Anyone who knows Anita Harden knows what it is like to be touched by an angel.

For 35 years, she’s served Community Health Network patients with respect, compassion and a loving heart. As a behavioral health nurse and business leader, she helped build Community’s behavioral care program and become an advocate for mentally-ill patients in central Indiana.

Anita is a true friend to our foundation and has been a generous donor and philanthropic leader for many years, including her recent committment to serve as our interim President and CEO that ended in April. But, with news she shared today, we were again touched by an angel.

During a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning to celebrate the completed renovation of the new Behavioral Health Pavilion, located on the Community North Campus, Anita announced she has made a $60,000 gift to Community Health Network Foundation to establish an endowment to benefit mentally-ill patients in central Indiana.

Her generous gift will establish the Anita J. Harden Endowment to Benefit the Seriously and Persistently Mentally Ill and will be used to provide education, training and necessities needed to improve the quality of life for central Indiana patients diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness. These programs and services, not normally covered by insurance or publicly-funded sources, will attempt to prevent hospitalization and support the patients’ on-going daily living needs.

“My donation is an investment in creating a way for these patients to live with respect and be treated with compassion as we help them mange their lives,” she said. “This is my opportunity to ensure the patients I love, so many times called the ‘lost population,’ will be cared for in perpetuity.”

Anita is working with us to raise more funds for this endowment and if you are interested in making a gift to support her commitment to these patients, please click here.

Thank you, Anita, for being an angel to so many.

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