URMC / Golisano Children's Hospital / Ways to Give / Attend an Event / Hospital Gala / Fund-A-Need Fund-A-Need Specialized Ambulances to Provide the Best Care on the Road To provide every child in our region with the best care when they need it most, we need to transport children to our hospital as fast as possible. And we need the resources to be able to provide these children with high quality, intensive care while they’re on their way — since the journey, even under the best circumstances, can sometimes take hours. Benefits for Our Region's Children Faster transport to Golisano Children's Hospital State of the art transport equipment designed specifically for children Intensive care for patients while they're on the road State of the art telemedicine equipment which will allow the transport team to stay in close communication with physicians back at GCH thus allowing more rapid responses to changes in patient status that may occur en route to GCH Advanced suspension for a smoother, less stressful ride during transport The ability to transfer twin infants in the same vehicle Helping Over 500 Patients a Year 240 premature and sick newborns who need the services of a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, including about 100 babies who require support from a ventilator 300 pediatric patients who need intensive care due to an illness, injury or heart defect Designed for Children Room for lifesaving equipment Incubators for infants who need them Equipment that's designed specifically for children State-of-the-art telemedicine equipment The Need is Great Every year, our team transports more than 500 patients from community hospitals to our facility. The transport team — made up of specially trained nurses, respiratory therapists, and doctors — travels as far away as the Southern Tier, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and beyond to bring patients to our hospital. These patients are in need of specialized, critical care — the kind of care that only Golisano Children’s Hospital can provide. Currently, our transport team relies on an outside ambulance service to identify an available rig, come to GCH, pick up our team and then deploy to other facilities to transfer acutely ill children to GCH. This multi-step process slows response times and can delay the specialized, often critical care, patients need. Current ambulances are not specifically designed and equipped for pediatric and neonatal transport. They lack integrated respiratory equipment and pediatric specific supplies, such as oxygen air blenders and high flow oxygen delivery equipment for specialized respiratory needs. In addition, current ambulances cannot accommodate simultaneous transport of two babies, which can add to delays in getting twins to GCH. Having two state-of-the-art ambulances that will function like physician-led mobile intensive care units will allow us to respond to medical changes in a patient’s status and support safe transport of critically ill pediatric patients, from premature twin babies to acutely ill teenagers, to our facility. Each child in our region deserves to have specialized care when they need it, where they need it and as soon as they need it. Please consider supporting this year’s fund-in-need. Support the Fund-A-Need Effort To support the Fund-A-Need or for more information, please contact: Scott Rasmussen, Senior Assistant Vice President for Advancement, Golisano Children’s Hospital Phone: (585) 273-5932 Email: srasmussen@admin.rochester.edu