About

The vision of the Foun­da­tion is to pro­vide the sup­port nec­es­sary so Ivin­son Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal can be the best com­mu­ni­ty hos­pi­tal in the Unit­ed States. We believe in this lofty vision, and we work with ener­gy and pas­sion to make this vision our reality.

The Foun­da­tion is com­prised of near­ly 50 board mem­bers who direct the strate­gic plan­ning, man­age invest­ments and fund­ing dis­tri­b­u­tions, and advo­cate for Ivin­son. The Foun­da­tion staff man­age the dai­ly oper­a­tions as direct­ed by the Board through the strate­gic plan.

Although an entire­ly sep­a­rate and inde­pen­dent­ly gov­erned 501(c)(3) non-prof­it, the Foun­da­tion per­son­nel and admin­is­tra­tive space costs are pro­vid­ed by IMH. The val­ue on this rela­tion­ship is that donor dol­lars are able to go fur­ther and are max­i­mized with­out hav­ing to con­tribute to staff salaries and office rental space.

The Foun­da­tion Board leads and directs the Foun­da­tion. The Board is divid­ed into sev­er­al com­mit­tees, all with a focus on the vision of the Foundation. 

Maria Med­i­na Ed.D

Exec­u­tive Director

Maria joins the Ivin­son Foun­da­tion with 17 years of expe­ri­ence in the non-prof­it sec­tor focus­ing on health­care ini­tia­tives. She returns to Laramie from Ft. Collins, where she served as the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor for the North­ern Col­orado Com­po­nent of the Col­orado Med­ical Soci­ety. Pri­or to that, Maria direct­ed non-prof­it work in Wyoming, reach­ing 23 coun­ties as the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In her eight years at the Wyoming Depart­ment of Health, she devel­oped and imple­ment­ed pre­ven­tion initiatives. 

Maria is an alum­ni of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wyoming, obtain­ing her Doc­tor­ate degree in 2015 and has said she is very excit­ed to be back in Wyoming. 

Joe Marr

Accoun­tant

Joe believes work­ing at the Foun­da­tion is reward­ing because he can help impact the health­care for every­one in his com­mu­ni­ty. You’ll notice Joe fre­quent­ly say Ivin­son is a great place to come to work every day.

Joe notes he has lived in enough dif­fer­ent places to know how spe­cial Laramie is and what a reward it is to be able to call it home. Spend­ing time in the hills with his fam­i­ly — includ­ing the ones that bark — and hik­ing, camp­ing, and explor­ing is the best way for every­one to spend the sum­mer. Joe says being one small part of Ivin­son has been a great expe­ri­ence, and liv­ing in Wyoming will always be his favorite.