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How to support
the Healthcare
Foundation
Blue Mountain Hospital staff
Contributed photo
The Blue Mountain Hospital Auxiliary operates the gift shop at the hospital. The
volunteer group assists the hospital in various ways.
A uxiliAry
volunteers
help in a variety of ways
Hospital gift shop has
items for all occasions
The Auxiliary raises funds to donate to-
ward the purchase of equipment, hospital
facility projects and departmental needs. The
Auxiliary raises funds through:
Blue Mountain Hospital staff
• The hospital gift shop
• The annual Christmas bazaar with Santa
The Blue Mountain Hospital Auxiliary
• The annual rummage sale
is a volunteer program established to work
The gift shop is located in the lower
for the benefit of the Blue
level lobby at the hospital.
Auxiliary
Mountain Hospital and assist
It is open from 10:30 a.m.
the various departments of raises funds to to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through
the facility in any way pos-
Thursdays and staffed by
donate toward the Auxiliary members. The
sible.
Auxiliary members play
gift shop provides all-occa-
the purchase
sion gifts and necessities for
a significant role in:
of equipment, all ages including infants
• Annual health fair
• Assisting at the senior hospital facility and children.
The Auxiliary is com-
center, delivering meals and
projects and
posed of persons who like
serving at lunchtime once or
twice a month
departmental to donate their time, ener-
gy, ideas and inspiration to
• Providing new mothers
needs.
help others. The Auxiliary
with gift baskets
• Making sure that patients and families welcomes new members and encourages
have clean, accessible literature to read in people interested to contact Auxiliary Pres-
ident Chris Yriarte at 541-575-2545.
waiting areas
The Blue Mountain Healthcare Foundation
is a local non-profit organization that plays a
crucial role in keeping Blue Mountain Hospi-
tal one of the most modern rural hospitals in
Oregon. Community financial support through
the foundation means residents continue to get
top-level care close to home. The foundation
is a separate tax-exempt entity, governed by a
volunteer board. All donations to the founda-
tion are tax deductible.
People can support the foundation in mul-
tiple ways:
• Join the foundation
Annual memberships provide ongoing fi-
nancial support. Membership dues are pooled
to allow the hospital to update equipment and
provide services that otherwise would be lim-
ited. Membership levels are:
• Individual: $25
• Couples: $50
• Businesses: $50
• Lifetime individual: $500
• Support special funds
Helping Hand Fund supports special com-
munity programs, Legacy Fund builds an en-
dowment for the future and the Care Center
Fund provides crucial support for the Prairie
City facility.
• Play in the annual golf scramble
Saturday, July 28: 18-hole scramble with
teams of four. A fun-filled day of golfing for
a good cause.
• Attend the annual benefit dinner
Held in the fall, the foundation’s dinner and
auction is one of the premier social events in
Grant County. Join in the lively bidding for
scores of auction items, knowing your winning
bid puts more money into hospital equipment
and programs.
• Donate
Mail a donation to Blue Mountain Health-
care Foundation, 170 Ford Road, John Day,
OR 97845.
Foundation-supported purchases in recent
years included a new ambulance, a pediatric
stretcher crib, cardiac monitoring equipment,
a nurse call system for the care center, porta-
ble X-ray equipment, a mammography unit, a
bone density machine and an automated med-
ication cabinet.
For more information, contact Foundation
Director Jena Knowles, 541-575-1311, ext.
2213, or jknowles@bluemountainhospital.org.
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