Who This Serves: All patients and Samaritan staff.
What: Funding for equipment that exceeds Samaritan’s budgets. Priority is given to equipment that meets one or more of the following criteria.
- Offers comfort without cost to the patient, i.e. patient lifts and blanket warmers.
- Provides an essential community service but doesn’t generate enough revenue to be self‑supportive, i.e. cardiac rehabilitation and obstetric services.
- Ensures residents can receive care in their own communities, i.e. adolescent physical therapy and bone scans.
Where: Hospitals and clinics throughout Samaritan’s tri-county region of Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties.
When: Ongoing.
Why: Samaritan can fund approximately $30 to $40 million for medical equipment annually, which covers about one-third of all equipment requests every year.
Campaign Goal: $1.5 million.
Lead Foundations: All Samaritan foundations.