Support the Cascade Health Foundation
Your gift to the Cascade Health Foundation supports quality, charitable, compassionate health care right here in our community. As an independent local nonprofit, Cascade Health depends upon the generosity of community donations to ensure we can continue serving the unmet health needs of our neighbors.
Donate today or contact us by email or by phone call to learn more about how you can help.
The Impact of Your Gift
Many of our patients and their families come to us at an extremely stressful and frightening time in their lives: when a new diagnosis necessitates changing the way they’ve always done things. When an injury takes away their ability to leave the house. When a serious illness has started to decrease their quality of life. Or when they receive a prognosis of six months or less to live.
At each of these moments, Cascade Health is there to provide critical medical care and emotional and spiritual support. And we couldn’t do it without your help.
Our Funding Priorities
Our purpose has always been to improve the quality of life in our community by filling the gaps in local health care options. And although all our services are covered at least partially by insurance, we strongly believe that everyone deserves the care they need; not just the care insurance is willing to cover.
Your gift to the Cascade Health Foundation makes it possible for us to spend necessary time with patients in some of life’s most difficult situations; to provide much-needed education and help to families; and to provide a reprieve from the physical symptoms of life-limiting illness to enable patients and their families to accomplish important goals at the end of life.
Our funding priorities are:
Pete Moore Hospice House (highest priority)
Our foundation’s primary focus is raising funds to support Pete Moore Hospice House. The only hospice house in Lane County, it wraps residents and their families in a serene, home-like environment where they receive compassionate, hospital-quality end-of-life care and the space and support to find meaning and comfort in the final phase of life.
Because insurance does not fully cover the costs of operating the hospice house, we could not keep the doors open without the generosity of the community we serve. When you give today, you ensure that our professional nursing staff, social workers and bereavement specialists can continue to provide physical, emotional and spiritual support to patients and families who depend upon us during a time of great need.
“My beautiful husband was at the Pete Moore Hospice House. He received the most excellent care from each and every professional there! I have bragged about the compassion and care they provided. They are truly the very best!”
— Wife of Pete Moore Hospice House patient
Home Hospice
Home hospice care encircles patients and their families with a team of dedicated professionals and volunteers to manage symptoms, provide support and improve quality of life – all while allowing people to stay in the comfort of their own homes.
Donations ensure that patients and families have 24/7 access to nursing assistance, grief and bereavement counseling, support groups, spiritual support and alternative comfort care measures such as massage, aroma therapy, music, art and pet therapy to make people’s remaining days as comfortable and peaceful as possible.
“We are forever grateful for the care my mother and my family received from Cascade Hospice. Our nurses were angels and everyone we dealt with demonstrated the ultimate levels of professionalism.”
— Family of home hospice patient
Diabetes & Nutrition Education
Our Diabetes & Nutrition Education programs teach patients critical disease and diet management skills to help them achieve the highest level of wellness and prevent complications.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t begin to say that enough. When I first was diagnosed, I felt hopeless and thought my life was going to end. Instead, I’ve learned to be positive. I felt supported with the education classes and this program. I can do this. I feel empowered. Again, thank you!”
— Diabetes Education patient
General Fund
Gifts to the general fund are distributed to the organization’s charitable programs at the discretion of the board of directors. These funds are also used to provide financial assistance to people who need our services but are not insured by Medicare, Medicaid (Oregon Health Plan) or private insurance.
Ways to Give
Honoring a loved one. Leaving a legacy. Touching people’s lives. Your reasons for giving are unique, and we are dedicated to helping you achieve the impact you want your gift to create.
We have several options for giving that give you the opportunity to honor a loved one, promote your business’ commitment to the community or build a philanthropic legacy. And, if none of these opportunities speak to you, we will work with you to create a completely unique program to fit your goals.
Direct Donation
Your gift today is greatly appreciated. For your convenience, you may donate online or download a donation form and mail it to:
Cascade Health Foundation
2650 Suzanne Way, Suite 200
Eugene, OR 97408
Wind Beneath Our Wings
With a lasting tribute gift to our Wind Beneath Our Wings program, you ensure Cascade Health’s ability to continue operating Pete Moore Hospice House. We will recognize your support of this important community resource by honoring you or your loved one with an engraved feather on the beautiful doves that grace the hospice house walls. We offer three giving levels:
Bronze: $1,000 to $9,999
Silver: $10,000 to $24,999
Gold: $25,000 and more
To participate, please use our online donation form or download the Wind Beneath Our Wings donation form and return it to us with your check.
Sponsorship
The Cascade Health Foundation offers various sponsorship opportunities, including event sponsorship of our annual Festival of Trees and FlavorFest events. We are honored to work with you to develop a sponsorship that helps you achieve your giving and recognition goals while touching the lives of the families we serve. Please visit the Festival of Trees or FlavorFest page for more information.
Planned Giving
Cascade Health serves our community by strategically stewarding philanthropic programs that strive to fulfill our community’s health needs. Planned gifts help visionary donors like you create a bright tomorrow for those who benefit from the services provided by Cascade Health.
Planned gifts are typically part of a well-organized, integrated giving strategy designed by you and those closest to you to make a lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of our community. Planned gifts come in many forms, including bequests, charitable gift annuities, life estate transfers or other methods. The Cascade Health Foundation can help you accomplish your legacy goals.
Thank You
On behalf of those we have the privilege to serve, thank you for your generosity.
For more information about the Cascade Health Foundation or to speak to our executive director to learn how you can ensure access to quality, compassionate care in our community, contact us today.
Sarah-Kate Sharkey, Executive Director
Cascade Health Foundation
(541) 228-3003
Charitable gifts made to the Cascade Health Foundation are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by current law. Our IRS identification number is 930421470. Thank you for your compassion and generosity.