Key Takeaways
- Keely Davenport has been named executive director of Development for Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation.
- Davenport brings more than 12 years of health care fundraising experience, including roles with JFK University Medical Center Foundation and Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation.
- She will help raise funds for Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Master Facilities Plan.
- Hackensack Meridian Health has committed $1.15 billion to expand Jersey Shore, including a new critical care tower, 13 operating rooms and expanded patient facilities.
- You can support Jersey Shore’s expansion by visiting GiveHMH.org/JerseyShore or contacting Keely Davenport at keely.davenport@hmhn.org.
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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation is pleased to announce that Keely Davenport has been hired as its new executive director of Development. Keely transitions from her previous role as executive director of Development at Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center Foundation, staying within the Hackensack Meridian Health network.
Keely brings more than 12 years of healthcare fundraising experience, including more than a decade with Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation before joining Hackensack Meridian Health. As executive director of Development, Davenport joins a robust team working to raise critical funding for Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Master Facilities Plan. Hackensack Meridian Health has committed $1.15 billion for Jersey Shore to undergo a sizable expansion that calls for a new critical care tower, 13 new operating rooms and expanded patient facilities.
“Keely has an established record of building relationships with donors, partnering with hospitals and physician leaders around clinical priorities and contributing to successful fundraising teams,” said Richard Knupp, VP of Academic Hospital Development at Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation. “Her experience in children’s health and grateful patient philanthropy will be particularly valuable as we continue to advance Jersey Shore’s philanthropic priorities.”
As a not-for-profit hospital, Jersey Shore University Medical Center has no shareholders and no owners; every dollar the hospital earns — and every dollar it receives — is reinvested directly into patient care. Charitable giving is what allows not-for-profit hospitals, like Jersey Shore, to move faster than their budgets, to say yes to bold ideas and to build capacity for a community before the need becomes a crisis.
A lifelong New Jerseyan, Keely grew up in Toms River and graduated from Rutgers University with a Master of Public Administration degree.
To learn more about how you can contribute to the master facilities projects at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, email Keely Davenport at keely.davenport@hmhn.org or visit GiveHMH.org/JerseyShore.