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Gary is a Sous Chef in the Cornerstone Café. He also sits on the board for the Shelley Library. Gary decided that he could contribute to a brand new hospital opening it’s doors. He went to the board at the library and made arrangements for a small donation of close to 1000 books. These are now on the medical floor available for our patients while they are spending time here. We let the patient keep the books that they select to read while they are here and they love that because NOBODY likes to quit a good story half way through.

Gary also went back to the board when we decided to hold our “Feed the Need” events for Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. Had another large donation of kids’ books available for our families in need. The kids were beyond excited to be able to pick out their own books. There were enough at both events for each child to not only get as many books as they wanted but to also get extras to give away as gifts.

I think that this selfless act promotes the culture we want to have at Idaho Falls Community Hospital and shows how acting outside their normal duties really is Accepting the Challenge of Excellence.

Effective immediately employees are allowed to park on the top level/uncovered area of our parking garage. Please park from the top down and do not park beyond the uncovered area. 

Should you arrive at the top level and there are no more available parking spots, you are required to park in the employee parking lot on Valencia Drive. Employees are not allowed to park in any covered bays. 

As our patient/visitor volume increase, especially during the 4^th quarter, this parking arrangement might change.

Please be mindful as you use this parking area.

I’m sure you’ve all seen our local IFFD firemen out on the street corners with their boots raising money for Muscular Dystrophy. This usually happens in the spring but COVID postponed that effort. They are moving forward with it now and it looks a little different this year. They are filling the boot digitally this year. Please see the attached flyer. You simply use your phone, scan the QR code and donate. PLEASE make sure that you fill in that you are donating for your company and fill in IDAHO FALLS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. We have challenged Mountain View Hospital to a little fund raising competition. The good thing here is that the winner is the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Idaho Falls Community Hospital has pledged a match of up to $5000 for this event. For every dollar that they can raise through their various efforts we will match up to $5000, so let’s help make that happen!

The money is raised is used locally to help support patients and their families. This is a very debilitating disease that affects families as it is genetic. The money is used to purchase things like wheelchairs, walkers, etc. It is also used to help the families of patients to modify homes, provide transportation and other very valuable donations.

There is an actual boot that the managers will be passing around. This boot is just a reminder to donate digitally. Please do not put actual money in the boot. The fund raiser will go until next Friday.

Thank you in advance for giving!