{"id":4616,"date":"2014-08-04T02:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:47:44","slug":"rch-says-thank-you-to-2014-good-friday-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-says-thank-you-to-2014-good-friday-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH says &#8216;Thank You&#8217; for 2014 Good Friday Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/GFA-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4617\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/GFA-2-400x249.jpg\" alt=\"GFA 2\" width=\"314\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) officially thanked the 2014 Good Friday Appeal (GFA) supporters and staff on Friday for their incredible fundraising total of $16.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 GFA figure represents the latest in a string of consecutive record-breaking totals for the campaign, which has run annually since 1931 and raised a total of $274 million.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to media partners, fundraising bodies and GFA staff, RCH CEO Professor Christine Kilpatrick emphasised the importance of their contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Without the appeal\u2019s support, without <em>your<\/em> support, we simply couldn&#8217;t do what we do,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In order for us to provide great care, we need to invest in the best technology, the best research, the best support services and staff\u2014and with the money you have raised from this year\u2019s appeal, we&#8217;re already doing exactly that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kilpatrick detailed various projects enabled by the 2014 GFA funds including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Melbourne Children\u2019s Trials Centre<\/strong>, bringing together research minds from RCH, Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute and The University of Melbourne to develop and implement research trials.<\/li>\n<li>New <strong>brain monitors<\/strong> for use in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to monitor electrical activity in the brains of sick newborns, detecting seizures and measuring brain injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Expansion of the <strong>Telehealth<\/strong> project, which utilises internet teleconferencing to allows rural patients to receive care from RCH specialists without having to travel to Melbourne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) centrifugal pumps<\/strong> that act as artificial hearts, providing continuous heart and lung support during surgery and in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4619\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/BDP_7056.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4619\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/BDP_7056-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"BDP_7056\" width=\"270\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><strong>Herald Weekly Times Chairman Penny Fowler presents the Premier Hotel award to Alex of The Royal Exchange Hotel in Traralgaon, which raised more than $55,000 for the 2014 Good Friday Appeal<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GFA Deputy Director Emoke Bakacs congratulated representatives of the two Victorian hotels that contributed most to the 2014 appeal: The Royal Exchange Hotel in Traralgaon ($55,000) and the North Eastern Hotel in Wangaratta ($53,000).<\/p>\n<p>RCH Chairman the Hon Rob Knowles AO concluded the event by extolling\u00a0the \u2018positive and tangible impact\u2019 supporters have on the health of RCH patients: \u2018Each of you plays a unique role in supporting the appeal. When you unite, through your passion and commitment to making a difference, you become a formidable force.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCH officially thanked Good Friday Appeal supporters and staff for raising an incredible $16.4 million in 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}