Building a Home for the Bickford Medical Simulation Program at Inland Hospital
Chuck and Joan Bickford have given Inland Hospital $200,000 to purchase the entire patient simulator family. You can see the members of the family on the page describing the Bickford Medical Simulation Program.
It is rare for one organization to be able to purchase an entire family of simulators. These will be a tremendous improvement to teaching and maintaining our clinical staff’s skills. But these will be even more effective with a permanent home.
Giving the Simulation lab a permanent home on campus will allow for increased use by our staff. Giving it a permanent home right off of busy Kennedy Memorial Drive will also allow us to open the simulators for emergency responders and others in the community to schedule use of the simulators as well.
Constructing this home will cost an additional $100,000.
What is being built
- A completely functional patient room in the Medical Arts Building
This room that will be able to be configured based on the needs of the particular scenario, whether a regular patient room or an ICU room. High quality audio-visual equipment will allow for recording events and replaying them for debriefing and further coaching of our staff.
- An additional room for an operator/instructor
In addition to a patient room, we’re constructing a room for an instructor to be behind one-way glass. This person can change scenarios at will and even use a microphone to simulate patient communication.
- Specialized training
As you can imagine, operating each of these simulators requires some advanced training. A small group of varied staff members (i.e. nursing, respiratory, EMS) will be trained to be instructors. They will then train others here. Some of the money will be used to bring instructors on-site for this specialized training.
The proceeds from our annual Fall Pops Benefit Concert are going toward this goal. And Chuck and Joan Bickford are so committed to the new medical simulation program, they have contributed an additional $25,000 toward the cost of constructing the lab. Through Fall Pops and Inland’s providers and leaders, we’ve have raised another $30,000.
Medical Simulation Program Naming Opportunities
| Medical Simulation Program |
Taken |
| Patient Room |
$25,000 |
| Operator’s Room |
$15,000 |
| Conference Room |
$12,000 |
| SimMan 3G |
$10,000 |
| Noelle or Baby Hal |
$5,000 (each)
SimBaby taken
|
All people or businesses donating over $500 will be listed on a plaque in the new space. Naming level donors will have an additional plaque on in the home for the new simulators.
Would you donate now to this exciting project? You can do it securely online at: https://www.inlandhospital.org/donate.asp
Donors Helping Build the Bickford Medical Simulation Program a Home
$25,000 +
Chuck & Joan Bickford
$10,000+
Fall Pops 2009 attendees & sponsors
$5,000+
Thomas Huesers, MD & Katie Huesers
Kennebec Federal Savings
Waterville Pediatrics
$3,000+
Bill Bradfield, MD
John & Jackie Dalton
Joyce Stein, DO
Karen Bakal
$2,000+
Rick Barry, RN & Delia Barry
Caroline Crowell
Gavin Ducker, MD & Edwina Ducker
David Edsall, MD & Patricia Edsall
Uzma Naaz, MD
Loraine Paradis, DO & Carey Paradis, LCSW
$1,000+
James Douglas, DO & Crystal Shamas-Douglas
Tara Dwelley, NPC
Laura Gilbert-Caret & Joseph Caret
Henry Glover, DO & Michelle Coxen-Glover, RN
Susan Gurney, FNP
Roland Knausenberger, MD
Reena Nutakki, FNP
Chellie Roderick, RN
Spectrum Medical Group
Tina Quinn, RN
$500+
John Bonney, MD & Tina Bonney
Vaughn Collett, MD
Sara & John Dyer
Penny Laplante, RN & David Laplante
Howard Mette & Mira Parsons Mette
Sandra L. Myers
Marc & Emily Pitman
Courage Osagie & Francisca Osagie, MD
up to $499
Charlene Akers, RN
Barbara Allen & Lenny Reich
Ev Beliveau
Lilly Brown, RN
MaryKate Friend
Timothy O. Jensen
Jennifer Lee
Richard J. Manelick
Patrick Michaud & Sarah Woehler Michaud
C. Elaine Snow
Susan M. Stevens, DO
