The Auxiliary actively supports Community Medical Center's commitment to build lifetime relationships and improve the health status of their community.
To achieve this, its members will serve as ambassadors to promote community service, education, quality care, and wellness. Through teamwork, the Auxiliary will raise funds to support the mission of Community Medical Center.
Through the years, Auxiliary contributions to the hospital have reached over $8.5 Million. Items such as Infant Hearing Screening equipment, a Mammography Over-reading machine, a DEXA bone density machine, and numerous MICU vehicles have been purchased with Auxiliary funds. Renovations of the J. Phillip Citta Regional Cancer Center and the Emergency Department, as well as other hospital areas have also benefited from Auxiliary support. In 2003, an initiative entitled the “Wish List Program” has enabled various patient care areas to add much needed equipment – items that might have not been purchased without the Auxiliary’s efforts, given these budget restricted times.
Our Auxilians are also the Medical Center's ambassadors in the Community. They are literally our eyes and ears, bringing attention to topics and concerns which need to be addressed by health care providers. Today's Auxiliary membership of approximately 550 remains committed to promoting Community Medical Center's mission through advocacy, education, fundraising, and service.
Each Auxiliary Twig is self-governing, holds its own meetings, and selects activities that interest them most. Some examples of activities are an annual Crafts Boutiques, Home/Kitchen Tour, Strawberry Festival, Luncheon and Fashion Show, Food Tasting, Riverboat Cruise, and vendor and holiday plant sales.
Other Auxiliary-wide projects include the operation of the hospital's Gift Shop and Community's own Second Time Around Consignment Shop -- located just off Route 37 West at 200 Corporate Circle in Toms River’s Corporate Park North. The Auxiliary also sponsors the hospital’s Coffee Shop and a Baby Photo service for new parents.
Each May, our Auxiliary’s efforts are recognized at the Annual Auxiliary Tea -- open to every member, and sponsored by the Community Medical Center Foundation – a tradition which honors its proud beginnings.
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