To provide compassionate, quality healthcare services to those in need, include the poor and dying, for the purpose of alleviating human suffering and bringing people to wholeness in the midst of pain and loss.
Volunteers and volunteer physicians staff the Bon Secours Foundation community outreach activities.
Launched in 1982, the Health Care Foundation is the community outreach, charitable arm of Bon Secours Richmond. Dependent on the goodwill and generosity of donors and volunteers, the Foundation has been tremendously successful in extending quality healthcare to an ever-increasing number of people in the Richmond community.
Purpose
To carry out the Bon Secours mission of “good help to those in need”
Funded by
Donations from individuals, local foundations and businesses
Staffed by
Volunteers and volunteer physicians
Services
- Provides free shots, school physicals and vital screenings for young children through traveling Care-A-Van
- Teaches lifesaving skills and strategies through Asthma Self Management program
- Trains children in car, bike and pedestrian safety through Safe Kids program
- Provides financial crisis assistance to hospital patients who need emergency funds for treatments, medications, infusions, and food
Success Stories in 2007
- Provided free shots, school physicals and vital screenings for young children through traveling Care-A-Van
- Taught lifesaving skills and strategies through Asthma Self Management program
- Trained children in car, bike and pedestrian safety through Safe Kids program
- Provided financial crisis assistance to hospital patients who need emergency funds for treatments, medications, infusions, and food
- Endowed hospice program
