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WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center receives donation to fund patient scales

WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center receives donation to fund patient scales

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – The WVU Medicine East Foundation recently received a State Farm Companies Foundation Good Neighbor Grant to fund scales for cardiac patients at Berkeley Medical Center.

Progressive Care Unit Clinical Coordinator Allison Dietrich, Volunteer Bea Aikens, and Progressive Care Unit Nursing Director Adriana Palmer are shown holding a bathroom scale funded by the State Farm Companies Foundation Good Neighbor Grant.
Progressive Care Unit Clinical Coordinator Allison Dietrich, Volunteer Bea Aikens, and Progressive Care Unit Nursing Director Adriana Palmer are shown holding a bathroom scale funded by the State Farm Companies Foundation Good Neighbor Grant.

The $500 donation will be used to purchase bathroom scales for patients at Berkeley Medical Center with chronic heart failure (CHF) who don’t have scales to weigh themselves once they are discharged to home.

Bea Aikens, hospital volunteer and retired State Farm employee, has applied for and secured the grant for three years totaling $1500. These State Farm donations have been used to support the hospital’s cancer comfort fund and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).