Despite the Economic Crisis, Deborah Heart And Lung Center Continues to Serve the Public Regardless of the Patient’s Ability to Pay
Elegant Affair at the Park Hyatt Regency at Penn’s Landing Helps Hospital Continue its 87-Year Mission of Goodwill
In the midst of the healthcare debate and the fallen economy, one hospital has survived through it all and continues to maintain its 87-year record of never billing a patient.
In 1922, Dora Moness Shapiro founded Deborah Heart and Lung Center, a hospital that prides itself on providing heart, lung, and vascular care to all, regardless of their ability to pay. Deborah Heart and Lung Center is able to continue to provide the necessary facilities, equipment, medical staff, and financial resources required to deliver the highest quality of inpatient and outpatient services through the work of the Deborah
organization could fulfill its mission without the work and support of the other. One of the ways that this mission is being achieved is through a series of fundraising events like the Deborah Hospital Foundation’s Fourth Annual Red Tie Gala, which will take place on Sat., Nov. 7 at the Park Hyatt Regency, Philadelphia, at Penn’s Landing. The annual event helps Deborah continue in its unique mission to serve everyone, regardless of their ability to pay, and is expected to bring in even more money than last year’s event, which raised over $200,000.
“Deborah Hospital Foundation prides itself on its alliances with individuals, corporations, labor organizations, service organizations, foundations and others, all of which work together to ensure that Dora Moness Shapiro’s philosophy that ‘there is no price on life’ will always be upheld,” said Deborah Heart and Lung Center’s President and CEO John R. Ernst. “Events such as our annual Red Tie
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