PORT ANGELES – The Olympic Medical Center Foundation has given the hospital a record amount of money this year.
The Foundation presented more than half a million dollars to Olympic Medical Center at the OMC Commissioner’s meeting Wednesday. That brought donations made to OMC to over a million dollars this year.
Foundation Executive Director Bruce Skinner that’s the most the foundation has given to OMC in its 37-year history.
“During the last two years, during covid, all of our events and set financial records. And the ones who set records in 2020, increased to new records in 2021. So, people have been extremely generous during covid, and that has led to us for the very first time giving over a million dollars to Olympic Medical Center during a single year.”
The latest $540,000 gift was due to the successful foundation events such as the recent Festival of Trees, as well as gifts from an anonymous donor of $154,000 and a significant contribution of $150,000 from George and Barbara Brown.
The latest donations will help fund the OMC Cancer Center’s new Radiation Linear Accelerator, purchase computer treatment planning at the Cancer Center, support the cancer center’s Patient Navigator program, buy new imaging technology for OMC facilities in Sequim and Port Angeles, buy new EKG machines at the Heart Center and pay for employee education.