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Johns Community
Hospital Development Foundation was created in 1991
to function as an adjunct to the Board of Directors
in the areas of fund raising and public relations.
Funds raised by the foundation are used to further
the hospital's mission as a non-profit corporation.
The fifteen member board meets as needed to organize
and oversee hospital fundraisers.
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Since its
inception in 1991, the Development Foundation Board has raised
$1,119,082 for various projects throughout the Hospital. In
addition to raising money for both Health Center building
drives, the Foundation Board has assisted with many other
important projects for the Hospital over the years, including
the transportation van, vital sign monitors and portable pulse
oximeters for ER and ICU, a ventilator for the anesthesia
machine used in Surgery, cable-ready television sets for patient
rooms, the Emergency Room renovation and expansion,
teleradiology equipment, hospital beds and mattresses, and, most
recently, laparoscopic equipment for surgery that permits the
surgeon to perform a procedure through a small incision through
a scoping mechanism which has proven that patients generally
recover quicker from “band-aid” surgeries. The board’s current
project is to raise money to purchase a Computed Radiology Unit
for Imaging which will increase the speed in processing the
digital images, reduce the wear and tear on the screens
currently used, and in the future save money.
