The Memorial Hospital Auxiliary is hosting their 11th Annual Golf Classic on Friday July 22nd at the Darlington Golf and Country Club. The Auxiliary held their first golf event in conjunction with the Memorial Messenger back in 2001. The outing has blossomed into a well attended event that now includes silent and live auctions, raffle, lunch and dinner, music and more! The vibrant volunteers of the Auxiliary have so much fun coordinating, planning and working the event, it has become their largest annual fundraiser.
This year the Lafayette County Fair & Live Well Lafayette Coalitions are provding an afternoon of "Reminiscing with Old Friends about the Lafayette County Fair". This event will be held on Friday, July 15th from 2:00-4:00 at the octagon building at the fairgrounds. Admission will be free and transportation will be provided by Lafayette County Human Services Aging Unit. This event will offer old time music by Rosalie Huntington donated by the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, root beer floats, old time photos and more. Please join us at the
We have a winner!!! On June 13th Jody Tuescher won the many wonderful prizes that were donated for the Bingo Lottery Contest. Also the knitted comforter raffle raised over $150 and was won by Christina Fiesta. Bingo was enjoyed by Relay goers as well and many lucky contestants won prizes of delicious cookies. Thanks to everyone who helped make our Relay For Life such a success this year.
On May 25th the Club Scrub students from Argyle, Darlington and Shullsburg joined us for their last session. The Belmont students will come for their last session on June 2nd. The students were given a tour of the Lab where they learned about the capabilities and cost of the equipment in the Lab. They were also able to try a hands on experience of drawing blood on our "practice arm". Kathy Roelli and Glenn Szydlowski talked to the students about blood supply, precautions when drawing blood and the importance of blood testing to the physician's
Chris Andrews has been busy constructing a new lighted display case for the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary to donate to MHLC. After much planning this display case is now in our main lobby. The case will be used to highlight upcoming events that MHLC is sponsoring. There is also an area for brochures. The Auxiliary contracted Chris to build the case. Chris graciously donated his time and the Auxiliary provided the supplies. We really appreciate the donation of Chris' time and the donation by the Auxiliary your dedication to MHL
The entire staff at MHLC needs to be the recipient of the Heart to Heart Award. Without everyone doing their job, the care received by the patient would be inadequate. With everyone at MHLC believing in the MHLC motto "We treat you like family", therefore the care the pateint receives is above and beyond expectation. The professionalism of the entire staff is to be commended. Thank you for your excellent care given to our father at the age of 101.
Dorothy Isely recently completed her 34th year of service to Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County. In honor of her years of dedication and endless commitment to caring for our Community at the hospital she was given an embroidered throw. She had hoped to just fade into retirement but was surprised with a congratulatory cake. We wish Dorothy well and hope she has a happy, healthy retirement.
