How Your Support Helps
Our Wish List ranges from funding innovative medical research to purchasing vital equipment and upgrading services, your support will change the lives of Sunshine Coast patients and their families.
Priority items
Accommodate a Family for a Night
Help families be together by providing a night’s stay at a Wishlist accommodation facility.
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Equipment for Hearing Screening
Resources for the Jabba Jabba Child Health Team to improve access and fund equipment for hearing screening. $8,299.
Infrared Video Goggles
Help purchase vital equipment to assess and manage patients with severe vertigo and dizziness. $5,357.
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Resources for Mental Health Patients
Resources to help improve the quality of care for mental health patients at Nambour Hospital. $8,700.
Clinic for Speech Pathology Patients
Establishing a clinic to reduce travel and wait times for patients needing a swallowing assessment.
Equipment for Birth
A HiPac chair to improve comfort and pain relief for birthing women needing an epidural. $9,790.
TVs in Patients Rooms
Help make a Gympie patient’s hospital stay more comfortable by funding a TV while they recover.
VR goggles in Clinical Education
Virtual reality goggles to assist in clinical education at SCUH and for patients to use at Dove Palliative Care. $30,000.
Special Programs & Interhospital Services
Domestic & Family Violence Social Worker
To establish a role that would represent the HHS with information sharing of high-risk DFV cases. $240,000 for three years.
Clown Doctors
Bring laughter and smiles to sick children at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. Help continue this $110,800 program.
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Bridging the Gap
Funding an adolescent and young adult clinical nurse to help create a smoother transition for young patients into adult care.
Parental Support & Youth Advisory
To support young adults and provide a circle-of-care for mental health patients. $218,000.
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Delta Therapy Dog Program
Pet therapy touches humans psychologically, physically, mentally and emotionally. Fund a therapy dog for a year at $1000.
Music Therapy
Music soothes the soul. Ongoing funding is needed to continue this program for palliative patients at $43,000 per year.
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Calm Fairies
The Calm Fairy helps anxious kids feel safe and calm in hospital. Ongoing funding is needed at 13,000 per year.
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Culturally-Safe Maternity Services
Help improve the delivery of culturally-safe maternity services for Aboriginal & Torres Strait families at Gympie Hospital.
Creating Calm
Fund the installation of wall art in the Sunshine Coast University Hospital birthing suites to create a calming environment.
Medical Research & Education
Staff Scholarship Funding
Help us support further education and work-related workshop for our health staff. $100,000 per annum.
Support Medical Research
Help the brightest minds find cures, promote improvements in health care and implement evidence-based practices.
You or your business can sponsor a local research project and be kept up to date with the project progression and have the researcher provide regular updates to you, your team and your supporters.
Email us at sc-wishlist@health.qld.gov.au to find out more.