Community gifts, large and small, have built Sky Lakes Medical Center (formerly Merle West Medical Center). Since 1985, the Merle West Medical Center Foundation has been raising, managing and distributing funds to benefit the hospital and its patients. Learn more about our Foundation and ways you can invest in your community by way of the medical center through an assortment of gifts.

The Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation adheres to the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy standards of professional ethics. To learn more about the Merle West Medical Center Foundation, use our online request form, or contact Foundation Director Sally-Ann Palcovich, 541-274-4768.

Very few hospitals today can maintain the best in health care technology and services without the help of some very special friends – their benefactors. Each year hundreds of generous donors – many of them former patients, foundations and local business leaders – contribute to the Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation, making a difference in the lives of countless people who depend on their community medical center.

The Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation set up exclusively to receive donations to support the medical center’s programs and capital equipment needs.

There are a number of ways you can help. To make a contribution or to contact the Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation, please call 541-274-4768. 

Overseen by a volunteer board of directors composed of community leaders, the Foundation is dedicated to helping Sky Lakes Medical Center fulfill its mission of reducing the burden of illness and injury, and improving the health of the communities it serves.

Our board:
Linda Turner, chair                                  Homemaker
Clark Pederson, vice chair                        Stockbroker
Cindy Balin                                             Pharmacist
John Bell                                                Businessman
Lawrence Cohen, MD                                President of the Medical Staff, Physician
Neal Eberlein                                          Businessman
Carol Fellows, MD                                    Retired physician
Kermit Houser                                        Retired Businessman
Chris Kandra                                          Businessman
Dick Ledgerwood                                    Stockbroker
Bernard Simonsen                                  Businessman
Wendy Warren, MD                                 Physician
Linda Weider                                         Real Estate Broker
Rod Wendt                                            Businessman
Heidi Wright                                          Businesswoman
Gregory Sindmack, MD                            President-Elect of the Medical Staff