Supportive Community Member
LKMC is a proud, responsible and generous community member, encouraging all of its employees to support local charities through the donation of time as well as money. We see our encouragement of community building as a natural extension of our caring for the Keys community.
Community Sponsorships
Every year, Lower Keys Medical Center receives many requests for support from various community groups and organizations. The challenge, then, is how to balance the measure of what we already contribute to the local community in the form of taxes and leases, which exceeds $2,000,000.00 per year as a proprietary healthcare provider with our obligations as one of the area’s largest businesses and employers.
Our budget for contributions is limited. Whether a request is for a cash donation, support for a local program or other opportunity, we will do our best to match our limited discretionary funds with community health needs. Our giving is focused on non-profit organizations in the fields of health, education, and arts and culture and concentrates where we have a strong business presence.
Please see http://www.lkmc.com/Services/Services/Default.aspx for more information.
Membership in Chambers and Organizations
- Business Guild of Key West
- Key West Chamber of Commerce
- Key West Innkeepers
- Lodging Association of the Florida Keys and Key West
- Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce
Employees Volunteering in the Community
Working with community organizations and serving on community boards is another way LKMC and its employees demonstrate concern, and impact the health of our community. LKMC employees serve as board members or as volunteers for the following (past and present):
- American Association of Integrated Health Care Delivery Services
- American Cancer Society and Relay for Life
- American Heart Association
- Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
- Association of Operating Room Nurses
- Cancer Foundation of the Florida Keys
- Easter Seals
- Dive Alive – Monroe County Dive Safety Initiative
- Feed the Children
- Florida Nurses Association
- Florida Keys Community College Nursing Advisory Board
- Florida Keys College Explorers
- Grace Lutheran Parent Teacher League
- Habitat for Humanity
- Key West Chamber of Commerce
- Monroe Association for Retarded Citizens
- Monroe County Interagency Council
- Monroe County Trauma Taskforce
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- Newman Methodist Church, Key West
- St. Mary’s Church, Key West
- St. Peter’s Church, Big Pine Key
- Suicide Prevention Committee
- MCC Church
- Rotary Club of Key West
- Rural Health Network Advisory Board
- Sculpture Key West
- Tropic Cinema
- United Way of Monroe County
- Zonta of Key West