LIONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION HELPS HOSPITAL AGAIN
 Hancock Medical was the recipient of a $62,000 Hurricane Katrina Grant from the Lions Club International Foundation to buy a new pulmonary function machine for the hospital. The new pulmonary function machine will replace the hospital’s current machine which received damage during Hurricane Katrina.
Dolores Tanner, Chief Executive Officer for Lions Clubs in the state of Mississippi and a member of the Diamondhead Lions Club, presented Hancock Medical Administrator Hal W. Leftwich, DBA, FACHE, with the grant check at a special ceremony in Diamondhead.”
“The Lions have been very generous on the local level and the grants our hospital has received from them over the last two years are prime examples,” Leftwich said. “We are very grateful for their assistance in helping us provide quality health care to our residents.”
Hancock Medical Respiratory Therapist Mike Faul, R.R.T, said the pulmonary function machine helps evaluate how well a patient’s lungs work.
“Tests from the machine determine how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out of your lungs, how well your lungs put oxygen into your blood and how well they remove carbon dioxide from your blood,” he said. “This new machine will provide us with the current technology that will enable us to do the necessary tests patients with breathing difficulties need.”
Tanner said the Lions are happy to be able to help Hancock Medical and the communities the hospital serves.
“All of our health care professionals who weathered the storm and were there to help people in their time of need are heroes,” she said. “Hancock Medical is well-deserving of this grant.”
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