Description: St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation was created for the sole purpose of providing additional funding to St. Joseph's Hospital and its major medical facilities, ie: St. Joseph's Women's Hospital, Cancer Institute, Heart Institute and Tampa Children's Hospital.

Mission: St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation raises funds for St. Joseph's Hospital, your community hospital in Hillsborough County. We are not-for-profit; we are responsible to you, to our community, and not to shareholders.We are unique. We are the only hospital1. to never turn away a patient, 2. with the busiest emergency center in the county, 3. treating more Hillsborough County residents for cancer than any other hospital in the community, 4. one of nine hospitals in the country implanting Mosaic heart valves, 5. offering the only Pediatric Cardiac Catherization Lab in the region, 6. providing more gynecological and obstetrical services in Florida's only free-standing women's hospital, 7. offering health screenings and wellness information to more than 4500 under-served people in 2000 through Wellness On Wheels. When you or a loved one are in an accident or gets sick, the helicopter or ambulance isn't going to take you to a research hospital. They are going to bring you to a hospital like St. Joseph's. We are here for you, offering the very best medical care and services, just as we have since 1934.Because now more than ever, with the challenges all health care organizations are facing