With the uncertainties of the recession, many outside donors want to see physicians and upper management step up to the plate before they write their checks, said an official at the St. Agnes Foundation, which recently set a goal of raising $1.5 million from employees and physicians at St. Agnes Hospital.
Meanwhile, 244-bed Mercy Medical Center has already raised $4 million in donations from employees and physicians toward its $416 million replacement hospital. More than 600 of Mercy’s 3,276 non-physician employees contributed almost $1.5 million and 75 of its 513 physicians gave $2.5 million.
A Mercy official said the donations are entirely voluntary and “we certainly tried to avoid having a supervisor talk to employees.”
An expert at a Baltimore-based fundraising firm said that while employees have always given to hospital campaigns in the past, it is becoming more important.
Read the Baltimore Business Journal’s report on hospital donations.
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