Changing lives feels pretty damn good.
Imagine curing cancer, or preventing a stroke… it sounds crazy, but that’s exactly the type of life-changing impact you have when you give a donation to The Hospital Research Foundation Group, or purchase a ticket in their Home Lottery. The Foundation supports over 50 areas of disease and illness throughout South Australian public hospitals, research institutes and communities. We still can’t believe just how much this incredible organisation does for our state!
But here’s the catch: they can’t continue their work without the support of people like you and me. And doing your part could change your life as well! Just imagine buying the winning tickets for The Hospital Research Foundation Home Lottery! This time there will be two winners because there’s not one, but TWO incredible Grand Prizes to win! Both are in Henley Beach and are worth a cool $2.3 million each, and both include $100,000 cash. It’s the ultimate win-win, with all proceeds going directly to life-changing medical research and patient care activities in South Australia.
Let’s give it up for the real-life heroes! It’s time to celebrate how The Hospital Research Foundation Group is turning South Australian lives around in the best possible way.
Life-changing research
From cancer, heart disease, stroke, dementia, diabetes, mental health and more — you name it, The Hospital Research Foundation Group funds it. Since 2004, they’ve invested more than $180 million back into medical research and patient care in South Australia, helping to improve prevention and detection, and delivering better treatments and ongoing care and management for people battling disease and illness.
In the last 12 months alone, The Hospital Research Foundation Group has raised funds for research and patient care in different areas — $1.3 million to breast cancer, $994,000 to healthy ageing, $500,000 to prostate cancer, $250,000 to lymphoma, $94,000 to kidney disease and $80,000 to stroke. And that’s just scratching the surface!
Its funding has also supported researchers to develop a world-first imaging device to better diagnose heart blockages, bring a ground-breaking therapy to human trials for children with brain cancer and find a cure for inflammatory bowel disease through faecal transplants. This just goes to show that any support you give helps to bring us one step closer to a cure or treatment for our loved ones.
Breast cancer researchers at the Basil Hetzel Institute.
Life-changing patient care
The Foundation also funds programs and equipment for our local hospitals — there’s so much more of this stuff you don’t even hear about! For example, it helped bring a state-of- the-art laser machine to the RAH Burns Unit to improve scar healing for people with severe burns; they contributed funds to redevelop the dementia ward at Noarlunga Hospital, to maximise comfort for people with cognitive challenges; and they funded a cutting-edge ‘patient’ robot as a training tool for staff at Lyell McEwin Hospital. This is real impact, right now. And anyone that’s made a donation or bought a ticket should feel all the warm and fuzzies about it!
RAH Burns Unit Team.
Life-changing services
The Hospital Research Foundation Group also offers healthcare services, so people can manage their health outside of the hospital. Its team now consists of nurses, occupational therapists, exercise physiologists, counsellors, education officers and experts at the end of their information hotlines to help whenever you need. Plus, they run a fitness studio! Brain x Body Fitness Studio at Unley and Woodville have exercise physiologists to help you manage chronic health conditions. Whether you’re battling arthritis, Parkinson’s disease or diabetes, recovering from stroke or needing to get in shape before surgery, they have experts there to help.
Life-changing accomodation
Imagine being a young mum living 700 kilometres away and you’re diagnosed with cancer. So you have to pack up, leave your family and spend weeks away from home to receive life saving care. It gives us goosebumps just thinking about it and we haven’t even touched on the monumental costs yet. This is the story of many regional cancer patients who face this scary and stressful diagnosis. The Hospital Research Foundation Group established Under Our Roof, which provides family-style accommodation to country cancer patients travelling to Adelaide. Under Our Roof has four homes in Woodville West and Bowden, all large enough for patients’ support networks to stay with them too.
Cindy McMahon.
“You don’t know you need it until you need it,” loving mum and wife Cindy McMahon told us, who’s battling triple negative breast cancer while living 700 kilometres away in Smoky Bay. “To stay somewhere like this, it’s life- changing for someone like me,” she said. When we heard about the maintenance these homes require, it became our ‘pineapple promise’ to fund one home for a year. But we need your help! For as little as $10 a month, you can make a difference. If you can, please sign up to donate monthly at hospitalresearch.org.au/adelady
The Hospital Research Foundation Group can only continue its phenomenal work with the support of all of us. So South Australia — let’s change some lives.
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