The Board of Directors of the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation has announced a new way for local people to make a difference in the lives of their friends and families each day of the year — the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation Annual Fund.

"Changes in the public and private healthcare payment systems mean that Medicare, Medicaid and health insurance companies often pay Glens Falls Hospital less for its services than it actually costs to provide them," says F. Raymond Agnew, executive vice president of the Foundation, the not-for-profit organization founded in 1996 for the sole purpose of raising community support for the Hospital.

"Gifts to the Annual Fund will help offset those losses and enable the Hospital to continue its not-for-profit mission of providing high quality care to local people, close to home."

In 1998, Glens Falls Hospital incurred nearly $9 million in health care costs for which it was not reimbursed. Each dollar lost is a dollar that could otherwise have been spent on staff training, new technologies and new community health and education programs.

Contributors can direct their gifts to one of the following eight service areas — The Cancer Center, the Inpatient and Day Surgery Centers, the Emergency Care Center, Cardiology, Rehabilitation Services, Women’s Services, Behavioral Health Services and Research and Development — or to wherever the need is greatest.

Gifts to the Annual Fund can be made by sending a check to:

Glens Falls Hospital Foundation
100 Park Street
Glens Falls, NY 12801

For more information on giving opportunities, please call the Foundation at 761-2304.