- Janet Runner, Vice President for Patient Care Services at The Bellevue Hospital, right, presents two of the baskets to Shannon Hansen, left, and Darlene Stewart.
The Bellevue Hospital (TBH) Foundation’s third annual March Madness Challenge was termed a rousing success after more than $4,700 was raised for charity.
“There were two separate contests, one involving the different hospital departments, and one involving the community healthcare businesses,” explained Kate Herring, director of TBH’s Foundation. “The hospital departments and a few of the healthcare offices conducted a basket raffle, while the community healthcare offices sold paper basketballs for donations as well as chances on raffle prizes.”
In the basket raffle, the basket brining in the most tickets (1,520) was A Girl’s Best Friend Basket put together by TBH departments of Patient Financial Services, Health Information Management, Patient Access, and Centralized Scheduling. They will receive the traveling trophy and have designated that the funds raised will be used to plant a tulip garden on the hospital’s Walking and Wellness Trail.
Second place with 1,026 tickets was the Cozy by the Fire basket from Administration and Human Resources, and third (445 tickets) went to the Taste of Ohio basket from the Cardiopulmonary Department.