Putting resources where they are most needed
Giving to Good Samaritan Hospital's area of greatest need provides additional resources and flexibility to respond quickly to new ideas and programs that support the hospital's strategic directions.

Supporting a full continuum of cancer care services
Your gift will support innovative cancer treatments at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, including the introduction of Tomatherapy. Tomatherapy is a superb new technology that combines plans, images and radiation treatments into one system, targeting cancer cells without harming healthy cells. Tomatherapy is available at only a few sites nationwide and is now offered at Good Samaritan as the latest tool in our fight against this devastating disease.

Leading the way in cardiac care
Good Samaritan Hospital is known as a cardiac care pioneer. We are committed to keeping up with advancements in cardiac services. From prevention to state-of-the-art diagnostics, to surgery and rehabilitation, Good Samaritan Hospital has the advanced technology, experienced staff and clinical expertise patients need for the most complete approach to cardiac care. Future plans include expansion of cardiodiagnostics and the relocation of the cardiac conditioning program. Your gift will allow the hospital to continue providing excellent and compassionate cardiac services - close to home.

Taking a closer look at your heart health
The Radiology Department at Good Samaritan Hospital is one of the first in the area to perform a revolutionary, non-invasive cardiac diagnostic procedure. The CT angiography allows physicians to take a detailed look at a patient's arteries and heart using a 64-slice CT scanner, translating into ever-improving diagnosis and treatment. Your gift will help support this new technology.

Combining innovation and compassion in breast health care
Your gift to this program will support respectful, wholistic patient care - including such state-of-the-art technology as Computer Assisted Diagnosis where a computerized "second look" at every mammogram provides a high levels of accuracy; the advent of digital mammography, replacing films with digital images; and the use of stereotactic needle biopsy, the "no stitches" breast tissue sampling technique used to evaluate suspicious lumps after a mammogram. Contributions to this fund will assist the Diagnostic Breast Imaging Center in its mission to combine the best technological advances with compassionate support as we address our community's breast health concerns.

Developing the skills of valued associates
Education for Excellence is a series of specially designated funds that provide educational opportunities for nurses and other allied health professionals at Good Samaritan Hospital. Funded solely through charitable contributions, Education for Excellence helps to foster recruitment and retention of highly qualified patient caregivers.

Treating the whole person in mind, body and spirit
Funds contributed to this project will go to grow an endowment for Mission and Spiritual Care to meet the growing spiritual needs of the community. The endowment will sustain, in perpetuity, new programs for spiritual outreach and support for patients and their families as well as physicians and associates. It will fund an ongoing stream of supportive devotional and grief resources. The endowment may also provide for a fellowship in the study of mind, body and spirit connections in healing, and a resident chaplain position to meet the pastoral care needs of patients in the hospital's unique clinical areas. As a faith-based organization, Good Samaritan Hospital is committed to meeting the spiritual needs of the patients, physicians and associates it serves. Grounded in the understanding of all human beings as whole persons in light of their relationship to God, themselves, their families and the society in which they live, the hospital deeply believes in the importance of addressing the spiritual components of healing and wellness.

Providing special care for high-risk newborns
With your gift, the NICU can provide advanced care to high-risk infants with complex medical and surgical needs, ensuring that mothers and babies rarely need to be transferred elsewhere for care. Good Samaritan's Level III NICU offers the highest level of neonatal care in state of Illinois. Funds contributed to the NICU will provide developmentally appropriate equipment and programs, which create the best environment to promote growth and healing for our tiniest patients.

Helping whole families through devastating loss
SHARE is a support mechanism for families coping with high-risk pregnancies, premature births, sick infants or the loss of a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death. Your gift allows families to receive counseling, grief literature, support from others who have lived through similar situations and emotional support during and after their crisis.

Enabling the newest and most sophisticated standards of surgical care
Your gift will help Good Samaritan expand its surgical services to accommodate state-of-the-art technology and equipment requirements dictated by many cases. Patients can expect to benefit from more timely and accommodating scheduling.

Meeting the comprehensive needs of women and children
Gifts to this fund support a broad range of educational programs and health services, including those in labor and delivery, the neonatal intensive care unit, the breast health center and the "Why Wait?" clinic, which makes breast and cervical cancer screenings and care available to low-income or uninsured women.