Mount Carmel Foundation Annual Report 2017 Annual Report | Page 3

Mount Carmel Foundation
2017 Annual Report
Dear Friends,
At Mount Carmel Health System, we care for our patients and their families. But you, through your generosity, make
that care possible. Because of you Mount Carmel is able to fulfill our mission of being a compassionate and transforming
healing presence within our community.
Over the past year more than $5.6 million of your donations to the Foundation has been invested to support critical
programs that change people’s lives every day in significant ways. That means you’re making a difference for people
from all walks of life, including new mothers and babies through the Welcome Home Program Fund, nursing students
through your contributions to Mount Carmel College of Nursing, terminal patients when you support the Hospice and
Palliative Care Fund, and a host of others you’ll find inside this year’s Annual Report.
As Mount Carmel presses forward with the relocation of inpatient services from Mount Carmel West to the new hospital
at Grove City, we remain committed to serving the people of Franklinton — where Mount Carmel has its roots dating
back to 1886. The $46 million investment in the campus there will benefit the community through outpatient, outreach
and other services, as well as a freestanding emergency department. Enhancements to the campus will also support
Mount Carmel College of Nursing — which is seeing record enrollment — and its mission to enable students to answer
their life’s calling to become professional nurses.
We’re thankful for donors like Diamond Hill Capital Management, who, like many of you, found the meaningful
intersection between their goal to do good in the community and the Foundation.
We’re also grateful for the long-term relationship we’ve shared with Monsignor Joseph Hendricks, who is stepping off our
board after 12 years and countless gifts of grace. His incredible leadership on the aptly named 2011 Project Grace campaign
to raise funds for the expansion and renovation of Mount Carmel St. Ann’s continues to bear fruit to this day.
We continue to be invigorated by, and grateful for, the first year of leadership Mount Carmel has enjoyed since the arrival
last November of Edward Lamb, FACHE, as president and CEO. Ed’s leadership has strengthened the system’s ability to
deliver the compassionate care that is fundamental to Mount Carmel’s mission, vision and values.
Most of all, we want to extend our gratitude — on behalf of our patients, their families, our colleagues and our physician
partners — for your role in advancing Mount Carmel’s mission this past year and for years to come. We could not do it
without you.
With Gratitude,
David Montgomery Deanna Stewart
Board of Trustees Chair President
Mount Carmel Foundation
Mount Carmel Foundation