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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2019 | 3A Community News Fundraising continues for Cottage Grove Carousel Cardiac telemetry system at community medical center focus of gala fundraiser COURTESY PHOTO Master storyteller Rickie Birran tells a spooky holi- day tale as part of Victorian-era tradition during a recent fundraising event for the carousel project. It was another suc- cessful fundraiser for the building/land fund for the Cottage Grove Car- ousel when master sto- ryteller Rickie Birran re- cently read ghost stories as part of a longstanding Victorian tradition. The volunteers are at the carousel site Mon- day and Thursdays, 8-12. Visitors are welcome. “We were pleased to have, one more time, Rickie Birran, continue that Christmastime tra- dition,” said Don Wil- liams, founding member of Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel. Birran, a former mis- sionary, youth worker and college instructor, is also a trained actor and professional storyteller. He created “The Man of Words Theatre Compa- ny” to use literature to enrich, encourage, en- lighten and entertain. “Literature has the power to sharpen the mind, strengthen the heart, enrich the imagi- nation, and inspire us to become better human be- ings,” said Birran. “That’s why I’m dedicated to encouraging people to read.” In additional fundrais- ing news for the carousel project, Scott Diehl of PakTech will make a pre- sentation to the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Cottage Grove Car- ousel today, Dec. 12, with a $300 check. COURTESY PHOTO Participants at this year’s annual Holiday Gala enjoyed fine dining as part of a fundraiser at Creswell’s Emerald Valley Golf & Resort supporting the Cottage Grove Medical Center. M ore than 125 local digni- taries and PeaceHealth do- nors, board members, providers and caregivers turned out on Dec. 3 for another memorable Holi- day Gala. The annual celebration, held at Creswell’s Emerald Valley Golf & Resort, is the biggest fund- raiser of the year for PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Med- ical Center. The event raised an estimated $55,000 — all of which will stay in the Cottage Grove community to serve those in need. A focus of this year’s fundrais- er was a cardiac telemetry system for the inpatient unit at Cottage S entinel Grove Community Medical Cen- ter. This system will enable physi- cians to closely monitor a patient’s cardiac rhythms locally, as well as provide continuous monitoring by trained EKG monitor tech- nicians 20 miles away at Peace- Health Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Spring- field. Dr. Marta Hantke, Cottage Grove Community Medical Center Chief of Staff and a guest speaker at the gala, explained how the cardiac telemetry system works. A small device is pinned to the gown of a patient on the med- ical unit in Cottage Grove. It con- tinuously monitors the electrical activity of the patient’s heart and transmits that data to a central monitoring unit at Sacred Heart at RiverBend, where doctors and nurses can monitor, record and treat heart rhythms, as needed. This advanced technology will offer Cottage Grove patients the best of both worlds—the comfort and convenience of being treated in a hospital close to their family and friends and access to special- ists at Oregon Heart & Vascular Institute at Sacred Heart at River- Bend. 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