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community. Those groups include fulfilling one of several goals to to hundreds of organizations in the
the Sparrow Service Auxiliary; Women continually incorporate sustainability communities MSUFCU serves daily.
Working Wonders; Sparrow Hospital into its operations and service delivery. This impact is possible because of
Guild; Sparrow Clinton gift shop; In 2020, CATA’s Sustainability Plan donations from individuals and
and St. Lawrence gift shop, among was adopted. The plan defines CATA’s organizations looking to make
others. Sparrow Ionia Hospital commitment to sustainability; its a difference in the communities
currently has 47 volunteers that assist strategy, structure and systems; and MSUFCU serves.
in transporting patients arriving or outlines the Authority’s approach,
leaving the hospital and working in accomplishments and vision.
the gift shop, welcome center, and
surgery lounge. In celebration of MSU Federal Credit
Union’s (MSUFCU) Auburn Hills
Sparrow Eaton Hospital’s volunteer Regional Office Grand Opening,
organization, the Generosity Guild, is the Credit Union held an auto loan
actively recruiting and always looking promotion to win a year’s worth of
for new community members to car payments. One lucky winner,
share their skills and talents across Stephanie F., received $5,500 to cover
an array of volunteer positions. You her MSUFCU auto loan payments for
may give of your time in a number of the next 12 months. From Jan. 1, to Feb. The concept of a hybrid operating
ways, from administrative support to 28, individuals could enter MSUFCU’s room is new to health care. It is an
being a friendly face at Heritage Hall sweepstakes for a chance to win up advanced procedural space that
(our outpatient lobby), to positions to $6,000 to cover 12 months’ worth takes a traditional operating room
on their Sparrow Eaton Auxiliary, at of their car payments. MSUFCU and combines it with an image-
AL!VE, and more. They also offer a teen chose that dollar amount ($6,000) as guided interventional suite. This new
volunteer program for teens ages 16- the average monthly car payment operating room allows McLaren
17 (who have completed 10th grade) is around $500 — equating to the Greater Lansing to perform complex
looking for community service hours average annual cost of car payments. surgeries for patients in the Lansing
or experience. community. Hybrid operating rooms
MSUFCU’s foundation, Desk allow for minimally-invasive repair
The Capital Area Transportation Drawer Fund, celebrated its third of heart valves and treatment of
Authority’s board of directors voted anniversary April 1. The Desk Drawer arrhythmias, aortic aneurysms, and
unanimously to approve an initiative Fund launched in April 2019 with coronary arteries. There are several
that would commit the public the mission to empower employees, cardiac and vascular procedures
transportation service provider to members, and other businesses to performed in a hybrid operating
transition its entire fleet of revenue contribute to a universal well-being room. Hybrid operating rooms
and non-revenue vehicles to zero- by investing in our local communities provide flexibility in what surgeries
emission by 2035. In 2019, CATA and helping them flourish. Since its can be performed, and the way they
converted 100 percent of its energy inception, the Desk Drawer Fund are designed is safer for advanced
demand to renewable sources, has donated more than $800,000 surgeries.

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