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Giving Opportunities
Greatest Needs Fund (Unrestricted)
By designating your gift to the Greatest Needs Fund, donors give Lakeview Foundation the greatest flexibility with the use of their gift. Lakeview Foundation in turn directs it to an area that is in urgent need of funding. Gifts to the Greatest Needs Fund can be directed to program areas or toward capital improvements.
Restricted Program Area
Lakeview Foundation is currently focusing on raising funds for the following programs. If you do not see the program that you wish to fund, please contact the Foundation at 651-430-4556. We would be happy to speak with you about your philanthropic interests.
- Diabetes Education Assistance Fund
The goal of the Diabetes Education Program is to teach patients the skills they need in order to manage theirdiabetes. Through individual and group sessions with certified diabetes educators, registered nurses and registered dieticians, patients learn how diabetes affects the body, how to plan meals that promote good health and glucose control, and how to prevent complications from diabetes. Most importantly, patients learn how to live healthy, productive lives with diabetes. The Diabetes Education Assistance Fund helps cover the cost of patients who are participating in the Diabetes Education individual and/or group sessions and do not have insurance or have limited coverage.
- Lakeview Hospice Program
Lakeview Hospice is a philosophy and program of care for persons with a limited life expectancy and their families. This special kind of care is provided by an interdisciplinary team of administrative and nursing staff, a social worker, a chaplain, the medical director, pharmacy and volunteers in either the home or a home-like setting, emphasizing quality of life for the patient and supportive help for the family during time of illness and the bereavement period.
The interdisciplinary team of 16 hospice employees and 92 hospice volunteers work in close association to provide the best possible individualized care to each patient and their family/friends, including follow-up support to the family for 12-18 months after the death. Using a holistic approach, together they work to address the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the terminally ill individual and their family.
- Lakeview Hospice Program – The Gathering at Boutwells Landing
The Gathering at Boutwells Landing was founded in 2004, in partnership between Lakeview Hospital and Boutwells Landing. The idea for the creation of a specialized care suite came from Lakeview Hospice staff who had expressed a need for a residential program. In the past, patients who either lived alone or whose primary caregiver was unable to provide the needed care, entered a nursing home or purchased expensive 24-hour care in their home. The Gathering is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days per year, by LPNs (licensed practical nurses) specially trained in hospice care. Care of the hospice patients and their families is coordinated and directed by an interdisciplinary hospice team (Medical Director, Nurses, Social Worker, Chaplain/Spiritual Counselor, Home Health Aides and volunteers).
- Prescription Assistance Program
The Prescription Assistance Program provides free and/or low-cost medication(s) to low-income individuals who have no prescription insurance coverage, meet the financial guidelines of pharmaceutical companies’ patient assistance programs, and are patients of Lakeview Hospital, Stillwater Medical Group and/or St. Croix Orthopaedics. The Prescription Assistance Program Coordinator provides free assistance to qualified patients by helping to locate the appropriate pharmaceutical assistance programs for prescribed medications, and completing all aspects of the enrollment process, including assistance with obtaining refills. The program currently impacts participants from age nine to 100.
- St. Croix Valley Parish Nursing Program
A St. Croix Valley Parish Nurse is a licensed registered nurse with advanced education in holistic healthcare and is employed by Lakeview Health for the purposes of liability and supervision. The role of the parish nurse is that of health educator for his or her parish and to act as a liaison between Lakeview Health and their congregation. Parish nurses do not provide hands-on treatments; rather, they make the healthcare system accessible to their church community by offering holistic care and attention to individuals in need. There are presently seven churches in the program: St. Michael’s Catholic Church (Stillwater); First Presbyterian Church (Stillwater); Our Savior’s Lutheran Church (Stillwater); Christ Lutheran Church (Marine on St. Croix); St. Peter’s Catholic Church (Forest Lake); St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (Stillwater); and Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church (Stillwater). |
