The Robert Thomas Bigelow Medical Foundation grants $152,000 to expand services supporting Henderson Seniors

Henderson, NV – July 10, 2024 – Dignity Health – St. Rose Dominican is honored to announce a generous $152,000 grant from The Robert Thomas Bigelow Medical Foundation to expand the Artie J. Cannon Helping Hands of Henderson program. This grant will enable Dignity Health – St. Rose Dominican Community Health and Wellness staff to enhance their support for seniors by offering essential transportation, nutritious food, and additional supportive services. Established in 1995, the program is dedicated to aiding Henderson residents over 60. 

Notably, this grant marks the first award given by native Nevadan resident Robert T. Bigelow through his newly formed Robert Thomas Bigelow Medical Foundation. 

“Dignity Health was very compliant with our charity requirements and made it a pleasure to donate to Dignity Health,” said Robert T. Bigelow

The grant will enable Dignity Health to significantly grow the Helping Hands of Henderson program to serve an additional 500 seniors within a 100-square-mile area of Henderson, NV, to receive essential nutritional support. It will also support the operations and personnel managing the food program, ensuring its efficiency and capacity to meet the growing needs of the Henderson senior community. A significant portion of the grant will be earmarked to purchase a much-needed 12-person passenger van with an automated wheelchair ramp. The program plays a vital role in helping seniors age in place, maintaining their independence, dignity, and quality of life. 

"We are so grateful to Mr. Bigelow and his Foundation for these funds, which will further our humankindness mission of serving the vulnerable in our community,” said Holly Lyman, the Market Director for Community Health at Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican. 

For more information about the Artie J. Cannon Helping Hands of Henderson program, visit Helping Hands of Henderson.

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About The Robert Thomas Bigelow Medical Foundation:

The foundation's primary mission and focus are to promote and fund the conduct of assisting other 501(c)(3) organizations that help people with their medical needs. 

About Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican:

Nevada’s only not-for-profit, faith-based health system, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Hospitals remains guided by the vision and values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, who founded Rose de Lima Hospital in Henderson in 1947. Dignity Health now operates three acute care hospitals in southern Nevada - the Siena, San Martin, and Rose de Lima Campuses. St. Rose Dominican Hospitals is a member of the Dignity Health network of nearly 10,000 physicians, 60,000 employees, 41 acute care hospitals, and more than 400 care centers, urgent and occupational care, imaging centers, and primary care clinics. Dignity Health is a part of CommonSpirit Health, a nonprofit health system committed to advancing health for all people and dedicated to serving the common good. More than 75 years after the arrival of the original seven Sisters in Henderson, the 4,000 St. Rose Dominican health system employees continue the Sisters’ mission of serving people in need, especially the most vulnerable. For more information, visit www.strosehospitals.org.

Dignity Health hospitals in Nevada are supported by the St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation, whose mission is to improve community health and wellness through fundraising and relationship-building with caring supporters who donate or pledge to fund our work. To learn more, visit supportstrose.org or email [email protected]. Connect with us on social media by visiting linkpages.pro/strosefoundation.