Foundation Funding

How are gifts to the St.Joseph Foundation spent?  Below is a list of items and programs recently funded by the St.Joseph Foundation. These items, along with others purchased in the past, are making a positive impact on the lives of St.Joseph Hospital patients and their families.

You can be assured that 100 percent of donations to the Foundation are used for the purchase of medical equipment and services. Not a single dollar is used for operational expenses.

Recent Foundation Expenditures

Ambulance for ER
Baby warmers in the Birthing Center 
Beds/carts for surgery
Blanket warmers to make patients more comfortable
Catheterization Lab major upgrade
Clinical ladder to support continuing education of nurses
Comfort carts for ICU
Conversion of 2nd and 4th floor rooms to private rooms
Courtesy van to transport patients to their appointments
Crash carts 
Dopplers and other equipment for the Clinic of Hope
Family lounges updated throughout the hospital
Freezer for Lab 3
Harmonic scalpel for surgery
Nuclear medicine machine
Prayer garden
Refrigerator for blood bank
Updated software for cardiology