ROI: REDEFINED!
Because of you, we shattered our fundraising goal!
After five years, numerous events, meetings, phone calls, letters, emails and social media posts, the Craig Hospital Foundation successfully completed “Redefining ROI: The Campaign for Craig Hospital.” The campaign surpassed its $68 million goal, raising more than $73 million to support Craig’s expansion project, innovative programs and patient assistance funds.
Statistics
The campaign, which was launched quietly in the fall of 2010 and announced publicly in May 2013, was the largest fundraising effort in Craig’s 109-year history.
Donors gave $50 million to underwrite Craig Hospital’s dramatic revitalization and expansion project, to bring the quality of its physical facilities in line with the world-class staff, patient outcomes, and the high quality of care Craig provides to its patients and their families. When the construction is completed in September 2016, Craig will have added approximately 85,000 sq. feet of new space, renovated approx. 135,000 sq. feet of existing space in its West Building, and connected the West and East buildings to create a unified campus with a cul-de-sac main entrance and an accessible garden plaza area.
An additional $23 million was raised to support Craig’s innovative programs and patients.
Most people think of Return on Investment as something that can be measured in dollars and cents, but at Craig Hospital, it’s so much more. The success of this campaign shows us that our community cares about a greater return—our patients’ return to independence following a catastrophic injury.
Mary Feller, executive director of the Craig Hospital Foundation
The funds provided financial support to Craig’s Programs of Excellence—flagship programs like Therapeutic Recreation, Music Therapy, Community Reintegration, the School Program and the Nurse Advice Line—which are vital to a patient’s success but not covered by insurance companies. Campaign donors also supported the Patient Assistance Funds, which help patients and their families purchase adaptive equipment, remodel homes for accessibility, train caregivers, pay mortgages and meet other urgent non-medical needs.
Statistics
More than 9,300 individuals, organization, and corporations supported the campaign, including lead donors Dave and Gail Liniger, founders of RE/MAX, LLC and Craig Hospital “graduates.”
The campaign and the construction project completion will be formally celebrated at a series of events in September 2016.
Gallery
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Addition exterior as seen from Girard
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Exterior Campus Enhancements and Safety
Status: CompleteCraig Hospital has a beautiful new main entrance. Upon driving into the outpatient and community drop-off cul-de-sac, one immediately can look into the two-story PEAK Center where members are working out.
An accessible garden area between East and West buildings creates for a seamless campus environment that encourages patients and family members to enjoy the outdoors.
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Visitor drop-off/main entrance
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Entrance and Lobby
Status: In ProgressA reception desk and staff welcomes patients, PEAK members and guests upon arrival. A separate inpatient entrance and inpatient admissions area is located on the west side of the expanded building, allowing for a more private entry into Craig.
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Outpatient Admissions
Status: CompleteTo the left of the reception desk are three new outpatient check-in windows.
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The PEAK Center
Status: CompleteThe most prominent space in the first floor addition is the PEAK Wellness Center. The two story gym is surrounded by natural light and open six days a week. PEAK is used by Craig’s inpatients, outpatients and individuals from the community with neurological disabilities.
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Therapy Pools
Status: CompleteThe new PEAK includes two therapy pools. Physical therapists and exercise specialists work 1:1 with clients in the pools, providing health benefits to individuals with a variety of medical conditions.
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Patient Rooms
Status: CompleteEvery new inpatient room is private and includes a bathroom, shower, lift system for easy transfers, a window and plenty of space for the unique equipment needs of each patient.
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New Patient Rooms
Status: CompleteThese rooms were designed by our nursing staff who gave feedback to the architects. This led to features that only clinical staff would recognize as essential for Craig patients.
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Patient and Family Areas
Status: CompletePatient and family dining and bistro areas on each floor and additional lounges throughout the hospital for family gatherings, private conversations, or areas of respite.
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Trask Family Lounge
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Staff and Logistical Space
Status: Some areas complete, some in progressStrategic placement of nurses stations allows for better traffic flow and decreased transit times to and from patient rooms. Additional elevators and entrances better separate patient movement and supply deliveries. Sufficient storage areas decrease congestion in the corridors and nursing stations.
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Don and Melba Rugg Assistive Technology Lab
Status: CompleteThe Don and Melba Rugg Assistive Technology Lab offers patients the latest software and technology on the market to help them be safe and independent. The team, made up of specially trained occupational and speech therapists, provides hands-on education and training about technological resources for patients, their families, and others in the community.
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Transfer Training Lab
Status: CompleteIn the transfer lab, patients learn how to get in and out of a car, airline seat and bed.
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Wheelchair Shop
Status: CompleteIn the wheelchair shop, technicians build and maintain custom wheelchairs to suit the special needs of each patient.
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Inpatient Therapy Gym
Status: CompletePatients work with therapists in larger SCI and TBI gyms, dedicated sole to physical and occupational therapy activities.
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Conference Rooms:
Status: Some areas complete, some in progressPatient, family and team conferences take place in new, larger conference rooms.
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Outpatient Therapy Gym
Status: Under constructionTo meet the increasing demand and need for services, the new Outpatient Clinic will double in size and will include fourteen adequately sized exam rooms, two consultation rooms, updated equipment, integrated patient lifts, greatly expanded therapy support services, and two large therapy gyms which will enable Craig to serve more than twice the number of patients we’re currently able to serve.
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Chapel
Status: Under construction
What’s next for the Craig Hospital Foundation?
With the successful completion of the Redefining ROI Campaign, the Craig Hospital Foundation will now turn its attention to raising money to build the hospital’s endowment, fund spinal cord and traumatic brain injury research, and support Craig’s signature programs as well as the needs of Craig patients.
“Each day at Craig Hospital we applaud when our patients and families achieve their rehabilitation goals and return to a life of independence and meaning,” says Mike Fordyce, Craig president and CEO. “We celebrate the success of the ROI Campaign and the impact that this accomplishment will make on the future of the entire Craig Hospital Family.”
Mike Fordyce, President and CEO
