Make an Impact
Everyone needs life-saving health care for a better life. You can help.
Nobody should have to choose between paying their bills or getting medical care and medications
Donations to the Foundation help people get the health care services they need
At Mercy Health, our Mission isn't a plaque on the wall. It's our calling, our True North. Programs that help people get needed services even if they can't afford to pay or are uninsured are just one way we improve the health and well-being of our communities.
But we need your help. Your generous support for any of the following programs means the most vulnerable people in our community can access resources that lead to better health and better quality of life for them and their families.
Patient Assistance
Often patients who are leaving the hospital need additional medications or medical equipment to continue their recovery at home. Some people even have basic needs for clothing or transportation from the hospital.
Donations to the Patient Assistance fund can help a patient with a qualifying financial need get help with their prescriptions, a ride to or from the hospital or even household bills or groceries.
Lend a Hand
Help people continue to heal at home
Resource Mothers
Completely funded through donations to Mercy Health Foundation Lorain, the program offers resources, support and education for pregnant women and new moms, through baby's first year of life.
Each participant is paired with a resource mom who is a trained health worker and a mother herself. Resource mothers give advice, educational information, and help with accessing resources. When you give to this program, you help women get prenatal care, learn how to care for a new baby, or get free infant care items like diapers or formula.
Help New Moms
Help pregnant women and new moms take good care of their baby
Parish Nursing
For many people, the screenings and basic medical services provided at a local church are the only health care they receive. That's why donations for Parish Nursing are so important. The program helps remove barriers that prevent people from seeking medical care, like economic or language barriers and transportation issues.
Parish Nursing is completely funded through donations to Mercy Health Foundation Lorain. Your support provides wellness checks at nearly 100 churches in and around Lorain, offering a more convenient place to receive services and in a location that is familiar and comforting. Parish Nurses can also refer participants to doctors for follow-up.
Give for Better Health
Help people monitor their health with free screenings in their own neighborhood
Rising Star Medical Intern Program
Designed to increase diversity in the health care field, this paid internship for high school juniors and seniors gives students firsthand experience working in many clinical and administrative departments of the hospital over the summer.
The Rising Star program can only be offered at Mercy Health Lorain Hospital with financial support from the Foundation's donors. The opportunity to shadow doctors, surgeons, nurses, other medical professionals and administrative staff has inspired many of the program's interns to pursue health care careers. A number of physicians and nurses now working at Mercy Health Lorain Hospital participated in the Rising Stars program.
Invest in the Future of Medicine
Give minority students opportunities to pursue health care careers
Women's Health Center
When you support the Women's Health Center, you make specialized care available for women in one convenient location. Donations to Mercy Health Foundation Lorain helped purchase the latest life-saving 3D mammography technology that saves lives by detecting cancer in its earliest stages. And for women without insurance or the ability to pay, donations to the Women's Health Center ensure those with a financial need get the important annual breast cancer screenings they couldn't otherwise afford.
Make an Impact
Give women a state-of-the-art place to get their health care
Cancer Care
Your donation will provide the most flexible support for the full complement of cancer services at our hospitals and ensure anyone who needs screening, diagnosis or treatments can get the life-saving cancer care they need, even if they are uninsured or financially challenged.
Donations to our Cancer Care fund can be used for:
- Financial assistance for qualifying patients to assist with mammograms, cancer treatment or other costs associated with their cancer plan
- Provide a nurse navigator to help cancer patients with scheduling, appointments, information and support throughout their cancer journey
- Renovations and updates to the Cancer Center and other patient care areas where cancer diagnosis and treatment takes place
- Upgrading to the most advanced cancer detecting and cancer-fighting medical technology
- Support for new and existing services that provide the latest cancer care
Invest in More Survivors
Make the most effective treatments available for cancer patients in Lorain
Mobile Mammography
We need your help to make life-saving breast cancer screenings accessible for all women across northeast Ohio! The Mercy Health Foundation is raising $1.5 million to purchase and equip a 40-foot coach that will provide mobile mammography services for women, right in their own community or at their place of work.
Busy women, those without medical insurance or who lack transportation too often skip this important annual screening. Mammograms are the first line of defense for detecting breast cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages.
Donate today to make Mobile Mammography available as soon as possible for women in and around Lorain.
Support Early Detection
Give women a convenient option for life-saving breast cancer screenings