Officials with the Cass County Health System (CCHS) Foundation say they’ve begun their annual 2015 Fundraising Campaign. Dawn Marnin, CCHS Foundation Director, said the focus of this year’s campaign is to raise funds for the purchase of a Central Monitoring System for the Cass County Memorial Hospital’s (CCMH) Obstetrics (OB) Department, which costs $100,000.

Central Monitors

Last year’s campaign enabled CCMH to purchase new fetal monitors, which need to be read at the patient’s bedside. Adding the Central Monitoring System will allow nurses and physicians to closely monitor multiple babies at the same time. Together, Marnin says the two systems utilize electronic fetal monitoring to create a powerful tool to monitor and protect infants.

Marnin says “Every hour a baby is born in the US with a serous birth injury.” Approximately half of these are preventable, and the information provided by high quality fetal monitoring during labor she says, is critical to prevention.

For more information or to make a gift, contact Dawn Marnin, CCHS Foundation Director, at 712-243-7409, dmarnin@casshealth.org or via the CCHS website, www.casshealth.org.