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The Hendrick Medical Center Auxiliary presented a check for $100,000 to be applied to HMC Project 2010
This is the largest expansion in HMC history. Project 2010's total cost is $80 million. The project's core components include a new patient tower with support services on the ground floor, surgery on the second, The BirthPlace on the third and a new children's hospital on the fourth. The tower is designed to accommodate up to 12 floors for future expansion. The project also includes a new front entrance which will feature a new expanded gift shop, admissions, and an enlarged First Perk, a coffee shop offering Starbuck's coffee and pastries. The Auxiliary pledged $1,000,000 to the project and to date has contributed $400,000 toward that pledge. The front entrance and gift shop should open during December, with the rest of the construction being completed in 2011.
Pictured are L to R: Barbara Barnes, HMC Auxiliary President, Stephen Kimmel, HMC Chief Financial Officer, and Vicki Hooker, HMC Treasurer
Hendrick Medical Center, Abilene, Volunteers are “Going Green”
In December, 2009, Hendrick Medical Center volunteers changed uniforms from pink to hunter green. This change reflects the thinking of updating the volunteer image and also to give a new fresh look to the volunteer organization at a time when the hospital, itself, is getting a new look with an $80 million expansion. The Hendrick auxiliary has pledged $1 million to the expansion project of which $300,000 has already been given. Reaction to the new uniforms has been extremely positive, with comments about the new color from staff and guests alike. The auxiliary is “recycling” the pink uniforms by giving them to three hospitals in Uganda. One of the volunteers goes to Uganda each summer on a mission trip and will take the uniforms to be used in the African hospitals.
Wilbarger General Hospital Auxiliary
July 18, 2009 Vernon Texas - Jonathan Voelkel, Wilbarger General Hospital CEO, and Karen Crisp, administrative assistant,along with members of Wilbarger General Hospital Auxiliary Myrtle Fostor, Carolyn Monter, Carolyn George, Betty Marlin, Clara Mae Bell, and Dorotha Townson present one of 25 pull-out couches purchased for patient rooms. The new couches will allow more comfort for those who might have to stay overnight with a patient. The Auxiliary donated $5,000.00 toward the purchase, which totaled some $34,000.00 overall. Funds for the donation came from Gift Shop sales and fundraising projects.
