INDUSTRY NEWSLucile Packard Children’s Hospital Receives $25 Million Planned Investment from HP
Palo Alto, CA (May 2, 2011)
HP today announced a planned commitment of $25 million over 10 years to support the projected expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and a cutting-edge research initiative designed to enhance the safety and quality of care for critically ill patients and their families.
HP’s new investment includes support for the expansion of Packard Children’s Hospital, which will add 100 beds to its Palo Alto campus and increase access to state-of-the-art treatments for local children and expectant mothers. With the existing facility already operating beyond its originally intended capacity, the growth will allow Packard Children’s Hospital to continue providing the most advanced cures, treatments and technologies available, performed by the best minds in pediatric and obstetric medicine, within a family-centered environment.
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Health Care Fundraisers Fared Better in 2010 But Have Long Way to Go Before Recovering from Recession
WASHINGTON, D.C., (April 11, 2011)
Health care fundraising showed signs of progress last year,
but far from enough to erase two years of recessionary losses and
cutbacks, according to members of the Association for Healthcare
Philanthropy (AHP), who direct development efforts for more than 2,000
nonprofit hospitals and health care providers throughout North
America.
While the vast majority (71 percent) of AHP members who answered a
January survey reported negative effects on their programs in 2010 due
to the recession, these responses represented a 16 percent improvement
over 2009. Over-the-year advances were noted for investment income,
donations from hospital staff, and funds raised through special events.
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BD and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego Announce Innovative Pilot Project to Reduce Environmental Impact of Sharps Disposal"Cradle to cradle" approach addresses every stage of a product's lifecycleJan 24, 2011
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego today announced that they have implemented an innovative pilot program at the Hospital that is designed to safely divert a significant percentage of BD sharps waste from landfills and utilize the recycled materials.
Single-use, disposable medical devices such as needles and syringes provide clear clinical and public health benefits, including protecting patients and healthcare workers from the spread of infections. However, disposal of these devices may create unintended environmental concerns, and unnecessary costs. BD is committed to seeking innovative sustainability solutions to address the environmental impact of disposal without compromising patient care. One approach BD is exploring to manage its disposable medical device products is a comprehensive "cradle to cradle" program, addressing every stage of a product's lifecycle. This entails recycling waste materials and utilizing them to manufacture new products rather than permanently disposing of them in a landfill.
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Nonprofit Hospitals Strive to Keep Giving Levels Steady During the Recession
Washington, D.C. (November 8, 2010)
With charitable pledges – especially in the Western United States – declining due to the deepening recession, fundraisers were forced to spend significantly more money in fiscal year 2009 than in past years to secure gifts and grants for nonprofit hospitals and health care systems in the United States and Canada, according to benchmarking data released today by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).
“The recession’s impact and duration were felt more strongly in the U.S. than in Canada, where health care philanthropy tended to advance slightly or at least hold its own despite lower levels of government support,” said William C. McGinly, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of AHP. “U.S. nonprofit hospitals, however, often struggled just to keep giving levels steady, and some saw declines.”
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Spirit Halloween Raises $2 Million for Hospitalized ChildrenNew York, New York (November 2, 2010)
Spirit Halloween, the nation's leading seasonal Halloween retailer, announced today that $2 million has been raised this Halloween season for Child Life departments at 106 individual and local hospitals across the U.S. and Canada through its Spirit of Children program.
Since its inception in 2006, Spirit of Children has raised more than $4 million for over 100 children's hospitals across the United States and Canada.
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UCSF Launches Social Media Fundraising Campaign for Benioff Children's Hospital
San Francisco, CA (October 26, 2010)
UCSF has launched an innovative fundraising campaign that leverages
social media to raise awareness of and dollars for UCSF Benioff
Children’s Hospital. The UCSF Challenge for the Children, a
collaboration with the online fundraising platform Causes.com, kicks off
today (Oct. 26, 2010) as part of the groundbreaking festivities for the
new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, site of the future children’s
hospital as well as women’s and cancer hospitals.
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Charitable Giving for U.S. Health Care Plunged 11% in 2009,
Canadian Giving Up 5.2%Washington, D.C., (September 27, 2010)
Snapshots of charitable support in 2009 have produced two very different pictures for nonprofit health care institutions in the United States and Canada, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP). The association’s annual Report on Giving indicated donations dropped $944 million in the U.S. last year from 2008 levels, while rising $56 million in Canada.
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Dubuque Nonprofit Asks Judge to Rule that Panera Must
Deliver the Dough
Dubuque, Iowa (September 27, 2010)
When Maria House entered into a partnership agreement with
Panera Bread under the cafe’s Operation Dough-Nation program in 2004, little
did they know they’d end up in court. However, that’s exactly what happened when Panera used some
of the money collected via a countertop donation campaign to subsidize the cost
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Small Business the Prospect of Choice for U.S. Hospitals
(March 15, 2010)
The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy has alerted its members to begin courting small businesses and looking beyond their communities for innovative sources of funding in a new study, Emerging Trends, released this month. Its conclusions signal a strategic shift for which all charities would do well to prepare.
“Small businesses, the economic engines of the future, are highly motivated to provide hands-on support to organizations that benefit their workers and their communities,” says AHP CEO William McGinly. “Hospital development professionals will need to be more entrepreneurial in their efforts to nurture productive relationships with this sector, such as co-sponsoring wellness programs with small business associations.” Read More...
Best Buy opens Geek Squad in Minneapolis Children’s HospitalMinneapolis, Minnesota (November 2009)
Best Buy Co. Inc. has opened a Geek Squad location at the Minneapolis campus of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, the first time the retailer has put one of its tech-support operations at a hospital.
Best Buy, an electronics retailer based in Richfield, said that the site, which opened Monday, will provide free tech support to children and families at the Minneapolis campus.
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