Helmsley's 3rd Donation To SD
by Associated Press
February 18, 2010
The trust of the late real estate baroness Leona Helmsley has made another big contribution to rural
health care in South Dakota.
The three-year, $6.6 million gift from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will go for technology to help provide better care for critically ill patients at hospitals in Rapid City and Spearfish.
The technology enables experts in one location to observe and evaluate patients in multiple intensive care units.
The monitoring system known as eICU already is being used in Sioux Falls by Avera McKennan, where doctors will help monitor patients at the western South Dakota hospitals.
The Helmsley trust earlier this month announced a three-year, $5.6 million grant to Avera Health and Sanford Health of Sioux Falls and Regional Health of Rapid City. That money is for mobile training units for emergency medical workers.
