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Foundation prioritiesDAAN™With the launch of Buffalo Hospital's Sister Kenny Sports & Physical Therapy Center at Gold’s Gym in Buffalo, the foundation embraced a role of fostering health and fitness in an effort to prevent chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke or diabetes. Thanks to an inspirational gift by Delano entrepreneur Barb King, the foundation recently introducing DAAN (dā on), a transformative initiative designed to help all ages make regular exercise, healthy eating and reduced stress the norm everyday. DAAN (Native American word meaning to live a healthy, balanced life) offers hands-on elementary curriculum, adult wellness education and new wellness services to help us all take control of our health today and in years to come.
If you share our commitment to the long-term health of our community, please consider donating to the King Wellness Fund and DAAN to help community members make real changes and adopt healthy habits. Women's Heart Health ProgramEach year, 435,000 American women have heart attacks—causing more deaths among women than men. Sadly, women are not aware of their unique symptoms of heart disease. Consequently, 63% of those who die from the disease reported no previous symptoms. The good news is that we can make choices today that prevent heart disease tomorrow. Buffalo Hospital’s Women’s Heart Health program was created to help prevent heart disease through early screening and detection, as well as education on the early warning signs. This program relies upon donations as prevention services are not reimbursed through health insurance. Your donation makes it possible to sustain this new program for our Wright County residents. Heart Safe CommunitiesHeart Safe Communities of Wright County is improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) – one of our nation’s leading killers -- by speeding time to defibrillation. To help the nearly 1,000 people struck by SCA everyday in this country, the foundation raised funds and placed over 160 Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) in community gathering places in 19 communities stretching from Delano to Cokato and from Watertown to Big Lake. Thanks to our donors, when someone collapses from SCA, help is now closer than ever. More than 2,400 community members were also trained to use AEDs through the foundation’s partnership with Community Health Foundation and Allina Medical Transportation. Trainees had the opportunity to participate in free screenings to assess their risk of heart disease as experts from Buffalo Hospital’s Cardiac Center. If you share our commitment to raising awareness of SCA, training citizens to use AEDs to save lives, and screening community members to prevent America’s number one killer – heart disease, please make a donation to the Heart Safe Fund. Memory Connection™To support the growing number of people coping with memory loss and their caregivers, long-term care and assisted living organizations have joined forces with Buffalo Hospital Foundation to launch the Memory Connection™. One in ten Americans has a family member with Alzheimer’s and one in three knows someone with the disease. Dedicated to educating and raising awareness about Alzheimer’s disease, the Memory Connection is connecting caregivers, patients and healthcare providers to resources and expertise that allow all of us to better serve those touched by memory loss,” says Theresa Henson, chairwoman, Memory Connection and assisted living coordinator, Lake Ridge Manor of Buffalo. Please consider a donation to the Memory Connection to help expand the education and outreach efforts to improve services for community members who are coping with memory loss. Healing EnvironmentResearch has proven that surrounding yourself in the comforts of home promotes healing. Gifts have enabled Buffalo Hospital to enhance the total care experience for patients by providing a comfortable, patient waiting area in the new Surgery & Outpatient Center that is filled with natural light, children’s play spaces and private areas to consult with physicians, staff or family members. Gifts also supported the creation of a Family-Centered Care Room, which combines a family lounge with an inpatient room to allow patients to receive care in the loving presence of family members. Future gifts will transform waiting areas on each wing of the hospital’s Medical/Surgical Unit and integrate modern technology to create a Health Resource Center where patients and family members can access e-mail and the most current research on medical diagnoses, treatment and prevention. Health Career ScholarshipsEstablished with proceeds from the hospital Gift Shop and donations from Allina employees, health career scholarships support area youth who are pursuing health care careers. In May 2005, the foundation granted $500 scholarships to nine area graduates beginning health care programs. Your donations will enable the foundation to expand this program, designed to help us ‘home grow’ the health care professionals we need for our rapidly growing community. Technology Enhancement FundFunds were used to purchase instruments to expand orthopedic care in the community as well as enhance the Pediatric Occupational Therapy Program, which treats youth with sensory integration disorders like Autism. Specifically, multimedia therapeutic devices were purchased for check-out to enable parents to continue to foster their child’s skill development between visits with the occupational therapist. Your gifts to the Technology Enhancement Fund will support the development of a new Women’s and Children’s Center. A reason to giveBuffalo Hospital is a not-for-profit organization that reinvests excess revenues to improve its services and facilities each year. As our community grows at remarkable speed, the hospital's revenues alone will not be adequate to keep pace with our demands for bigger and better facilities and services because: (1) Payments from insurance companies often do not cover costs of providing care. For example, a hospital is reimbursed a standard rate by insurance companies for a "birth procedure." However, each birth is different and results in different costs. Where costs are more than what insurance pays, the hospital loses money. (2) The amount that Medicare and Medicaid pay for health procedures continues to be reduced. These insurers are requiring the hospital to operate at a loss. (3) With the rising costs of health insurance, more of our community members do not have insurance. As a non-profit hospital, we are committed to serving every citizen that walks through our door, regardless of their ability to pay. Any contribution to a hospital's foundation is an investment in your health and the community. Your contributions to Buffalo Hospital Foundation are used to help ensure community members benefit from exceptional health services at Buffalo Hospital and within the community.
You can helpTo make a tax-deductible contribution to the Buffalo Hospital Foundation, mail your gift with the donation form, or phone 763-684-6800.  Back to Foundation |
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