How Your Donation Helps

Maintaining, improving and advancing medical care in East Tennessee

Charitable donations to the Blount Memorial Foundation and Community Outreach are used to help organizations and initiatives, which share the Foundation’s mission of improving the health and well-being of our entire community. These include:

• Blount Memorial Hospice Mercy Fund
• Blount Memorial Family Birthing Center [link to WEB Family Birthing Landing]

For more information about the Blount Memorial Foundation and Community Outreach or to make a tax-deductible contribution, call
Jane Gilbert Andrews, executive director, at 865-977-5727.

• Cancer Awareness Programs: The Foundation and Community Outreach fund the Profiles in Pink luncheon to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month and National Mammography Day in October.
• Cancer Survivor Programs: The Foundation and Community Outreach sponsors two special events for cancer survivors – Celebrate Spring, a women’s retreat in March, and Cancer Survivor’s Day in June.
• Education foundations of Blount County, Maryville and Alcoa: Grants are used to purchase equipment, technology, textbooks and other resources to enhance the science/health curriculum in local schools, and support school-based activities that promote wellness and healthy lifestyles.
• Greatest Need Fund: This Foundation and Community Outreach program serves cancer patients and their families who are struggling with finances during their diagnosis and treatment. The fund provides gas and grocery vouchers, and financial assistance to help families pay for medications, utilities and other necessities.
• Project HOPE Breast Cancer Patient Resource Fund: This fund is supported by a community grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure in partnership with the Blount Memorial Foundation and Community Outreach, and the Hope for Today Cancer Support Group. The fund awards financial assistance to eligible breast cancer patients. This assistance can be used to pay for the breast cancer patient’s complementary/alternative therapies; groceries; health insurance premiums and co-payments; household expenses; lymphedema therapy; medications; prosthetics, bras and wigs; rent or mortgage; and transportation expenses.
• Rural Metro: The Foundation provided funding to Rural/Metro Ambulance to purchase a Medtronic LIFEPACK 12 defibrillator/monitor. This high-tech diagnostic tool collects and transmits electrocardiogram (EKG) results to emergency medicine physicians for review before patients even arrive at the emergency department.