Reasons to Give
Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Association’s primary purpose is to provide support and funding to Lawrence Memorial Hospital through sources not available to the hospital itself. It is important to note that while LMH is a city-owned hospital, it is not funded in any way with city or county tax dollars. The hospital is self-supporting through the services it provides. However, Lawrence is a growing community with growing needs. The hospital requires help in expanding programs and services to meet the needs of the community.

LMHEA’s goal is to support and enhance the services currently offered by the Hospital and to help the hospital grow as the needs of the community grow. The Endowment Association has aligned its strategic plan with that of the hospital so that support for new equipment, services and programs listed as priorities can be gained and the hospital can continue to grow.

While the Endowment Association provides full support for these programs, designated gifts from patients, their friends and family members are also encouraged and needed to fund departments and services at LMH. Without the support of these individuals, the progress at LMH would slow and the thriving hospital of this community would provide basic services and refer patients outside the Lawrence community.

The Endowment has found a role in supporting all of the priority items listed by the hospital.

While the Endowment Association has successfully supported numerous programs at the hospital, the needs continue to arise and the expense continues to increase. While the above listed programs are those of focus, they are not the only programs benefiting from the generosity of individual donors like you. Patients throughout Lawrence and the surrounding communities have gratefully benefited from programs supported by the Endowment Association. In recent years LMHEA has provided funding for services and equipment in the Pediatric Department, Kreider Rehabilitation Center, Emergency Department, Maternity and Infant Care and many others.

Contact us today to learn how your dollars can make a difference in the care your friends and family members may receive at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

"Just as a family has to budget for its own health needs, the Hospital has to budget for the community’s health needs. The responsibility of the Endowment Association is to remind people that we have to care for ourselves and our community, and we need the community’s support to do that.

The work of the hospital touches everyone in the Lawrence community, whether directly or indirectly. We as individuals, or our family, or friends, or neighbors have received services at the hospital. That’s why I work with the Endowment Association.
I am proud to say that when you need help, Lawrence Memorial Hospital will be there."

2008 LMHEA Grants
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Through allocation of interest income, the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Association Board approved $224,000 in gifts to be purchased for the hospital in 2008.

Vital Signs Monitor
$5,360

Procedure Light for the Family Birthing Center
$3,500

Breast Biopsy machine for full service Breast MRI
$60,000

Instrument Set for cataract surgeries
$5,000

Patient monitor for surgery recovery room
$57,190

E-stim/ultrasound equipment for physical therapy
$10,000

Cellient Auto Cell Block equipment for the laboratory
$49,500

Materials Management software interface
$17,000

Help and Healing Fund, which helps patients in need of prescriptions and durable medical equipment but aren’t able to afford it
$8,500

“I Can Help” program, which is run through Douglas County Fire and Medical to teach CPR to 5th and 8th graders-adult CPR to 5th Grade and general and infant to 8th grade
$4,000

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