News Release

Mercy Auxiliary February Board Meeting

The Mercy Auxiliary Clinton Board met February 9th at Mercy North Campus, with 18 members present and President Rose Jensen presiding. Jensen introduced Robin Fraser, Executive Vice President of Mercy Foundation.

Mr. Fraser updated the board on the final results of the Fantasy. He thanked the board and all the volunteers who helped in any way to make the Fantasy a success. The Gala went very well considering the many events coinciding with the event. It is planned that the event will take place again next season. Mr. Fraser thanked Norma Hammer for her attendance and thorough reports given as representative for the Auxiliary at the Foundation Board meetings. The new person representing the Auxiliary at the Foundation Board meetings will be President Elect, Dondeena Giddings.

President Jensen then introduced Dawn Gielau. Dawn reported that the pagers are a success in Surgical Waiting and the Hospital is exploring the purchasing of additional pagers for Same Day Surgery. This way people who are waiting for family members can be paged when they are finished with a procedure or surgery. Another success story is that the computer at the information desk will be less invasive since it has only one process to get into. We still have a few people who have not attended the mandatory JCAHO meetings and she will be setting up another date to finish these sessions. From these meetings we now have bottles of sanitizer fluid at various places and alcohol wipes near the information desk for the telephone.

President Rose Jensen announced that she sent the name of Nan Bovis to Iowa Medical Alliance as a nominee for the Volunteer of the Year. She also thanked the Board for all the work and help they have given her in the past two years.

Norma Hammer, President Elect, thanked President Rose Jensen for all the work she has done and a job well done. Four Board members attended their last meeting, namely, Mary Jane Kampling, Cheral Thoms, Doris Harris and Wanda Pruett, their work has been well done and appreciated. The new members on the Board will be Sue Weih, Vice President of Community Relations, Lorraine Shreffler, Nuclear Medicine Chairman, Carol Hill, Volunteer Chairman, Betty Krick, Floor Volunteer Chairman, and Joyce Spormann, Sewing Chairman. The luncheon will be February 16th and checks will be issued to the hospital and the new officers will be installed. The menu will consist of ham salad croissant sandwich, macaroni salad and cherry pie.

Joyce Daehler, Membership Chairman, reported we have three new members, namely, Karen Burns, Judy Diesch and Don Leavens. We have 386 paid members.

There were 261 volunteers who worked 1828 hours for the Month of January.

The next meeting of the Mercy Auxiliary Clinton Board will be held on March 1st at 9:30 a.m. at the Clinton Women’s Club. Dawn Gielau, Volunteer Services, is planning an in-service. Lunch will be served.