PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s first virtual fundraising event, Hog Wild, raised a record $37,000 on Saturday.
The money will fund equipment for the OMC Pediatrics Clinic and OMC Cares, a program that benefits employees experiencing emergencies.
“Coupled with the $90,000 that was raised for OMC as a result of Sunday’s Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby, it was a very good weekend for the Foundation and Olympic Medical Center,” said OMC Executive Director Bruce Skinner.
“The foundation’s mission is to improve the lives of patients at OMC by purchasing medical equipment and providing funding for vital services.”
Funds were raised through virtual live and silent auctions and Fund a Need, where attendees pledged funds to aid OMC Cares, and to purchase a medical blanket for the Pediatrics Clinic that will allow parents who under certain situations can’t touch their newborn to do so.
The foundation also will continue to purchase books for the clinic, which will improve the lives of OMC’s youngest patients.
“Many kids are receiving their first book ever when they visit the clinic,” Skinner said.
Hog Wild was presented by Sequim Health and Rehabilitation and Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation.
“Due to COVID-19 restrictions preventing gatherings of over five people, we had to present the event online,” said Foundation President Mary Hebert.
“We want to thank Sequim Health and Rehabilitation and Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation for their sponsorship. Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to hold the event.”
