Dear Friends of The Foundation for Mount Nittany Medical Center,

For more than 105 years, Mount Nittany Medical Center and the people who work here have been taking care of the health needs of this remarkable region. We are proud to serve this diverse community, and hope that you are proud of your medical institution, too. As you have changed, we have changed. As you are growing, we are growing.

This is a time of distinction for Mount Nittany Medical Center:

• Within the last two years we formed a strategic affiliation with The Pennsylvania State University and the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to bring outstanding opportunities for research/clinical alliances, medical education, shared technologies, and advanced medical services to central Pennsylvania. The newest feature of our cardiology program—interventional cardiology—is a life-saving result of this affiliation.
• We have created leadership teams within the Medical Center and throughout our volunteer boards and committees that devote tireless energy to asking how we can make your Medical Center safer, more efficient, better.
• Our certifications and commendations are at an all-time high, as we continue to benchmark ourselves against excellent hospitals and medical centers beyond Pennsylvania, including those in New York and New Jersey.

As you no doubt can imagine, the current healthcare environment presents an increasingly finite set of resources for innovation and expansion. Philanthropy can improve healthcare for all of us. Private giving can be a significant stimulus—impacting our ability to meet our mission, but also to meeting our commitment to expanding necessary services, innovating the way we provide care and responding to community needs.

The Foundation for Mount Nittany Medical Center is looking now to
the community for support of our two leading initiatives:

• Creation of state-of-the-art patient rooms—all single—and eventual conversion of existing rooms into single rooms
• Expanded capabilities in caring for people with cancer through the creation of a cancer facility

We are excited to present our campaign—COMMITMENT TO DISTINCTION: The Campaign for Mount Nittany Medical Center—set at $12.5 million through philanthropic support to help fund an overall expansion project of over $40 million.

Rarely in our 105-year history have we asked the community for commitments aimed at improving the Medical Center. We do hope you will join us now in responding generously. Each and every gift is important to our COMMITMENT TO DISTINCTION. Each and every donor has a significant impact on our ability to provide high quality care now, and to move LIFE FORWARD toward a truly comprehensive medical campus in State College.

It is always a pleasure to serve your healthcare needs.

Best regards,