Donations
Each phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented new and unique challenges to healthcare – and to everyone. Saint Alphonsus is committed to serving the evolving needs of our patients, their families, our colleagues and the community at large. If you would like to fortify our efforts, please consider financial donations, gifts-in-kind or express your gratitude to our hard-working team.
Financial Donations for COVID-19 Relief
Funds will support initiatives including (but not exclusive to):
- Resiliency programs for our frontline providers
- Supplies and equipment
- Workforce relief for those on quarantine or with family hardships
- Partnerships with local agencies that offer housing and food access to patients with limited or no resources.
Donating Sweets, Eats, and Self-Care Treats
Accepted Food and Self-Care Items:
- Individual food items such as power bars, granola bars, trail mixes, peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, cookies, candy bars, and snack cakes (unopened, unexpired, and in the original packaging) Please package food items in groupings for 10 people.
- Catered meals from food trucks, or individually packaged and prepared meals by special arrangement only (no homemade food can be accepted)
- Take-out/delivered food (pizza, etc.) by special arrangement only
- Self-care items such as travel size shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, dry shampoo, combs, chapstick, toothbrush and toothpaste, or any other items that could refresh and revigorate our staff who are working around the clock don't have time to go home between shifts.
- Gift cards to be used for colleague support items
- Include some written cards of encouragement! Or pictures! Or poems! Our teams LOVE hearing from you, knowing you're in their corner during these especially hard times.
To arrange a donation of food or self-care items for colleagues, contact the Foundation at (208) 367-5659.
Join our "Creative Community Challenge"
You might recall that a year ago, the spirit in the community was much more collective and supportive. There was a celebration of our healthcare heroes and a shared message of "we shall prevail over this virus!" Fast forward to fall of 2021, in the midst of another Covid surge, a swirl of controversy about vaccine, an overall frustration with canceled events, businesses closed, lives lost, and an uncertain future. Everyone everywhere feels the tension – and nowhere more acutely than in our hospitals; many of our caregivers feel abandoned and alone. We hereby challenge YOU, in YOUR OWN WAY and in YOUR OWN SPHERES (family, work, neighbors, friends, church groups, social media . . . ) to express support for them – out in the community, outside the hospital setting, so that they're affirmed in their chosen profession when they're not working!
Here are some examples and ideas from last year – large and small!
- Offerings of free or discounted goods and services from your place of business for healthcare workers (with a presentation of their healthcare worker badge)
- Signage on residential or commercial property to express gratitude, humor, optimism or positive vibes!
- Giant blow-ups (sparkly unicorns) in front lawns
- Painted rocks in classrooms, given as gifts to healthcare workers
- Spelled "thank you healthcare workers" in red solo cups in a chain-link fence
- Toilet paper in neighborhood Little Library (from the beginning of the pandemic when you couldn't find that anywhere)
- Dreamcatchers in trees
- Christmas lights/Halloween decorations put up out of season to create a sense of fun, wonder and hope
To arrange a donation of food or self-care items for colleagues, contact the Foundation at (208) 367-5659.