LAKEPORT, Calif. – Sutter Lakeside Hospital is working to raise the final $10,000 needed to receiving matching funds from Sutter Health to break ground next year on a new outdoor rehabilitation park.

Hospital officials reported that they have so far raised $95,000 of the $110,000 needed by the end of December to receive the matching funds.

Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation has teamed up once again with Sutter Health in a matching grant challenge to raise funds for the new Sutter Lakeside Rehabilitation Mobility Park.

Numerous local residents, nonprofits and businesses have contributed to the effort.

The outdoor Rehabilitation Mobility Park will be at least 12,600 square feet in size and reside on the Sutter Lakeside Hospital campus.

This unique and innovative park will prepare patients of all ages to navigate a wide range of obstacles such as curbs, ramps, stairs, hills and intersections and varying terrains like gravel, pavement, dirt, sand, bark, cobblestone and grass – anything one might encounter in a real‐world setting.

In addition, the thoughtfully‐planned landscape will integrate areas for reflection and meditation, exercise stations to promote strength and flexibility, and space dedicated to activities like gardening and outdoor sports and recreation.

It is projected that the mobility park will serve 15 to 20 patients per day, and be an effective form of transitional rehabilitation for injury/illness recovery, including total joint replacements, neurological injuries (stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease), balance disorders, trauma related injuries (traumatic brain injury, fractures/sprains) and sensory depriving disorders such as neuropathy and spinal cord injuries.

 

For more information or to donate, visit www.sutterlakeside.org/giving/mobilitypark.html.