Areas of Need
Your generosity can change what’s possible for Mary Free Bed patients and families. With your support, people from our community and across the country can access extraordinary rehabilitation that helps them regain independence and move forward. Your gift advances innovative care and technology while creating spaces where patients can work toward the life they want to live.
Your Gift Changes Lives
Mary’s Mission
Your generosity helps patients and families rebuild their lives after serious injury or illness. Because of you, children and adults have access to the specialized care and expertise they need to move forward with greater independence and confidence.
Mary Free Bed Kids
The greatest transformations begin with people who believe a better future is possible. Because of your partnership, Mary Free Bed Kids will continue to expand access to specialized pediatric rehabilitation, advance innovation, and create extraordinary experiences for children and families. Together, we are building a legacy of hope that will impact generations to come.
Wheelchair and Adaptive Sports
For individuals living with disabilities, access to sports can be life changing. Wheelchair & Adaptive Sports opens the door to experiences that foster confidence, independence, health, and belonging. It creates opportunities to compete, connect, and discover that ability is far greater than limitation.
Mary Free Bed Wheelchair & Adaptive Sports relies on philanthropy for approximately 95% of its funding. Your generosity removes financial barriers, expands opportunities, and ensures more children and adults can experience the life-changing impact of adaptive sports.
Patient Assistance Fund
The Patient Assistance Fund offers patients charitable care to help them achieve the best possible outcome. Gifts directed to this fund provide adaptive equipment, ramps for home accessibility, extended services, caregiver training, travel arrangements, interpretation services and support to meet transitional financial emergencies.
Betty Bloomer Ford Cancer Rehabilitation Program
Your generosity helps people facing cancer live more fully throughout treatment, recovery and beyond. Through the Betty Bloomer Ford Cancer Rehabilitation Program, your support gives patients access to specialized rehabilitation designed to improve function, well-being and quality of life throughout their survivorship journey.
Because of you, our specialists can bring the latest evidence-based care and clinical research directly to patients, helping each person navigate the effects of cancer and treatment with a plan built around their individual goals.
As West Michigan’s first designated cancer rehabilitation program, the Betty Bloomer Ford Cancer Rehabilitation Program is advancing what’s possible in cancer recovery. Your support helps ensure more people can benefit from this extraordinary level of care.
The gift of healing.
Generous donors like you play a critical role in serving more patients and achieving extraordinary outcomes. Every donation we receive is a lifeline, a key to restoring hope, and an investment in brighter futures for everyone we touch.
Your support is directed solely to hospital programs and services that depend on your gifts.
For additional funding opportunities, please contact us.
