthier, happier life. Sutter Lakeside Hospital is proud to provide quality health services to Lake County's most disadvantaged and vulnerable residents.
Fundraising for Hospital Programs
Since its inception in 2002, the Lakeside Wellness Foundation has been raising funds that support wellness programs addressing the community’s most pressing health issues. The Foundation supports making wellness affordable and accessible through sliding scale, scholarships and low-cost fitness programs and by striving to get fundamental health services those who need them most.
Our annual Gala Event is the heart of the Lakeside Wellness Foundation’s fundraising activities. With the community’s help, Sutter Lakeside’s fundraising events have been very successful, generating valuable funding to enable Sutter to help teens, adults, children and seniors county-wide. As we seek to increase the impact and scope of our preventive health programs, so the need for community resources increases.
Individual and Community support not only provides critical funds to urgently needed health programs for Lake County’s most vulnerable community members, it also demonstrates the kind of leadership and public endorsements required for our programs to be successful and our community to thrive.
2008 Lakeside Wellness Foundation Accomplishments
- Served nearly 9,000 children and families with our “Healthy Kids Are Contagious” programs that provide wellness education to all schools in Lake County and distributed 800 curriculum binders to 6th grade students
- Raised funds to provide the following life-saving medical devices and specialized training for hospital staff:
- Grant to provide advanced training and best practice protocols for anticoagulation therapy
- Blood lead screening machine for pediatric patients
- Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) device to aid recovery after joint surgery
- Provided over 75 scholarships to Create Your Health (Wellness University), Lighten Up, and Stress Reduction and Relaxation programs to help at-risk adults take charge of their health
- Provided 50 scholarships for Lake County children to attend Camp Watta Watta as part of our campaign to empower children to achieve and maintain good health
- Completed the Mobile Health Services Unit capital campaign, raising over $150,000 from individuals, service groups, health care providers and community leaders to purchase the Unit and meeting a $100,000 matching grant
- Collaborated with the Health Leadership Network to develop a plan to address childhood obesity in Lake County.
In 2009 the Lakeside Wellness Foundation and Wellness Center Team wish to do the following:
- Purchase the Medical Mobile Unit and begin providing access to basic health care at no cost to at-risk populations around the county
- Purchase wireless fetal heart monitoring equipment to enhance the birthing experience
- Expand the wellness education programs to all communities around the lake. We intend to strengthen partnerships with other Lake County agencies that serve at-risk populations, particularly pregnant women and families with children
- Increase the volume of children served by continuing to offer Camp Watta Watta and by partnering with the schools to provide mandated wellness programming
- Increase investment in Healthy Kids are Contagious program
- Partner with businesses to assist in promoting employee health and wellbeing and to decrease illness care costs, sick time, and workers’ compensation claims while boosting productivity and job satisfaction
- Purchase a BiliSoft LED Phototherapy System for treatment of indirect hyperbilirubinemia in newborns
- Enhance each patient's healing experience by providing in-room accommodations and supplies for family members
- Expand the fitness room capacity to accommodate more students.
Contact:
Tammi Silva, Director
Lakeside Wellness Foundation
5176 Hill Road East
Lakeport, CA 95453
Phone: (707) 262-5189
Email: friendsofsutter@sutterhealth.org