Southwest Medical Foundation
Mission
The Southwest Medical Foundation operates as a volunteer organization exclusively for Southwest Health, to promote medical, scientific, and educational opportunities promoting Southwest Health.
OPERATION Celebration 2026
We’re thrilled to announce the one OPERATION you’ll actually look forward to is back!
The Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center Foundation’s OPERATION: Celebration – Games for a Cause returns to Downtown McComb for a night built around fun, friendly competition, and giving back. Enjoy an evening filled with games, contests, prizes, and great food and drinks—featuring a life-size Operation game, Jenga, cornhole, a silent auction, split-the-pot raffle, bourbon drawdown, wine pull, and a special moment to honor our Healthcare Hero Award recipients.
Join us on April 9, 2026, at The Mill in Downtown McComb. View ticket purchasing options here.
Our Story
The Southwest Medical Foundation was incorporated August 29, 1979, to drive a comprehensive program of fund development that supports the overall mission and vision of Southwest Health, making a positive impact for patients, their families, and our Southwest Health family of employees.
Our goal is through philanthropy. We raise funds and dedicate our resources to further advance the needs of Southwest Health and those it serves. The Foundation has made major contributions to Southwest Health. One was a $100,000 gift to help establish an outpatient diagnostic clinic for easier access to 3D Mammography for our community. The Foundation also landscaped the Medical Center Walking Track after various storms devastated the trees and shrubs around the Track, which is used 24 hours a day by employees and the public.
Employees give regularly to the Foundation, and for that, we can never truly express how thankful we are.
You can make a difference through your generosity and caring. By making a pledge or gift today, you can help us continue providing amenities to benefit patients and staff and as well as assisting in allowing Southwest Health to remain on the cutting edge of new technology while improving the health and wellness of those residing in our communities. You may also make memorials and honorariums on this site.
Questions?
Foundation Board Members who are cancer survivors are shown with the Prayer Cross the Foundation had created and installed at The Mississippi Cancer Institute. From left to right LeWair Foreman, Julius Carl Butler, and Nancy Smith.
