Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, Inc

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, Inc. is an independent not-for-profit organization, with the mission to improve the delivery of healthcare for the Sarasota area through the acquisition and utilization of philanthropic funds. While primarily supporting Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, the Healthcare Foundation also awards grants to other area not-for-profit organizations to meet the community’s changing healthcare needs.

Since 1976, the Healthcare Foundation has granted in excess of $32 million for state-of-the-art technology, patient care, facilities, education and research for the Sarasota community. More recently, our philanthropy had supported the renovated and expanded Emergency Care Center; breast health through the funding of digital mammography units; a new state-of-the-art surgical microscope advancing spine surgery and neurosurgery; and a robotically-assisted surgical system for minimally invasive heart, prostate and uterine surgeries. We’ve ensured that each baby born at Sarasota Memorial Hospital receives a hearing assessment. And, we have funded a mobile intensive care transport unit for the Sarasota Memorial Heart Institute. For more than three decades, we’ve been touching lives in sometimes small and sometimes very significant ways—and we plan to continue.