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 $8.1 million in philanthropic gifts to work across the Marshfield region. Read more in the 2025 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.

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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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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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.
April, 2026

Last year, Marshfield Children’s Hospital had the privilege of caring for more than 24,000 local kids — each with unique and often complex needs. Whether providing urgent, lifesaving care or long‑term treatment and support, our team is here for every child and family, every step of the way. This impact is possible because of friends like you. Your support allows us to lead the way in providing world-class pediatric health care for northcentral Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. As one of only four designated children’s hospitals in Wisconsin and a Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) partner, Marshfield Children’s Hospital is home to more than 40 pediatric specialties offering expert, compassionate care for kids. Our leading-edge facility offers Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a Level II pediatric trauma center, the region’s only pediatric oncology inpatient unit and more.

But kids need more than treatment when they’re in the hospital, and that’s where the child life program comes in. In collaboration with pediatric care teams, child life specialists provide education, preparation, therapeutic play and emotional support to help kids get better, faster. Child life is provided at no cost to families because of philanthropy. Your support for child life helps us provide music and art therapy, Dolly the facility dog, coping and preparation programs for kids and more. This year, we are celebrating 30 years of child life at Marshfield Children’s Hospital.

That’s 30 years of offering comfort, guidance and joy to kids when it matters most, thanks to you. Thank you for supporting child life at Marshfield Children’s Hospital — we are beyond grateful!

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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