Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation

12/29/2025

Less than 3️⃣ days!

There’s still time for you to make a tax-deductible gift in 2025. Your donation makes a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and families we serve. Every gift matters – lets finish 2025 strong together!

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12/25/2025

Warm wishes to you and your family this Holiday season! We are so grateful for our donors and community partners who help us build a brighter future of care. Because of you, we are able to make a profound difference in the lives of patients and their families we serve every day at Prisma Health.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!

12/18/2025

Your support creates meaningful stories of healing.

When you donate a gift of $1,000 or more to the Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation, you become part of a new giving society, the Compassions Circle. Learn how you can become a member and make a difference today!

https://prismahealthupstatefoundation.org/where-to-give/compassion-circle/

12/10/2025

We’re so glad for all the community support around the holidays. Thank you for helping us spread cheer this season!

12/09/2025

The 3rd Annual Ace Hardware Tree Farm was a huge success with support from the local Ace Team Members and our very own Child Life Staff.

Ace Hardware is a proud corporate partner of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. We’re so grateful for Children’s Miracle Network partner support!

12/05/2025

With the Dowe Family’s generosity, Prisma Health will nearly double the program’s capacity — giving more people in the Upstate access to life-saving ECMO treatment. The fund will also provide financial support to families of patients currently receiving ECMO care to help offset living expenses. We are deeply grateful for Dorothy and Steve Dowe’s transformational gift, which expands access to this vital therapy and brings hope to families in need.

Greenville's Steve Dowe was having dinner with friends when he felt a terrible tearing pain in his chest. An 11-hour emergency heart surgery at Prisma Health's Greenville Memorial Hospital helped save his life — but it took a three-week intensive therapy called ECMO to “rest” his heart and allow it to heal.

Now, he and his family are helping Prisma Health significantly expand access to the life-saving ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) treatment even as his family prepares to celebrate their second Thanksgiving after his near-fatal ruptured aortic aneurysm.

The ECMO program, based in Greenville Memorial Hospital’s Heart Institute, is one of only two in the Upstate. ECMO therapy can help support a patient’s heart and lungs when the weakened organs need time to heal – for example, after respiratory infection, heart attack or trauma. More than just a ventilator, ECMO adds oxygen to the blood while removing carbon dioxide. It can help critically ill patients when other treatments have failed.

“I’ve got such gratitude for the people who saved my life,” said Dowe. “The doctors – the cardiothoracic surgeons, the critical care team and this huge cast of people propped me up...until I could stand up. I and my family are incredibly grateful and couldn’t think of a better time of year to show that gratitude and help others.”

“The Dowe family gift honors both the care they received, and the people who provided it – and it ensures that future patients, families and physicians will have the same chance at hope and healing,” said Rion Smith, the board chair of the Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation. “What began with exceptional care — care that made all the difference for one family — has now inspired a remarkable act of giving that will touch countless others.”

Click here to read more about how the Dowe family is helping to expand this life-saving therapy with their transformational gift: https://bit.ly/48HD0OT

12/03/2025

Get ready to make 2026 paws-itively amazing! 🐾

Our F.E.T.C.H. Therapy Dogs Calendars are here, bringing joy, love, and a whole lot of tail wags to your year. 🐶💙 Purchase yours today and support our mission to spread comfort, one paw at a time!

12/02/2025

It's Giving Tuesday!

Every gift makes a lasting impact to grateful patients and their families here at Prisma Health. Thank you for helping us build a healthier tomorrow. https://donate.prismahealthupstatefoundation.org/site/Donation2?mfc_pref=T&3420.donation=form1&df_id=3420

12/02/2025

It’s the afternoon of Giving Tuesday! Your gift of $50 can support patients and their families on their health journey. From pulmonology to palliative care and children’s services, your gift builds a healthier tomorrow for all. Make an impact today: https://donate.prismahealthupstatefoundation.org/site/Donation2?mfc_pref=T&3420.donation=form1&df_id=3420

12/02/2025

It’s Giving Tuesday! Share comfort and knowledge to patients and their families by helping purchase items such as heart healthy cookbooks and lip balm for cardiac and palliative care patients. Let’s build a brighter future together. Give today: https://donate.prismahealthupstatefoundation.org/site/Donation2?mfc_pref=T&3420.donation=form1&df_id=3420

12/02/2025

It’s the morning of Giving Tuesday! Bring joy and cheer to our youngest patients this holiday season by helping purchase items such as crayons and books. Make a difference and donate today: https://donate.prismahealthupstatefoundation.org/site/Donation2?mfc_pref=T&3420.donation=form1&df_id=3420

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation. Thank you to all of our donors, friends and supporters for your generosity throughout the year.