New Wheels for Precious Cargo – Sandra Hinton’s Story

Contributed by Sandra Hinton, mother of Lee Hinton

We established an endowment at Prisma Health Midlands Foundation in 2012 after our son, Trescott Lee Hinton, passed away unexpected in December 2011.

Lee was a paramedic and a father. A good guy gone too soon. He worked long hours to provide for his daughter but also to care for so many he encountered while running calls as a paramedic.

When he passed, we, as a family, were devastated and wanted a way to have his spirit and his energy to keep on giving. Our call to the Foundation and speaking to Diane Junis was comforting in knowing she would be able to help us. Diane gave us direction in a period when we needed a way to memorialize a very special person; professionally a skilled paramedic, the father of a beautiful daughter, a son and a big brother. The Lee Hinton Pediatric Transport Endowment was created.

Over the years, we have been able to provide education, training and equipment to support the Pediatric Transport team at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital—Midlands.

Now, the need is broader reaching including the needs of the Transport team and the Midlands community. We were delighted to be able to kick off the New Wheels For Precious Cargo fundraising campaign for the new Pediatric Critical Care Ambulance with a gift of $25,000 from Lee’s endowment, and we hope others will consider contributing. We are so proud and know Lee would be proud, as a medic and a father, to lend a hand in this fundraising campaign.