VA FISHER HOUSE MONTHLY REPORT

 

VA Hospital VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System Month July 2016

1. Occupancy rate: 25%_______

2. Number of Unoccupied days due to construction, maintenance, or refurbishment: 0____

3. Total number of families accommodated during the month: 36________

4. Families of Active Duty Servicemembers accommodated during the month: 1_____

5. Families of Post 9-11OIF/OEF/OND Veterans accommodated during the month: 1____

6. Average Length of stay for families of Active Duty Servicemembers accommodated during the month: 3____

7. Number of new families accommodated this month: 20_____

8. Number of new individual guests accommodated during the month: 32_____

9. Cumulative number of families accommodated: 142__________

10. Number of families checking out: 31_______

11. Number of lodging nights provided through Fisher House Hotels for Heroes Program:0_____

12. Average length of stay: 3.5_______

13. Total number of families on waiting list during the month: 19____

14. Families referred for accommodations in the community during the month: 0__

15. Monetary donations received by VA this month: $18,961.00___

16. Monetary Donations received by the local 501c3 this month: $6,845.83___

17. Total monthly donations for the year: $109,921.43____

18. Number of hours volunteered: 27______

19. Total Number of volunteers: 5____

20. Number of VCS Canteen Booklets distributed to guests: 0____

21. Describe activities/special events held during the month:
4^th of July dinner provided by Le Cordon Bleu, 2 additional sponsored dinners from Unity Group and Nellis 5/6.
Submitted by: Cadie Andrew_________ Date 8/15/16___ Fisher House Manager

VA FISHER HOUSE MONTHLY REPORT

 

VA FISHER HOUSE MONTHLY REPORT

VA Hospital VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System Month June 2016

1. Occupancy rate: 26%_______

2. Number of Unoccupied days due to construction, maintenance, or refurbishment: 0____

3. Total number of families accommodated during the month: 33________

4. Families of Active Duty Servicemembers accommodated during the month: 0_____

5. Families of Post 9-11OIF/OEF/OND Veterans accommodated during the month: 2____

6. Average Length of stay for families of Active Duty Servicemembers accommodated during the month: 0____

7. Number of new families accommodated this month: 10_____

8. Number of new individual guests accommodated during the month: 17_____

9. Cumulative number of families accommodated: 106__________

10. Number of families checking out: 30_______

11. Number of lodging nights provided through Fisher House Hotels for Heroes Program:0_____

12. Average length of stay: 3.76_______

13. Total number of families on waiting list during the month: 16____

14. Families referred for accommodations in the community during the month: 0__

15. Monetary donations received by VA this month: $7,858.86___

16. Monetary Donations received by the local 501c3 this month: $1,500.00___

17. Total monthly donations for the year: $84,114.60____

18. Number of hours volunteered: 95______

19. Total Number of volunteers: 31____

20. Number of VCS Canteen Booklets distributed to guests: 0____

21. Describe activities/special events held during the month:
6/11/16: Volunteer made treats for guests; 6/21/16 Dinner provided for guests by Shadow Hills Baptist Church.

Submitted by: Cadie Andrew_________ Date 7/19/16___ Fisher House Manager

FW: Info for you on Radio Programs about Fisher House airing this weekend

 
Subject: RE: Info for you on Radio Programs about Fisher House airing this weekend
Importance: High

NEW MEXICO FISHER HOUSE TAGGED ON TO THIS AND OUR FIRST BROADCAST WAS THIS MORNING AT 6am (mst)….four more scheduled this weekend.  FOLKS IT WORKS!  So proud to be a part of building our first Fisher House in Albuquerque, NM (tentative groundbreaking end of year).  Stay tuned!

God Bless America, God Bless our Troops and God Bless the Fisher House Foundation!

Rita Navarrete, Lead Advocate
New Mexico Fisher House

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Subject: Info for you on Radio Programs about Fisher House airing this weekend

Friends of Fisher House,

FYI -    The three-hour program,   “Our Greatest National Treasure,” about Fisher House is being offered for broadcast to news/talk radio stations this Memorial Day weekend, as well as "The Gift" a version playing on country music stations.   Over 200 radio stations (including numerous Iheartradio.com and CBS.Com stations)  across the country will be broadcasting the programs sometime over the the next three days.   Don't be surprised if people in your local area mention to you that they heard something on the radio about Fisher House this weekend.

I don't have a list of all the stations that are playing them, but chances are your local talk radio or country station has probably will air the show.

If you would like to preview the talkradio version,  you can download the audio files.    Here are the instructions:

• visit:   radio.fisherhouse.org
• enter user name: station
• enter password: station   

Feel free to let your board members and supporters know.

We also plan to post the audio of both shows on our website after the weekend for those who missed it.

Prayers this Memorial Day Weekend for all of you who do so much, and for all our brothers and sisters in uniform who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE               Contact:  Michelle Monson, 702.985.8980

Grand Bazaar Shops™ Partners with Royalty Exotic Cars This Memorial Day Weekend to Support Las Vegas Fisher House
Donations will be collected during the two-day event and donors will have the chance to win a rental experience of the Slingshot car that will be on display

Click to tweet: Join @GrandBazaarLV & Royalty Exotic Cars this #MemorialDay weekend to support @FisherHouseFoundation.

LAS VEGAS (May XX 2016) – This Memorial Day weekend, Grand Bazaar Shops, in partnership with Royalty Exotic Cars, invites locals and Las Vegas visitors to support military and veterans’ families through the Las Vegas Fisher House. The first Fisher House in Nevada, the Las Vegas Fisher House at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System opened in February 2016 and provides free lodging for families of wounded, injured, and ill military and veterans while their loved one undergoes treatment.

From noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29, Las Vegas Fisher House will have an outpost at Grand Bazaar Shops’ Grand Allée, near the entrance to the shops off Las Vegas Boulevard. The activation will sit alongside a luxurious, exotic car on display from Royalty Exotic Cars. Guests will have an opportunity to experience a fist-hand look at the popular “Slingshot” car and donations collected on behalf of Las Vegas Fisher House will be entered into a drawing to receive a three-hour rental of a similar exotic car. In addition to the car rental prizes, Royalty Exotic Cars has also donated $2,000 to the Las Vegas Fisher House to begin the weekend. Those that donate a minimum of $10 will also receive a $10 shopping voucher to use at Grand Bazaar Shops as a thank you for their support.

For more information on Grand Bazaar Shops visit: grandbazaarshops.com

About Grand Bazaar Shops
Located at the entrance to Bally’s Las Vegas at one of the busiest intersections in the world, Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, Grand Bazaar Shops introduces a new paradigm to Las Vegas retail.  A “21st century bazaar” the immersive retail experience features exclusive first-to-market brands and unique international retailers. Vibrantly colored rooftops highlight a distinctive open-air setting that emulates the world’s greatest markets. Grand Bazaar Shops offers an urban shopping scene ripe with culture, fashion, food and entertainment in a modern attraction. The mix of tenants, many offering engaging experiences within or outside their stores, will create a place of excitement where visitors will be able to interact with retail. For more information, please visit www.GrandBazaarShops.com. Follow Grand Bazaar Shops on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Las Vegas Fisher House
Fisher House Foundation is best known for a network of comfort homes where military and veterans’ families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, close to the medical center or hospital they serve. Fisher Houses have up to 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilitates, a warm dining room and inviting living room. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee. Since inception, the program has saved military and veterans’ families an estimated $282 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.

About Royalty Exotic Cars
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Media Contact Information:
BRAINTRUST
Michelle Monson 702.985.8980
Michelle.Monson@braintrustlv.com

new volunteer flow plane

The foundation arrived today and recommended that we change the flow of our tours of the house.  In their experience (which they have a lot of) once the ribbon is cut, people will just start walking toward the front door and into the house and we won’t be able to redirect them through the side door.  So, please find attached, a new updated floor plan with how the tour will go.  It’s still similar, we are just opening up the other side of the house, and keeping people to the common downstairs areas and the west wing of the house to look at rooms.  It will be harder to control how many people enter the house at one time this way (because the front entry is wider than the side entry), so it is VERY important that you as tour guides keep the people moving in the direction of the flow of the tour on the floor plan.  Please encourage people nicely to continue into the next room, and just keep pushing them along toward the exit! 

Since the crowd will be headed in through the front door, please still report to the  side door – the original tour entrance (east, front) – to be let into the house to take your places.  Please be waiting at that door as soon as you can get to it.  As soon as the ribbon is cut the dignitaries will enter the house and the crowd will follow them, so we will need to get you all into position as quickly as possible!  IF you are already in the house to take your position prior to the ribbon cutting, PLEASE stay away from the windows.  Please DO NOT go to the window to watch the ribbon cutting from inside the house – you will end up photobombing the ribbon cutting photos!  If you are in the house when the ribbon is being cut, please stay to the interiors, away from any windows.

This is the layout for the Las Vegas Fisher House 

 Dedication on February the 11 2016 

There is also a wish list for the Las Vegas Fisher House .

And here it is

https://amzn.com/w/3H4TKY977EN5H  

PLEASE CHECK IT OUT !!!

and give with heart 

Fisher House Las Vegas Nevada

How exciting! Moving trucks filled with furniture were at the House all day