Philanthropy is central to the Hospital’s ability to maintain its role as a healthcare leader in the western suburbs while fulfilling its charitable mission.

As a non-profit, Adventist Hinsdale Hospital invests in community benefits such as charity care, community outreach, and un-reimbursed costs of care for our most vulnerable patients.

This has been Adventist Hinsdale Hospital’s mission for over 100 years and it remains so today.

Through sound financial management and philanthropic support, the Hospital also continuously invests in new service lines, innovative technology applications, patient care facility renovations, and nursing excellence despite the challenges we currently face in healthcare. Today, non-profit hospitals are covering a substantial share of the healthcare costs for a growing number of uninsured and underinsured patients. We also face declining federal, state, and private insurance reimbursement rates while costs of healthcare continue to escalate.

Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, considered a financially healthy hospital, operates on a very narrow profit margin. At the end of the year, that capital will only go so far towards updating equipment, improving facilities, and expanding important services. Through gifts to the Foundation, our donors add significant resources to the bottom line to help the Hospital meet critical needs and, in an ever changing healthcare environment, these gifts are more important than ever before.

The Hinsdale Hospital Foundation received cash gifts and pledges totaling $2.4 million in 2010 and disbursed three-quarters of a million dollars to meet hospital needs, including capital and equipment, community outreach, Adventist St. Thomas Hospice, staff education, research, and pastoral care.