Q2 2026 Impact Report: Your Compassion in Action from October to December 2025
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As the year drew to a close, your generosity continued to transform lives across Oklahoma. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 (October through December), the INTEGRIS Health Foundation invested $710,116 in health care projects that brought hope, healing, and dignity to patients facing some of life’s greatest challenges.
This quarter, your donations addressed critical needs ranging from behavioral health crisis care to burn victim training, from addiction recovery support to end-of-life comfort, from pediatric safety upgrades to emergency preparedness training. Each project reflected your belief that every person deserves access to compassionate, excellent health care — regardless of their financial circumstances.
Meeting Mental Health Crises with Immediate Care
Mental health emergencies require immediate, expert intervention. This quarter, your support brought telepsychiatry technology directly to patients experiencing psychiatric crises, ensuring they could connect with behavioral health specialists exactly when they needed help most.
CareAI telepsychiatry carts were deployed in emergency departments and medical-surgical units across INTEGRIS Health facilities. When a patient arrives in crisis — suicidal, psychotic, or experiencing severe psychiatric symptoms — these carts enable instant video consultations with psychiatrists who can assess the situation, provide treatment recommendations, and ensure patients receive appropriate care without dangerous delays.
Your investment recognized that mental health emergencies are every bit as serious as heart attacks or strokes. By funding this technology, you ensured that psychiatric expertise is available 24/7, even when specialists aren’t physically present — potentially saving lives and preventing tragic outcomes.
Caring for Those Who Care: Supporting Health care Workers in Crisis
Health care professionals dedicate their lives to caring for others, often at great personal sacrifice. But what happens when caregivers themselves face unexpected hardship? This quarter, you answered that question with overwhelming compassion.
The Caregiver Emergency Relief Fund provided critical financial assistance to INTEGRIS Health caregivers facing unexpected crises — sudden medical bills, family emergencies, natural disasters, or other financial shocks that threatened their stability. These funds helped nurses, therapists, technicians, and other health care workers weather difficult storms without losing their homes, cars, or ability to support their families.
By supporting those who dedicate themselves to patient care, you created a ripple effect of compassion. When caregivers feel valued and supported during their own times of need, they bring renewed energy, gratitude, and commitment to their work — directly improving the care patients receive every single day.
The Gift That Keeps Giving: Sustaining Transplant Recipients
Receiving an organ transplant is a miracle — but it’s only the beginning of a patient’s journey. Transplant recipients face a lifetime of expensive anti-rejection medications, frequent monitoring appointments, and ongoing medical expenses. For many patients, these costs create impossible financial burdens that threaten their very survival.
This quarter, you ensured that financial barriers never prevented transplant patients from receiving the ongoing care essential to their survival. The Breath of Life Fund covered post-transplant medications for lung transplant recipients, while the Samara Family Transplant Fund provided lodging assistance for patients traveling from distant communities for follow-up care.
Your support meant that a truck driver from rural Oklahoma could afford to stay near the hospital during critical post-transplant monitoring. It meant a single mother could access the medications keeping her new lung functioning. It meant that the precious gift of organ donation wasn’t wasted due to inability to afford follow-up care. You transformed once-in-a-lifetime medical miracles into sustained, healthy lives.
Protecting Our Tiniest Patients: Pediatric Safety and Comfort
Children deserve health care environments that prioritize both their safety and their comfort. This quarter, your donations created meaningful improvements across pediatric units that will benefit young patients and their families for years to come.
Pediatric investments included:
Car seats for underserved families, ensuring that newborns and young children could travel home from the hospital safely, even when parents couldn’t afford this essential safety equipment
Bright, cheerful pillowcases adding warmth and comfort to pediatric hospital rooms, helping children feel less frightened during their stays
NICU curtain replacements meeting updated fire code requirements, ensuring the safest possible environment for critically ill newborns
New bassinets in women’s units, replacing outdated equipment with modern, safe sleeping spaces for newborns
Support for the Children’s Place HOPE School program, providing specialized education, staff training, and resources for children with complex medical and developmental needs
These pediatric improvements recognized a fundamental truth: when children receive care, their entire families need support. From ensuring safe transportation home to creating more comforting hospital environments, your gifts addressed both the medical and emotional needs of families during frightening times.
Honoring Life’s Final Chapter: Compassionate Hospice Care
How we care for people in their final days reveals our deepest values as a community. This quarter, your support ensured that every patient received dignified, compassionate end-of-life care — regardless of their ability to pay for hospice services.
The Hospice Non-Funded Care program provided comprehensive comfort care to patients whose insurance wouldn’t cover the full cost of hospice services. Pain management, emotional support, spiritual counseling, and family assistance—all delivered with tenderness and respect, ensuring that financial concerns never prevented someone from dying with dignity and peace.
Pastoral Care Comfort Baskets offered tangible expressions of support to families facing end-of-life decisions. These thoughtfully assembled baskets contained items providing both practical help and emotional comfort during impossibly difficult moments — reminding grieving families that they weren’t alone.
Your hospice support transformed death from a medical event into a sacred passage. You ensured that patients spent their final days surrounded by comfort rather than pain, treated with respect rather than as problems to be managed, and supported by compassionate professionals who honored the preciousness of every life entrusted to their care.
Strengthening Hearts: Cardiac Care Excellence and Recovery
Heart disease remains one of America’s leading killers, but excellent cardiac care — from acute intervention through long-term rehabilitation — can save lives and restore quality of life to patients who’ve experienced cardiac events. This quarter, your support advanced cardiac care excellence across multiple dimensions.
Cardiac program enhancements included:
A state-of-the-art cardiac simulation lab where health care teams can practice complex procedures, master new techniques, and refine their skills before ever working on actual patients—dramatically improving outcomes when real emergencies occur
Cardiac rehabilitation assistance helping heart patients access vital rehabilitation services that strengthen recovery, prevent future cardiac events, and significantly improve long-term survival rates
New furniture for the Cardiac Tower lounge, creating more comfortable, welcoming spaces where anxious patients and families could rest during treatment and recovery
These cardiac investments represented your recognition that excellent heart care requires both sophisticated medical technology and comprehensive support services. From training the next generation of cardiac specialists to ensuring patients can afford rehabilitation, you supported the full continuum of cardiac care.
Empowering Communities: Emergency Preparedness Training
In emergencies, the first few minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Bystanders who know how to control severe bleeding can save lives before ambulances even arrive. This quarter, you helped prepare hundreds of Oklahomans to respond effectively when every second counts.
The STOP the Bleed initiative equipped 370 community members — teachers, coaches, church leaders, business owners, and everyday citizens — with both the knowledge and the physical supplies needed to control life-threatening bleeding in emergency situations. Each kit contains tourniquets, compression bandages, and other critical supplies, while training teaches participants how to recognize severe bleeding and take immediate action.
Your support for emergency preparedness extended health care’s reach far beyond hospital walls. You empowered regular citizens to become first responders, creating a network of trained, equipped individuals throughout Oklahoma who can step up and save lives when disasters, accidents, or violent incidents occur.
Breaking the Chains: Comprehensive Addiction Treatment
Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing — and like any serious disease, it requires comprehensive medical treatment for successful recovery. Yet the cost of quality addiction treatment often prevents people from accessing the intensive care they desperately need.
This quarter, donor support for INTEGRIS Health Arcadia Trails Center for Addiction Recovery provided critical financial assistance enabling patients to complete the full course of inpatient treatment addressing both substance abuse and underlying mental health conditions. For many patients facing addiction, completing a 30, 60, or 90-day residential program is essential — but impossible without financial help.
Your addiction recovery support literally saved lives. You gave people battling opioid addiction, alcoholism, and other substance abuse disorders a real chance at lasting sobriety. You restored broken families, prevented overdose deaths, and proved that recovery is possible when patients receive comprehensive, compassionate treatment.
Supporting the Cancer Journey: Comfort and Healing
Cancer treatment is grueling — physically exhausting, emotionally draining, and financially devastating. This quarter, your support for cancer patients went beyond medical treatment to address the holistic needs of people facing one of life’s most frightening diagnoses.
Cancer care support included:
The Sarah Brumley Integrative Medicine Fund providing acupuncture and massage therapy sessions that reduce treatment side effects, manage pain, and support emotional well-being alongside conventional cancer treatments
New oncology infusion chairs at Grove Infusion Center, offering enhanced comfort for patients receiving chemotherapy and other extended treatment sessions
These cancer care investments recognized that successful treatment requires addressing the whole person — not just attacking cancer cells, but supporting patients emotionally, physically, and spiritually throughout their journey from diagnosis through recovery.
Rebuilding Lives: Rehabilitation Equipment and Education
When someone suffers a stroke, brain injury, or other debilitating condition, skilled rehabilitation therapy can mean the difference between permanent disability and restored independence. This quarter, you invested in both the equipment and the expertise needed to help patients reclaim their lives.
Rehabilitation program support included:
Essential rehabilitation equipment helping patients continue their recovery at home, from wheelchairs and walkers to specialized bracing and mobility aids
The Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Nichols Scholarship and Courage Award Scholarship supporting continuing education for therapists, ensuring they have access to the latest rehabilitation techniques and evidence-based treatments
Brain injury education and Crisis Prevention Intervention training equipping caregivers with specialized skills for working with traumatic brain injury patients, including de-escalation techniques that improve safety for both patients and staff
Your rehabilitation investments gave patients hope. After devastating injuries or illnesses, your support provided the tools, expertise, and encouragement patients needed to work toward goals they might have thought impossible — walking again, returning to work, regaining independence.
Essential Infrastructure: Medical Equipment Across Oklahoma
Behind every excellent patient care experience lies essential medical equipment — the monitoring systems, diagnostic tools, and specialized devices that enable health care professionals to provide accurate, timely treatment. This quarter, you ensured INTEGRIS Health facilities across Oklahoma had access to critical equipment.
Equipment investments spanned the state:
LifePak vital sign monitoring upgrades enabling seamless patient monitoring during critical transports
Vital sign machines and stands throughout facilities ensuring reliable, accurate patient monitoring
Vaccine storage freezers for metro and regional clinics ensuring safe storage of temperature-sensitive medications during power outages and emergencies
A specialized burn training manikin supporting realistic, hands-on education for Burn Center caregivers, preparing teams to deliver advanced care across diverse burn scenarios
Patient recliners for intermediate care units giving patients comfortable options to sit upright, preventing complications from prolonged bed rest
These equipment purchases might not seem glamorous, but they’re essential to quality care. Accurate vital sign monitoring catches deteriorating patients before crises occur. Properly stored vaccines remain effective when power fails. Well-trained burn teams save lives and minimize scarring. Your investment in this essential infrastructure directly improved outcomes for thousands of patients.
Small Comforts That Mean Everything
Sometimes the smallest gestures carry the greatest meaning. A puzzle book to pass anxious hours. A warm blanket on a cold night. A comfortable chair where a worried spouse can rest. This quarter, you recognized that healing requires more than just medical intervention — it requires comfort, dignity, and small moments of normalcy.
Joy Cart programs across facilities provided:
Puzzle books and word games helping patients pass long hours of treatment and recovery
Soft blankets offering warmth and comfort to cold, anxious patients
Newspapers and magazines providing welcome distraction from illness and worry
These small comforts mattered profoundly to patients facing frightening diagnoses, painful treatments, or uncertain prognoses. Your support acknowledged that health care excellence means attending to both the dramatic and the mundane — the life-saving surgery and the warm blanket, the sophisticated diagnosis and the puzzle book that helps pass anxious hours.
Removing Barriers: Transportation, Meals, and Medications
Quality medical care means nothing if patients can’t access it. Throughout this quarter, your support addressed fundamental barriers preventing Oklahomans from receiving the care they needed.
Basic needs assistance included:
Transportation assistance ensuring patients could reach essential medical appointments, from chemotherapy sessions to follow-up care
Medication assistance providing essential prescriptions to patients who otherwise couldn’t afford the drugs keeping them stable and healthy
Meal and medication assistance at Enid Hospital supporting patients’ overall health and stability during treatment
Stroke patient education materials providing critical information helping patients understand their condition and manage long-term health
These basic needs programs transformed abstract obstacles into concrete solutions. You ensured that lack of transportation didn’t prevent someone from receiving cancer treatment. You prevented patients from skipping essential medications due to cost. You removed the barriers that too often prevent good medical outcomes even when excellent care is available.
Gratitude and Continuing Partnership
As we reflect on this quarter’s impact, we’re overwhelmed with gratitude for your extraordinary generosity. Your $710,116 investment touched thousands of lives across Oklahoma — from patients in behavioral health crises to caregivers facing personal hardships, from transplant recipients needing medications to families seeking addiction treatment, from cardiac patients requiring rehabilitation to hospice patients deserving dignified care.
Each project funded this quarter reflected your profound commitment to health care excellence and your belief that every person deserves access to compassionate, comprehensive medical care. You invested in life-saving technology and small comforts, in crisis intervention and long-term recovery, in acute treatment and preventive education.
But beyond the numbers and the projects, your giving represented something deeply human: the recognition that we all share responsibility for one another’s well-being. Your donations became moments of hope in hospital rooms, relief in crisis situations, comfort during final days, and second chances for people who desperately needed them.
Thank you for your vision, your compassion, and your unwavering support. Thank you for making this quarter a time of healing, hope, and transformation for countless patients and families across Oklahoma. We look forward to continuing our partnership in the quarters ahead, working together to ensure that excellent, accessible healthcare remains available to all who need it.
With profound gratitude,
The INTEGRIS Health Foundation Team
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Story by Kris Leininger