Healtheast Foundation

Programs: Healtheast foundation provides grants to healtheast care system and its affiliated organizations for a variety of areas. Healtheast foundation was able to make a financial impact to the following patient care programs during the fiscal year: by providing support for perinatal palliative care, a pain self-management program for outpatient customers as well as providing support for hospice patients and their families, including spiritual care, bereavement services, and volunteer services. Pillars hospice house also received funds to assist with the maintenance of the campus and room and board financial assistance for patients who qualify. Other program services the foundation continued to help fund during the fiscal year were video interpreting for emergency department patients, the reach out and read program in all healtheast clinics, karen new mothers support group, karen chemical dependency collaborative as well as therapeutic recreation for rehabilitation patients at bethesda hospital, support groups for stage 4 cancer patients, mental health and addiction care programs and a drug assistance program. Integrative program services such as healing touch, guided imagery and music therapy were able to be offered to hospital inpatients. The capistrant parkinson's center was able to offer programs such as dance classes and exercise programs to patients as a result of foundation grants. Healtheast foundation also provided grants for furniture, equipment and renovation projects. The garden of hope was created for patients, employees and visitors at healtheast st. John's hospital. Healtheast woodwinds cancer care received new infusion chairs for their patients. The emergency department at healtheast st. Joseph's hospital received funds to improve the safety of patients, employees and visitors. The pillars hospice house was expanded the deck doors at their facility to allow patients to enjoy the outdoors while remaining in a hospital bed. They also received new equipment for patient care, including a tilt-in-space wheelchair and hoyer lift. Healtheast foundation also provides grants to provide educational opportunities for staff in nursing, heart care, cancer care, parkinson's, cyberknife, pharmacy, laboratory, and other patient care areas. The foundatin also continued to support research for kidney stone patients to improve outcomes. Healtheast foundation provides support for spiritual care for patients, their families and employees. We do this by supporting the faith-based identity campaign for employees; expanding the faith community nursing network.