How VIM Helps:

• Provides more than 3,000 individuals 25,000+
  patient visits / year
• Delivers over $12 million worth of medical services & supplies annually
• Focuses on wellness, prevention & disease management
• Significantly reduces patient visits to Hilton Head Hospital’s ER
• Delivers free quality health care across 23 medical specialties and five disease management clinics

How VIM works:

• 600+ volunteers donate more than 48,000 hours of service annually
• Operates on an annual budget of $2.2 million entirely funded by individuals, businesses and foundations

VIM’s patients… YOUR employees and their entire families:

• More than 70% of VIM’s adult patients are employed
• Live or work on Hilton Head or Daufuskie Islands
• Are medically uninsured or under-insured
• VIM’s Dental Clinic provides more than 6,000 patient visits annually for your employees and their families – dental pain and disease is the number one reason that people miss work and children miss school.

What VIM means to your business and our community:

• Fewer employee sick days – improved productivity
• Access to VIM’s services is a compelling employee retention and recruitment benefit
• VIM serves as a safety net in our community – an investment in VIM is an investment in Hilton Head Island

Supporting VIM is not only the right thing to do, it is a good business decision as well. A donation to VIM includes these marketing and public relations benefits:

• Your business will be listed as a Company Who Cares on the VIM website, in weekly e-blasts to VIM’s more than 600 volunteers, and in periodic e-blasts to VIM’s more than 3,000 supporters.
• Your business will be included as a Company Who Cares in local media.
• Your business will be recognized as a Company Who Cares at all VIM events.

Become a Company Who Cares:

• Consider a per-employee donation that reflects the number of your employees who benefit from VIM’s service
• Make a contribution acknowledging the role VIM plays in the success of your business
• Sponsor one of VIM’s annual fundraising events including our Fall Gala, the VIM Golf Classic and the Latino Food Festival
• Host a benefit fundraiser through your own business to benefit VIM
• Let VIM know if your business is part of a larger company with a foundation or charitable giving division and lend your local support to VIM’s request for funding

To learn more about becoming a Company Who Cares, or to schedule a clinic tour, please contact Ginger Allen, Director of Development, Volunteers in Medicine Hilton Head, at (843) 689-6612 or at gallen@vimclinic.org.