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Foundation
Last updated: 02/09/2009
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The Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation was created in 1983 to heighten awareness and understanding of the essential role quality health care plays in our community and to support the mission of Cabell Huntington Hospital. The foundation provides a method of support for the hospital by receiving gifts of cash, stock and property. The foundation is a separate 501 © 3 corporation with a volunteer community board of trustees.
Within the fundraising scope of the Foundation, a variety of funds have already been established that meet the many needs of our hospital's services and programs. Through community support and philanthropy...
- $1.7 million was raised to assist in the building of the J.R. Pritchard Dialysis Center (Yearly Foundation grants are given as needed to purchase updated dialysis equipment).
- More than $193,000 has been raised to provide quality Pastoral Care services to our hospital patients.
During the period from 2006 to 2008, more than $2 million in grants were awarded through the CHH Foundation to purchase state-of-the-art technology and to provide program support crucial to the mission of the hospital. Some examples include:
- Yearly grants to purchase updated technology and provide program support for the hospital
- Specialized Omnibeds purchased for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at $36,000 each
- Equipment and technology provided for our Women's and Children's Services through our CHH Women's Philanthropy Society
- Bathing tub system provided for the Burn Intensive Care Unit
- Yearly grants to support annual picnics for our Pediatric Oncology patients
- $80,000 in state-of-the-art technology provided to the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center
- A legacy gift from Mary H. & Churchill Hodges established the Mary H. Hodges Joint Replacement Center
Did You Know...
- Nearly one fourth of our 313 licensed beds are dedicated to serving children.
- Cabell Huntington Hospital is a 501©3 not-for-profit hospital; 100% of our earnings are used to provide much needed services to our community.
- Many of the most critical services that Cabell Huntington Hospital provides operate at a loss. Through strong leadership and fiscal responsibility we continue our mission to our community by providing these much needed services.
- We care for those who are ill or injured, regardless of their ability to pay. In 2008 alone, CHH provided more than $45,000,000 in care to patients who could not pay.
- Medicaid covers twenty-eight percent of our patients and governmental agencies pay well below our standard charge and cost for providing care to our patients: Medicare pays $.45 for every dollar of care charged, Medicaid pays $.30 for every dollar of care charged.
- Cabell Huntington hospital is a teaching hospital, and provides more than $6 million in annual support to Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and pays to train 60 resident physicians a year.
