Mendocino Coast District Hospital

Gifts to the Foundation

Your gift provides support for equipment, services, and projects that help Mendocino Coast Hospital meet the needs of the community it serves. Our goal is to keep quality health care available on the Mendocino Coast so that, whenever possible, residents and visitors to the coast can be cared for in a supportive environment close to family and friends.

Ways to Give

A gift to the Hospital Foundation—at any level—demonstrates a profound commitment to the provision of quality local hospital care, and can provide significant tax advantages. The ways to give are as many and varied as the people who give them.

Commemorative Gifts

A Commemorative Gift to the Mendocino Coast Hospital Foundation is a contribution made out of love, friendship, and respect. It is a thoughtful way to honor a person or a special event, or make a memorial tribute to a special person, friend, or family member.

When we receive your Commemorative Gift, we send an acknowledgement card to you, as well as a gift card to the person who has been honored, or to the family or friend of the person who has been remembered with a memorial gift. The amount of the gift is not included on the gift card.

Celebration Donations
Holidays… Celebrations…Birthdays…A gift for the person who has everything.

Celebrate the birth of a child, an anniversary, a special birthday. Donate to the Hospital Foundation in honor of friends, family or even clients. We’ll send them a card acknowledging your gift to help them celebrate! The recipient can enjoy their gift knowing it is helping to support the availability of high quality local hospital care. Share your commitment to support OUR Hospital by giving a Celebration gift today.

Donation Designation

General Donations fund current Foundation priorities and play a very important role in our ability to provide support for our Hospital. Simply writing a check or giving through our new secure online process is one of the most common ways to support MCDH.

Restricted Donations provide an opportunity to support specific departments, programs or areas of care that are especially meaningful to you.

Special Fund Profiles
Diagnostic Imaging…for the best care here at home

Vital to moms-to-be in Obstetrics, patients in the Emergency Department, and post-operative cancer patients needing follow-up CT scans, diagnostic imaging equipment is used in myriad ways and in virtually every department throughout our Hospital.

Of particular importance in our rural coastal locale, diagnostic imaging technologies—CT Scanning, Ultrasound, Radiology, etc.—help our physicians to determine if they can care for you here at home close to family and friends, or if transport to another facility “over the hill” would produce a better outcome.

Our Hospital’s ability to provide comprehensive diagnostic care hinges on both the expertise and talents of its physicians and technicians, and the quality of its equipment. Donations directed to Diagnostic Imaging Services not only help to fund vital equipment, but they help our Hospital attract quality physicians and technicians. With a top-notch team now in place, we are working with the Hospital to provide funding for up-to-date diagnostic imaging equipment that meets the needs of our community and those who care for us. An excellent team plus the modern equipment to complement their talents and expertise assures the best care here at home.

Ambulance Fund

For local residents and coastal visitors, having a professional, responsive and experienced ambulance service is a community priority. Along with the local fire departments, our medics provide quick response to both major and minor emergencies. Supported by our annual 911 Raffle and designated donations throughout the year, the Ambulance Fund provides for the regular replacement of the Hospital District's ambulances as well as the lifesaving equipment needed to outfit them. Ambulance units wear out after 8 - 10 years of service and can cost over $95,000 each. In the past, replacement was a problem, as maintaining an around-the-clock ambulance service in a rural area is not a moneymaking proposition. With the community’s support of the 911 Raffle, we are able to raise the funds we need, and put aside between $15,000 and $20,000 each year towards ambulance replacement. In the event of an emergency, it’s comforting to know that the ambulance rushing to the scene and the men and women providing your family’s urgent care are supported by the Ambulance Fund.

Gloria Fredrickson Nurses Fund

The Gloria Fredrickson Nurses Fund was established in 2003 by Gloria’s family in her memory and with appreciation for the service provided to the north coast by the hardworking nurses at MCDH. Our nurses serve on the front lines of patient care. Donors to the Nurses Fund show their appreciation for the extraordinary care given by our dedicated nurses by funding materials and equipment “that allow a greater ease of patient care,” providing a more positive hospital experience for both our nurses and patients.

MCDH Hospice

MCDH Hospice provides home care and support for the terminally ill of our community, and at absolutely no charge to them or their family. Hospice is family-centered, offering practical, emotional and spiritual support to our patients, and their caregiving relatives and friends.

As MCDH Hospice is supported solely through the generosity of donors like you, donations to Hospice support the continued provision of this essential service to our community. MCDH Hospice - Ensuring that all terminally ill patients in our community have access to compassionate care that leads to a better quality of life at the end of life.

For further information about these and other fund development projects, please contact the Hospital Foundation at (707) 961-4671.

Annual Gifts - Your pledge of annual support helps sustain the ongoing Hospital programs and services needed by our community. Your unrestricted gift will be used to fund current Foundation priorities; or you may choose to restrict your gift to an area of hospital care that is especially meaningful to you. Call the Hospital Foundation at (707) 961-4671 for further information about pledging annual support for our Hospital.

Planned Gifts - By including the Hospital Foundation in your will, donating a gift of appreciated securities, or creating a charitable trust, you could be providing tax benefits for yourself and your heirs while supporting the care and services of our Hospital.

Mendocino Coast Hospital Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable corporation. All gifts to the Hospital Foundation are fully tax-deductible.

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Mendocino Coast Hospital Foundation

700 River Drive

Fort Bragg, CA 95437

707.961.4671 or 707.961.4688

fax: 707.961.4975 email: mchf@mcn.org

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Thank you for supporting the Hospital Foundation and MCDH!