giving for good marshfield

Across the Marshfield region, your generosity enhances patient care and research in our communities. 100% of donations stay local to help brave people fighting cancer, support expert care for kids, assist families in need and advance health care close to home. Your gifts offer a home away from home for cancer patients at Cattails Place. You provide child life and expressive therapies, including a facility dog, for kids at Marshfield Children’s Hospital. You made it possible to open a new cancer center at Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson.

Last year, we put $5.4 million in philanthropic gifts to work across the Marshfield region. Read more in the 2024 annual report.

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Local Priorities

Philanthropy is an integral part of the care provided at Marshfield Clinic. The Sanford Health Foundation in the Marshfield region plays a crucial role in supporting specific programming for patients and staff, upgrading essential equipment, and funding special projects tailored to meet the needs of our communities.

Cancer

Your gifts enhance cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention at regional cancer centers. Local support also provides free housing at Cattails Place, new technology and equipment, healing spaces, survivorship programs, patient comfort items and covers essential needs like travel and meals.

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Children

Marshfield Children’s Hospital is one of only four in Wisconsin and the only one serving central and northern regions. Your donations provide expert, compassionate care — including child life services, music therapy, a facility dog, NICU care for high-risk infants, specialized equipment, kid-friendly spaces and family assistance.

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Research

The Marshfield Clinic Research brings nationally-recognized research studies and clinical trials to families in our rural communities. Your gifts fund innovative, potentially lifesaving research into cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, mental health, tick-borne illnesses and rare diseases.

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Patient Assistance

Many families in rural areas struggle with financial hardship, and they shouldn’t have to choose between health care for their loved ones and basic necessities. Support for Angel Funds provides financial assistance for non-medical needs, including housing, transportation, meals and utilities.

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Shining Star Program

Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic’s Shining Star program offers grateful patients and their loved ones the opportunity to recognize an employee who has made a meaningful difference in their experience at Marshfield Clinic. Make a gift of any size, share an honoree’s name and write a short message of appreciation to celebrate a caregiver today!

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Leadership Connection

A region update from Dr. Brian Hoerneman, president & CEO of Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic.
January 29, 2026

As we begin the new year, we are grateful for your commitment to our mission as we grow together with Sanford Health. We are expanding access to care for patients in our rural communities, with 100% of your gifts staying local to help our patients. Thanks to your support, we are here for all, and here for good.

As Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic grows, we’ll continue to share the impact of your generosity across our region. The Five, our monthly enewsletter, is a digest of donor impact, opportunity and hope – readable in five minutes or less. We hope you enjoy seeing your gifts at work and the difference you make for the patients and families we serve.

The new year brings new hope for cancer patients and families as your generosity helps us provide clinical trials and innovative treatments. For families facing cancer, compassion is just as important as innovation — which is why you also support continued renovations at Cattails Place. This 22-room facility, fully funded by philanthropy, offers a home away from home for cancer patients who travel for treatment in Marshfield.

More than 700 families find comfort and community staying at Cattails Place each year because of you. Thanks to you, families do not have to face cancer alone.

Dr. Brian Hoerneman

BenchMarks: Our Final Issue

Explore inspiring stories of generosity and impact in our final issue of BenchMarks, Marshfield Clinic Health System’s philanthropy magazine. In this 2025 winter edition, celebrate new beginnings and see how donors and community partners are making a difference in health care.

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Marshfield’s Signature Events

Below are a few of the signature events we host in the Marshfield region. To see more events in Marshfield, visit our calendar.

Auction of ChampionsLearn More

Marshfield Children’s Hospital RadiothonLearn More

Rich Seubert’s Celebrity Trap ShootLearn More

Get Involved through Fundraising

At Sanford Health’s Marshfield Clinic, our doctors, researchers and caregivers are working to bring health, hope and healing to more than 1.2 million people across the Upper Midwest. With you on our team, we can accelerate our race to uncover new breakthroughs, develop new treatments and create meaningful programs that support patients and their families.

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