Helping Those Who Help Those In Need

Employees and physicians at Franciscan Physicians Hospital worked to raise $8,050 for the St. Joseph’s Carmelite Home, a residential treatment center for abused, neglected, and abandoned children in East Chicago.

The Carmelite Home recently endured significant state funding cuts, limiting the number of children they are able to care for. This treatment center, which previously took in as many as 105 children, is now caring for only 35. These funding cuts have moved children from the Carmelite Home to foster care throughout the region and have left diminished resources and financial obligations a still prominent struggle.

Janet Rolley, Service Excellence Committee chair,
Sister Maria Giuseppe, Carmelite Home administrator,
and Barb Greene, Franciscan Physicians Hospital president.

Efforts to raise money included week long events like dress down Friday, a Mexican Fiesta, bake sale, department basket raffle, movie basket raffle and breakfast rounding cart. Physician donations were also taken to contribute to the fundraising event.

Barb Greene, president of Franciscan Physicians Hospital, notes that she is proud of her staff and physicians and she is proud to be part of an organization that encourages helping those less fortunate. “My staff all has large hearts and are very generous. They are moved to help those in need. They are genuine people and I am proud of their efforts here. Christ’s ministry continues through the work of their hands.”

Pictured: 7 of the 8 East Chicago Carmelite Home Sisters pose with
Janet Rolley and Barb Greene after receiving the $8,050 check.

The fundraising campaign was headed by the hospital’s Service Excellence Committee. Janet Rolley, chair of the Service Excellence Committee, states “I am very humbled by the generosity of our staff and doctors. They saw a need and gave unselfishly. I am appreciative of the donations businesses made to help us in our efforts to raise funds for the Carmelite Home. Some businesses donated money, others were able to donate items or give us reduced pricing." Special thanks go to the businesses that donated/reduced prices on items for our fundraising efforts.

These businesses include:

• Gus Bock’s Ace Hardware, Dyer
• Accents on 45th
• Albanese Candy
• All That Glitters
• Baum’s Natural Foods
• Butterfingers
• Calumet Bakery
• Costco
• Howard & Sons
• Jewel-Osco
• La Chiquita
• Pepsi Co.
• Schilling Lumber
• Strack & Van Til
• The Charley Horse
• The Great Frame Up
• Typsy Cake
• The Liquor Stop
• Tipsy Cake
• Howard’s Meats

Pictures of the Fundraiser

Left: Hospital employees enjoy a Mexican Fiesta luncheon. All items were bought or donated with all proceeds going toward the cause!

Bake sale items were displayed throughout an afternoon for employees to purchase.

Hospital departments made baskets, which were raffled off on Friday afternoon.