Giving
Priorities
If you are interested in raising funds for one of these items, please contact Angie Gofredo at angela.gofredo@shrinenet.org, office line 971-544-3334, or cell 503-348-8648.
Program Needs
Recreation Therapy
This all-ages art program is hosted at Children’s Healing Art Project’s studio in Portland. Patients and their immediate family are invited to join in making art! 10 events per year.
Cost: $1,200
Patients of all abilities and their siblings are invited to participate in a gymnastics open gym. Hosted by adaptive gymnastics facility. 6 events per year.
Cost: $1,200
Horseback riding lessons provided to patients by Forward Stride, a therapeutic riding program. They provide lessons in groups of two patients. Each patient has between 1 – 3 staff assigned to work with them. Each patient has the opportunity to attend one session (3 lessons). Program runs 6 sessions (18 lessons) per year.
Cost: $1,800
This program is held in the warm water therapy pool at a local community center. The recreation therapy program rents out the warm water pool to provide patients with limited mobility the opportunity to experience the therapeutic benefits of warm water. 12 sessions per year.
Cost: $2,100
Patients and their families are invited to attend a fun day of kayaking! Adaptive equipment is available and patients of ALL abilities are welcome. Program is hosted by Adventures Without Limits, a local adaptive outdoor program. Two sessions are offered each summer to allow more families to attend.
Cost: $1,500
Quarterly support group events for patients with muscular dystrophy and their families.
Cost: $1,000
Patients and their families are invited to attend an exciting day of snow, fun, and snowshoeing! Adaptive equipment is available and patients of ALL abilities are welcome. Program is hosted by Adventures Without Limits, a local adaptive outdoor program. Two sessions are offered each winter to allow more families to attend.
Cost: $1,500
Child Life
To promote creativity, self-expression, and age appropriate growth and development. Contributes to social developmental when creating art in group activities/settings. (This can be broken down to smaller options. Please advise if you would like to see a list with specific needs).
Cost: $3,000
To promote connection to community, culture, and socialization. These opportunities also facilitate the whole family’s overall coping while normalizing the hospital stay. Examples are Halo Off Parties or Halloween parties.
Cost: $2,000
Shriners Hospital for Children- Portland is seeking support to fund the development of a garden on site, which would benefit many domains of the patient and family’s hospital experience. While we pride ourselves in providing outstanding surgical care, we recognize that there are mental and emotional health needs during hospitalization that are equally important.
Cost: $1,000
Music therapy can help provide comfort during a procedure, act as a distraction to help with pain management, or to improve your child’s sleeping patterns. Music therapy also helps build social skills, improve communication, and helps with impulse control.
Cost: $8,320 – $24,960
Items to support and educate staff on best practices in pediatric care, specifically practices that Child Life advocates for. To build rapport with staff and support collaboration and compassion fatigue.
Cost: $500
Hospital
Shriners Children’s Portland is committed to serving the needs of families throughout our region and we offer outreach clinics in various communities to increase access to our specialty pediatric care. At our outreach clinics, children will see the same medical staff they can expect at our hospital, just a little closer to home.
Cost: $16,000
Shriners Children’s Portland is committed to serving the needs of families throughout our region and we offer outreach clinics in various communities to increase access to our specialty pediatric care. At our outreach clinics, children will see the same medical staff they can expect at our hospital, just a little closer to home.
Cost: $10,000
Capital Needs
Rehab
This device will be used in support of a highly visible program in the community. The adaptive ski and snowboarding event is widely attended by a large number of families.
Cost: $5,792
The Speech Pathology team at Shriners Childrens Portland has a sub-specialty in treating children utilizing Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices. To continue to provide services at the current standard updating our devices to ensure that we are able to trial and select the most appropriate device for our patients and their families.
Cost: $12,540
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Cost: $4,500
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Cost: $4,250
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Cost: $3,500
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Cost: $4,900
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Cost: $4,000
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The Hana Table is multifunctional, it enables surgeons to perform the anterior approach for total hip replacements and hip arthroscopy, as well as fractures of the pelvis and lower extremities. As we get busier it gives our surgeons options for doing total hip replacements, and as far as hip arthroscopy it eliminates the need to have another table attachment. This table allows hyperextension, abduction, adduction and external rotation of the legs for positioning for different types of procedures, a positioning option not possible with conventional tables. The table also supports hip distraction and traction during hip arthroscopy procedures.
Cost: $120,439
Dr. Zallen the physician using this equipment has asked for the upgraded sets as this is what he uses at other facilities and is the industry standard.
Cost: $24,241
IPU
Currently, patients are instructed to bring their own machines from home. There are multiple concerns regarding CPAPs coming into the hospital that do not pass inspection or preventative maintenance check verification is not available. Some units have been recalled and cannot be used in a hospital setting. The equipment supports patients with known airway complications.
Cost: $11,565
Provides a form of chest therapy by delivering continuous pulses of positive pressure combined with aerosol medication to help loosen secretions and prevent pulmonary atelectasis. Beneficial for CP, SMA neuromuscular and post surgical patient population.
Cost: $7,850
Radiology
This equipment will replace an aging system that not only is at the end of its life, but also the end of its service. Our volume has grown tremendously and this new system would be better for our patient volume.
Cost: $230,605
Other
The drying cabinet ensures all instruments are completely dry, reduces the time spent to manually dry allowing for quicker turn over of instruments. If instruments are not completely dry moisture can impede the sterilization process requiring the instruments to be completely reprocessed.
Cost: $26,305