Where Your Gift Goes
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation is committed to helping our donors meet their philanthropic goals. Together with Foundation staff members, donors have the opportunity to decide what programs and services their gifts support. Or, they may choose to contribute unrestricted funds to be used for the greatest need at the time of the gift. The only limitation is that the use be compatible with the hospital's mission and strategic plans.

Here are a few suggestions for how your gift might be used:

Addiction Treatment Program
South Miami Hospital’s Addiction Treatment Program has been helping people conquer drug and alcohol dependency since 1976. The program offers a broad range of treatment options for adults and adolescents in English and Spanish, including detoxification, family counseling, outpatient and residential treatment. Because recovery from addiction is an ongoing process, we also offer relapse treatment and continuing care programs. For information, call 786-662-8126.

Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Heart Disease and stroke continue to be the nation's leading killers. For more than two decades, Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute has taken a pioneering role in caring for people with health problems related to the heart and circulatory system. The Institute has built a neuro-interventional angiography suite to treat stroke and other neurological conditions. This suite supports the Stroke Program at Baptist Hospital’s Neuroscience Center. For more information, please call Stephen Parsons, CFRE, at 786-596-6535. Naming opportunities are available.

Baptist Children's Hospital - Families with children who are undergoing treatment for cancer are devastated, both emotionally and financially. A special fund provides support to needy families to assist with housing, transportation, access to a child psychologist and other support services that would otherwise not be available. The fund also supports many of the camps, reunions, and holiday events that are an important part of the child's (and the family's) healing process. For information, call 786-596-6535

Baptist-South Miami Diabetes Care Centers For information, call 786-596-6535

The Baptist-South Miami Regional Cancer Program for treating adult and childhood cancer maintains the highest standards of clinical and service excellence. If desired, donations to the children's program may be earmarked for a specific project, such as a separate inpatient unit for children with cancer. For information, call 786-596-6535.

Baptist and South Miami Hospital Emergency Center Expansions
Bigger, better emergency centers streamlined for the 21st century featuring swift, high-tech care and state-of-the art technology, are under construction at Baptist Hospital and being planned at South Miami Hospital. Construction on Baptist’s multimillion-dollar ER and hospital expansion began in the spring of 2006, with a projected opening in 2009. South Miami Hospital is planning a major expansion and renovation of its emergency department.  For information call 786-596-6535.

The Center for Excellence in Nursing includes all Baptist Health South Florida hospitals and facilities. Donations help educate, train and develop the nursing staff, support nursing scholarships and improve patient care with nurse-approved equipment and programs. For information on the Center for Excellence, please call 786-596-6535.

Child Development Center at South Miami Hospital provides multidisciplinary diagnostic evaluations and treatment to infants born prematurely with complications, and to children who have, or are at high risk for, developmental disabilities and delays. For information, call 786-662-8126.

The new Homestead Hospital brings the latest equipment and services - including high-speed, wireless Internet technology - to the growing south Miami-Dade community.  Baptist Health built the 120-bed hospital and an adjacent medical office building just east of the Florida Turnpike on the north side of Campbell Drive.  The 300,000-square-foot, $100-million-plus hospital features private patient rooms, an Emergency Center triple the size of the old one, including Speediatrics, the Betty Jane France Pediatric Department, and an urgent care center.  The hospital also offers expanded outpatient diagnostic and surgery services.  For more information about donor opportunities at the new Homestead Hospital, call Tom Schramm at the Homestead Hospital Foundation at 786-243-8531, or e-mail thomassc@baptisthealth.net

Mariners Hospital – The William E. Chasteen Scholarship Fund was created in 2000 by Upper Keys residents Tom and Dale Chasteen in memory of their father.  This scholarship is used to fund continuing professional education and training for employees of Mariners Hospital.  The Chasteen family continues to match donations to the scholarship fund.  For more information, contact Wendy Gentes at Mariners Hospital Foundation at 305-434-1665, or e-mail wendyrg@baptisthealth.net.

Medical Library On-line Service kiosks are an invaluable extension of our medical library where physicians need it most: where their patients are. For information, call 786-596-6535

South Miami Hospital Associates is a volunteer organization of community and business leaders who serve as goodwill ambassadors and fund raisers for the hospital. To make a donation or to find out more about joining South Miami Hospital Associates, call 786-662-8126. 

Tomotherapy
South Miami Hospital is one of a handful of hospitals in the nation now able to treat cancer patients with a new generation of radiation therapy called tomotherapy. This technology gives doctors the ability to treat cancer with much greater precision by combining the accuracy of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) with the image-guided benefits of a built-in CT scanner. During treatment, thousands of pencil-thin beams of radiation are delivered onto the exact shape of the tumor from every direction, minimizing damage to the surrounding tissue. The state-of-the-art machine can be used for a variety of cancers including prostate, breast, lung, brain, head and neck, bone and soft tissue, lymphomas and multiple myeloma. For more information, call 786-662-8126.