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summer also holds a rooftop
social, where it invites donors
and community VIPs and pro-
vides food, drink and live enter-
tainment and gives a rundown
of what the foundation is doing.
The foundation opted to mesh
the two for a livestream event.
But the backbone of the presen-
tation came from a suggestion
of a new board member.
Grande Ronde Hospital
Foundation has for years worked
with Brent Clapp Productions,
La Grande, to produce videos
of the hospital’s patients telling
their stories of how care, treat-
ment and even survival because
of the work of the foundation
and hospital.
Those videos are on the foun-
dation’s Youtube channel.
Flynn said the board member
suggested the foundation needed
to share more of the compelling
videos. They proved a fi ne fi t for
the online event.
One of the videos featured
Kim Hulse, a native of Pend-
leton who relocated to La
Grande in 1985. She went in for
a mammogram in 2017, and the
hospital’s then new 3D mam-
mography machine, which the
foundation provided, detected
an early cancer.
According to the hospital’s
mammography manager, Flynn
said, traditional tech would
not have found the cancer for
another three years.
“So now, four years later,
she lives cancer-free with her
partner in Arizona,” he said.
The capstone video of the
event was the most emotional,
telling the story of Matt and
Kylee Goodwin, who were preg-
nant with their fourth child,
Andrew, whose heart seemed
to have some issues. In March
2020, in Kylee’s seventh month
of pregnancy, the unborn
infant’s heartbeat was elevated.
An emergency fl ight took
Kylee to a hospital in Boise.
After treatment, she ended up
delivering Andrew there, and he
was stillborn.
Under most circumstances,
Flynn said, a hospital might let
a family stay a few hours with
the baby. But this hospital had
a cuddle cot, a cooling unit that
functions inside a bassinet. The
device allows family members
to spend longer with the body.
“Just to be able to say
goodbye in their time and on
their own terms,” Flynn said.
The Goodwins were able to
stay with Andrew overnight.
Flynn said they found the expe-
rience so benefi cial they decided
to fundraise on their own to get
a cuddle cot for Grande Ronde
Hospital.
Flynn said the foundation
threw its weight behind this to
get the best deal it could on the
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equipment. The project led to
a memorial fund in Andrew’s
name that also provides photog-
raphy services for families who
want it.
Flynn said the Goodwins’
story shows how the hospital lis-
tens to community members to
address local needs.
“That’s why we’re here,”
he said. “We want to provide
a greater service to the people
here.”
To that end, the founda-
tion is working on adding two
more Torches to Grande Ronde
Hospital.
The devices are 6 feet tall
and use ultraviolet light to disin-
fect surfaces in 15 minutes. The
hospital has eight as of 2020,
including tabletop torches that
cover smaller areas. Each torch
costs approximately $55,000.
Flynn said they are worth the
investment.
“Those things have been
invaluable over the last year,”
he said, cutting down on thou-
sands of work hours of cleaning.
And they have contributed
to preventing the spread of
COVID-19.
Grande Ronde Hospital
Foundation also has upgrades
coming for the hospital’s inten-
sive care unit. The ICU rooms
have a whiteboard for doctors
and nurses to write on. While
convenient, whiteboards also
tend to get messy with use.
“We’re going to replace all
the boards in the ICU with
snazzy new glass boards,” he
said, which are more usable and
more readable.
The foundation also is
funding the move to bring on a
more convenient and secure text
messaging system for patients
to use to communicate with pro-
viders. He said the hospital will
have more information on that
front soon, as well as an outdoor
event in June that could involve
a drive-in movie.
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