Hospital Foundation Funds

Pink Ribbon Fund

This fund was established in 2014 to provide both 2D and 3D mammograms, plus diagnostic testing associated with an abnormal mammogram to patients that financially qualify. Please call 812-663-1157 to schedule a mammogram.

Cancer Care Fund

The Cancer Care Fund helps to provide gift baskets, massages, and other support to those receiving cancer treatments at DCMH. The fund can also provide staff training to those in the department. In 2023, we added a Daylily campaign to help support this fund. Daylilies are planted along the walking trail, where patients can see them out the fourth floor window.

Physical Therapy Fund

This fund was established for the speech and hearing therapies offered at DCMH, including our annual summer speech and hearing camp.

1922 Club

The 1922 Club is the Hospital Foundation’s annual appeal. Donations given go into the general fund and support the day-to-day operations of the Foundation, including, but not limited to, department grants, Foundation events, and program support.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gifts free books to children up to age 5. This program in our community is funded by the Hospital Foundation of Decatur County and Decatur County United Fund. Must be a resident of Decatur County and children must be born in Decatur County and at DCMH.

DCMH Greatest Need

The needs are always present in a rural facility where financial resources are limited. When giving to the “greatest need” you are allowing the Board of our Hospital Foundation to allocate the funds to the area that has the most immediate need for funding a special project, program or equipment. Three times yearly the Board reviews applications from DCMH Departments and allocates funds to well-documented and carefully planned projects.

DCMH Daffodil Project Fund

The Daffodil Project Fund supports the daffodils planted all around the DCMH campus. The donation can be made as a gift to support or celebrate the hospital, or in honor or memoriam of someone. Not only does this beautify the campus, but this also supports the special program and equipment needs of DCMH.  Any donations made before September 15 will be planted the following fall. Donations made after September 15 will be planted the following year. For additional information on gift levels contact our office at 812-663-1220.

Marj Willer Fund

The Marjorie B. and Robert H. Willer Professional Development Fund for Nursing Staff was established by their children in memory of Marj and Bob’s long-term commitment to Decatur County Memorial Hospital. Marj joined the DCMH Staff in 1980, and would go on to complete her master’s in nursing administration while working as the full time as the director of nursing at DCMH. In his early retirement, Bob developed health problems and spent the last six months of his life in long-term care at DCMH. Marj continued to work at DCMH until 2011, when she retired at 81. She served more than 30 years as Director of Nursing, Vice President of Patient Care, and Vice President of Compliance and Quality. This fund honors the couple’s long term support of DCMH, and continues Marj’s vision for supporting the high quality of nursing at DCMH in the future.

Remembrance Garden Fund

The Hospital Foundation of Decatur in partnership with the Luke O’Mara Foundation has announced the establishment of The Remembrance Garden Fund, a tranquil space on the east side of the walking trail with stone wall seating, a dry creek bed, rocking chairs, and native plants providing beauty to enjoy in all season. The garden was locally designed, and the fund is to support its creation and continuation on the Decatur County Memorial Hospital campus. Giving to the Remembrance Fund allows donors to make a difference in the lives of those in our community. The garden will support the estimated 1 in 4 individuals and families whose lives are affected by the loss of a child.