Priority Initiatives | Adventist Health Sonora

Connect your passion to our mission

Our donors are a fundamental part of the work we do to ensure everyone in our community has access to exceptional, compassionate care, close to home.

Our philanthropic priorities are aimed at expanding access and ensuring the long-term sustainability of vital healthcare services. With your generosity, our ability to serve our community of families, friends, and neighbors will continue for generations to come.

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Capital Campaigns

Gifts to our capital campaign funds are aimed at transforming the healthcare landscape in our community. Centered on Adventist Health Sonora’s hallmark services, these funds support investments in state-of-the-art facilities, advanced technology, clinician training and education, community outreach, and more.

Digestive Health Center

Timely colonoscopies and other gastrointestinal care are crucial for prevention and early intervention, yet the average wait time for a routine screening colonoscopy in the Mother Lode is 12 months.

Gifts to the Digestive Health Fund support a new state-of-the-art facility that will allow us to double our capacity to provide these vital procedures and recruit and retain specialized clinicians, greatly reducing patient wait times and allowing our community to receive this important care close to home. With patients able to receive screenings on time and with greater convenience, we will be able to detect cancer and other life-threatening illnesses earlier, leading to better treatment outcomes.

Diana J. White Cancer Institute

The Diana J. White Cancer Institute offers advanced treatment options, state-of-the-art technologies and expertly trained staff you might expect only in urban or academic cancer centers, while providing personalized, whole-person care that can only be found in the comfort of your hometown environment. Our multi-disciplinary team of experts cares for more than 400 new cancer patients every year.

Gifts to the Diana J. White Cancer Institute support continued investments in advanced technology and treatments, including a new PET/CT machine, a critical piece of equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of nearly every cancer patient we serve. As the number of patients we care for grows, investment in this lifesaving care is needed more than ever.

Heart Care

In 2024, Adventist Health Sonora became the first hospital in the Sierra foothills to offer percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a life-saving treatment for patients experiencing a heart attack, and is the closest ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Receiving Center for more than 100,000 people in our region.

Gifts to our Heart Care Fund support the long-term sustainability of our PCI Program, including upgrades to our cardiac catheterization lab where PCI is performed and specialized training and education for the clinicians who provide this lifesaving care.

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Greatest Need

The biggest and most exciting opportunities do not always happen according to schedule. Gifts to our Greatest Need Fund provide Adventist Health Sonora leaders with the flexibility to allocate resources where and when they are needed most. Gifts to this fund have helped purchase new equipment and technology, enabled renovations and improvements to our campus, and supported community outreach and well-being.

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Patient Support

We believe that no one in our community should face a difficult diagnosis or challenging time alone. Gifts to our patient support funds directly benefit patients and families in our community by removing financial barriers they may be experiencing and allowing them to focus solely on their treatment and healing.

Our Cancer and Hospice Patient Support funds specifically benefit patients and families facing cancer or receiving hospice care by helping with expenses not covered by insurance, such as transportation assistance, utilities, and more.

Project HOPE helps a wide range of patients across our organization receive the care and resources they deserve by reducing financial burdens. In the form of gas cards to help a patient get to and from appointments, home medical equipment to preserve a patient’s independence, and much more, Project HOPE provides just that: hope for a healthier future.

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We invite you to join us in our mission by supporting the initiative that matches your passion.

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