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RESERVE YOUR TABLE FOR 2008 FESTIVAL OF TREES!
POSTED: OCT 02, 2008
Winner Regional Foundation's 2008 Festival of Trees is planned for Saturday, December 6th at St. Mary’s Hall in Winner.
This year’s theme is “Winter Wonderland.”
Proceeds from Festival of Trees will help to fund two new hospital-grade defibrillators, one to be used in the emergency room and another for the medical-surgery floor crash cart.
Defibrillators save lives by providing electric shocks that can restore normal heart rate. Early defibrillation is critical to the outcomes of adults in cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest has a high mortality rate unless defibrillation occurs quickly. Survival decreases 7% to 10% with each minute that passes; therefore, rapid defibrillation is an essential goal in any protocol for treating patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias.
Festival of Trees tickets will go on sale soon! Winner Regional Foundation is offering discounted tickets to groups or businesses who wish to reserve a table of 8. For $280, groups are able to reserve a table at Festival of Trees with their company or organizational name displayed on a placard at their table.
Many businesses find this a very affordable way to treat employees to a lovely holiday party while supporting a great cause. Tickets include wine and beer tasting (souvenir wine goblet included), a delicious meal, gourmet dessert, entertainment and a dance. Individual tickets are $40 each. To reserve a table, please call (605) 842-7250.
If your business or non-profit organization would like to donate a live or silent auction item please contact Foundation Director Dorothy Schuyler-Gant at (605) 842-7250 or Dawn Dickinson, Foundation Board Member at (605) 842-1746.
“Festival of Trees is always an elegant and festive event,” said Mike Hall, CEO/Administrator. “Winner Regional is always appreciative of the many wonderful and creative live and silent auction items that are donated from our community.”
“Having reliable defibrillators in our ER and on the floor is imperative to the quality of care we’re providing at Winner Regional,” he continued. “We know that it’s important to our community that Winner Regional patients are being treated with functioning, dependable equipment when our staff responds to a code.”
