{"id":445,"date":"2009-06-26T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=445"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:13:19","slug":"good-friday-appeal-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/good-friday-appeal-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Appeal &#8211; 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/rchpa\/news\/index.cfm?doc_id=1884#1\">Another record-breaking Good Friday Appeal cheque presentation!\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/rchpa\/gallery\/\">GFA Gallery<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/rchpa\/news\/index.cfm?doc_id=1637\">Watch the videos!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-447\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/GFA400px11-290x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"160\" \/>Another record-breaking Good Friday Appeal cheque presentation!\u00a0 <a id=\"1\" name=\"1\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Lewis and Pandora, the faces of the 2009 Good Friday Appeal, performed a final official duty when they presented a record breaking cheque for $13,862,734 to Royal Children\u2019s Hospital chairman Tony Beddison AO.<\/p>\n<p>Donors from all round Victoria contributed this amazing amount to support clinical care, research and family services at the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>The Good Friday Appeal funds are directed to a number of areas in the hospital:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>A significant portion of the funds will support research into childhood illnesses.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The hospital will purchase medical equipment such as a hearing assessment system for audiology, an $80k microscope for ENT, equipment to monitor patients during transfer between operating theatre and intensive care at a cost of $100k.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>A burns nurse coordinator will be appointed to provide support and education in the hospital and the community<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Macadamia, the hospital\u2019s in-house TV program will remain on air to entertain children at their bedsides.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAll of us at the hospital were overwhelmed by this fantastic result,\u201d said Mr Beddison. \u201cThe Royal Children\u2019s Hospital already provides world class care for children from all over Australia.\u00a0 Thanks to the support of generous Victorians and the Good Friday appeal we are able to provide programs that set us apart, and make RCH a great children\u2019s hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media enquiries:<br \/>\nJulie Webber<br \/>\nRCH Public Affairs<br \/>\n0407 327 418 or 9345 5522 and page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another record-breaking Good Friday Appeal cheque presentation!\u00a0 GFA Gallery Watch the videos! Another record-breaking Good Friday Appeal cheque presentation!\u00a0 Lewis and Pandora, the faces of the 2009 Good Friday Appeal, performed a final official duty when they presented a record breaking cheque for $13,862,734 to Royal Children\u2019s Hospital chairman Tony Beddison AO. Donors from all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/good-friday-appeal-2009\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-445","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\/445","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}