Mission: The Toowoomba Hospital Foundation exists to:

• Support and promote the service of the Toowoomba Hospital, Baillie Henderson Hospital and Mt Lofty Heights Nursing Home.

• Promote integration of the Toowoomba Hospital, Baillie Henderson Hospital and Mt Lofty Heights Nursing Home into the Toowoomba urban community;

• Support the pursuit of excellence in service and people’s health outcomes at the Toowoomba Hospital, Baillie Henderson Hospital and Mt Lofty Heights Nursing Home by improving facilities, equipment, research and development, and education and training;

• Support the pursuit of excellence in service and health outcomes in regional health services in Queensland and Australia.

Objectives:

• To aid the Toowoomba Hospital and any of its services whether established or proposed and to aid any hospital or health service of the Toowoomba & Darling Downs Health Service District.

• To supply aid to any person and to provide service in respect of any matter concerning the health and well-being of people.

• To provide money or travel grants, conference expenses, fellowships, allowances and prizes for any matter concerning the health and well-being of people.

• To promote and provide improved facilities for education and training at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in all health professional disciplines.

• To seek to discover the nature, origins and causes of disease and of good health including the outcomes of interventions in health and disease and to make the best use of knowledge gained for the improvement of the means of health promotion and prevention or treatment of disease.

• To research, or arrange or promote research (including surveys relevant to health service or hospital functions) into and development of, any branch of medical science, technological research, medical investigation or other matter concerning the health or wellbeing of people, with a view to general improvement in health services.

• To provide grants for persons engaged in research or survey relative to the functions, duties, management and administration of Toowoomba Hospital, Baillie Henderson Hospital & Mt Lofty Heights Nursing Home.

• To arrange for research and development work in the specific matters relating to the health of people.

• To invite and finance the appearance of people renowned for their knowledge or expertise in the health and well-being of people in health care and to give instruction to health care workers and to the public.

• To develop, purchase and manage businesses which will provide from their profits, income to the Foundation, and assist to facilitate the Foundation’s aims of support to its community.

• To foster or promote anything relevant in the fields of medicine and health care, that is likely to be to the betterment of health generally and of humanity.

Structure:

The basic structure of the Foundation is set forth in the Hospitals Foundation Act 1982. The Act delineates the functions, objects and powers of the Foundation and establishes the guidelines of the Foundation’s corporate functions.

The Foundation’s financial policies are also regulated by the Act. The Auditor-General audits the Foundation’s financial records on an annual basis.

Foundation Members: Members of the Foundation, who are appointed by the Governor in Council, are drawn from the Business, Medical and University Communities. They serve without remuneration on a volunteer basis.