The Power of Philanthropy

The Bill Richards Center for Healing and emerging Psycho-Oncology Program are fully funded through the generosity of individuals, businesses and foundations committed to transforming cancer care for patients and caregivers.

The Shady Grove Aquilino Cancer Center invites you to partner with us to ensure our suite of wellness programs can be offered free of charge to all patients and caregivers, year after year. As a non-profit healthcare organization, we see every day the power charitable donations provide in our mission and service. For that, we are grateful.

Michael and Amy Aquilino Give so Others can Heal.

Michael Aquilino is no stranger to cancer. He knows what it is to care for a loved one through the difficult days of treatment, the roller coaster of good and bad days. He knows the worry and sadness of his late wife, his own and his children’s.

In gratitude for the care his wife received, Michael has long supported cancer care services at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center. In fact, he and his current wife, Amy, led the way in ensuring the hospital could provide state-of-the-art, outpatient care conveniently situated on the hospital campus, with all care housed in one location. The Aquilino Cancer Center opened its doors in 2013.

Michael and Amy’s commitment to cancer care didn’t end there. After getting to know Dr. Bill Richards, a pioneer in the treatment of anxiety and depression in patients experiencing long-term, debilitating, life-threatening conditions, they put their energy behind creating a space within the Aquilino Cancer Center that was welcoming, restorative and that made it possible to meet the psychological and physical treatment needs of cancer patients in a unique healing environment.

In this space, whole-person, integrative time-tested care is offered along with clinical trials of pioneering treatments. Michael and Amy’s generosity provided for the architectural design and lead gifts to construct what is now the Bill Richards Center for Healing, and for the naming of the center. “When I was a caregiver for my late wife, I wish there had been a place like the Healing Center,” said Michael. Now there is. Michael and Amy, we cannot thank you enough.

To learn more about giving to the Aquilino Cancer Center, visit our website. Here, you can determine which area of need you’d like to support and donate to the center directly.