Please enjoy the 2024 Spring edition of the Mercy Health Foundation newsletter.
Welcome from the Mercy Health Foundation CEO
As I put away my winter coats and leather boots, I welcome the warm breeze of a new season. There are so many sunny days ahead for Mercy Health Foundation as we enter the latter half of 2024. My sincere and heartfelt thanks to you for donating to medical care for premature and sick babies...
Welcome from the Mercy Health Foundation CEO
And ending full of love and light
Recently, the staff in Mercy’s residential aged care services have been celebrated by loved ones and families, after extraordinary care. In late 2023, Jan was in miraculous remission from Stage 4 non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Devastatingly, she was soon diagnosed with a brain tumour. Jan called upon her younger sister, Margot, who resides in Western Australia, to...
And ending full of love and light
Making motherhood a reality for everyone
The birth of Kerryn and Emerson’s baby boy, Lenny, was made possible thanks to the team at Mercy Perinatal. Mercy Perinatal’s three pillars of clinical care, research and education, meant specialists were able to look deeper into what could be achieved with their help. Rather than accepting that it wouldn’t be possible, the Mercy Perinatal...
Making motherhood a reality for everyone
Foundation donor community helps Mercy Breastmilk Bank thrive
Her role as Unit Manager at Victoria’s only Breastmilk Bank located at Mercy Hospital for Women in Heidelberg means she is helping provide donated breastmilk to vulnerable babies at a critical time in the early stages of their life. The breastmilk bank can have up to 40 breastmilk donors at a time, feeding up to...
Foundation donor community helps Mercy Breastmilk Bank thrive
A garden for counselling and reflection
Deanne Layton, Manager and Director of Nursing at Mercy Palliative Care (MPC), leads a team of multidisciplinary professionals. Across nursing, allied health and medical clinicians, this team provides the best quality of life possible for over 600 patients – physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. “Our team wants to provide the best outcome for palliative care...
A garden for counselling and reflection
Raising awareness for stillbirth prevention
Alexandra Tighe and her family experienced a devastating loss in 2012 after the birth of her third child, Jack, who was born sleeping. The unexplained and unexpected stillbirth of Jack was the beginning of a journey of loss, grief and hope. Alex and her husband, Ben, decided to try again for another baby. But after...
Raising awareness for stillbirth prevention
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