[URIS id=17619] Besides helping people in our community receive the best healthcare possible through philanthropy, supporting the Foundation does have another benefit: donors at a certain level are invited each year to the Foundation’s Holiday Reception at The Bentley! Enjoy our photos from our 2015 support celebration holiday reception. If...
By scheduling follow-up visits with stroke patients shortly after they are discharged, EMTs are helping ensure that timely medical follow-up keeps patients on the road to recovery instead of needing to be readmitted to the hospital. The Foundation, with the help of a $2,500 grant from...
[URIS id=17617] Proceeds from the 2015 golf tournament supported the Stroke Awareness and Prevention Campaign. That commitment translated into $32,500 being available for the Foundation to invest in a public awareness campaign through billboards, direct mail and a public transit banners. Between 2014 and 2015, the...
[URIS id=17617] Proceeds from this year’s golf tournament will help to purchase a new linear accelerator to fight cancer. Radiation therapy is one of the ways doctors treat cancer and the device they use is a linear accelerator. The goal of the Linear Accelerator Campaign is to support...
The Foundation invested $259,000, along with the Hospital, in the construction of the Heart Center in 2015. Nearly a third of that funding had been donated by individuals and businesses towards the “Cath Lab Initiative,” a special fundraising effort the year before. The Hospital’s decision to create a...
Two months after her stroke, Patricia Ayers is happy to be reunited with the team that came to her rescue. Moments after a procedure to open a blocked artery, Patricia Ayers exhibited signs of a stroke. Weak on one side of her body and unable to speak...