Join the Covenant HealthCare Foundation Annual Giving Campaign
Compassionate care is at the heart of everything Covenant HealthCare provides. This season, your generosity can help strengthen that care for patients, families, and our entire region.
Why Your Gift Matters
Operational funding keeps our hospital running. Philanthropy helps it thrive. Your gift helps support programs and enhancements that would not be possible otherwise - programs that elevate care, comfort families, and provide the tools our clinicians need to deliver extraordinary outcomes.
Every gift, of any size, makes a meaningful difference.
How Your Gift Makes an Impact
Your support directly improves the care our community receives. Here are just a few ways recent donor gifts have changed lives:
• Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy: A minimally invasive system that helps physicians diagnose lung cancer earlier and with greater precision.
• Family Comfort Carts: Provides refreshments to families keeping vigil beside a hospitalized loved one in their final days.
• Reach Out and Read: More than 10,000 books were provided to children at pediatric well visits last year - fueling literacy and supporting families across 13 medical practices.
Your generosity also helps support medical scholarships, provide essential health screenings, and bring comfort to families during the most difficult moments. Every contribution extends our ability to care for one another.
The Strength of Giving Together
When our community gives collectively, the impact reverberates throughout the entire Covenant system - improving patient care, supporting families, and strengthening our region’s health for years to come.
Thank you for your continued commitment to compassionate, exceptional care. Your support helps ensure that Covenant HealthCare can serve our community - today and for generations ahead
For further information, please contact the Covenant Foundation at (989)583-7600 or by email at foundation@chs-mi.com.
Covenant HealthCare Foundation Funds
EDUCATION
Jacob Ninan, MD, Annual Education Award
This annual award enables a staff member to attend a national symposium on cancer.
Nursing Education
Provides nursing staff on-site nursing in services.
Scholarships:
High School Seniors working toward a degree.
Covenant Staff who are furthering their medical education.
Cathy Lee Gifford Memorial Scholarship: Supports nursing students who plan to pursue a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist career/profession.
Nancy Butterfield Memorial Scholarship: Nancy was an energetic leader, trusted confidante, inspiring mentor and compassionate educator. She was an active volunteer with Covenant Kids from the first year it was established. This scholarship provides assistance to our nursing staff through an annual scholarship to one of our extraordinary nurses.
Carol Stoll Leadership Award
This award supports the development of nurses in leadership through mentoring and continuing education.
SUPPORT OF PATIENT’S LOVED ONES
Family Comfort Fund
Designed to support families when a hospitalized loved one is at the last stages of life, gifts to this fund provide refreshments to family members as they remain with and focused on their loved one.
McNally House
Provides affordable overnight housing for out-of-town loved ones of hospitalized patients.
COVENANT EMPLOYEES
Hands of Hope
This fund provides assistance to Covenant employees who face unexpected or emergency situations and require financial support.
PATIENT CARE
Breast Health Center
Supports state-of-the science mammography and diagnostic imaging to help patients detect breast cancer.
Cancer Care
Provides patients and their families with comprehensive cancer care and support services.
Center for the Heart
Offers patients across east central Michigan comprehensive cardiac services from diagnosis to recovery.
Frank N. Andersen Emergency Care Center
Supports emergency care services for patients across generations at the region’s largest trauma center for adults and pediatrics.
Greatest Need
Gifts are used to support areas of the Medical Center that have a need.
Hospice Care
Providing end of life care with dignity and comfort usually in the patient’s home or nursing home.
Sandra Kahn Hospice Fund
Established to provide aid for hospice to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Palliative Care
Medical care specialized for patients living with serious illnesses to help manage symptoms and improve quality of life for them and their families. Palliative care for symptoms may be combined with medical care intended to cure a serious illness.
Physicians Feeding Families
A program through Covenant HealthCare Partners to address food insecurities.
Spiritual Care Fund
Ensures the needed array of spiritual care services are available for patients and their families provided by chaplains who are trained in the areas of crisis ministry, emotional support, and advanced directives.
WOMEN & CHILDREN’S
The Birth Center
Supports the medical treatment and care of mothers and newborns.
Covenant Kids
Gifts to this fund enhance pediatric programs and services across the health system.
Margaret McNally Pediatric Unit
Provides family-centered care in the Great Lakes Bay Region’s largest pediatric unit.
William F. McNally Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
The only unit in this region offering intensive care for critically ill or injured children.
Noah’s Footprints
Provides memory making items for grieving parents who have lost a child to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Provides life-saving services to premature babies, newborns in distress, infants with genetic anomalies and babies requiring respiratory or surgical intervention.