The Kettering Medical Center Foundation serves donors by providing assistance in fulfilling philanthropic wishes and maintaining an efficient conduit for gifts to benefit the Kettering Medical Center and its affiliated programs and facilities. The Foundation provides donors with gift receipts for tax purposes, professional fund management for planned gifts and endowment funds, a variety of gift planning services, and a management system that assures all gifts fulfill donors' intentions.
Since the beginning of the first hospital in the Kettering Health Network over 40 years ago, philanthropy remains essential to Kettering Medical Center's leadership and service. Through the Foundation, donors provide funds for hospital priorities and also support virtually every Kettering Medical Center program and affiliated institution.
The Foundation manages over 140 funds in support of programs, offering donors the confidence that their donations will meaningfully influence the programs they choose to support.
Some of the major programs in which donors are making a significant impact include:
- Kettering Cardiovascular Institute focuses on cardiac surgery, patient
care, advanced education, and medical innovation.
- Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute develops current leading-edge
techniques and technologies for neuro-oncology, schizophrenia, epilepsy, stroke,
movement and memory disorders, plus other degenerative diseases.
- Kettering College of Medical Arts offers accredited certificate,
associate, baccalaureate, and master’s degrees to students preparing for careers
in nursing and allied health professions.
- Women’s Wellness Fund provides mammograms and other services at no cost
to uninsured and underserved individuals in the Dayton area.
- Oncology supports Kettering Medical Center’s comprehensive cancer care
program, including providing no-cost prostate screenings for Dayton-area men.
- Graduate Medical Education annually provides multiple residency
programs for over 120 resident physicians in affiliation with the Boonshoft School
of Medicine at Wright State University, Loma Linda University, and other leading medical colleges.
- Hospital Priorities focus unrestricted and Annual Fund gifts on
advanced equipment and other changing needs, which are essential in providing
exceptional patient care.
For additional information, please contact the Foundation at (937) 395-8607.
