St. John's Mercy Medical Center Auxiliary

The Auxiliary
St. John’s Mercy Medical Center Auxiliary welcomes everyone who would like to blend their unique qualities and skills to help St. John’s Mercy promote the health and welfare of the community.

Our Auxiliary is a charitable organization of women and men dedicated to bringing the mission of St. John’s Mercy to life within the Medical Center and throughout the St. Louis area.

What Does an Auxilian Do?
You can individualize your level of involvement to fit your needs. Maybe you’d like to volunteer a few hours a year to help with a special event, or to chair a committee, or to serve in an elected leadership office. Or maybe you’d like to use your gardening or wallpaper skills to spruce up one of our neighborhood clinics.

Do you love art? Then maybe you’d like to get involved with our Healing Through the Arts program, in which persons with cancer create art objects as part of their healing process.

There are many ways you can become involved.

Auxiliary Activities
Funds generated by the Auxiliary’s annual fundraising events and proceeds from the Mercy Gift Shop, sponsored by the Auxiliary, have supported special Medical Center projects and equipment purchases. With these funds, the Auxiliary has helped improve the lives of countless patients, their families, visitors to the Medical Center, and many people who have relocated to St. Louis from other countries. Auxiliary programs include:

• Service projects to help improve the community, St. John’s Mercy Neighborhood Ministry in South St. Louis, St. John’s Mercy clinics, and the Medical Center.
  
• Mercy Gift Shop, located in the Medical Center, donates its proceeds to provide capital to fund Auxiliary programs and projects.
  
• Volunteer RN Program at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, was initiated by the Auxiliary.
  
• “Healing Through the Arts,” a program of Auxiliary-sponsored patient workshops that combine art and healing for patients at the Medical Center’s David C. Pratt Cancer Center.
  
• Support of “Catherine’s Closet,” through which donations of new clothing go to patients in need.
  
• Purchasing medical and medical service equipment for hospital departments to improve services to patients.
  
• Supplying furniture in the ICU visitor and family waiting room to provide comfortable accommodations for visitors and families.
  
• Developing and hosting fundraising activities that have included benefit polo matches, dances, parties, special events and luncheons, with more exciting events planned.
  

What Does the Auxiliary Provide Me?
The Auxiliary provides members with many opportunities to make a difference.We have special events, exciting fundraisers, luncheons, special Gift Shop sales and discounts on many items — and we give you the opportunity to enrich your life, to recognize the gifts you are given and to return those gifts to others.