100% of profits from the event will be donated to support critical care services at The Alfred hospital.
The Alfred is a leader in healthcare, medical research and clinical education both nationally and internationally.
Emergency
and trauma care has been a focus of The Alfred for over a century, and
instrumental in the evolution of a world standard trauma service.
The
Alfred treats approximately half a million patients every year, and
60,000 people come through the doors of our Emergency and Trauma Centre.
In just two hours, The Alfred’s critical care team treat 20
people presenting with chest pain and another five people who are
seriously injured.
With support from the community, The Alfred
offers one of the best healthcare services in Australia. We are now
seeing more trauma patients than ever before. Thanks to generous
contributions from many, a new Emergency & Trauma Centre is going to
be built.
Here will be an increased number of private cubicles
for patients to be assessed and treated and additional equipment to
allow for faster diagnostics.
With funds raised by the 2016
Alfred 6 Hour we would like to purchase a high resolution x-ray
monitor for emergency and trauma patients. This state-of-the-art
machine gives doctors and nurses more detailed and accurate images of
potential internal injuries. As it can provide a much higher resolution
than the current technology, the treating doctors can see greater
definition and detail which will help them to have better diagnostic
capabilities to find out what’s wrong and therefore earlier
intervention. Having the best equipment helps The Alfred to provide
life-saving treatment to seriously injured patients, giving them the
best chance to get better and go home to their loved ones.
The
target for this year’s Alfred 6 Hour is $15,600. This amount will
allow us to purchase this life-saving piece of equipment to be used in
the new Emergency & Trauma Centre which our previous events helped
fund.
Thank you for your support!
