Service Projects
The following are the service projects of the Capital Health Auxiliary.
- Care Packs for Kids: Provides comfort items to children participating in the CARES (Children Are Really Extra Special) Child Wellness Program and to Pediatric ER patients facing economic hardships or displacement.
- Cookie Program for Oncology Patients: Offers snacks to patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation.
- Toy Closet: Provides toy packages to pediatric patients to ease the anxiety of hospital visits.
- Family Health Clinic and Clothes4Change: Offers clothing and infant care items to patients and their families.
- Farmers Market: Addresses food insecurity by providing healthy produce and staple items to clinic patients.
- Memorial Garden: Sponsors the maintenance of the Memorial Garden at the Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell.
- Mobile Library: Offers reading materials to patients at hospital campuses.
- Tales for Tiny Tots: Promotes early literacy by providing a keepsake book to every baby born at Capital Health.
Grants/Health Initiatives
Congratulations to our 2024 grant recipients! The Auxiliary is proud to support these deserving programs.
- Art Cart Program (Volunteer Services): $2,000 to enhance the patient experience.
- Centering Pregnancy Program (Capital Health OB/GYN – Trenton): $1,950 in support of improving provider/patient continuity, enhancing patient participation in care and creating community.
- Comfort Cart Program (Volunteer Services): $2,000 to enhance the patient experience.
- Community Education Program (Community Health Education): $1,593.31 in support of materials for community education programs such as sun safety, stroke school, anti-vaping, and stress prevention for middle and high schoolers.
- Diabetic Education Outreach (Diabetes Education): $2,000 in support of educational materials for community based diabetic education.
- Literacy Books (Family Medicine Residency Program): $1,000 in support of promoting early literacy.
- Healthy Oral Hygiene (Family Medicine Residency Program): $500 in support of oral hygiene supplies to be given to patients during their wellness checks.
- Medela Symphony Breast Pump Loan Program (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit): $1,150.06 in support of breastfeeding initiative for NICU mothers and their infants.
- Project Recharge (Patient Experience): $1,200 in support of light-up cell phone cable chargers for patient use.
- Reflective Safety Bracelets (Trauma): $1,795 in support of community education regarding bike safety practices.
- Safe Sitter Baby Sitting (Community Education): $1,959 in support of a Safe Sitter course for children ages 11-15 in the community.
- Tea for the Souls (Pastoral Care): $1,500 in support of providing tea and spiritual/emotional support for staff.
- Wearable Breast Pumps (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit): $839.94 in support of breastfeeding initiative for NICU mothers and their infants.