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(HOWARD, SD) – In October 2018, the Horizon Health Foundation kicked off their third Employee Giving Campaign, “Growing for Good." Through this campaign, Horizon Health Care employees across the state were challenged to raise $45,000. Employees shattered last year’s total of $43,000 and raised over $48,000. Since launching the Employee Giving Campaign in 2016, total contributions have exceeded over $124,000.
All donations raised through the employee campaign will be designated to the Horizon Health Foundation’s funds of behavioral health, dental care, cancer care, charity care, diabetes, employee emergency, service area clinics, and the Horizon Impact – our greatest needs fund. Donations raised will be used to benefit Horizon’s patients and local clinics in these fund areas.
The annual Employee Giving Campaign is led by a committee made up of Horizon employees from across the organization. Lacey Finkbeiner of Isabel, SD, is one of the individuals who has been involved since the first campaign. “Being a donor and committee member of the Horizon Health Foundation has been a true enlightening experience since day one,” said Finkbeiner, Clinical Informatics Coordinator. “Knowing the impact of my donation to help a child receive dental care, a woman to receive an annual wellness exam, or a patient offered the means to get them to their specialist appointment helps easy my comfort of mind that Horizon is truly working to keep our communities well. To see the passion of the organization and employees within Horizon is truly a blessing to each and every one of our communities.”
The Horizon Health Foundation was established in 2016 to ensure rural health care access to those in need and provide funding for Horizon Health Care, Inc. Horizon Health Foundation, a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation, seeks through responsible activities to encourage and derive sustaining gift support from current and former patients and interested friends, including corporate entities. The Horizon Health Foundation Office, operating in coordination with Horizon Health Care, Inc., is the duly designated fund-raising arm for Horizon Health Care, Inc. In the broadest sense, the purpose of the Foundation is to create an awareness of the financial needs of Horizon Health which are not provided by patient charges and to systematically implement plans by which dollar needs can be met.
For more information, please visit http://www.horizonhealthfounda... or call 605.772.4553.
About Horizon Health Care, Inc.
For over 40 years, Horizon Health Care, Inc. has been providing personalized, affordable, high-quality medical, dental and mental health care through a rural, community-based network in South Dakota. Horizon is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that serves the medical, dental and mental health care needs of South Dakotans in rural, medically underserved areas through 110,000 patient visits annually in 32 community health centers in: Aberdeen, Alcester, Bison, Bryant, De Smet, Eagle Butte, Elk Point, Faith, Fort Thompson, Howard, Huron, Isabel, La Plant, Lake Preston, Martin, McIntosh, Mission, Plankinton, Wessington Springs, White River, Woonsocket, and Yankton. For more information please visit www.horizonhealthcare.org.