Past Projects

The HALO® Bassinest®
The HALO® Bassinest® swivel sleeper safely keeps mom and baby closer than ever before, enabling the closeness a mother desires most in the first moments with her child. It promotes “skin to skin” bonding and breastfeeding, as well as provides baby a safe sleep environment & starts safe sleep practices for parents. The HALO Bassinest is the ideal bassinet to ensure a safe, comfortable & enjoyable experience for families.

BiPap Machine
A BiPap machine is a non-invasive ventilator that pushes air into a patient’s lungs, through a make or nasal plugs, if they are having trouble breathing. It is called “positive pressure ventilation” because the device helps open the lungs with air pressure.

e-ICU Equipment
Phoebe Sumter Medical Center is partnering with Hicuity Health to enhance our intensive care. This telehealth collaboration with our onsite bedside ICU teams will ensure our patients continuously receive the highest quality expert critical care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With this new service, Phoebe Sumter Medical Center will be able to best address immediate patient concerns, reduce length of stay, and potentially reduce transfers to different facilities.

Local Artist Murals in Emergency Center Overflow and Multidisciplinary Rooms
Studies proved viewing art increases dopamine in the brain which reduces stress, and for some, reduces anxiety and depression. Phoebe Sumter Medical Center patients have noted that during their time of crisis, the previous treatment space intensifies their feelings of stress and disconnection. Our hope is the addition of murals will help patients feel safe and peaceful in a more therapeutic setting.

New Entrance Digital Signs
Phoebe Sumter Foundation is supporting Phoebe Sumter with ensuring we provide information to our visitors. To assist with this goal, we are replacing the entrance digital marquees that are utilized for community education and information about hospital services.

Juno Patient Simulator
In 2022, the Phoebe Sumter Foundation purchased a Juno patient simulator to better serve our community. This medical mannequin provides hands-on simulation, didactic training and skills assessments for annual nurse education requirements and training for nursing students. Not only does it benefit each nurse, but also certainly benefits our patients by ensuring quality care.

Trurize Reclining Chairs

Three new Trurize reclining chairs that provide a comfortable setting for PTM patients during treatment. PTM treats outpatients that need outpatient treatments such and IV infusions, IV antibiotics, blood transfusions, etc.

EC Overflow and Multidisciplinary Rooms
Over the years, the Phoebe Sumter Emergency Center (EC) has seen a huge influx of patients with behavioral health needs. To ensure we can provide quality care for all patients, the Phoebe Sumter Foundation supported Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in its project of constructing EC overflow and multidisciplinary rooms.

LEEP Electrosurgical Excision Procedure
If a woman received an abnormal cervical cancer screening, a physician may recommend a Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP). This year, the Phoebe Sumter Foundation was able to purchase a machine to be placed in the Phoebe Sumter Obstetrics and Gynecology office. We are glad we are able to provide this procedure in a safe, familiar, and convenient location to our patients..

Ultrasound
Phoebe Sumter Foundation is committed to providing medical equipment that ensures patients receive quality and convenient care. The team at Phoebe Sumter Obstetrics and Gynecology they saw a need for an Ultrasound machine that would allow doctors to images for care purposes and to provide quality/high resolution images that expecting parents can take with them. The new, portable ultrasound can be moved from room to room, allowing convenient use for all new expecting parents.

Cardiac Stress Testing
One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. For a heart attack survivor or heart patient, cardiac rehabilitation may help not only recover more fully, but come out feeling even better and happier than before. Cardiac stress tests let doctors know how the heart responds to being pushed, so patients can continue to get the best care for their heart and body.

Pigg-O-Stat™
The Pigg-O-Stat™ is the world’s top clinically-proven, time-tested, and medically-trusted pediatric immobilizer. It safely secures a child and allows a x-ray technician to be brief and efficient while the child remains immobilized. It provides x-ray technicians the best opportunity to capture a great picture on the first attempt. With fewer retakes required, infants receive significantly less exposure to radiation.

Five Wishes Educational Material: $141.45
End-of-life conversations are difficult to have with patients and families. Five Wishes is a patient-centered advance care planning program that offers a proven, easy-to-use approach to having effective and compassionate conversations. Having this resource on hand for patients gives them and their families the information they need to ensure peace of mind at the end of one’s life.

Respiratory Therapy Carts: $15,000
Having the best technology available for staff has a direct impact on patient care. Portable and convenient, respiratory therapy carts allow respiratory therapists to administer medications to patients more safely, reduce incorrect billing and enhance real time documentation.

Wheelchair for School Nurse Tech: $590
For Phoebe Sumter, providing healthcare resources does not stop at the doors of the hospital. As part of our community outreach, we were able to provide a wheelchair at Sumter Intermediate School to help transport a child if needed.

Two Chemo Treatment Chairs: $ 5,085.60
Undergoing chemotherapy is a physical, mental and emotional demanding time. We purchased two new recliners for patients to use during their chemotherapy treatment. The chairs provide comfort in a time when patients need it. They also provide patient safety features that allow patients to safely exit the chair. We are excited to have this chair positively impact the care of our approximately 500 patients per year.

Stryker Early Ambulation Chair: $8,753.00
Our goal and every patient’s goal is to get home as quickly as possible. With this new resource, patients will get out of bed, up to a standing position, and hopefully, walking more quickly.  It assists in increasing patient’s mobility, decreasing length of stay, and may help patients return to home instead of short-term rehab. We estimated it will assist 20 or more patients per month.

Stryker Flyte Helmets: $12,316.13
Providing quality equipment and resources for our physicians, so they in turn can provide quality care to our patients, is important to us. As our surgery number grows, we were able to fulfill a physician need during total joint procedures. This helmet provides a safeguard against contamination, exposure to infectious bodily fluids and transfer of microorganisms or particulate matter during each surgery.

Bladder Scanner: $13,400.00
As medical resources advance, we are able to provide less evasive ways of determining medical procedures. With our new Bladder Scanners, nursing and physicians are able to assess patients for urinary retention and bladder distention. With a quick scan of the lower abdomen, medical staff can evaluate the need for a catheter. This equipment allows an accurate assessment of retention without the utilization of a urinary catheter, which prevents unnecessary catheterizations.

18 month calendar planner for Oncology patients: $900.00
Patient care extends outside the hospital walls with an 18 month calendars/planner for patients receiving treatment. This go-to calendar serves as resource to manage their appointments for treatment.

Josh Dogs for Pediatric Patients – $4,000 in 2018
Having surgery is scary at any age, but as a child, it is even more so. To help our pediatric patients understand what is happening and to give them a welcome distraction, we deliver “Josh” to our patients before surgery. Josh is a hypo-allergenic, cuddly lush golden retriever and comes with a 32-page, hard cover book with colorful, fun illustrations entitled I’ll be O.K that explain surgery and what to expect. He even comes with an adorable doghouse to take him home!

Mattie H. Marshall Cross Country Trail – $104,000
On the campus of Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, construction has begun on a cross country trail that will provide both a short wellness trail (quarter-mile loop) near the hospital and a large event space and longer cross country trail (one-mile loop) for use by the Phoebe Sumter employees and visitors and the community. The Phoebe Sumter Foundation fundraising project generated $54,000 in donations and the Foundation directly contributed $50,000 to the project.

Fannie Packs for Chemotherapy Patients –  $1,125
Our Oncology Clinic patients experiencing chemotherapy through portable chemo pumps receive a fannie pack for ease of use and their privacy. The packs have an adjustable waist strap with quick a release buckle. This waist bag is to make traveling a little easier.

Pediatric Clinic Exam Tables – $6,500
The Phoebe Sumter Foundation donated funds to purchase pediatric exam tables for his new office to both entertain and keep safe our pediatric patients at Phoebe Pediatrics of Americus.