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Current Funding Priorities
Equipment and Capital Projects
Hospital equipment and capital improvements are always a funding priority for the Foundation.
Examples of 2008 projects your gift can help support include:
- Purchasing updated equipment to provide the best care to patients
- Assisting low-income, uninsured residents in obtaining necessary medical attention
- Scholarships for local students to receive nursing or other medical training
Patient Care Programs You Can Support
- Unrestricted Fund — Where the need is the greatest.
- Prescription Medication Fund — Provides short-term urgent need medications to patients who have no means to
pay for them.
- Diabetes Support Fund — Provides money to send uninsured, newly diagnosed
diabetics (who qualify financially) to diabetes management classes and provides glucose monitor and test strips for up to six months.
- Cardiac Support Fund — Provides money for patient care and diagnostic needs.
- Cancer Support Fund — Provides money for uncompensated patient care,
infusion therapy and education materials.
- Mammography Fund — Provides mammograms for uninsured, low-income women.
- Hospice Care Fund — Free care and assistance grants to patients and families
in financial need.
- Equipment and Capital Projects Fund — Provides dollars to purchase needed
hospital equipment and assist with patient service area remodels.
- Mary Decker Health Care Education Endowment — Provides assistance to North
Lincoln County residents who wish to obtain a degree in nursing or medical tech
programs.
- Pediatric Fund — Provides funds for children's health screenings and free immunizations.
- Charity Care Fund — Helps cover hospital bills for patients living in poverty.
- Critical Care/Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program
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