FUND DESCRIPTIONS

The University of Kansas Hospital has more than 100 funds available for donors who want to help us support our quest to provide the most compassionate, most medically advanced care possible to our patients.

Through your gift, you can memorialize a loved one, honor a special person in your life, recognize a caregiver who went above and beyond, or direct your donation to a specific area of care that interests you.

Call Hospital Fund Development at 913-588-2800 for more information.

ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS

• Area of Greatest Need
• Area of Greatest Need – Rehab Services
• Center for Advanced Heart Care
• Center for Advanced Heart Care Nursing and Staff Development Fund
• Dr. William and Mary Reed Cardiovascular Surgery Center
• Jane Corley Information Technology Education
• Lynn Kindred, MD, Catheterization Laboratory
• Richard and Annette Bloch Heart Rhythm Center
• STAR Fund: Employees Invest in The University of Kansas Hospital
• White Heart Learning and Resource Center at the Center for Advanced Heart Care


ANCILLARY SERVICES

• Clinical Laboratory
• Cytogenetics Continuing Education
• Elaine Polsky Breast Center Changing Suite
• Friends of the Breast Center
• Hospital Radiology Department Fund
• Hospital Respiratory Therapy Fund
• Kirsten Project Spinal Cord Injury
• Pharmacy Fund


BURN CENTER

• Burnett Burn Center
• Thomas McCool/KCP&L Award for Excellence in Burn Nursing


CANCER

• Brandmeyer Patient Resource Center
• Cancer Staff Continuing Education
• Clinical Trials for NCI
• Dr. Sherri L. Brown Oncology Medication Assistance Program Fund
• Garden of Infinite Possibilities
• Outpatient Blood and Marrow Transplant
• Patient and Family Resource Center for Inpatient Cancer Care
• Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Care Pavilion
• Richard and Annette Bloch Radiation Oncology Pavilion


CANCER NURSING

• Award for Excellence in Hematology/Oncology Nursing
• Evelyn Ridgway Memorial Nursing Scholarship in Leukemia
• Jonathan Elliff Hematology/Oncology
• Sheila and Duffy Ehrich Hematology/Oncology Nursing


CARDIOLOGY

• A Change of Heart
• Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Research Project
• Cardiology Lecture Series and Symposiums
• Cardiology Research and Education
• Electrophysiology Program
• Electrophysiology Research and Education Fund
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
• MAC/MATCS Endowment Fund
• Post Cardiothoracic Surgery Secondary Prevention Project
• Sudden Cardiac Death Education and Screening Program


CARDIOLOGY NURSING

• Cardiovascular and Cardiothoracic Surgical Nursing Award
• Jodie C. Hatzenbihler Clinical Excellence Education Award


DIALYSIS

• Dialysis Center


GASTROINTESTINAL

• Department of Nursing GI


MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (MICU)

• Eleanor H. Marting Fund for Medical ICU
• Elizabeth Wisdom Award for Excellence in Medical ICU


NEUROLOGY

• Jake Clough Family Room
• Neuroscience Care Fund
• Riss Family Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Nursing


NURSING ADMINISTRATIVE

• Clinical Excellence in Nursing
• Nursing Resource Center
• Nursing Service Development


ORGAN TRANSPLANT

• Carol A. Pettus Liver Transplant Fund
• Organ Transplant


ORTHOPEDICS

• George Varghese, MD, Spine Learning and Resource Center
• James P. McLean, MD, Memorial Conference Room
• Marc A. Asher, MD, Comprehensive Spine Center


PAIN MANAGEMENT

• Pain Management


PALLIATIVE CARE

• Carol A. Smith Palliative Care Memorial Fund
• Patricia Hopkins Palliative Care
• Sandra L. Stewart Palliative Care Education Fund


PEDIATRICS

• Maternal/Child
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Patricia Huffman Award for Excellence in Maternal/Child Nursing
• Pediatric Units


REHABILITATION

• Elizabeth Page Award for Excellence in Rehabilitative Care


SOCIAL SERVICES

• 64-Slice CT Scan Imaging for Patients in Need
• Kim Mercer Fund for Indigent Care
• Oncology Patient Assistance
• Patients in Need


SURGERY

• Sutherland Family Nursing Excellence Award in the SICU


VOLUNTEER SERVICES

• Bernice S. Wiglesworth Endowment for Volunteer Training