The Better Foundation was created in 2016 to support Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals. Their mission is to raise vital funds for state-of-the-art equipment, world’s best practice research and advanced education for doctors, nurses and clinical staff. Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals (BMDH) are administered as a single hospital on two sites. It is one of the largest hospitals in Australia. Every day brings new challenges at BMDH. Every day, hundreds of residents from the Blacktown and Mount Druitt local community attend the hospital for life-saving treatment. For this reason, WLG is proud to be a supporter of the Better Foundation. Through this ongoing support, several pieces of vital equipment have been purchased for the hospital.
The CEO of the Better Foundation, Kerry Powers, arranged for our CEO and Board to visit the hospital and meet with the General Manager, Brad Ceely along with specialists in the diabetes, cardiology and pediatric departments to view the equipment that Workers Lifestyle Group had helped to fund. On learning of the value that our previous contribution to the pediatric department has made, it has been decided that WLG will fund more milk warming equipment to help the staff, mothers and babies.
The team were fascinated to learn more about the specialties and workings of the hospital from the front-line staff. We all came away with a sense of gratitude for the enormous skill and dedication of the hospital staff available to our local community.