We hope you will join us!

An Evening in Tuscany

a benefit for the
Stroke Telemedicine Program
at Sutter Lakeside Hospital

Special Guest
Dr. David Tong
Sutter Health's CPMC Neuroscience Institute
also
Sutter Lakeside Hospital Physicians and Leadership


Entertainment, Fine Food & Wine
Auction & Raffle

Saturday, July 10th
6pm to 10pm

$100 per person
limited seating

For more information, contact Tammi Silva at 707-262-5189
or purchase tickets here

Please make checks payable to:
Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation
5176 Hill Road East, Lakeport, CA 95453
Note: Stroke Telemedicine Brunetti Benefit


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A Letter from Dr. Mark Buehnerkemper,
SLH Foundation Chair

Dear Community Member,

I am pleased to tell you about an opportunity to make an investment in our community that will return benefits for years and provide an additional level of specialty care that helps keep patients closer to home.

We have kicked off a campaign to raise $156,000 to deliver a Stroke Telemedicine Program to the residents of Lake County. We want to bring our community the Telemedicine program because it will address some of the county’s most challenging medical issues and provide convenient access to the patient from family, friends, and caregivers. The Telemedicine program is designed to provide stroke patients with expert remote neurological consultations from renowned stroke experts from Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco.

After heart disease and cancer, stroke is America’s third leading cause of death. Stroke —sometimes called a brain attack—also is America’s leading cause of disability. Even so, too many people remain unaware of stroke’s risk factors, warning signs and the importance of rapid treatment.

Telemedicine Provides Expert Stroke Care Close to Home
Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation needs your help to purchase this life-saving technology

In the diagnosis and treatment of stroke having quick and easy access to high-quality medical care is crucial. The care that Sutter Lakeside Hospital provides is vital to Lake County residents. But sometimes living in a rural area makes access to specialty care hard to get. Stroke patients requiring this higher level of attention are usually transferred to stroke centers available at larger hospitals.

Telemedicine programs, such as our eICU® program, are making it possible for many of our patients to have access to round-the-clock specialty care close to home. Telemedicine allows you and your doctor to consult with an off-site specialist live over video for immediate care. Using this advanced technology, the specialist can communicate with you and your doctor about your current condition, access your medical records, view radiology images and receive test results.

For many stroke patients needing specialized care, California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is a Sutter Health affiliate that provides our community with consultations from specialists unavailable in our area. In some cases, a phone call between Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s emergency team and the specialists at CPMC is enough to determine the right treatment. In many stroke cases, however, the specialists need to actually see and monitor the patient’s response to various stimuli in order to make a diagnosis. That’s where you can help.

Currently, we do not have a telemedicine program for use in our Emergency Department. That means most of the more than 100 stroke patients seen each year must be transported to other hospitals for care. This poses challenges, as we lose a small window of time for administering time-sensitive stroke treatments. And when patients are transferred away from home, friends and family can’t easily visit them.

The solution is stroke telemedicine—equipment that will link us immediately to off-site stroke specialists. With advanced video conferencing equipment, our ED physicians and nurses could consult with the on-call stroke team at CPMC, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Neurologists, neurosurgeons and other specially trained experts at CPMC’s Comprehensive Stroke Care Center will then provide timely medical assessments, so we can immediately start treating the patient.

According to the American Heart Association, Telemedicine can be as effective as a bedside exam by a neurologist to diagnose acute strokes—and it is a much better option than phone consultations.

Last December the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation kicked off a campaign to raise $156,000 to deliver a Stroke Telemedicine Program. To date, hospital physicians, leaders, staff and community members have donated more than $39,000. We still need to raise $117,000 to get the Telemedicine equipment installed.

But the challenge just got 50% easier. Sutter Health has offered to MATCH our Telemedicine campaign dollar-for-dollar up to $78,000, if we raise the match in donations and pledges by December 31, 2010. That means your $10 donation becomes $20 and your $1,000 becomes $2,000!

At $39,000, we are nearly halfway there.

Through your generous donation today, we can provide telemedicine stroke care at Sutter Lakeside Hospital. By implementing Telemedicine technology, patients who arrive at the ED with acute stroke symptoms would be assured of expert treatment from a team of specialized doctors— along with our physicians and staff.

Offering leading-edge programs such as stroke telemedicine is one more way we are giving patients the care they need, close to home.

To make your donation to the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation and help purchase the Telemedicine equipment call Foundation Director Tammi Silva at 707-262-5189 or click the "Buy Now" button below.

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Generating funding to help the Community

Our annual fundraising event is the heart of the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation’s fundraising activities. With the community’s help, Sutter Lakeside’s fundraising events have been very successful, generating valuable funding to enable Sutter Lakeside to help teens, adults, children and seniors county-wide.

With these charitable donations, the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation invests all proceeds to purchase life-saving equipment, support health and wellness education classes/programs, and maintain the healing environment in the Hospital.
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Past Fundraising Events

"A RED CARPET GALA" Howard Hughes Style - May 2008
M*A*S*H Fundraiser with Jami Farr - February 2007
Carnival In Venice - February 2006

"Because life is precious, we encourage giving to life and a lifetime of giving."

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