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All Foundation money is invested and the interest from investments is allocated to priority projects after collaboration between the Chief Executive Officer and the Foundation.

Reinvestment ensures that your gift will provide a perpetual benefit to Ballarat Health Services.
Since 1989 the Foundation has provided more than $1 million towards equipment and facilities for patients of Ballarat Health Services.

In 2010 the Foundation’s “Spread Our Wings” campaign resulted in more than $500,000 being raised. This was channeled towards the redevelopment of the Emergency Department, a focal point for the base hospital and a service used by more than 50,000 people in 2009-2010.

A year earlier the Foundation’s “Priceless” campaign raised money for the Special Care Nursery. The nursery provides dedicated, specialist care for babies, many of them born prematurely or recovering from an early medical complication in their lives. This money was used to buy a neonatal isolette and an in-utero feotal monitor.

This sort of equipment directly and indirectly improves the quality of life for thousands of people each year in the Ballarat region.

The Foundation has also:

  • Donated $30,000 towards defibrillators and resuscitation equipment for the Base Hospital, Psychiatric Services and the Queen Elizabeth Centre;
  • Donated $100,000 towards the cost of medical equipment for the sixth operating theatre at the Base Hospital; the sixth operating theatre gave BHS an extra 15 per cent more capacity to perform more surgeries, alleviating pressure on elective surgery waiting times.

The Foundation has also directed more than $350,000 towards:

  • patient beds endoscopic video;
  • CR for Children's Ward otocoustic emissions system;
  • radio telemetry system physiotherapy equipment;
  • apnoea blankets patient trolleys;
  • air flow meters patient monitors;
  • Dialysis Unit treatment station; and,
  • Neo-natal resuscitation cot.

The Foundation is now turning its attention towards fundraising for the Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre – or BRICC for short.

BRICC, which will treat hundreds of cancer sufferers each year, will be a state-of-the-art design that has had input from cancer survivors and staff who will be using the centre.

BRICC has already been allocated $55 million in state and federal government funding and with a little help from the Ballarat community we can make it even better.