Nonprofit Overview
Mission: The Edward Foundation is the charitable fundraising arm of Edward Hospital, with a mission to help provide the best and highest quality services, technology and staff to the communities it serves.
Results: The Edward Foundation has raised $46.5 million since 1990 to benefit numerous departments and programs at Edward Hospital, including Edward Cancer Center, Edward Heart Hospital, Women and Children’s Services, Clinic for Sexually Abused Children, Children’s Facial Clinic, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Animal-Assisted Therapy.
Programs: With the help of donors the following life-saving resources were made available to thousands of patients:
Renovated and expanded Edward’s Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, as well as constructed the first Ronald McDonald Family Room in Illinois.
Supported the expansion of Linden Oaks Behavioral Health.
Supported the creation of a hybrid operating room which allows both open heart and endovascular surgeries to be performed in a single location.
Provided funding for Access to Care which helps working poor and uninsured patients access to health care in the early stages of their medical troubles.
Supported HealthAware, Edward’s online screening tool to assess risk for various diseases.
Purchased new GI lab technology.
Donated funding for daVinci robotic technology to improve surgical outcomes.
Donated $1 million toward the hospital’s purchase of a state-of-the-art 3T-MRI system.
Donated $1 million toward the expansion of the Edward Cancer Center in Naperville.
Donated $500,000 for the purchase of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Ultrasound technology for heart catheterization procedures.
Provided funding be part of the PERT (Pulmonary Embolism Response Team) Consortium allowing Edward to be on the ground floor of developing solutions in the effective treatment of Pulmonary Embolism.
Donated $2 million toward the construction of the Cardiac Innovations & Structural Heart Center at Edward Hospital.
Donated funding to underwrite an opioid reduction symposium for providers.
Annually provides funding for scholarships for employees who are seeking a nursing or advanced nursing degree and for hospital student volunteers.
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