{"id":1999,"date":"2012-04-18T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:48:49","slug":"alisa-camplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/alisa-camplin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisa Camplin presents $20,000 Finnan\u2019s Gift Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alisa Camplin and her husband Oliver Camplin-Warner present the Finnan's Gift Grant to the RCH Rosella Ward nursing team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Olympic gold medallist Alisa Camplin and her husband Oliver Camplin-Warner presented the inaugural Finnan\u2019s Gift Grant to the Intensive Care (Rosella Ward) nursing team at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) today in memory of their son Finnan.<\/p>\n

The grant of $20,000 has been raised through exceptional community generosity following the establishment of Finnan\u2019s Gift in 2011. Finnan Maximus Camplin-Warner was diagnosed in-utero with congenital heart disease (CHD) and passed away at just 10-days-old. The fundraising project was set up by Alisa and Oliver to honour their son and to raise awareness for CHD, which is the leading cause of death in young children in Australia.<\/p>\n

The inaugural Finnan\u2019s Gift Grant will specifically fund the Intensive Care (Rosella Ward) nurses to take advantage of a number of education, professional development and training opportunities that will support their work in delivering the best treatments and care at the RCH. The nurses will attend various important industry conferences, enabling them to present their research and enhance their leadership skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Finnan\u2019s Gift\u2019s first fundraising goal of $300,000 was reached in just three months following an outpouring of public support for the Camplin-Warners.\u00a0 The funds bought a state-of-the-art echocardiology scanning machine for the RCH cardiology department, which has been up and running at the hospital since October 2011.<\/p>\n

Following this success, Alisa and Oliver established an ongoing grant, to be presented annually to further honour Finnan\u2019s memory while supporting the RCH specialists, surgeons, nurses and doctors who cared for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinnan\u2019s Gift has become a very significant part of Oliver\u2019s and my life now.\u00a0 After donating the echocardiology machine in 2011 we simply couldn\u2019t walk away because there is just so much more to do.\u00a0 The Finnan\u2019s Gift Grants will be a way for us to continue giving, to keep working within our community for a better world and of course remember our gorgeous son.\u00a0 We know it won\u2019t be easy, but nothing worth doing ever is,\u201d Alisa said.<\/p>\n

RCH Intensive Care Nurse Unit Manager, Adrian Hutchinson says the grant will make a significant contribution to supporting Intensive Care nurses at the RCH.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinnan\u2019s Gift Grant will allow our Intensive Care Nurses to take advantage of a number of opportunities that will support their work in delivering the very best treatments to our sickest children,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alisa and Oliver also announced today that the intended recipient of the 2013 Finnan\u2019s Gift Grant is the team of perfusionists at the RCH. The perfusionist team operate the sophisticated life-support machines that manage the work of the heart and lungs whilst surgeons operate. Perfusionists are highly experienced medical scientists with specialised training in the techniques of artificial blood circulation, and were instrumental in Finnan\u2019s six open heart surgeries.<\/p>\n

For more information please refer to www.finnansgift.com.au<\/a> or www.rchfoundation.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olympic gold medallist Alisa Camplin and her husband Oliver Camplin-Warner have presented the inaugural Finnan\u2019s Gift Grant to the Intensive Care (Rosella Ward) nursing team at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) in memory of their son Finnan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}