Applications for 2010 Curran Foundation grants are now open. For more information, please see our Campus page.

In 2009, the Curran Foundation allocated over $750,000 in general and special project grants toca number of high priority needs on the St Vincent's Hospital Campus including:

Intensive Care equipment: the ICU is the most technologically sophisticated and resource intensive area of care at the Hospital, as such, it is the most costly to operate. The Foundation is proud to have been able to have provided over $200,000 in grants for new bedside monitors for each ICU bed, CO2 monitors, a new ventilator and cooling blankets used for patients undergoing cardiac arrest.

Stroke Care: the Curran Foundation has provided a number of grants to provide the best possible care for the Hospital’s stroke patients including equipment for speech pathology and new equipment for neurophysiology which will enable non-invasive brain stimulation to test for damaged pathways between the brain and muscles.

Nurse Research: in both the private and public hospitals.

Wards and Ambulatory Care: new high priority items for the wards including eight new monitors for the transplant ward, a bladder scanner for the aged care ward, an ECG for the Cancer ambulatory care and wheel chairs.

Clinical Education: educational equipment including a new training mannequin for the St Vincent's Simulation Centre and new training models and monitors for the microsurgical skills labs.

These grants are an addition to the $2.25 million provided since June 2009 for the Toshiba Aquilion ONE CT at St Vincent's. .