Miles was born prematurely and spent the first month of his life in the NICU. Christine and Logan Derck are grateful parents and donors to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Their son, Miles, was born prematurely and spent a month in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This is their…...
Making the Rounds
Welcome to Making the Rounds, Advocate Charitable Foundation’s blog focused on how philanthropy makes a difference across Advocate for our patients and their grateful families, our physicians and caregivers, hospitals and communities - and the donors themselves. Here you will also find news and stories of gifts at work made possible by the generous support of our donors and partners.
If you are a patient, donor or partner who would like to share your story to be possibly featured on our blog, please email us at giving@aah.org.
Your support has helped us perform 1,000 heart transplants
The surgical team at Aurora St. Luke’s performs its 1,000th heart transplant. Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee recently hit a significant milestone – its 1,000th heart transplant. This 1000th transplant saved the life of Mary Zimmerman, 67, of Oak Creek. After 14 months on the waitlist, Mary’s prayers…...
How little ‘angels’ are sending patients comfort and love
There’s a very special program underway at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in downtown Milwaukee. It began with 12 enthusiastic young Jewish students at a local synagogue. (L-R) Chaplain Aggie and Cecilia with some of the handmade “healing cards” “In addition to being the chaplain at Aurora Sinai, I’m also an…...
Local firefighters promised to come through for kids during the pandemic – and they did
Members of the Oak Lawn Fire Department raised over $6,600 to support kids at Advocate Children’s Hospital. In a normal holiday season, Advocate Children’s Hospital would have accepted hundreds of donated toys and games that would have brought smiles to so many patients’ faces. But 2020 was anything but normal…...
Mobile Dental Program helps create smiles for patients
Julia flashes her beautiful new smile after receiving dentures from the Mobile Dental Program. Julia Ordonez has gone without teeth for 20 years. She is 79 years old and didn’t have regular dental insurance. She thought there was nothing that could be done. “I went to three different dentists and…...
