FGH Auxiliary
Auxiliary News
Franklin General Hospital is fortunate to have 315 active volunteers who generously donate time, talents and money as members of the FGH Auxiliary. The Franklin General Hospital Auxiliary was established in 1957 to further the aims and objectives of the hospital. Under the leadership of Mrs. Elmer Miller, the auxiliary’s first president, and women from all parts of the county, the Auxiliary was organized with 128 charter members who paid $1 annual dues.
Membership was, and is, open to any person interested in promoting and improving the services of Franklin General Hospital through contributions of time, talents and money.
Members of the 2010 Auxiliary Board
Over the past four decades, Auxiliary members have volunteered hundreds of hours to assist the hospital in various ways, including, but not limited to the following:
- Redecorating the Emergency Entrance waiting area, the public restrooms in the front lobby and the administrator's office
Deliver mail and flowers- Serve as receptionists for out-patient clinics
- Distribute magazines to lounges
- Staff the gift shop
- Made baby hats
- Birthday parties
- Health Screenings and education
- Hope Tree
- Balloons for new residents
- Home sewing for gift shop
- Mending hospital linens
- Decorating rooms and lobby during the holidays
- Landscaping, beautifying grounds with flowers
- Bloodmobile, calling nurses, serving as greeters, etc.
- Provide entertainment, crafts and bingo for Nursing Facility residents.
Sunday afternoon hostesses (information)- Assist with Hospital Week activities
- Newsletter
- Rent out baby restraint seats
- Bridge and 500 Marathons
- Love Your Neighbors (shopping for items needed)
- Mammogram pillows
- Cookie Walk
- Shoppers Night
- Service Cart
- Sponsor and provide volunteers for Reach Out & Read
- Attend IHA's Legislative Day
While Auxiliary members donate many hours of service to the hospital,
they also provide significant financial contributions to FGH. The
Auxiliary has contributed more than $80,000. Most recent projects
include redecorating the physician's overnight room and mammography
suite and purchasing new clocks for acute care rooms.
The Auxiliary’s generous contributions have resulted in numerous improvements to Franklin General Hospital interior as well as funding to provide better service and quality of life for the patients and residents. They redecorated the physician's overnight lounge and the Hospice room, and provided furniture for the new additions, i.e. ER, clinic, lounge lobby; as well as the Acute Care Lounge. Their contributions also assisted with recreational equipment, wheel tilt chair for beauty shop and the Aviary.
While the Auxiliary generates funds from membership dues and the gift shop, they also raise money through special events and other various projects. Fund-raisers have included: bazaars, salad-card luncheons, bakeless bake sales, Hope Tree, coffees and Greimann Brothers train at the county fair.
Another fund-raising goal of the Auxiliary is to provide scholarships for those entering the medical health field. Since 1961, they have held bridge and "500" marathons to award $1,800 per year in scholarship money to high school seniors.
Auxiliary Co-Presidents
Lucy Minnier
Shirley Irwin