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ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY

The Hospital Auxiliary is an advisory committee that supports, enhances and promotes health care in our community through volunteering and fundraising initiatives. They help to provide much-needed necessities to the patients of the hospital, as well as to the local community.

Auxiliary members are residents of the communities served by the hospital, active and retired hospital employees and communicants of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. Members meet 10 times per year for general membership and working group meetings.

Initiatives supported by the Auxiliary have included:

Community & Back-To-School Wellness - August
Adopt-a-Family Program - December
Toy Drive/Children’s Holiday Party – December
Mother/Baby Initiative – Year-round

The Hospital Auxiliary has always been there to help and assist. St John’s is thankful to past members, and strives to continue the tradition of hard work and community service into the future.

To join the Hospital Auxiliary, please click here to fill out the online application. For more information, please contact the St. John's ICARE Foundation at (718) 869-8058.

AUXILIARY INITIATIVES 2022

The St. John's Hospital Auxiliary is excited to start our Mother and Baby Initiative for 2022! Each new mother at St. John's can receive a custom St. John's Baby Bag, made by our Hospital Auxiliary volunteers. Last year, our volunteers managed to make over 360 St. John's Baby Bags! We have created charity registries on AmazonSmile, Target and Walmart with essential baby supplies for new moms, such as

Diapers
Wipes
Receiving Blankets
Nursing Pads
Bibs
White Onesies
Pairs of socks
Wash Cloths
Sleep Sacks and Sleeveless Sleep Bags

"I was born at St. John's Episcopal Hospital" onesies and hats are also included in the baby bags.

We will be assembling the St. John's Baby Bags throughout the year! Click here to make a cash donation.

To help purchase essential items from our registries, please click on AmazonSmile, Target and/or Walmart! These registries will be active from now until Mother's Day, May 8th, 2022 but we take offline in-kind or cash donations all year round.

To mail in a check, please make it payable to: St. John's ICARE Foundation, Attn: Nancy Leghart, 377 Oak Street, Suite 209, Garden City, NY 11530.

Thank you for your support!

Auxiliary Initiatives 2021

A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated hospital auxiliary volunteers, church organizations, team members and community supporters. Because of all of you, we were able to help and brighten the holidays for 60 families this year. Here is what one of the adopted families had to say:

"Seeing my kids' faces light up on Christmas morning really brought tears to my eyes. all of the clothes and shoes fit perfectly! I really love the pots and pans and I finally have proper tupperware. Noah loves all of his puzzles and books and has been reading and playing with them every day. I feel truly blessed. It's been a blessing to have such caring and amazing people come into our lives. Thank you for everything. My heart is with you. Love - Mindy and Family."

Your commitment to helping the St. John's community is unwavering and we look forward to helping more families in 2022! Below are a few photos from Adopt-A-Family.

Thank you to all of our team members, hospital auxiliary, volunteers and supporters who donated toys and holiday cookies to our Children's Holiday Toy "Grab and Go" event on Friday, December 17th! We were able to give toys to over 400 children and a tin of butter cookies for the whole family.

We'd like to acknowledge and sincerely thank Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato for helping to give out toys to the families. It's always a pleasure to have you at our community events! We are also truly grateful for the people at Spin Master who helped us at the event and sent us HUNDREDS of toys prior. The Paw Patrol character, "Chase" even made an appearance at the event and gave out his books and posters. Wow did it light up the children's faces!

Together, we were able to make the Children's Holiday Toy "Grab and Go" event a spectacular one! Below are a few photos from the event.

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This year was our 5th annual Community & Back-To-School Wellness Event. We decided to play it safe and held a "Grab and Go" event while also offering pediatric appointments. It was an amazing turnout, distributing 500 pre-assembled backpacks containing school supplies, hand sanitizer and PPE masks for the children in the community.

Thank you to all who supported our "Buy a Backpack" for $15 campaign, we couldn't have done it without you! Below are some photos from the day of the event.