Northwestern Memorial Foundation Mission

Northwestern Memorial Foundation raises funds to support the mission

and strategic goals of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Through fundraising,

grantmaking and stewardship, the foundation perpetuates the hospital’s

dedication to clinical innovation, scientific discovery and improving the

health of our community.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mission

Northwestern Memorial Hospital is an academic medical center where

the patient comes first. We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to

consistently high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction.

We seek to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a

broad range of services with sensitivity to the individual needs of our patients

and their families. We are bonded in an essential academic and service

relationship with the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University.

The quality of our services is enhanced through their integration with education

and research in an environment that encourages excellence of practice, critical

inquiry and learning.

2 0 0 9 E M P L O Y E E C A M P A I G NThe Best Care Begins With Us • We Make a Difference

Giving Made Easy

By going to our special campaign Web site, you can arrange to give a one-time gift, recurring gift or deduction from your bi-weekly paycheck.

To make an online donation, please visit foundation.nmh.org/BestCare.

Save the Date

For the second year, Northwestern Memorial will organize volunteers to participate in the Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon event on June 13, 2009. More than 8,000 volunteers from hundreds of companies will work together to complete community service projects citywide. Watch your e-mail this spring for information on how to participate.

Please help us reach our goal of providing 300 volunteers in 2009.

Why Should I Give?

Charitable gifts help support hospital and program operations at Northwestern Memorial. They assist in generating the necessary funding for facilities, equipment and programs. Your support of the employee campaign, whether through money or time, will help to ensure that Northwestern Memorial continues to deliver the finest patient care and that employees and members of the community receive essential services and assistance.

”Providing information technology support for the hospital gives me the opportunity to meet many different people and really see how the hospital works. I donate because I believe supporting our Best People results in the best patient care.“

– Saad Maniar, Desktop Support Analyst II, Technology Support Services© February 2009. Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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“It is especially important to me in this economy that my donations go to an organization like Northwestern Memorial, which will use the money to provide real benefits.”

– Jodi Eisenberg, Clinical Accreditation and Policy Manager, Quality Strategies

N O R T H W E S T E R N M E M O R I A L :

A Place Where Everything Matters

As Northwestern Memorial employees, you make a difference in the lives of patients in many ways, every day. Whether you work directly with patients or provide services that support patient care, your dedication makes Northwestern Memorial unique.

For the past three years, this dedica-tion has been evident in your support of “The Best Care Begins With Us,” the annual employee campaign. As a nonprofit organization, Northwestern Memorial greatly depends on charitable gifts to develop and maintain the innovative programs and services valued by

patients and their families. The extra steps taken to provide the best care and service is a part of what distinguishes Northwestern Memorial as Chicago’s “most preferred” hospital.

We hope you will participate in the 2009 employee campaign. Once again, you will have the opportunity to help by supporting a variety of initiatives that benefit employees, patients and the community through a donation or volunteer activities.

This year, as part of our organization’s “go green”

efforts, we encourage you to donate online at

foundation.nmh.org/BestCare. The Web site offers details on funding areas as well as the many ways your past donations have made a difference.

Visit the Web to Make a Difference

Donating online is easy. You can make a donation from any computer with Internet access, at home or at work, by visiting foundation.nmh.org/BestCare.

For your convenience, computer terminals with Internet access also are available weekdays in the Health Learning Center on the third floor of the Galter Pavilion.

Computers set aside for donations to the employee campaign also will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the following dates:

March 13, 20 and 27 and April 3, 9 and 10: Computers will be available just outside the Allspice Cafe on the third floor in the Feinberg Pavilion and the Fresh Market at Fairbanks on the second floor in Prentice Women’s Hospital.

April 2 and 9: Computers will be available at 541 N. Fairbanks Court. For information about the location, please ask your department’s campaign ambassador.

Donations will be accepted through April 10.

Funding areas for the 2009 “The Best Care Begins With Us” campaign include:

E M P L O Y E E C A R E• Employee Crisis Assistance Fund

PAT I E N T C A R E• Cancer • Cardiovascular • Musculoskeletal • Neurosciences

W O M E N ’ S H E A LT H

C O M M U N I T Y C A R E• Community Service • Volunteer Activities

S P E C I A L S E R V I C E S• Patient and Family Assistance Fund

O T H E R O P P O R T U N I T I E S• Areas of Greatest Need• Other Areas

”I give because I know I’m helping one of my colleagues who may be experiencing a difficult situation. I realize that under a different set of circumstances it could be me.“

– Nick Rave, Director of Imaging Services and Professional Services ”I donate because I feel it’s important to

do as an employee and as part of the Northwestern Memorial family. Being able to give online makes it easy and quick and I feel comfortable doing it.“

– Natanya Brown, Secretary to the Vice President, Hospital Operations

”I believe in Northwestern Memorial’s mission of Patients First, which is truly reflected in our patients’ gratitude toward us. I give to honor the patients who recognize and validate what we do.“

– Phyllis Chong, Senior Social Worker, Case Management Prentice Resource

foundation.nmh.org/BestCare