Invest in Future Health Care Heroes

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Giving Opportunity Invest in Future Health Care Heroes Double Your Impact Provide high-quality health care education for life Donate Matching funds are available to DOUBLE your holiday donation to Mercy College of Ohio! Help twice as many students become the health care heroes of the future Your donation to Mercy College of Ohio is an investment…

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Laura Danko’s Story

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Thanks to your support for Mercy Outreach, Laura gets the support she needs to manage her chronic illnesses Laura Danko was very sick. She was in and out of the hospital and in and out of ICU with complications from her unmanaged diabetes. Fortunately for Laura, your donation supports the Mercy Outreach Program for chronic…

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Meet Art Collins

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A Qualified Charitable Distribution is a win-win for Art and the Foundation Art Collins and his wife believe in giving back. The tax savings of a planned gift using a QCD mean they have more to give. Art Collins and his wife donate regularly to the Foundation because they know that quality health care is…

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Meet Carl & Kathy

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Your support provided the rehabilitation tools Carl needed to live at home with his wife, Kathy Kathy Schulz could see the toll several falls and multiple surgeries had on her husband Carl. She worried he might never get back to how he was before. “After his second surgery, Carl was left like an infant. He…

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KaZonté’s Story

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KaZonté’s work with victims of violent crime at the Trauma Recovery Center is possible thanks to you Thanks to gifts from donors like you, KaZonté Allen and her colleagues can provide specialized care in their community to those who really need it. KaZonté is a social worker and therapist at the Mercy Health – Toledo…

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Meet Bridget Deegan-Krause

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Bridget gives to Mercy Health Foundation to be part of the healing ministry of Jesus Bridget Deegan-Krause sees the healing ministry of Mercy Health in action every day. Her work as a chaplain and ministry formation facilitator, as well as her role on the Mercy Health Toledo market board, gives her a front row seat.…

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St. Luke’s Foundation merger

Former St. Luke’s Foundation merges with Mercy Health Foundation Greater Toledo to continue its legacy The merger follows McLaren Health Care’s closure of St. Luke’s Hospital After McLaren announced the closure of St. Luke’s facilities in Maumee, Ohio, in 2023, Mercy Health agreed to purchase the physical assets and offer employment to St. Luke’s medical…

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Meet Sydni Rodabaugh

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Your gift to support ECMO technology saved Sydni’s life from Legionnaires’ disease Sydni Rodabaugh was hospitalized for 18 days with Legionnaires’ disease. She spent the first week in a medically-induced coma. Thanks to support from donors like you, she was able to get the specialized care that she needed to survive. You helped provide Mercy…

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Pat Winkler’s Story

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Mercy College of Ohio gave Pat her nursing career, so now she gives back In 1961, Pat Winkler enrolled at the Mercy School of Nursing, which preceded Mercy College of Ohio. “My mom always wanted me to become a nurse, but not only a nurse—a Mercy nurse,” recalls Pat. “She instilled that in me.” “The…

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