Thank you for visiting the Friends of NICU website. Here is what the foundation is all about:

The Foundation was established in March 2007 to provide a little lift to those families with baby/babies in the Mercy San Juan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). We provide gas cards, hotel vouchers, meal vouchers, diaper bags, care packages and NICU necessities to those families that make every effort to visit their babies but can’t (or are limited) due to financial reasons.  We rely heavily on the case workers at Mercy San Juan as they advise us on where help is needed most.

We have teamed up with the wonderful folks at the Mercy Foundation who take care of the administrative functions so that we can focus on what matters most—raising money and helping families in need. Since the Mercy Foundation receives an operating grant from Catholic Healthcare West, they do not charge us any fees, so 100% of your gifts support the Friends of NICU Foundation and it is 100% tax deductible!

To date, we have helped over 25 families and look forward to helping many, many more.

We are ecstatic with the progress the foundation has made and hope to expand to other Mercy hospitals in the near future.

If you have questions or want to share your thoughts, please don’t hesitate to contact us or visit us on www.myspace.com/friendsofnicu—we would love to hear from you!

Sincerely,

Elanie and Tim Purkis, Co-Founders and proud parents of three little monkeys.