Browns Bay Rotary Club
A Gatsby Garden Party in the spectacular grounds of the Waitoki Lavendar Farm provided funds for the Cardiac Unit.
Rows of shade pergolas set for high tea. Wentworth Brewster, led by crooner Grant Chilcott entertained and a magnificent display of vintage cars completed the effect.
A fashion parade including members of the Auckland Art Deco Society saw fashion from yester year on display.
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Gatsby Garden Party |
The Club also contributed to the Cardiac project 2008 after competing in a fundraising walk.
March 8 2009 will see the Gatsby Garden Party event benefit the “Home Care 4 Kids “project.
March 2009 saw a spectacular afternoon event in a beautiful setting with Jazz, fashion, artisan markets and high tea at Waitoki Lavender Farm. The Gatsby event 09 benefitted the home Care 4 Kids project to create a loan service for children recovering in their homes.
Milford Rotary Club
The Milford club was the first Rotary Club in the 9910 district to contribute to the cardiac campaign to provide advanced cardiac investigation & treatment services to the Waitemata district.
Hard work over many weekends has seen Milford Rotary Club create a healthy garden for the enjoyment and therapy of the mental health consumers at the Taharoto Unit. A beautiful private area filled wih seating
and boxed vegetable gardens will enable the consumers to grow vegetables and fruits.
Planting has also taken place inside the secure courtyard of the unit.
The Milford Club held their annual golf day at the Pupuke Club and presented the raised funds to support the Cardiovascular Unit.
Milford Rotary successfully organised two golf days and a raft of corporate
sponsors to provide hugely successful events and a sizeable donation towards the
cardiac unit advanced medical equipment project.
The unit which opened in November 2007 and has just treated its 1,000th patient
is fundraising to provide an extended service of CT (computerised tomography)
angiography. This equipment comes at he large cost of over $200,000.
Available only in private practice, acquiring this service will place North
Shore Hospital as the only public hospital in the region to provide it to its
patients.
This will make Cardio Vascular services at Waitemata the premier cardiac public
service
Major supporters for the $38,000 donation were, Ocean Bridge, Smales Farm
Technology Park, Smith & Davies, Maritimo Offshore, Clearlite, Electronic
Navigation, Cookson Boats, Peter Maire, Kea Properties.
Mr Alan Curtis/Chair NSHF
receives the Milford Rotary Club donation
2009/2010: The Milford Club continues its support for their local hospital holding working bees to maintain the Healing Gardens at the North Shore site. 2010 brought a further donation to the Cardiac CT project from their Centurion capital campaign fund
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Orewa Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Orewa/ Laurie Parker Trust joined other clubs in the district with a contribution to assist in providing and advanced cardiac investigation & treatment unit at North Shore Hospital.
2008, The Orewa team continue to support the Cardiac project to establish a CT angiography service at North Shore Hospital.
(Image Merv Huxford in CVU)
As administrators of the Laurie Parker Trust they have also sponsored production of a new patient educational DVD in partnership with the Foundation and medTV.™
The “Take Heart “DVD is the first cardiac rehabilitation DVD to be made in New Zealand for 15 years and takes a fresh look at Heart Attack, Angina, what happens when you are in hospital and provides an educational tool for recovery and lifestyle advice for sufferers and their families in the community.
The DVD is shown to all patients suffering cardiac incidents before they leave hospital by the Cardiac Nurse Specialists and is also available to GPs, PHO’s and allied health professionals as an educational tool
Included in the content are the variety of diagnostic testing procedures involved with establishing good diagnosis such as exercise testing, Cardiac Echo, Angiography and Angioplasty
Albany Rotary Club
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Club president presents general manager with $10,000 |
Albany Rotary Club held a most successful Charity Dinner and Auction.
Glenfield Rotary Club
The Glenfield Rotary Club supports the Cardiac Unit campaign and has held several events to fundraise including a very interesting Wine Tasting and Education with Rotarian Tony Soljan.
North Harbour Rotary Club
The Annual Giltrap Charity Auction for 2007 provided a very enjoyable evening and successful auction which enabled the North Harbour Club to donate $20,000 to the Cardiovascular Unit.
2010: The Rotary Club of North Harbour together with Harcourts Cooper & Co Ltd presented a spectacular charity event recently at the AMI netball Centre in Northcote. A full house attended the exciting event with hundreds of fabulous prizes on show and ready for Auction
The project chosen to benefit was for purchase of an incubator with accessories to ensure the demand for incubator occupancy is increased at the Special Care Baby Unit at North Shore Hospital.
