Giving Opportunities

Area of Greatest Need

These gifts are vital to Barton Health because they enable funding to go directly to the area of greatest and most immediate need, including programs that insurance does not cover, and that elevate the level of care that Barton Health can offer.

Cancer Support Services

The Barton Foundation dedicates funds to support cancer patients in our community so they can best optimize their recovery while minimizing financial burden. Barton Foundation supports the cost for many of the Cancer Support Services for local cancer patients through its annual Pink Heavenly event and direct donations to the Foundation. Click here to learn more about Barton Health's Cancer Support Services.

Cardiology

Barton Cardiology offers a comprehensive approach that addresses prevention, diagnosis, intervention or referral and rehabilitation. This fund provides for the latest technology, equipment, and training for Barton Health’s Cardiology service.

Community Health Endowment

An endowment is a gift that literally keeps on giving. The principal of the endowment is rarely spent, ensuring its continued growth. Accrued interest is used to provide funds to Barton for the Barton Health Grants, which fund local non-profits that address our community’s most pressing health needs, to provide additional unrestricted funds to areas of greatest need, or for reinvestment so that the Foundation and Barton Health may exist in our community for years to come.

Education

The education fund promotes the continuing education and development for all Barton employees so that Barton may continue to provide consistently exceptional care.

Emergency Department

Funding will support continual improvements in equipment, training, and resources for the Barton Emergency Department to ensure the highest quality care for patients in life-threatening situations.

Equipment

This fund is used for general equipment purchases to keep Barton Health state of the art, and to ensure that we are providing consistently exceptional care to our patients.

Family Birthing Center

There is no greater joy in the world than watching your child come into the world. At Barton Family Birthing Center, miracles literally happen every day. This fund provides resources for state-of-the-art equipment and training to ensure Barton mothers, babies, and their families receive nothing but the best care.

Healing Design

This fund provides for soothing artwork and environmental conditions within Barton Hospital and Barton outpatient clinics to provide for the highest levels of patient comfort.

Heart Safe Community

The Heart Safe Community program is a community-wide effort aimed at educating South Lake Tahoe and Stateline citizens on the dangers of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and aims to place easily accessible automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public gathering spots throughout the South shore of Lake Tahoe. Learn More >

Hospice

This fund provides resources for Barton Hospice, which delivers end-of-life care for patients in their home. Funds go toward patient costs that are not covered by insurance, comfort kits, continuing education for Hospice staff, bereavement counseling resources, and Camp Sunrise: a healing retreat for youth aged 7-14 who have experienced the death of a loved one.

Mental and Behavioral Health

This fund is used to support mental health outreach, education, resources, new technologies, equipment, and patient support programs to address mental health, one of our community's biggest health needs.

Neal Olson Memorial Play Room

This fund, started by gracious community philanthropist Patty Olson, is used to fund refurbishments and new play equipment for the Barton Hospital children’s waiting room play area.

Nursing Scholarships

Supports Barton nurses in need of financial assistance for ongoing education and training opportunities, as well as leadership development.

Oncology

The Oncology fund provides for equipment, services, and education, to elevate the care and quality of life for patients living with cancer.

Pediatrics

A general support fund for community outreach, equipment, patient support, and training for Barton Health’s pediatric services.

Physical Therapy

Barton employs some of the best Physical Therapists in the country, and our Physical Therapy service line, now part of the Center of Orthopedics and Wellness, is an exceptional component of Barton’s patient-centered care. This fund supports programs, equipment, resources, and training for Barton Physical Therapy's inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services.

Robert Maloff Center

The newest addition to the Barton Health family, “The Center” is committed to treating the entire patient, not just the injury or the symptoms. The Center houses Barton orthopedics services, rehabilitation, performance training, wellness programs, and more. The Center would not exist without a generous donation from community member Lisa Maloff in honor of her late husband. A gift to this fund continues this tradition and provides resources to keep The Center on the cutting edge of next-generation wellness and whole body care.

Skilled Nursing

Barton Skilled Nursing Center provides a warm and welcoming community for Tahoe residents who do not need acute care but cannot be cared for at home. This fund provides for the resources needed to ensure the highest quality of life for these residents.

Trauma

Barton Hospital is home to a Level III Trauma Center, the first and only in the Lake Tahoe, Truckee and Carson Valley region. The Trauma Fund provides resources for top level training and state-of-the-art equipment allowing our Trauma team to provide a high level of emergency patient care with an ultimate goal of saving lives and improving patient outcomes. Trauma centers have been shown to reduce the risk of death caused by severe injuries by approximately 25%.

Wellness

This fund provides general support, resources, equipment and training for Barton Wellness services, a major component of the Barton Center of Orthopedics and Wellness. Barton’s Wellness services address the issue of chronic illness and work to develop programs and regiments to keep patients healthy, rather than only treating them when they become sick.

Women’s Health

This fund provides general support, resources, equipment, training, and services to support Barton’s women’s health services, including OB/GYN, Fertility, and Wellness programs for women.