Your contribution to Summit Health Foundation helps us make advancements and maintain high standards in several core areas of community healthcare.
Clinical excellence and patient-focused care. We maintain leadership in clinical excellence by implementing programs to provide exceptional patient- and family-centered care.
Community benefit. We support identified health and wellness needs of children, neighbors and patients in our communities.
Education and innovation. We’re committed to advancing innovations in medical care and fueling the ideas, expertise and passions of our teams.
Your generous support of the Summit Health Foundation sustains key programs in our community that care for patients and our most vulnerable neighbors. Our supported programs and initiatives:
- provide the highest quality health care services
- lift financial burdens from those who cannot afford healthcare
- inspire our nurses to strive for educational advancement and excellence in patient-focused care by providing hands on simulation courses and equipment
Gifts to the foundation help our patients and families
Future nurses receive scholarships to carry on legacy of Kristin Runyon
Though her tragic death in 2010 cut her nursing career far too short, her legacy strengthens with each passing year.
Apply for the Kristin Runyon Memorial Scholarship
Chambersburg Hospital Family Tree
The WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital Family Tree is a work of art honoring children of all ages.
Learn how you can add your own lasting tribute to a special milestone.
With your support, the Summit Health Foundation has also recently:
- approved $100,000 for a new transcranial magnetic stimulation chair at WellSpan Behavioral Health in Chambersburg.
- raised $104,000 to purchase 30 new bassinets for Chambersburg Hospital’s family birthing services.
- provided WellSpan EMS in Franklin County with $33,500 to purchase lifesaving equipment.
- provided $1.4 million to WellSpan Waynesboro hospital to purchase a new CT unit.
- awarded over $108,000 to 35 local RN students with scholarships to offset tuition expenses.
You can make a difference by supporting these funds
- Where needed most: Help us respond to emerging needs. Giving to this fund enables us to address the areas of greatest need for WellSpan Health in Franklin County.
- WellSpan Franklin County Patient Support Fund: Help patients who have needs that affect their treatment or health outcomes. This fund assists at-risk patients with food, transportation, transitional housing and life-saving medications.
- Oncology Bridge Fund: Lend a hand to patients facing the financial burdens that often result from dealing with the impact of cancer. This fund helps with basic living expenses, such as rent, utilities, groceries and transportation to and from medical appointments. Funds are available to patients who meet specific financial aid guidelines.
- Kristin Runyon Memorial Scholarship Fund: Help provide tuition assistance for students pursuing their registered nurse degrees. Many of these outstanding scholarships recipients are working within the walls of our hospitals and physician practices, providing high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.
- WellSpan Franklin County SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner) Fund: Lend a hand in providing compassionate care for victims of sexual assault. This fund provides local access to comprehensive and caring medical treatment through the SAFE program.
- WellSpan Franklin County Future Physician Scholarship Program: Help provide funding to this unique WellSpan initiative to sponsor medical school scholarships. Scholarships aid young people with a connection to a local WellSpan community and require them to return to work within the WellSpan footprint following their graduation.
- Spotlight on Children’s Health: Invest in children’s early development to eliminate health and achievement inequities later in life by providing literacy and early childhood education services and meeting special health care needs. This fund supports the opportunity for all children in our regions of care to develop in safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
- Other: This fund selection is available for donors to designate their gift to a specific need not listed.
