St. Elizabeth Health System
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Foundation is the supporting organization for St. Elizabeth Health System located in Edgewood, Kentucky across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. St. Elizabeth Health facilities have over 1200 beds and serve nearly 500,000 residents in its primary and secondary service area. It has 6000 employees and in 2009 ranked among the top 5% in the nation for hospital quality in orthopedics, pulmonary and spinal surgical care.
St. Elizabeth also received the Clinical Excellence Award and will be ranked among America’s Best 50 Hospitals by HealthGrades and has been designated as one of the Top 100 Hospitals in the U.S. by Thomson Reuter. The Foundation has been a part of this commitment to healthcare excellence for 18 years, raising millions of dollars for a variety of capital projects including most recently generating $12 million to construct a free standing Hospice House on the St. Elizabeth campus.
The Foundation has been a client of Hillary Lyons Associates since its inception in 1991, and currently has 127 volunteers within its six- committee structure. Of special note, their Samaritan Society has over 300 current members, each who have pledged a minimum of $10,000 to the Foundation’s projects, with many pledges ranging from $15,000 - $50,000. Their employee giving program has an ongoing participation of over 85%, and most recently received collective pledges of over a million dollars for their Vision Campaign.
These results are a product of two decades of donor cultivation and recognition, where the Foundation placed special emphasis on utilizing the Hillary Lyons model of long term growth and relationship development with all community constituencies. Their volunteers and staff are regular attendees at Hillary Lyons training seminars, and many have been members of the Foundation for over 10 years.
Hillary Lyons continues to work with the Foundation on-site through consulting visits, volunteer training and strategic planning for future capital projects, and we are proud to have St. Elizabeth as our longest running current client hospital.
