Memorial Miller Children's Hospital

First Donation:
Hemodialysis Pump - April 1998
A continuous Venovenous Hemodialysis Pump that will perform life saving treatment on very critically ill children who are too unstable to receive conventional hemodialysis. The goal of this treatment therapy provided with this equipment is to stabilize blood imbalances in patients who have damaged renal function due to their illness. Doctors hope to save lives, but in some cases of irreparable brain damage and ultimately death, this therapy is also used to keep a child's organs perfused until organ donation can be accomplished. The machine is in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Miller Children's Hospital at Long Beach Memorial where Cherese was born in 1974. Cherese will always be our inspiration and guide us with her heart and soul, as each gift truly is from her.

Neonatal Monitor - 2002
Continuous Cardiac Output, ischemia analysis and Bispectral Index for
critical and cardiac care.

Neonatal Monitor - 2003
This monitor is for the Intensive Care Unit
Read the article printed in Mercury Magazine about this donation.

2006
Cherese continues to support the Children's Hospital.

2009
CHERESE MARI LAULHERE PEDIATRIC IMAGING CENTER

The entire Pediatric Imaging Center in the new pavilion of Miller
Children's Hospital is named after Cherese.  With the purchase of the
Digital Fluoroscopy imaging equipment, doctors expect over 41,600 pediatric imaging
exams will be performed per year in the Radiology Department in the hospital's new location.

More imaging equipment, MRI and CAT scanners, will be added to the
Imaging Center in the near future.

CHERESE MARI LAULHERE BIRTHING CENTER

With over 6,000 births annually, Long Beach Memorial Hospital needed
more space.  Therefore, in order to provide more patient beds and to
expand capacity, a new labor and delivery room as well as 12 new
private rooms with the appropriate atmosphere for all obstetrical
patients will be constructed. When construction is completed, private
beds will increase from 10 beds to 31 beds.  The birthing center,
consisting of all 19 delivery rooms will be named after
Cherese.