2024 Impact of Giving Report - Report - Page 4
Cancer Screening Unit Reduces Barriers to Early Detection
In 2024, Virtua’s new Mobile Health and Cancer Screening Unit operated four days
a week, traveling throughout Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties to
provide life-saving cancer screenings. The program expanded its reach by
144% compared to the previous year. Of the 3,100 cancer screenings completed,
67% were offered for free to uninsured or underinsured patients in need. Equipped
with the latest 3D mammography technology, the unit’s clinical team was able to
3,100
screenings provided for
breast, cervical, colorectal,
and prostate cancers.
screen and educate 1,933 women for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and more.
Enhancing Clinical Services for Patients
Philanthropy plays an essential role at Virtua in enhancing clinical service lines by funding advanced
technologies, improving patient access, and supporting initiatives that meet the evolving needs of our
patients. Here are a few of the ways generous gifts made an impact on clinical care in 2024:
Pediatric Sensory Rooms Open in
Voorhees and Mount Holly
In 2024, we opened two specially designed sensory
Virtua Selected by Davos Alzheimer’s
Collaborative to Participate in
U.S. Fellowship Program
rooms to better support our pediatric patients.
Virtua Health is one of only 10 health systems in the Davos
Located at Virtua’s hospitals in Voorhees and Mount
Alzheimer’s Collaborative Early Detection U.S. Fellowship
Holly, these rooms provide a safe environment
Program. In partnership with the New Jersey Institute for
where children can decompress, self-regulate, and
Successful Aging (NJISA) at the Rowan-Virtua School
receive medical care in a sensory-friendly setting.
of Osteopathic Medicine, this grant-funded project will
Behavioral Health Program for Children
Receives Creative Enhancements
allow Virtua to accelerate early detection for cognitive
Virtua’s CASTLE (Children Achieving Success through
Therapeutic Life Experience) program in Berlin now
impairment and offer hope to those affected by this disease.
Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Launches TeamBirth Model
features an immersive art room, allowing children in
With philanthropic funding, Virtua expanded TeamBirth, a
treatment to use creative expression as a method of
national, evidence-based program for maternity patients,
healing. In 2024, CASTLE Berlin and Camden provided
to its Camden hospital. This initiative builds on the program
care to 1,311 children and adolescents with behavioral
already in place at Virtua’s hospitals in Mount Holly and
health conditions. The program will soon expand to
Voorhees. TeamBirth’s collaborative structure fosters open
a third location at Virtua’s Willingboro campus.
communication among patients, their support persons,
and clinicians to enhance the childbirth experience.
