Your support makes a difference

• Breast Health Programs & Services
• Bayview Child Health Center
• Coming Home Hospice
• Institute for Health & Healing
• Kalmanovitz Child Development Center
• St. Luke’s Pediatric Care
• St. Luke’s Women’s Services
• Swindells Alzheimer's Program & Services
• Women’s Health Resource Center
• What speaks to your heart?

Breast Health Programs & Services

Funding Need: $360,000
An African American woman is more likely to die from breast cancer than anyone else. If she has a tumor, it will be found later than most, often long after treatment might save her. Her odds are changing, however, thanks to the African American Breast Health Program and the donors who support it. The program continues to help so many women that a spin off, the Sister-to-Sister Project, is now reaching out to other high-risk groups, such as the homeless, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Latina, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender populations. With your support to Breast Health Programs & Services, hundreds of women will receive free mammograms, clinical exams, life-saving treatment and even emergency assistance.
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Bayview Child Health Center

Funding Need: $650,000
Ten thousand children live in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunter’s Point community, more than in any other part of town. Yet until 2007, they only had one pediatrician to serve them. These children are more likely than any other local children to end up in the hospital - and three times more likely to die while they are still babies. Then CPMC opened its Bayview Child Health Center on Evans Street. Two years later the Center is the place to go for pediatric immunizations, regular exams, obesity education, mental health services, asthma care - you name it. Your gift will help keep the care coming to every child who walks, or gets carried, through the door.
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Coming Home Hospice

Funding Need: $750,000
At the end of life, the simple things matter most: family and friends, a peaceful setting, dignity and comfort. Home may not offer enough care, the hospital too much. Since 1987, more than 2,500 men and women with terminal cancer, AIDS and other illnesses have found the right balance at Coming Home Hospice, San Francisco’s only licensed residential hospice facility for end of life diseases. Insurers only cover about half the annual budget; the rest depends on people like you, who recognize the value of life’s most precious moments.
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Institute for Health & Healing

Funding Need: $630,000
Bay Area residents know there is more than one route to health and healing, more than one way to stop pain, lower blood pressure, fight cancer, beat depression. They know the benefits of a good massage, an acupuncture treatment, a yoga class, a hot cup of herbal tea. They value these approaches and they know where to find them: CPMC’s Institute for Health & Healing, one of the largest integrative medical centers in the country. What started as a modest lecture series is now a phenomenon, globally respected and widely copied, because people like you were determined to widen the horizons of American health care.
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Kalmanovitz Child Development Center

Funding Need: $350,000
When pediatrician Hulda Thelander founded the Child Development Center in 1952, most of her young patients had cerebral palsy or birth defects. Today such challenges are only the tip of the iceberg, as the health of the American child has grown more complex: Many of the children seen here have survived drugs in the womb. Many were born prematurely. Many have learning disabilities. Autism is epidemic, as are eating disorders. Resources are stretched thin for many families. With your gift, you can help the Kalmanovitz Child Development Center provide services to a child whose family cannot otherwise afford it.
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St. Luke’s Pediatric Care

Funding Need: $500,000
If you are five years old with asthma or stomach pains, and if you live in San Francisco's South of Market district in a low-income family, CPMC's St. Luke’s Campus is your “safety net” for health care when other options are few. Here are found a skilled, compassionate, multi-lingual staff and a full range of pediatric services. No child chooses a life of vulnerability. Philanthropy alone can deliver a healthy start to thousands of youngsters.
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St. Luke’s Women’s Services

Funding Need: $100,000
Without CPMC’s St. Luke’s Campus, health care would be out of reach for many women who live in the South of Market neighborhoods of San Francisco. Those who have no insurance, or only catastrophic coverage, those who speak limited English and have no easy way to cross town for health care, often end up needing emergency care. Your help is urgently needed to keep women’s services - prenatal care, labor and delivery, mammography, gestational diabetes care, and much more - at St. Luke’s, a small-town hospital right in the middle of the city.
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Swindells Alzheimer's Program & Services

Funding Need: $50,000
The Irene Swindells Alzheimer's Residential Care program at California Pacific Medical Center is the only medical center-based program in the Bay Area. At Swindells, we provide individualized, resident-centered care for Alzheimer's Disease and related forms of dementia. We believe that individuals with Alzheimer's should continue to live in comfort and with dignity. The Center was built entirely from philanthropic donations. The Swindells family endowed the program in memory of Irene Gerlinger Swindells, who had Alzheimer's Disease.
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Women’s Health Resource Center

Funding Need: $200,000
One woman has just learned she has cancer. Another has osteoporosis. A third is expecting her first child. Ten thousand women in all come every year to the Women’s Health Resource Center for information, classes, support groups, and the compassionate support of other women who understand and care. Your gift will help make these services available to every woman who seeks them, regardless of her ability to pay.
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What speaks to your heart?

• Meet Our Philanthropic Supporters
  Meet inspiring philanthropists whose generous gifts support community health, including women's and children's services.
• Our Success Stories / Your Gifts at Work
  Read how philanthropic gifts are being successfully used to benefit community health and improve care for patients of all ages.

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