Tthe Foundation helps to assure that everyone has access to health care, even when those who need it are unable to pay for care. Charitable giving also helps us to: maintain 24-hour readiness in our trauma center, develop and expand the region's most extensive and respected heart care programs, provide training for a new generation of nurses and physicians, conduct clinical research, build facilities that allow us to provide advanced, compassionate patient-focused care in state-of-the-art settings, provide vital services that cannot be fully funded through use charges alone.