Halifax Health Medical Center Capabilities and Foundation Supporting Funds

Foundation Unrestricted Fund

The Foundation's largest individual fund, the "Unrestricted Fund" provides the Foundation's Board of Directors with the greatest amount of flexibility to fund projects, equipment and technology that is most urgently needed when and where throughout Halifax Health Medical Center. Often a special fund designated to support a specific need or area will not have a sufficient balance to fund needed purchases. At the discretion of the Foundation's Board of Directors, funds can be allocated from the larger "Unrestricted Fund" to fund larger amounts of dollars than might be otherwise available from a restricted or designated fund supporting a specific capability.

Foundation Restricted or Designated Funds

The Foundation has special "restricted or designated" funds where money has been given to support a specific capability, i.e. the Halifax Heart Center, "Speediatrics", the Regional Oncology Center, etc. If you have a personal interest in helping to fund a specific capability or area within Halifax Health Medical Center, you may make a gift to that specially restricted fund designated to support that capability. Please call the Foundation office at 386.254.4111 to discuss the capabilities of interest you wish to support.

Speediatrics: (Betty Jane France Pediatric Center)

Location: The entire sixth floor of Halifax Health Medical Center

• The 36-bed unit includes general pediatric care and a 5-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), the first and only intensive care unit for children in East Central Florida.
• Highly experienced pediatric intensivists, physicians whose specialty is pediatric intensive care, are supported by a team of skilled pediatric intensive care nurses.
• Betty Jane France Pediatric Resource Library consisting of: computer/printer linked to many of the world's medical databases and access to top pediatric medical books and publications.
• Laptop computers are also available to patients for use in their rooms that will not only tie into medical information databases, but also gives the patient access to the Internet and e-mail to communicate with their schools, families and friends.

Facts:

• Annually, Speediatrics cares for over 2,000 children with another 400 or more receiving critical care in the PICU.
• Speediatrics care extends to a special Pediatrics fast track unit in the Emergency Department at Halifax Health Medical Center, one of the busiest in Florida. Here, over 20,000 children annually receive care in the special Speediatrics emergency unit.
• The Speediatrics theme also extends into the community in the Halifax Keech Health Center, a family community clinic where children have become an extended family for Dr. Andrea Thorpe, Dr. Adela Caidic and staff.