With PA Giving Day 2020 taking place on Thursday 3 September, the PA Giving Day We’re all 4 the Heroes campaign has officially launched, with the aim of raising $600,000 for the PA Research Foundation.
With Covid-19 restrictions in place in Queensland the second ever PA Giving Day moved to a virtual format to allow people to prioritise their health and stay Covid safe while raising funds. Thanks to generous matching donors, all donations on PA Giving Day will be quadrupled, giving donors the chance to have four times the impact. All funds raised through online and phone donations will go towards patient support, state of the art equipment, medical research, and staff education at the PA Hospital campus, to improve health care and outcomes for patients, their families, and the wider PA community.
The theme of this year’s campaign We’re all 4 the Heroes provides the PA community and the public with the perfect opportunity to recognize and thank the healthcare heroes who work tirelessly to deliver each patient the best care possible. “PA Giving Day is as much about fundraising for important work as it is about celebrating the PA community where researchers work alongside clinicians, nurses, support staff, and allied health professionals to improve outcomes for people under their care,” PA Research Foundation Chief Executive Officer Damian Topp said. “We know people love and respect the essential work they do. PA Giving Day is the perfect time to thank them.”
There are numerous ways to support the PA Giving Day We’re all 4 the Heroes campaign including donating, forming a team and raising funds or by raising funds individually, , or even sharing the campaign with family and friends on social media. More than 60 teams from across the PA community have already registered to raise funds for their research or patient support initiatives and have already begun to contribute to their totals ahead of PA Giving Day on 3 September.
Mr Topp said campaigns like PA Giving Day allow the PA Hospital to be at the cutting edge of medical research and a leader in bettering patient outcomes. “Healthcare budgets can only stretch so far, donating to PA Giving Day ensures present and future generations of Queenslanders benefit from receiving the exceptional healthcare that the PA is renowned for,” he said. “Last year’s event enabled us to fund research teams such as the Queensland Bladder Cancer Initiative, led by Dr Ian Vela and Associate Professor Elizabeth Williams for another 12 months.
“Funds raised by the University of Queensland’s Dermatology Research Centre allowed them to send researcher Kaitlin Nufer to a specialist melanoma imaging training course, where she gained expertise which has been vital to skin cancer screening occurring in clinical trials. Giving Day funds also enabled us to install state of the art Wi-Fi in the PA’s Spinal Injury Unit, which allows for patients who often spend months in the hospital to pass their free time keeping in touch with friends and family or watching Netflix on personal devices.”
The PA Hospital which will receive more than 700,000 patients visits in 2020, is one of Australia’s leading academic and research health centres, providing world-class care to patients throughout Queensland. Among those who will be raising funds for their work this year include researchers from the PA campus co-located Translational Research Institute (TRI), as well as teams from various departments including, amyloidosis, radiation therapy, physiotherapy and many more.
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