Your contribution to Gettysburg Hospital helps us make advancements and maintain high standards in several core areas of community healthcare.
Exceptional healthcare for all: Help ensure access to exceptional healthcare and regional specialty care by expanding clinical programs, upgrading facilities and adding advanced technology.
A thriving healthcare workforce: Support team education and training to ensure our communities have compassionate caregivers. Your gifts help retain qualified staff, reduce burnout, and maintain a stable workplace.
Vibrant, healthy communities: Support programs and services that address food insecurity, housing, access to care, children’s health needs, health equity gaps, and environmental sustainability.
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Gifts to WellSpan help our patients and their families
Expanding services close to home
Philanthropic support continues to play a vital role in ensuring patients throughout Adams County have access to innovative, high-quality healthcare close to home. Recent donor-funded investments have expanded specialized rehabilitation services at the WellSpan Adams Health Center, allowing patients with complex speech and swallowing challenges to receive advanced care locally rather than traveling outside the region.
This investment reflects the transformative impact of community philanthropy, bringing leading-edge tools and treatments to the patients who need them most. By supporting access to advanced rehabilitation services, donors are helping improve outcomes, enhance quality of life, and strengthen healthcare resources for our community today and for years to come.
How a community gift brought speech therapy closer to home in Adams County
Helping families with food insecurity access healthy food
Not having the funds to purchase fresh, nutritious food, many families end up eating a diet of highly processed, unhealthy food. This can lead to health issues like obesity, diabetes and malnutrition.
Healthy Options, managed by Healthy Adams County, is funded by your gifts to the Gettysburg Hospital Foundation to help individuals and families gain access to nutritious food.
Through Healthy Options, participants receive vouchers for fresh fruits, vegetables and more at the Adams County Farmers Market and Kennie’s Market.
"Healthy Options has changed my life. My diet has improved. I can make good choices, so I eat better now. I couldn't afford to buy fresh, good food and my health was suffering…. I love this program!" – Sharon, Healthy Options participant
Learn more about Healthy Options (PDF)
Inspiring and advancing nursing
WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital is committed to developing the next generation of nursing leaders. The Caston Stewart Scholarship supports Adams County high school students pursuing a nursing degree, WellSpan team members in Adams County seeking to earn their RN credential, and nursing professionals advancing their education through an advanced nursing degree.
In addition, the Foundation provides ongoing support for nursing education and professional development through several annual scholarship and educational programs, including the Esther G. Little Nursing Scholarship, the Twila Charles Scholarship, and the Alan Carroll Lectureship. Together, these investments help strengthen the nursing workforce and ensure exceptional patient care for our community.
Nurses Week presentation: WellSpan scholarship supports aspiring nurses
You can make a difference by supporting these funds
- Where needed most: Be a part of responding to emerging needs. Giving to this fund enables us to address the areas of greatest need for WellSpan Health in Adams County and Northern Maryland.
- Cancer Patient Help Fund: Lend a hand to patients facing the financial burdens that often result from dealing with the impact of cancer. This fund helps with basic living expenses, such as rent, utilities, groceries and transportation to and from medical appointments. Funds are available to patients who meet specific financial aid guidelines.
- WellSpan Adams County Patient Support Fund: Help patients who have needs that affect their treatment or health outcomes. This fund helps at-risk patients with food, transportation, durable medical equipment, transitional housing and life-saving medications.
- Linda’s Fund: Help provide in-home care to patients who need assistance with daily activities while undergoing treatment for cancer. Funds are available to patients who meet specific financial aid guidelines.
- Esther Little Nursing Scholarship: Support those pursuing an education in nursing with the intent to serve the local community. The Esther Little Nursing Scholarship was established in 2007 by local philanthropist Esther Little.
- Twila Charles Memorial Scholarship: Help provide vital scholarships to Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) nursing students. Money is raised by the Gettysburg Hospital Foundation and the scholarship is administered by the nursing department at HACC.
- Temple Medical Education Fund: Support the future of medical education through scholarships to qualifying students at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine at WellSpan Health.
- Spotlight on Children’s Health: Invest in children’s early development to eliminate health and achievement inequities later in life by providing literacy and early childhood education services and meeting special healthcare needs. This fund supports the opportunity for all children in our regions of care to develop in safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
- Glahn Shord Food Insecurity Fund: Support food access programs that provide fresh, nutritious foods to Adams County residents, particularly individuals and families facing economic barriers. Established in 2026 by local philanthropists Kathy Glahn and Jayne Shord in partnership with Healthy Adams County, the Adams County Farmers Market, and Kennie’s Market.
- Other: This fund selection is available for donors to designate their gift to a specific need not listed.
