{"id":758,"date":"2007-04-09T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T05:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=758"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:14:48","slug":"record-breaking-gfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/record-breaking-gfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartfelt thanks for record-breaking Good Friday Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-760\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2007\/04\/09\/record-breaking-gfa\/homeandaway\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-760\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2007\/04\/HomeAndAway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stars from Home and Away pictured with staff from 3East on Good Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The patients, families and staff at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital are overwhelmed by the community generosity which resulted in another record breaking Good Friday Appeal donation.<\/p>\n<p>Donors from all round Australia contributed an astounding $11,788,970.88 to support clinical care, research and family services at the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This fantastic result illustrates how much value the community places in the health and well-being of our children.&#8221; said RCH chairman Tony Beddison AO.\u00a0 &#8220;This support ensures we will continue to provide world class care, here in Melbourne, for Australian children who need the services we provide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year the hospital will again fund research into childhood illnesses and purchase medical equipment such as a heart lung machine, instruments and cardiac echo for use in the cardiac theatre, monitors for the neonatal unit, operating theatre tables, anaesthetic machines and a viztrectomy machine for eye surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good Friday Appeal donors fund the in-house TV program Macadamia and extra Play Therapists to support our pain management program, ComfortKids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And we will also be able to provide parent facilities in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit thanks to Good Friday Appeal supporters.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks everyone, from the kids.<br \/>\nMedia enquiries<br \/>\nJulie Webber, Manager Public Affairs<br \/>\nPhone 9345 5522 and page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patients, families and staff at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital are overwhelmed by the community generosity which resulted in another record breaking Good Friday Appeal donation. Donors from all round Australia contributed an astounding $11,788,970.88 to support clinical care, research and family services at the RCH. &#8220;This fantastic result illustrates how much value the community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/record-breaking-gfa\/\">Continued<\/a><\/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":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}