Throwback to 2020 – Pictured is Nurse Rachael and Mr Reece making good use of a new chair purchased with funds raised by the Friends of Forbes Hospital Auxiliary. That year saw the Friends of Forbes Hospital Auxiliary donate approximately $23,500 of essential pieces of equipment for the Forbes Hospital
The first meeting of the year for the Friends of Forbes Hospital Auxiliary was held at Club Forbes on 7 February. We acknowledged the contributions made by our small band of hard workers, with help from our wonderful, generous community, and visitors at markets and stalls, enabling us to purchase equipment for the local hospital.
We are currently helping equip the Palliative Care ward with comfort items for patients and their families.
Past purchases have included a treatment chair for the community nurses, bassinets for the maternity unit, a tonometer for the emergency department, and support equipment for occupational therapy in the inpatient unitVice President, Lloyd Gerdes was congratulated for his volunteering community award and being nominated for Senior Citizen of the Year. Lloyd alos volunteers as Probus Secretary, and the Editor of the Probus newsletter, Treasurer of the Garden Club and is a 20 year member of the Forbes and District Historical Society.
Further UHA rules were discussed and the upcoming UHA Central West Regional Forum to be held on 5 March at Grenfell.
We are to be honoured by a visit from the State President and State Treasurer on 4 March to discuss our continuing role providing services to Forbes hospital and how to attract new members who are welcome to join our next meeting on 4 April at Club Forbes at 2.30pm.
Watch out for the Friends of Forbes Hospital Auxiliary at the local Farmers markets this weekend and also the Forbes Rotary Ipomoea markets where lots of goodies will be for sale. The market stall is a major fundraiser for the Auxiliary, and has raised over $22,000 since it was started six years ago, with committee members regularly attending the local markets.