When making a gift to support Froedtert Hospital, you may designate your gift to support the Froedtert Hospital program that means the most to you or allow us to designate your gift to be used where it is needed most. Wherever the destination of your gift, your generosity will help Froedtert to provide exceptional care and state-of-the-art technology to family and friends in our community.

Designated Funds

Breast Care Center

Supports clinical research for the prevention and care of cancerous and non-cancerous diseases of the breast.

Building Fund

Designated for projects to replace facilities, new building programs and improve existing facilities to meet new standards of excellence. Funds may also be used to provide furnishings.

Cancer Center/Oncology

Cardiovascular/Heart

Provides support for the comprehensive cardiac and heart surgery programs within the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Heart and Vascular Center.

Chaplaincy Program

Supports hospital chaplaincy services, an essential element of the healing process at Froedtert Hospital. The Froedtert Hospital chaplaincy's primary goal is to ensure spiritual support is available to every patient and family member according to their desires, no matter what their belief or creed.

Clinical Fellowships

Covers the cost of postgraduate clinical specialty training for the next generation of physicians.

Community Outreach/Education

Health improvement and community capacity building programs create linkages with other community health-related organizations and support health education, teaching and “leg up” programs for central city residents.

Dialysis Fund

A special fund specifically designed to help with costs associated with kidney dialysis programs at Froedtert Hospital and other outreach facilities.

Emergency/Trauma Center

Supports southeast Wisconsin’s only adult Level I Trauma Center. These funds include support for safety education and violence prevention.

Employee/Staff Assistance-Crisis Fund

Provides special assistance to Froedtert Hospital staff members. Epilepsy/Seizure Disorders provides funds for both community awareness and medical service programs for individuals who have seizure disorders and for their family members and loved ones.

Indigent Care

Pays costs of inpatient, outpatient services and sometimes for clothing, family housing and other necessary costs for less fortunate patients and their loved ones.

Neurosciences

Supports clinical services and new technology for the hospital’s neurosciences programs.

New Technology Fund

Looks to the future by providing funds for acquisitions of the highest level technological advances.

Organ Donor Awareness

Pays for community education programs to encourage individuals to sign organ donor cards.

Orthopaedic Program

Provides orthopaedic care programs including joint replacement surgery, other forms of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation for bone problems.

Palliative Care

Supports an innovative, nationally hailed program committed to improving end-of-life experiences through innovative clinical care and education.

Patient Transportation

Helps cover costs of transporting patients who need a ride to and from Froedtert Hospital but are not sick enough to require an ambulance.

Prostate Cancer

Supports this program which is nationally and internationally known for both quality and for innovations which have improved the care of patients with cancerous and non-cancerous problems of the prostate.

Senior Health

Provides support for senior health programs that range from an innovative urinary incontinence clinic to health education, housing, and home care.

Spinal Cord Injury

Provides leading-edge care to victims of spinal cord injury.

Staff Scholarship  Fund

Provides continuing professional education for Froedtert Hospital staff members.

Stroke Program

Provides new, innovative services for stroke patients and their families.

Transplant

Supports the medical application of organ transplant services based at Froedtert Hospital.