Reading Hospital:
Honoring Our Past, Building Our FutureBEYOND THE BEDSIDE
My wife came into the emergency room after being sick for a week. She was 34 weeks pregnant, and doctors decided our baby needed to be delivered right away. In an instant, we went from a routine pregnancy to my wife in intensive care and our newborn daughter in the NICU.
In the chaos of it all, I hadn't eaten in a day. I don't have a car, so getting food meant arranging a ride. When a nurse named Morgan heard this, she didn't just point me toward a phone number. She left, bought me dinner herself, and brought it back. She wouldn't take a dime for it.
That's the kind of care you find at Reading Hospital: not just for the patient in the bed, but for the whole family standing beside them. Morgan's kindness happens here every day, because this community has always invested in this hospital. Today, we're asking you to invest again, so every family who walks through our doors is met with the same compassion.
THIS IS READING HOSPITAL
CAMPAIGN SNAPSHOT
Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future is a six-year, $70 million commitment (July 2024 through June 2030) to expand four critical areas of patient care and sustain the programs Berks County depends on every day. This is the moment to make sure that when a family in Berks County faces its most frightening day, the care they need is close to home.
WHY THIS MOMENT MATTERS
Healthcare funding has not kept pace with the needs of a growing, aging community. Reading Hospital provides more than $100 million in charity care every year because no one is turned away, and the region cannot afford to lose the safety net this hospital provides.
- $100M+ charity care provided annually
- 22 minutes of additional travel if a regional hospital closes
- 450K+ residents served across Berks County
- #1 busiest emergency department in Pennsylvania
WHAT YOUR GIFT BUILDS
Emergency Department
$10M
Eight new Quick Care beds, an on-site pharmacy, and a redesigned front door for the 305 patients who walk through it every day.
Intensive Care Unit
$19M
Nineteen new smart ICU rooms, including a dedicated stroke and neurotrauma unit, a one-third increase in critical care capacity.
NICU
$14M
Six new private rooms for families like the Sedas, alongside an enhanced open-bay unit for our most fragile patients.
McGlinn Cancer Institute
$10M
Ten new private exam rooms and a redesigned infusion space for the patients who return again and again for care.
VOICES
“Her support meant the world to me. She deserves to be recognized as the angel that she is.”
“Philanthropic support is essential to sustaining the excellence that defines Reading Hospital today.”
POINTS OF PRIDE
The only Magnet hospital and largest medical group in Berks County.
Recognized by Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Hospitals.
One of America’s 100 Best Hospitals, eight consecutive years.
The only Berks County Level I Trauma Center and regional stroke destination.
THE TIME IS NOW
Reading Hospital has been here for 158 years because, in every generation, the people of Berks County have chosen to invest in it. That is not a transaction, it is a covenant. With your partnership, we will meet the needs of our patients, the dedication of our medical teams, and our community’s legacy of caring for one another.