Community Support

Blue Star Fund

This fund bridges the gaps in health and wellness for the 23,000 veterans and their families in Northern Colorado. The fund offers a safety net for those who have given so much and allows us as a community to give back. Access to grant funds is available through grant partners.

Dental care
Mental health
Pain management
Medical services or devices
Co-pays
Prescriptions

Education
Training (physical, mental, and spiritual)
Housing support
Transportation
Other whole wellness needs

Heart Health Program

The Heart Health Program is a holistic approach to supporting the range of heart needs in patients and community members. Funds may be used in support of heart health programming for the community, facility, or staff. Funds may be direct or indirect support and may cover education, prevention, treatment, and/or recovery for patient, program, staff, or facility needs.

Equipment, capital projects, and McKee facility support
Educational materials, such as equipment, marketing collateral, or professional development
Space for classes for community or staff
Health fair space and materials
Patient equipment training
Patient diagnostic, screening, and lab test costs for patient or facility offset
Nutrition coaching costs, cooking classes, etc.

Capital campaigns
Tele-health support costs
Lifeline scholarships
Palliative care
Ongoing monitoring
Mental health support
Insurance costs (co-pays, group costs, location, etc.)
Transition care

Heart Safe Community

The Heart Safe City initiative calls for placing AEDs in public gathering places throughout the city of Loveland. The goal is to place them in every school and as many businesses and public locations as possible to maximize their use in the case of a cardiac event.

Purchase of AEDs to donate to partners
Operational costs for the management of the program with community partners (TVEMS)
CPR training classes for the community and Thompson School District students
Materials to support training and marketing
Community outreach support and contractor time

Loveland Community Health Center (LCHC)

The Loveland Community Health Center is committed to providing quality, comprehensive family health care services to our community for at-risk and underserved populations. LCHC has multiple funds at the Mckee Wellness Foundation to support the various needs of the community. These include prescription assistance, dental support, diabetic prescription, and children.

The LCHC funds consist of one general unrestricted fund and four designated funds. Gifts to these funds are eligible for the enterprise zone tax credit.

General Fund:
3rd POD capital expansion
Equipment
Other needs associated with the operations of LCHC
Dental Fund:
Capital expansion
Dentures

Children’s Fund:
Over-the-counter kits
Underinsured care costs
Uninsured care costs
Prescription Assistance and Diabetic Prescription Assistance:
Supplies to support wellness for diabetics
Prescriptions for diabetic needs
Home-care kits for pediatric patients
Prescription assistance

Memorial Events and Wellness Walk

This fund supports the Angel Event, the annual worldwide candlelight vigil held in recognition of National Children’s Memorial Day that honors children who have died. The fund also helps maintain the memorial, the tribute garden, and the wellness walk for community members.

Cleaning the angel statue
Event set up
Exterior cleanup
Event costs for the candlelight vigil: catering, candles, materials, printing, marketing
Support for event participants

Participant gifts
Pavers as memorials for the wellness walk
Adopting a tree or purchasing a new tree for the wellness walk as a memorial
Sign, deck, and gazebo maintenance and upgrades

Safety

These funds may be used for initiatives that related to increasing safety for event participants, staff, or patients visiting McKee Medical Center or Banner Fort Collins Medical Center.