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Past Contributions to Eskenazi Health
St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild
St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild has contributed over $13 million to Eskenazi Health since 1907
YEARS FUNDED PROJECTS MONIES RAISED
1907–1919 Provided clothing, beds, wheelchairs, leg braces, and artificial limbs for the children’s ward. Completely furnished the $30,000 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.
1920–1929 Provided clothing, beds, wheelchairs, leg braces, and artificial limbs for the children’s wards. In cooperation with the $30,000 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.
1930–1939 Funded the operating budget, equipment, and supplies for the OTD and children’s wards, including adding furnishings and $120,000 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.
1940–1949 Funded total annual operating expenses and equipment for the OTD and programs and equipment for the children’s $190,000 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.
1950–1959 Established the physical medicine and rehabilitation department (PMRD), including a physical therapy department (PTD). $252,500 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.
1960–1969 Provided funding for equipment, programs, furnishings, and supplies for the children’s wards, PMRD, and various other $305,600 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.
1970–1979 Provided funding for equipment, programs, furnishings, and supplies for the children’s wards, PMRD, Midtown $688,300 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.
1980–1989 Provided funding for equipment, programs, furnishings, and supplies for the children’s wards, the PMRD, and various $1,852,600 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.
1990–1999 Funded equipment and furnishings for the special care nursery and equipment for the pediatric unit, birthing center, and $3,324,000 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.
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, $2,931,700 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. $145,400
Total monies raised from 1907 to present (rounded) $13,495,100
are you interested in joining st. margaret’s hospital guild?
St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild is a volunteer organization comprised of dedicated women who are committed to raising funds for programs and services of Eskenazi Health. For the past 60 years, this has been accomplished by hosting the annual Decorators’ Show House and Gardens. The proceeds support some of the neediest of our neighbors.
A group of dynamic women have fun serving on various Guild committees and participating in Decorators’ Show House and Gardens assignments. Members who work together develop lifelong friendships while raising funds for Eskenazi Health.
For more information about membership, please email: decoratorshowhouseinfo@gmail. com or visit www.showhouseindy. org. We would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have and share the St. Margaret’s story.
mission statement St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild, Inc. is a volunteer organization committed to raising funds for the services and programs of Eskenazi Health.
St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild: Women Together Making a Difference
St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild
was founded in 1907 by five women who formed a nonsectarian guild to provide care and support to Indianapolis’ City Hospital patients through direct service and fundraising projects. The Guild’s mission is the same today; only the name of the hospital has changed. Starting as City Hospital in 1855, the hospital has been known as Indianapolis General Hospital, Marion County General Hospital, Wishard Memorial Hospital, and today we all know it as Eskenazi Health. People often ask how the name of the Guild was chosen. St. Margaret, the daughter of ninth-century Prince Edward of Scotland, worked with the sick, orphans, and the poor. The Guild’s name reflects the same spirit of her work. Every year since 1962, St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild has organized the refurbishing of a classic home, opened the home for a two-week public tour, and donated the proceeds to Eskenazi Health. Since the Guild’s founding in 1907, it has raised over $13.5 million for Eskenazi Health, supporting the patients and professionals at our city’s public hospital. Proceeds from the Decorators’ Show House and Gardens allow SMHG to provide equipment and vital programming for patients at Eskenazi Health. With your help, the Guild has funded the Burn Unit, departmental renovations, sponsored two mobile mammography clinics, initiated the Mother’s Milk Bank, and provided “Protecting Our Children” materials. SMHG has provided summer group therapy at Midtown Children’s Center, underwritten childbirth classes focusing on areas of highest infant mortality, and supported the Haven of Hope. The Guild has helped build raised garden beds for patients’ use at the Sky Garden, supported Healthy Me for children, funded the Limestone Falls at the Commonground, and purchased vans for Eskenazi Midtown Mental Health. Funds earned also provided support for the Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation. In 2020, the Guild supported the Eskenazi Health COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund. This fund allowed Eskenazi Health to serve the people of Marion County in the midst of the global pandemic. Most recently, the Guild has pledged to support the Center for Nursing Excellence at Eskenazi Health, an innovative program focusing on recruiting and training quality nurses. St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild is proud to be one of the pioneer volunteer groups in the City of Indianapolis. We are grateful to the designers, landscape architects, sponsors, individuals, corporations, and donors of in-kind services who make this annual event possible.
