What a Year! Donor Dollars at Work in Fiscal Year 2025
Fiscal year 2025 is memorable for many reasons, most especially the end of an era as long-time President and CEO Jack Lynch retires and new President and CEO Ed Jimenez takes the helm.
What also stands out is the tremendous generosity of our donors, whose contributions impacted almost every aspect of hospital life.
Below are 25 ways charitable contributions made a difference in FY25. These represent only a few examples of what philanthropy brings to Main Line Health each year — but they demonstrate just how far and wide donor dollars reach.
Together, we are:
1. Closing gaps in cancer care and uncovering the cause of unequal cancer burdens through the Jack Lynch Cancer Initiative
2. Building 12 new telemetry-enabled private rooms in Paoli Hospital's 3 South wing, providing space for an ever-increasing number of patients
3. Hiring Main Line Health's inaugural ED Ambassadors at Riddle Hospital, providing patients waiting in emergency rooms with assistance while freeing clinicians to focus on clinical care
4. Building a rooftop farm at Main Line Health King of Prussia to create an educational and wellness hub for patients, staff and the community
5. Assisting low-income patients with transportation and other medically related basic needs so they don't have to forgo medical care
6. Fostering innovation in surgical training and technology and expanding surgical education at Lankenau Medical Center
7. Funding a range of programs that enhance nursing practice including professional development initiatives, the first-ever endowed nursing position as well as pediatric nurse educators at Bryn Mawr Hospital, nursing debt relief at Lankenau, and more
8. Installing patient lifts at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital to safely help patients transition from bed to wheelchair or wheelchair to standing, among other uses
9. Supplying the Riddle Hospital Birthplace with 25 state-of-the-art bassinets
Photo courtesy of Stryker Corporation
10. Providing employee education, training and wellness through the Andrew J. Norton, MD Memorial Endowed Fund
11. Capturing hard-to-detect arrhythmias and other cardiac issues via a donor-funded ambulatory EKG machine that can be moved between rooms at Paoli Hospital
12. Sharing Lankenau's exceptional medical and surgical care with patients in rural Ghana through a philanthropy-funded mission trip
13. Launching a new Employee Engagement and Wellness Fund to support employee well-being at Paoli Hospital, including the Caring Canine Program, which provides specially trained dogs to comfort staff after seminal events and stressors
14. Linking Bryn Mawr Hospital patients with Oncology Nurse Navigators to help manage the financial, clinical and scheduling complexities of modern cancer treatment
15. Upgrading Lankenau Medical Center's staff renewal room to enable massage, yoga, and meditation, among other improvements
16. Ensuring families of newborns have access to "bridge milk," a supply of donor breast milk to help bridge nutrition and supply gaps as families are discharged
17. Swinging our way to two new ambulances for Riddle Hospital via a fundraising golf outing and other donor gifts
18. Improving maternal health outcomes and reducing post-partum readmissions at Bryn Mawr Hospital and Lankenau Medical Center with telehealth monitored blood pressure cuffs
19. Renovating the family lounge at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital so visiting families can spend time with inpatients in a non-clinical environment
20. Enhancing urology offerings at Riddle Hospital and Bryn Mawr Hospital with Aquablation®, a new water laser treatment for enlarged prostate
21. Improving patient and clinician safety with the addition of a metal detector in the Paoli Hospital ICU
22. Harnessing the power of robotic surgery — smaller incisions, fewer complications and shorter recovery — by funding two da Vinci surgical systems for Bryn Mawr Hospital
Photo courtesy of Intuitive
23. Upgrading virtual meeting equipment in Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital's patient dining room to better enable outpatient wellness groups hosted online
24. Giving families the chance to remain near their loved ones during their final hours with a dedicated hospice respite room at Bryn Mawr Hospital
25. Providing scientists working at the Lankenau Institute of Medical Research with funding for research in promising areas like regenerative medicine, autoimmune diseases, oncology, cardiology, and more
None of this — plus many other initiatives too numerous to list here — would be possible without the generosity and enthusiasm of donors like you.
Thank you for caring about your friends and neighbors so very much — and in so many ways.
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