Where Your Gifts Are Put to Work

Franciscan Foundation supports a wide variety of Franciscan Health System services, community outreach programs, and community-based organizations focused on accomplishing our mission of creating healthier communities and providing quality, compassionate care to all—especially the poor and underserved

In fiscal year 2008, the Franciscan Foundation disbursed $3.9 million into our Franciscan communities via an assortment of services and programs including, but not limited to, the following:

People

• Charity care
• Employee emergency assistance
• Employee education

Services

• Cancer care (oncology)
• Care for the seriously ill (acute care)
• Care for the terminally ill (hospice and palliative care)
• Heart care (cardiology)
• Hospice and palliative care
• Pastoral care
• Rehabilitation & physical therapy
• Specialty care - renal dialysis, pain management, sleep labs/studies & mental health
• Trauma & emergency care
• Women and children’s care
• Wound care

• St. Joseph Medical Center - Tacoma
• St. Anthony Hospital - Gig Harbor
• St. Clare Hospital - Lakewood
• St. Francis Hospital - Federal Way
• St. Elizabeth Hospital - Enumclaw
• Hospice House - University Place
• Franciscan Medical Group
• Carol Milgard Breast Center

• Dental van
• Health education
• Immunizations for children and the elderly
• Women, infants and children program (WIC)

• University of Washington-Tacoma
• ARK Institute for Learning
• PenMet Foundation
• Kids At Hope NW Training & Resource Center
• St. Clare Hospital Certified Music Practitioner Program
• Goodwill Industries
• Reach Ministries
• Special Olympics Washington
• The Fund for Women & Girls
• Mustard Seed Project of Key Peninsula
• Young Life’s Malibu Club

You can help now!

Franciscan Foundation supports the Northwest Medical Teams’ Mobile Dental Program which unites volunteer dentists, hygienists and assistants to provide dental care to low-income, homeless and migrant populations in Pierce County and Federal Way.