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Charitable gifts are vital to Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit family of caregivers, grounded in faith and serving the needs of 2 million people in Chicagoland. We pursue a distinctive commitment to both clinical excellence and community outreach. Philanthropic gifts play a key role in supporting essential system-wide programs such as Baby Advocate, which helps ensure the well-being of the Chicago area's youngest residents: the eICU, which provides round-the-clock video/audio monitoring by Advocate physicians and nurses for our most critical patients: and Parish Nursing, which places parish nurses in congregations located in some of the city's most medically disadvantaged areas.
 
Philanthropy news and events across Advocate
- Advocate Health Care has established the Advocate Green Council to support the advancement and implementation of environmentally sound practices across the system. Several Advocate hospitals have already been recognized for their environmentally conscious practices. To learn more, or to find out how you can help us go "green," please contact Advocate Charitable Foundation at 847.384.3400.
Funding opportunities
Below is a list of Advocate programs that currently need your support.
Advocate Green Council
Advocate Health Care formed the Green Council in January 2008 to promote the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices. Your gift will help the Green Council work across all sites and functional areas of our integrated health system to advance green practices as an important component of health and healing. The Green Council identifies opportunities for action, facilitates communication and education, supports implementation of green practices and promotes measurement and verification of resource savings and impacts. The work of the Green Council is a tangible expression of Advocate's mission, values and philosophy-especially the core value of stewardship — and it is an affirmation of our corporate citizenship.
Baby Advocate Program
Baby Advocate is Advocate Health Care's answer to the urgent problem of Chicago's low immunization rates. This system-wide program gives parents of babies born at Advocate hospitals access to valuable resources and support, such as reminders for check-ups and immunization dates. Your gift helps support age appropriate child health newsletters, incentives for completion of recommended immunizations, and access to online and telephone referrals for the families of our newest patients.
Center for Pediatric Research
The Center for Pediatric Research provides the expertise and the infrastructure to support clinical studies and research programs that benefit children. Charitable Gifts support needed infrastructure such as research consultation, identification of study sites, budget and contract negotiation, regulatory documentation, internal review board submission, coordination of ancillary services, participant recruitment, data management and central interface with the study sponsors.
Childhood Trauma Treatment Program
Advocate's Childhood Trauma Treatment Program, part of the Family Care Network, treats both children and adults who have been victims of sexual abuse and sexual-abuse offenders. Your gift helps treat some of the most at-risk and abused children in our community, and provides community outreach and education to clinical professionals and community members affected by an epidemic of abuse.
Congregational Health Partnerships
Funds contributed to this priority enable Advocate Health Care to tap into the healing work of congregations. Through this network, Advocate can help congregations develop or build on existing health ministries, link them to resources, and broker partnerships between faith communities and organizations that promote health and wellness.
Electronic Intensive Care Unit
The electronic intensive care unit (eICU) provides around-the-clock centralized video/audio monitoring by Advocate physicians and nurses for our most critical patients in our intensive care units. This technology supplements the already high level of care provided by our hospitals and enhances the quality of care we provide to our patients. The eICU save lives, significantly reduces complications, and reduces the length of a patient's stay in an ICU. The contributed funds will help Advocate purchase equipment, conduct research and create an advanced training program for personnel to utilize this ground-breaking capability.
Healthy Steps for Young Children
The system-wide program Healthy Steps for Young Children uses a national model to enhance opportunities for primary care physicians to interact with parents and children ages 0-3 about child-development issues. Your contribution helps Healthy Steps specialists prepare physician practices to work more effectively with families around the challenges of early childhood.
Mission and Spiritual Care
Funds contributed to this project will allow Advocate Health Care to move Spiritual Care forward in integration, research, prevention of illness and spirituality in health care settings.
Parish Nursing
Gifts to this program help place parish nurses in congregations located in some of Chicago's most vulnerable communities and medically disadvantaged areas. As advocates for care, parish nurses are often the only primary health care link for their parishioners. They connect at-risk members of the congregations to existing local community resources and help those in need by providing basic health care services, health counseling and health advocacy.
Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read is a national program that seeks to make early literacy an integral part of pediatric primary care, and strives to decrease illiteracy rates and promote healthy family activities. Your gift buys age-appropriate books for pediatric patients to take home at all pediatric check-ups from six months to five years of age, and encourages parents to share reading time with their children.
Trauma Initiative
Funds contributed to this priority will allow Advocate Health Care to integrate the delivery of trauma care among Advocate's four trauma centers through clinical coordination, clinical and patient/family education, information system development, clinical and outcomes research and community partnerships.
Special Needs of Advocate Health Care
Gifts to this fund provide resources and flexibility to respond quickly to new ideas and programs that support the system's strategic directions.
Contact us
Would you like to speak with someone about making your gift? We would be happy to speak with you further about how your charitable giving can make an impact at Advocate.
Advocate Charitable Foundation
847.384.3450
charitable.foundation@advocatehealth.com
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