As members of the OSF St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation Council, we are dedicated to perpetuating the life-saving and healing work of OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Donor gifts to the Foundation Council help the medical center continue providing health care excellence to the sick, the poor, the injured, the aged and the dying.

Accomplishing the Foundation's mission is possible only through the interest and generosity of others. All gifts ­ whether annual, planned, gifts in memory or in honor of a person ­ play an integral role in meeting the current and future health care needs of our community. The positive effects of any size donation to OSF St. Joseph are strong. On average, it takes the medical center 20 service-earned dollars to equal the spending power of just one charitable dollar. That's because 100 percent of charitable dollars are used directly to fund construction of new facilities or renovation, or to purchase new technology. In this way, a gift to the Foundation significantly touches the lives of future generations by providing essential, life­saving equipment and services.

Foundation-funded projects
Over the past thirteen years, the Foundation has given more than $3.1 million dollars to OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. The projects your donations fund range in size and scope, but all are essential to the medical center's mission. Some recent projects are:

• renovation of the family waiting area and two physician consultation rooms ($100,000)
• newborn scale and transport cart for The Birthing Center
• telemetry monitoring system for Post Intensive Care Unit ($80,000)
• oncology education program materials ($1,200)
• pediatric educational videos ($500)
• open heart blood circulation system ($17,500)
• voice writer physician dictation system for medical records ($4,500)
• wheelchair for the reception desk in memory of a former volunteer ($320)

Employee Annual Giving Campaign
Each year, OSF St. Joseph employees are asked to fund a special project. The Employee Annual Giving Campaign has raised over $650,000. Employee gifts have:

• supported an Employee Relief Fund and an Indigent Prescription Fund
• renovated the medical center chapel
• purchased an infant warmer and three vital signs monitors for The Birthing Center, two digital infant scales for Home Care, computer equipment for a preventive care program and TV/VCRs for outpatient surgery
• established a multimedia learning center
• constructed a fitness/walking trail on the medical center campus
• funded the Community Cancer Center information/education system

For more information or to plan your gift, call the Foundation office at 309-661-6067.