Atrium campaign to expand women’s services

Every Woman, Everywhere

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A new fundraising campaign is underway by the Atrium Medical Center Foundation to improve women’s health services.

The Every Woman, Everywhere campaign has recently kicked off and will extend throughout 2015, said Michael Stautberg, president of the Atrium Medical Center Foundation.

The campaign’s initial goal is to raise $500,000 with a stretch goal of $750,000, Stautberg said.

“The primary goal is to help ensure women have access to disease testing and tools to manage their health,” Stautberg said.

The campaign will help support the purchase of a 3D mammography unit, known as tomosynthesis technology, to operate inside the hospital’s first mobile mammography unit.

Stautberg said the mobile unit would be deployed in Butler, Warren and Preble counties, including at businesses, churches, health fairs and community events.

In southwest Ohio, over 40 percent of women don’t get mammograms, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health. Stautberg said research indicates the more convenient it is to get a mammogram, the more likely women are to participate.

The campaign will also help expand health screenings and education to more women; keep up with changing technology and equipment, including osteoporosis screening devices and simulation technology; and establish permanent endowed funds at Atrium’s Wilbur and Mary Jean Cohen Women’s Center, according to the Foundation.

Stautberg said the Every Woman, Everywhere campaign will help establish a simulation lab at Atrium Medical Center for training staff in a variety of situations, including responding to heart attacks and strokes.

The hospital hopes to purchase four simulated mannequins — an adult man, an adult woman that gives birth, a child and an infant.

“The mannequin reacts as a real patient would,” Stautberg said. “Learning by doing can be one of the best ways to improve caregiver skills.”

The simulators can inhale and exhale, cry, bleed, blink, vomit, go into cardiac arrest and become critically ill with an endless number of diseases, according to the Foundation. A computer chip inside recognizes the medication staff is giving, and the simulators react accordingly.

“Simulators will improve patient care and help us to continually raise the bar for our staff,” said Dr. Walter H. Roehll Jr, a member of the Atrium Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors.