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History of Contributions St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild has contributed over $13 million to Eskenazi Health since 1907
YEARS
FUNDED PROJECTS
1907–1919
Provided clothing, beds, wheelchairs, leg braces, and artificial limbs for the children’s ward. Completely furnished the two new children’s wards in the Burdsal Unit. Funded 20 oil paintings and portraits and 33 different canvas murals by renowned Indiana artists to decorate the walls of the children’s wards.
$30,000
1920–1929
Provided clothing, beds, wheelchairs, leg braces, and artificial limbs for the children’s wards. In cooperation with the Indianapolis Foundation, established and maintained the occupational therapy department (OTD) for adults and children. Provided for the annual operating budget for staffing, staff materials and training, therapy equipment, tools, saws, looms, kilns, and capital expenses.
$30,000
1930–1939
Funded the operating budget, equipment, and supplies for the OTD and children’s wards, including adding furnishings and murals to the Burdsal Unit. Established the Mother’s Milk Station in a laboratory to pasteurize and freeze mother’s milk to provide milk for premature infants.
$120,000
1940–1949
Funded total annual operating expenses and equipment for the OTD and programs and equipment for the children’s wards. Painted and refurnished the children’s wards. Funded salary for a nurse in the psychiatric ward and a nurse in the tuberculosis ward. Furnished two rooms for student nurses.
$190,000
1950–1959
Established the physical medicine and rehabilitation department (PMRD), including a physical therapy department (PTD). Funded total annual operating expenses and equipment for the OTD and programs and equipment for the children’s wards. Renovated and expanded the PMRD and children’s wards.
$252,500
1960–1969
Provided funding for equipment, programs, furnishings, and supplies for the children’s wards, PMRD, and various other hospital departments. Renovated, refurnished, and re-equipped the isolation ward and the nurses’ station. Established an occupational therapy unit in the new psychiatric unit, and new nurseries in the children’s wards. Refurbished the PTD and established an OT unit in the new wing. Funded equipment and furnishings in the newborn and premature nurseries. Equipped day rooms and dining areas in the new psychiatric addition. Purchased new equipment and furnishing in the patient and rehabilitation areas for the psychiatric facility.
$305,600
1970–1979
Provided funding for equipment, programs, furnishings, and supplies for the children’s wards, PMRD, Midtown Community Mental Health Center and various other departments. Renovated the children’s wards and the PTD. Removed, restored, and reframed the 1914 murals and paintings by Indiana artists. Established and upgraded the first complete adult burn unit in the state in a joint project with the Indianapolis Fire Department.
$688,300
1980–1989
Provided funding for equipment, programs, furnishings, and supplies for the children’s wards, the PMRD, and various other hospital departments. Totally renovated and refurnished the pediatrics AB wing, including the relocation of pediatrics and renovation of the newborn and special care nurseries. Purchased a heart-lung machine, blood pressure monitors, warmers, and wall incubators for the newborn and special care nurseries. Funded satellite nurseries for newborns and refurbished the pediatric and labor and delivery unit. Renovated the PTD treatment areas.
$1,852,600
1990–1999
Funded equipment and furnishings for the special care nursery and equipment for the pediatric unit, birthing center, and the PMRD. Purchased a mobile mammography unit. Purchased equipment and furnishings for the burn unit. Provided for a new outpatient rehabilitation center in the occupational and physical therapy wing. Provided funding for the Women’s Healthcare Initiative, urgent care center and labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum rooms, the End of Life Project, an ADA minivan, St. Margaret’s Diagnostic Breast Center, renovations to the nursing units, and other renovations and equipment throughout the hospital. Created the Senior Care Program Rehabilitation Center.
$3,324,000
2000–2009
Funded St. Margaret’s Center for Breast Health. Provided funding for the burn unit, Myers Auditorium media services $3,625,000 upgrade palliative care, pharmacy telephone service, equipment for OT, Midtown Community Mental Health Center, Women’s and Children’s departments and rehabilitation of the burn center. Funded perinatal ultrasound equipment, a wheelchair accessible van, and a van for Midtown Community Mental Health Center. Provided funding for the domestic violence program. Developed and funded the EMBRACE program, an integrated support program for women facing cancer. Purchased a mobile mammography unit. Established the Haven of Hope, a support system of the Eskenazi trauma center and the Fairbanks burn center. Provided support for the Medical-Legal Partnership and Volunteer Advocates programs.
2010–2019
Supported Haven of Hope and Center for Hope with forensic medical supplies, “Protecting Our Children” materials, furniture, and camera equipment to document abuse and trauma. Provided for summer group therapy at Midtown Children’s Center. Purchased golf cars to facilitate transporting patients in the hospital and across the campus. Underwrote childbirth classes focusing on areas with the highest infant mortality rates. Supported “Healthy Me” and “Stop Taking On Pounds” programs, built raised garden beds, provided emergency co-pay assistance and durable medical equipment to senior citizens. Provided funding for the Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation. Funded Limestone Falls. Purchased a fleet of vehicles including two wheelchair accessible vans for use by the Midtown Community Mental Health Center. Pledged funds for the new Center for Nursing Excellence at Eskenazi Heath.
2020
Proceeds from the 2020 Virtual Decorators’ Show House were donated to the Eskenazi Health COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund.
Total monies raised from 1907 to present (rounded)
MONIES RAISED
$2,931,700
$145,400
$13,495,100
12/01/20
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