The Auxiliary of St. Luke’s University Hospital has granted 27 funding requests totaling $149,000 from hospital departments as part of its annual “Wish List” program.

Each departmental gift is less than $10,000 and ranges from $214 for a sound system in the radiology department of St. Luke’s Anderson Campus to $9,999 for a chest compression system for the Emergency and Transport System at St. Luke’s University Hospital - Bethlehem.

The area receiving the largest share of Wish List funds this year, $32,000, is St. Luke’s Women’s and Children’s Services, to purchase a blanket warmer, labor room lights, infant scales, a pulse oximeter, digital cameras and bilirubin phototherapy units (to treat babies with newborn jaundice).

Other wishes granted include an early ambulation device that holds items that a patient needs when getting out of bed, a bariatric bed for St. Luke’s Hospice House, and funding for the St. Luke’s Sports Medicine “Youth Sport Safety Initiative,” “Cancer Survivors Day” and “Run with the Heroes.”

In addition to department requests, the program allocated $10,000 for scholarships to each the St. Luke’s School of Nursing and the Temple-St. Luke’s School of Medicine for scholarships. The School of Nursing received an additional $10,000 grant.

“The feedback we get from the people we fund is amazing.” said Auxiliary President Ann Marie Brogle. She received a note from an Iraqi War veteran, who said the scholarship affirmed his decision to become a nurse.

The Auxiliary raises funds for the Wish List Program through proceeds from the hospital gift shops, special sales, commission on vending machine revenue and the “Classic on the Green” Golf Tournament.

In December 2015, the Auxiliary invited departments to submit requests and received more than 60 proposals.