Helping others
She actually loved being pregnant, her discomfort eased by the excitement and anticipation of her first child. They hadn’t actually finished the nursery because they still weren’t sure how to reconfigure their small apartment to accommodate their new addition. But they still had two months to go and were looking forward to the baby shower that would help them get started.
Except, on the morning of the party, she went into labor, seven weeks early. The room wasn’t ready. She wasn’t ready. And the baby definitely wasn’t ready. But Community Hospital was. She was rushed into the Family Birth Center, where what seemed like miracles brought her family to life.
She didn’t have enough money to cover the costs of neo-natal care necessary to give her little girl a healthy start. But, thanks to charitable giving, the hospital’s Sponsored Care program was able to make up the difference.
And, a year later, when she could, she made a donation to the hospital in honor of her daughter’s first birthday.
Charitable gifts make it possible for us to detect abnormalities in newborns, recognize a tumor, or identify potential heart disease before a life-threatening situation arises. Such funds enable us to buy the most advanced medical equipment, to hire more staff, to build state-of-the-art facilities. And we can help those who are unable to pay for their own medical care.
But we can’t do it alone.