Everett, WA – Providence General Foundation recently received a $36,430 grant from the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound to purchase sleeper/daybeds for each patient’s room in the newly remodeled Pediatric inpatient unit at Providence Regional Medical Center’s Colby Campus.

The grant furnished the new Pediatric unit with 13 sleeper/daybeds which provide a comfortable place for families to sit during the day and then pull-out into a bed so parents can stay the night with their ill child. Between 2009 and 2010, there were approximately 1,400 pediatric patients. This generous donation will help meet the community’s need for families to stay with their hospitalized children.

Providence General Foundation, Snohomish County’s largest health care foundation and the fund-raising organization for Providence Regional Medical Center, supports programs and services offered by Providence with special emphasis on reaching the most vulnerable in society. Providence General Foundation is dedicated to raising funds in support of new and improved technology to enhance medical excellence in heart care, pediatrics, newborn intensive care, cancer, vascular and emergency medicine. To learn more about the Foundation, please call 425-258-7500.

The Employees Community Fund (ECF) of Boeing Puget Sound is a unique employee-owned charitable foundation and, in the past 60 years, has granted more than $500,000,000 to Puget Sound non-profit organizations. ECF grants enable agencies to purchase equipment, renovate their facilities and create new programs that directly help their clients and strengthen their communities.