Each year we work with the Delta Health and Wellness Leaders to provide free health screenings and educational seminars on health and wellness at the annual Delta Health & Wellness Day held in January.

 

Birdies and Backhands, Golf and Tennis Tournament

B&B Sponsorship Form

B&B Silent Auction Form

B&B Tennis Application

B&B Golf Application

The Foundation partners with the Delta Health and Wellness Leaders to promote breast cancer awareness through a week of seminars, forums, pink rink ribbon campaign and a mile walk with survivors, healthcare professionals and representatives from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. In 2007 with the help of the North Sunflower Medical Center employees, the Foundation raised over $2,400 for breast cancer awareness and for those who do not have adequate funding for mammograms.

The purpose of the event is to promote healthy eating habits to prevent childhood obesity. The pilot program began in 2007 at Ruleville Headstart Center, and the vision for the program is to reach all preschool and elementary students throughout Sunflower and Bolivar County.

The tree provides an opportunity to pay tribute to friends, family, co-workers, mail carriers, teachers and many more. A special recognition card and keepsake ornament is sent to the person being honored or the family being remembered. A duplicate ornament is hung on our Tribute Tree in the lobby of North Sunflower Medical Center.

The Foundation has partnered with Delta Arts Alliance to provide holiday art activities to the residents of Walter B. Crook and to the patients of Senior Care and the Sunrise Program at North Sunflower Medical Center.

The Foundation is raising funds to build a state of the art wellness facility with exercise equipment, an indoor walking track, a Wound Care Center, conference center and an employee training center.

The wellness facility will house four centers: Wellness Center, Diabetes Center of Excellence, Rehab Center of Excellence and Community Education Center.

The purpose of the facility is to enhance the health and welfare of the North Sunflower Medical Center Community and its surrounding areas. Also, the wellness facility will offer additional programming opportunities. Naming opportunities are available for programs and the future wellness facility.

The Foundation will pave the way to health wellness through our future Memorial Garden. The Memorial Garden will be placed in an area that will be preserved for future generations to enjoy on the grounds of the North Sunflower Medical Center Campus. The garden will be built through gifts of tribute. Gifts can be made in honor or memory of loved ones through the purchase of wall bricks, pavers, concrete squares, benches, lamp posts, trees, fitness trail, trellis, chapel or bell tower. Naming opportunities are available for the Memorial Garden.

North Sunflower Medical Foundation and The Ruleville Development Council have partnered to develop this exciting and hopeful volunteer program for North Sunflower Medical Foundation, North Sunflower Medical Center, the Ruleville community, the surrounding area and our youth. The Candy Striper Youth Development Program (CSYDP) will allow students to explore healthcare careers, see the need for a healthy lifestyle changes and serve the community, while participating in the volunteer program. The program will include an orientation consisting of lectures on topics of Elderly Care, Leadership Development Counseling, Wheelchair Safety, Fire Safety, Hand washing/Personal Hygiene and Duties and Responsibilities. Candy Stripers will commit to 50-hours, which can be achieved within a year. At the end of their commitment, Candy Stripers will have the opportunity to be a Candy Striper Youth Development Counselor and/or apply for healthcare related degree scholarships to local colleges or university.

The Candy Striper Youth Development Program will begin with an Empowerment Orientation. At the end of the orientation, each student will sign commitment forms, receive Candy Striper uniforms and begin their rotations of North Sunflower Medical Center and North Sunflower Medical Foundation.

The CSYDP rotations will allow the students to work in the various areas of North Sunflower Medical Center and North Sunflower Medical Foundation. Students will be exposed to the acute care unit, swing bed unit, geri-psychiatric unit, home health agency, durable medical equipment, rural health clinic, radiology services, lab services, nursing home facility, maintenance department, medical records, social work, human resources management, housekeeping department, marketing, dietary and food service, respiratory and physical therapy, and North Sunflower Medical Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the medical center. Candy Stripers will be evaluated by their supervisor within the various departments. Evaluations will be used for future college and job recommendations. Positive job performance will be rewarded with good recommendations for future endeavors. At the end of the commitment, students will have an exit interview and a recognition social in their honor. Candy Stripers who score high on their evaluations and exit interviews will be asked to be a Candy Striper Youth Development Counselor during the following year’s program and/or apply for scholarships for healthcare related degree program at local colleges or university. Counselor positions will be paid positions which will provide recognition for positive behavior and will provide jobs to area youth.

The Foundation is gearing up to start its North Sunflower Medical Center Workplace Wellness Program. The program will promote healthy living habits and will celebrate as each participant reaches their health challenge goal. Each participant will begin the program with a health risk assessment.

Participants will have the opportunity to enjoy Wellness Lunch and Learn Seminars throughout the program. Seminars will include the topics of healthy eating, increasing physical activity, smoking cessation, stress management, managing diabetes, taking care of your heart, weight loss strategies, breast cancer awareness and strategies to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. The program will be the pilot program for our future Community Wellness Program that will begin with the completion of our future Wellness Center.