During 2010, Mission Healthcare Foundation will celebrate two milestones. The Foundation, founded in 1985, will reach its silver anniversary (25 years) and will also cross the $100 million mark in the funds it has raised on behalf of Mission Hospital. During the past decades the work of Mission Foundation in helping to provide start-up funding, capital funding and sustaining funds for a wide variety of hospital projects and programs has helped Mission Hospital become a national model for a "high quality-low cost" hospital. Philanthropic gifts and grants totaling well over $90 million have helped Mission win numerous awards for its quality care and creative services that have brought it a national reputation.