The foundation’s top contributors are James and Gladys Hewitt ($4.7 million); Benjamin Wegerzyn Trust ($3.1 million); Hazel Gorman Newkirk ($1.7 million); William Nicholas Brod ($1.4 millon); and Julian Lange ($1 million).
• UVMC Foundation, which benefits Upper Valley Medical Center in Miami County, has partnered with the UVMC Auxiliary (a hospital volunteers group) in awarding some $507,000 in scholarships since 2001 to students entering a medical field.
Since its inception in 1997, the foundation has provided about $8.7 million to the hospital for various programs and equipment purchases, said Kathleen Scarbrough, executive director.
The foundation helped fund a dedicated CT scan machine for Upper Valley Medical Center’s cancer care center, as well as digital mammography machines at three inpatient and outpatient locations.
• The Grandview Foundation’s primary beneficiaries include the Cassano Health Center, a teaching clinic continuing Grandview Medical Center’s strong tradition of osteopathic medical education; and the medical center’s behavioral health program.
Major benefactors include the Mathile Community Foundation; Levin Family Foundation; Wallace Foundation; and Mills-Morgan Development.
• The Miami Valley Hospital Foundation puts about $270,000 a year toward its palliative care program, which provides comfort care and other services for hospital patients at the end of their lives.
When it comes to programs and services funded by the foundation at the hospital, “this program is at the top of the list,” said Jenny Lewis, who heads the foundation.
Major foundation benefactors include the Shaw, Berry and Bull families, Jerry Colp and Jerome Epstein.
• Kettering Medical Center Foundation provides free mammography for the uninsured in the Dayton area.
“I think our emphasis on women’s health has been a long-term focus of the foundation and something for which we’re known, beginning with Virginia Kettering,” said Martin Clark, the foundation’s president.
Major benefactors have included Eugene and Virginia Kettering, Oscar Boonshoft, Benjamin and Marian Schuster, the Wallace Foundation, Kettering Fund, Virginia W. Kettering Foundation and Mills-Morgan Development.
• Among Samaritan Health Foundation’s most significant gifts in its 36-year history was Standard Register Co.’s, which went toward the homeless clinic.
Major foundation benefactors include Epstein, Standard Register Co., Frank and Kathryn Somers and Nathan Sanders.
The foundation’s Good Sam Babies program seeks to build a lasting connection between the hospital and people born there.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7457 or bsutherly@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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