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All Service League programming works to enhance or supplement the hospital environment, services, or programs. These include:
- Promoting a healing environment
- Funds for urgent patient needs. Contributions from our donors have helped to:
- Wrap a newborn in a sleeper and blanket for the trip home
- Meet the co-pay so that a mental health patient could get his medication
- Transport a young woman who was abused by her boyfriend home to her family in
another state
- Provide small gifts to the grandchildren from a dying grandmother on her last Christmas
- Supply funds for a young mother to buy formula for her baby
- Place a craft activity in the hands of a long-term patient
- Rent a walker for a woman when insurance wouldn't cover it
- Put shoes, a jacket and gloves on a homeless man
- Present experiences of art and music to calm and soothe a worried father
- Support the volunteer giving a hand massage that brought a woman to joyful tears
"because no one had touched her or cared for her like that in years."
- Emergency clothing needs
- Employee amenities such as convenient purchasing of stamps and bus cards, reduced rates on entertainment tickets, and discount programs
- Start-up funding for positions such as On-Call Weekend Chaplain, Child life Specialist, Healing Environment Coordinator, and Native American Advocate
- Preserving the history of HCMC through support and maintenance of the HCMC History Museum & Metropolitan Medical Center Historical Library
- Offering crafts, activities, and reading materials to patients
- Providing patients with access to the CARE Channel, a nature and music-based television channel
- Coordinating the volunteer program
“My wife and I appreciate the poinsettia and cash gift. It allowed us to see beyond our immediate problems. We sincerely thank you.” — from a patient
“The support you’ve provided is so beneficial to assisting vulnerable adults who are homeless.” — Hennepin County Program Manager
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