Where Your Gift Is Needed

We especially appreciate generous gifts to the Paoli Hospital Foundation that are not designated for a specific program or area.  These gifts give us the flexibility to use them where they can have the greatest impact.  This ensures Paoli Hospital's ability to meet unexpected needs and pursue new opportunities — an essential part of delivering the most up-to-date health care to an ever-growing population.     

Giving priorities include the following:

• Where Great Care Comes to Life. Maternity and Nursery Expansion Campaign at Paoli Hospital: Gradually over the years, our Maternity Unit has grown from 11 rooms at its inception in 1995 to 26 rooms nearly five years ago. During that time, more and more families have chosen Paoli for its excellent maternity care and very high patient satisfaction, ranking in the top percentage nationally. Still in the early phase of this campaign, we hope to raise $4 million in charitable support from our community to offset the cost of the expansion and renovations – and we need your help.

  In planning this expansion, we sought the advice of architects, nurses, obstetricians, physicians and neonatologists. In doing so, this expansion will incorporate the latest concepts in family and patient-centered care including renovations of the existing private patient rooms in the Maternity Unit, a new and larger Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the addition of 24 new private patient rooms, 12 labor/delivery rooms, and four new triage rooms. Additionally, each labor/delivery room will contain the latest amenities; a significantly larger nursery will be available for newborns while new mothers rest; and two new Operating Rooms adjacent to the Maternity Unit will be dedicated to patients requiring Cesarean sections. Please join us supporting our Maternity and Nursery expansion campaign. Your charitable support is needed to help ensure that Paoli can expand to meet the community’s increasing demand for maternity services and will help the region’s families and children continue to have the most current technologies available.

• Hospital Priorities Fund: Paoli Hospital prudently manages its resources, but we are not immune to increasing financial pressures.  Yet we remain committed to maintaining a high standard of superior patient care and determined to invest in the most advanced medical and surgical treatments and procedures that are more commonly associated with large urban medical centers.  The Hospital Priorities Fund helps guarantee Paoli Hospital will be prepared to meet the challenge of caring for our growing community’s significant health care needs.  In the past, this Fund has provided support for community services programs, new technologies and the operations of the Foundation.

• Nursing Excellence Fund: Paoli has been designated a Magnet® Hospital by the American Nurses' Credentialing Center, which is the highest mark of excellence any hospital's nursing service can achieve. On average, a Paoli Hospital nurse has 15 years of clinical experience, and 33 percent of our registered nurses have professional certification in their fields of specialty.  Private support enables Paoli Hospital to give these exceptional nurses every opportunity to advance their training and education.

• Regional Trauma Center:  Help develop and sustain our new Regional Trauma Center.  As of October 1, 2010 Paoli Hospital is an accredited Regional Level II Trauma Center, bringing long-awaited, life-saving treatment to the region.  A traumatic injury can occur at any time to anyone and when it is life threatening, the first hour to seek treatment is critical.  A study determined that only 37 percent of county trauma victims arrived at a trauma center within the recommended 60 minutes, known in the medical profession as the ‘golden hour’ when patients will have a greater likelihood of survival and recovery.  In fact, the task force concluded that the average transport time had risen by 15 to 20 minutes since a trauma center in the western part of the county had closed in 2002.  And that meant a transport time of 70 to 75 minutes for trauma victims, well outside the 'golden hour.'  Your support of Paoli Hospital’s Regional Trauma Center Fund helps with the purchase of expensive life-saving trauma-specific equipment in our Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, and Operating Rooms and trauma nurse education and training allowing the Hospital to be better positioned to serve our community’s medical emergencies.

• Cancer Center: As an affiliate of the Fox Chase Network, the Cancer Center at Paoli Hospital offers innovative technology and sophisticated, comprehensive oncology care within our community. Every year, gifts to the Paoli Hospital Foundation ensure that people with cancer can access the most advanced diagnostic procedures, treatments, and support close to home, rather than having to travel long distances. The Cancer Center also provides free wigs and family support services to those who need them.