Comfort, Independence and Dignity

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How your gift will make an impact

$50 contributes to the care of our sisters.

$75 contributes to covering the cost of buying two blanket warmers for Regina Coeli, our skilled care facility.

$141 covers the monthly fee for a GPS watch that our sister wear.

$250 provides for one custom made cushion in the chapel.

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Do you worry about the safety, independence, and dignity of your loved ones?

We do, too. We live in fear of this scenario:

It’s one of those nights when your breath freezes in the air, and a sister with memory loss wanders away from her room, lets herself out a fire door, and falls in the snow…She does have a call button that can alert the nurses…but will she remember to use it? Does it work outside the house? Will the nursing staff be able to get to her in time?

That keeps us awake at night.

Fortunately, there is a solution. There are GPS watches designed to prevent such tragedies. They send an alert to the nurses when a sister leaves a safe zone, notify us if she’s fallen, and allow us to talk to her remotely. They help us pinpoint her exact location and find her fast. She doesn’t have to do anything.

We can use these watches to protect our sisters who are still mobile and have advancing dementia. They are the most likely to wander out of the building and not know where they are.

Knowing this technological support is available to help us protect our sisters’ safety and maintain their dignity and freedom is such a relief!

But they are expensive. Each watch costs $1,000 and carries a monthly fee to keep the software up to date, making an initial cost of about $1,700 for the first year and $700 annually after that, per sister, per watch.

That’s why we need you. Will you consider a gift to help us purchase and maintain this life-saving technology for our sisters?

Each watch will:

Support the amazing care our nursing staff already provides for the sisters we love so dearly;

provide accurate, timely, and potentially life-saving information; and

allow us to maintain a comforting, home-like atmosphere for the sisters rather than requiring a locked unit.

At Sacred Heart Convent, those are the values we hold for our sisters!

You can read more about these life-saving GPS watches and other items on our summer wish list elsewhere in this letter.

Please know that we do not take your kindness for granted. Each of us is appreciative of your generosity; each holds you and your loved ones in our daily prayer.