St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI)

For more than 30 years, the medical and technical team at St. Luke’s MSTI has provided advanced comprehensive cancer care to more than 80,000 patients from 38 states and 10 foreign countries. St. Luke’s MSTI includes sites in Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Fruitland, and Twin Falls. Within the next few years, all five locations need to be expanded, renovated, or built due to the growing population in the area. Your support will help us continue to provide the very best in cancer treatment.
Goal: $500,000

St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital

In a perfect world, children would never have to go to the hospital. The next best thing is providing them with the finest care so they can heal quickly. St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital cares for the sickest, poorest, and most vulnerable children. As a “hospital within a hospital,” our unique services include an Emergency Department designed and staffed just for kids, Intensive Care Units for newborns and children, Child Life specialists to help each child adjust to the hospital, maternal/child transport services, a Children’s Specialty Center, and a Hospital School. Last year alone, more than 50 sub-specialists cared for more than 50,000 children. Help us with this important community asset: the only Children’s Hospital in Idaho.
Goal: $250,000

St. Luke’s Women’s Health Care
More than 28 percent of the babies born in Idaho take their first breath at a St. Luke’s Labor and Delivery Unit. This is why we believe that caring for children’s medical needs starts with taking good care of moms. St. Luke’s Women’s Services offers special programs including Birth and Parenting Classes, Maternal Fetal Medicine Program, Antepartum Unit, Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby Care Units, 9 Women’s Unit, and Women’s and Children’s Continuing Education. Please support St. Luke’s as we care for the women and babies in our region.
Goal: $150,000

St. Luke’s Center for Heart and Vascular Health
More than 35 years ago, the first open heart surgery in Idaho was performed at St. Luke’s, and we now perform more heart procedures than any other hospital in Idaho. For decades, our specially trained doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists have been providing superior care for heart patients. The full-service Center for Heart and Vascular Health is as extensive and advanced as any in our region. The community also benefits from Idaho’s only accredited specialized Chest Pain Center and St. Luke’s Heart Safe Community, a program that helps to provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to schools and local non-profit services and organizations.
Goal: $250,000

St. Luke’s Advanced Surgical Technology

Providing the latest technology to our patients and physicians has always been a top priority at St. Luke’s. Today, we have state-of-the art operating rooms where the delicate work of surgeons is supported with the best and newest equipment and software. Our numerous robotic-assistive devices allow surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgeries that reduce scarring and trauma and result in a faster, less painful recovery and shorter hospital stay. Cutting-edge image-guidance systems (Vector Vision) allow orthopedists, neurosurgeons, and ear/nose/throat (ENT) specialists to better pinpoint problem areas for joint replacements, tumors, and aneurysms. Advancements in the field are monitored for best practices and best equipment to ensure that St. Luke’s patients receive up-to-date care with state-of-the-art equipment.
Goal: $250,00

St. Luke’s Hospice and Home Care
St. Luke’s Hospice, the only not-for-profit hospice program in Boise, provides compassionate end-of-life care for patients in their own homes, surrounded by loved ones. Hospice offers expert medical care, pain and symptom management, and emotional and spiritual support tailored to the individual patient’s needs and wishes. Home Care is provided to allow independent living and to help patients of all ages heal at home. A gift of $75 will provide hospice or home care for one person for one day.
Goal: $200,000

Advanced Educational Opportunities for Nurses and Other Practitioners

Patients at St. Luke’s experience superior health care in large part because of the excellence of our nurses and other practitioners. St. Luke’s encourages and supports continuing education for all care providers. Gifts to help care providers with continuing education and recognition will help assure continued superior care at St. Luke’s. Because of our nursing excellence, St. Luke’s is one of few hospitals in the country to be designated a Magnet Hospital.
Goal: $100,000

Patient Assistance

Imagine having cancer, yet not being able to afford gasoline to make the daily trip required for chemotherapy or radiation. Imagine being off work, sometimes for months at a time. Additional support for patients and their families in need can make a critical difference. Your support enables St. Luke’s to provide those in need with important basics such as temporary housing, meal vouchers, and medication.
Goal: $50,000

SimBaby – Human Baby Simulator

A human baby simulator has the realistic anatomy and physiologic functions of a real baby, allowing the simulator to mimic a limitless number of clinical functions. Emergency physicians, Rapid Response Teams, pediatric physicians, nurses, new staff in PICU, CCU, ICU, and other practitioners can practice treatment interventions in a realistic learning setting. St. Luke’s has already purchased a mobile SimBaby and SimMan to expand practitioner training in the rural areas of Idaho. Our new SimBaby, along with a stationary SimMan, will be used for local training.
Goal: $100,000

Digital Mammography
It is St. Luke’s goal that 75 percent of all women 40 years and older receive a screening mammogram at least every two years by the year 2010. To help us meet that goal, St. Luke’s is moving to next-generation-technology digital mammography units. On a digital image, contrast, brightness, and magnification levels can be adjusted, assisting the radiologist in making an accurate and timely diagnosis. Digital technology also helps reduce the amount of radiation exposure a woman receives. St. Luke’s has purchased six units to date, and plans to purchase five more units for sites in our region. Please join us in this important advancement in women’s health.
Goal: $500,000

Cancer Prevention and Education
Early detection and education have dramatically increased the number of people who are surviving cancer. Cancer prevention, through education, is our goal at St. Luke’s MSTI, where we provide community education and free cancer screenings to help stem the occurrence of cancer. Your gift will help purchase and distribute self-testing kits for colorectal cancer; support community education efforts such as Fun for Life, a program for young children to learn healthy habits; support community health fairs; provide support for community prostate and skin cancer screenings; and help build an interactive St. Luke’s MSTI website that will provide access to cancer resources for patients, families, and the community. Goal: $100,000

St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital School
Children with severe and chronic illnesses miss a significant amount of school. In partnership with the Boise School District, St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital School not only helps children remain at grade level, it also gives them hope. When it is time to return to the regular classroom, the Hospital School teacher assists the students, classmates, teachers, and parents with re-entry. In its first two years, more than 400 children attended the Hospital School or were assisted in transitioning back into their regular classrooms.
Goal: $130,000

St. Luke’s Mother Baby Unit
The Mother Baby Care Unit is designed to provide a professional, individualized approach in meeting the needs of new mothers and their infants. The unit provides care to both low-risk and high-risk postpartum patients. Care includes stabilization of the infant after typical and stressful deliveries and monitoring the infant’s adjustment to life. Special procedures in the nursery include circumcision, some minor surgeries, some orthopedic interventions, phototherapy, and hearing screens. Encouragement and individualized care are given to infants and families involved in adoption, as needed. Mothers and babies leave the unit with an enhanced measure of competence and confidence.
Goal: $100,000

Research – Today’s Research, Tomorrow’s Healing
St. Luke’s is proud to be the major partner of the first and only biomedical research institute in Idaho. We use patient-oriented research to advance medicine and provide better care for the people of our region. By providing assistance to scientific faculty and students, we are stimulating the pursuit of medically related careers, and increasing the basic knowledge about the causes of disease. St. Luke’s is building a legacy through its vision to become a leader in biomedical research not only in Idaho, but in the nation.

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