The Allegheny General Hospital Auxiliary donated proceeds from their annual fall event, Bags and Bucks Purse and Cash Bash in support of the AHN Allegheny General Hospital Patient Care Fund and the Mighty Minds Project at Martin Luther King Elementary School, in Pittsburgh’s North Side. 

The check was presented by Cheri Jackel, president of the AGH Auxiliary to Dr. Imran Qadeer, president of Allegheny General Hospital, and Kristen O’Brien from the AHN Office of Development. 

Thank you to the Allegheny General Hospital Auxiliary for your dedication to supporting AHN Allegheny General employees, patients, and community members.

Thanks to the generosity of the AGH Auxiliary to the Sonny Pugar Memorial Program Music Smiles, local musicians perform live music to create a healing environment for patients, visitors, and care givers at Allegheny General Hospital.

Local artist, Danny McElroy, pictured above with Auxiliary members, Ruth Ann Finnegan, Cheri Jackel, and Sue Schreck, kicked off the first Music Smiles event in December. Six additional sessions with various artists are slated for 2023.

AHN Philanthropy in the News

AHN received $2 million in grant funding from the Jennie K. Scaife Charitable Foundation. The funding will support the expansion of four unique programs at AHN’s Center for Inclusion Health: AHN Perinatal Hope Program, AHN Healthy Food Center, AHN Chronic Care Specialty Team (CCST), and Humane Health Coalition. This generosity will address some of the most pressing health and wellness issues facing Western Pennsylvanians today, including opioid addiction, food insecurity, chronic disease management, and homelessness.

Event Highlights

The impact of philanthropy to AHN over the past decade was celebrated at a recent gathering with AHN advocates and donors. 

Thank you to Dr. David Blandino, Chairman of the Board, Dr. Doug Henry, Vice President of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and Kelly Kassab, Chief Operating Officer for AHN’s Jefferson and Canonsburg Hospitals, for sharing amazing stories of how philanthropy is changing the lives of so many people in our community.

These are a few highlights shared at the celebration:

• Funding from The Joseph A. Massaro Jr. Alzheimer’s Research Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Henry L. Hillman Foundation supported initiatives and research that help patients with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and dementia as well as their family-members-turned-caregivers.
• Grateful patient Margarita Hornung with her husband Mike , hosted their inaugural ovarian cancer fundraiser, 'Teal City' in honor of Dr. Krivak, Director of the Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence to raise funds to support ovarian cancer research.
• The launch and growth of the Talent Attraction Program (TAP) - a creative and vital work-study program that places students on a specific career track in the field of their choice.