SECU Hospice House Capital Campaign
Closer to Home Capital Campaign Update
We're excited to announce the design for the Brunswick County hospice care center tile wall, Impressions, has been completed, and opportunities to purchase a tribute tile are in place. At right is an artist rendering of the tiles that will create a wave, another element in the campus that reflects the nature of our region. For more information on how to make a tribute tile gift, click on tile brochure.
SECU Foundation, funded solely by State Employees’ Credit Union members, recently announced a challenge grant of $1 million to the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Closer to Home SECU Hospice House Capital Campaign to build an inpatient hospice facility in Brunswick County. This is the largest gift to date for the campaign. The SECU Foundation has challenged Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter to raise an additional $500,000 to receive the SECU funding. In the photo at left, SECU Foundation officials presented a challenge grant check to Foundation Chair Andrew Cooke and Laurie Bystrom at a presentation ceremony at the construction site.
We extend our gratitude to the McMullan family, including Deborah Latham, Rube and Grant McMullan, at the construction site with Development Manager Cindy Cheatham. Their Closer to Home capital campaign donation made possible the naming of a patient room patio at the SECU Hospice House. It will be The McMullan Family Room in memory of “Grandma Mac” McMullan. Thanks!
Construction Update
Construction on the SECU Hospice House is continuing well, and the warm, dry weather is helping. The picture on the left below shows the installation of the ridge beam for the front entrance roof, and the one one the right is the southeast corner of the building. Exciting!
The Latest News
Click on the graphic at left for the lastest information about our campaign and our Brunswick Couty hospice care team. We extend our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the campaign. We are excited that the construction is progressing well and looking forward to our opening in late summer 2012!
Brunswick County Care Center Work Has Begun!
Crews have been busy surveying, clearing, and creating a construction entrance at the site of our hospice facility on Old Ocean Highway in Bolivia. The 15,584-square-foot facility, $4.5 million facility will have seven patient rooms with patios, family kitchen, dining room, and gathering space, as well as medical and administrative areas. We’re hoping for a June 2012 completion date if all goes well. We’re excited to see our vision starting to become reality!
Campaign Receives Cape Fear Memorial Foundation Grant
Cape Fear Memorial Foundation awarded a $300,000 grant to our agency for our Closer to Home capital campaign to build a care center in Bolivia. Cape Fear Memorial Foundation's Carter Mebane and Beth Daugherty presented a "check" to Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter President & CEO Laurie Bystrom and campaign chairs Sibyl and WJ McLamb at a campaign celebration breakfast. The grant is the campaign’s largest gift yet, and it pushed the campaign over the $2 million mark!
Groundbreaking Ceremony A Success!
Thursday, October 14 was an exciting day for Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter! We held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the agency’s third hospice care center – to serve the patients and families of Brunswick County. Capital Campaign Chairpersons WJ and Sibyl McLamb welcomed approximately 150 people at the site of the facility off Old Ocean Highway in Bolivia.
Speakers included Laurie Bystrom, president & CEO; Bill Sue, chairman of Brunswick County Commissioners; Dr. Brian Gilmore, Board of Directors chair-elect; Will Stanfield, Board of Trustees chair; Shelbourn Stevens, Brunswick Community Hospital senior director; and Edgar Haywood, Dosher Memorial Hospital CEO.
Congressman Mike McIntyre presented the keynote address. A special donation was made by Bill McCormack, who presented Laurie Bystrom with a large check of almost $200,000 from the residents of St. James for the capital campaign. Louie Lewis, who generously donated the land, led the group in the ceremonial groundbreaking with gold shovels. Construction will start, upon approvals, in early 2011. The building is expected to be completed spring of 2012.
Building the Next Dream
Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter has received approval of our Certificate of Need for a Hospice Care Center in Brunswick County! We extend our gratitude to those of you in our Brunswick County community for your assistance. Your letters of support and testimony in favor of the project played a large part in gaining the required state approval, and we thank you.
We have begun planning for the seven-bed hospice inpatient facility. The Brunswick Hospice Care Center will have a similar floor plan to the Columbus County facility with an additional bed in the patient wing. We hope to build in a central location near the Brunswick Novant Medical Center campus on Highway 17.
To construct the Care Center, we must raise $3.5 million. The Capital Campaign Committee will include people you know – volunteers from Brunswick County who will ask you to donate to this project created for you, your friends, and your neighbors in your community. We extend our thanks to our 2010 campaign donors.
In the months to come, you will be hearing more about this project. Our fact sheet has more information as well. You can help build the Brunswick County Hospice Care Center to take end-of-life care to the next level, closer to home. Together, with your support, we can make the next dream a reality. Feel free to contact Cindy Cheatham, our capital campaign manager, at 910.523.2770 for more information or ways to support the campaign.
Capital Campaign in the Media
Listen to people in your neighborhood talking about the need for a hospice care center in Brunswick County, closer to home.
Have you seen the Closer to Home campaign appeal that features In Plain Sight’s Mary McCormack asking for support? Mary also talked about the campaign in an interview on Chelsea Lately.
The State Port Pilot describes the need for a Brunswick County care center and an information session scheduled for July 12 in its article, Care Moves 'Closer to Home.'
The Brunswick Beacon ran a number of articles on the campaign including an editorial, the campaign chairs, and the land donation from Louie Lewis.
SECU Hospice House Capital Campaign
Closer to Home Capital Campaign Update
We're excited to announce the design for the Brunswick County hospice care center tile wall, Impressions, has been completed, and opportunities to purchase a tribute tile are in place. At right is an artist rendering of the tiles that will create a wave, another element in the campus that reflects the nature of our region. For more information on how to make a tribute tile gift, click on tile brochure.
SECU Foundation, funded solely by State Employees’ Credit Union members, recently announced a challenge grant of $1 million to the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Closer to Home SECU Hospice House Capital Campaign to build an inpatient hospice facility in Brunswick County. This is the largest gift to date for the campaign. The SECU Foundation has challenged Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter to raise an additional $500,000 to receive the SECU funding. In the photo at left, SECU Foundation officials presented a challenge grant check to Foundation Chair Andrew Cooke and Laurie Bystrom at a presentation ceremony at the construction site.
We extend our gratitude to the McMullan family, including Deborah Latham, Rube and Grant McMullan, at the construction site with Development Manager Cindy Cheatham. Their Closer to Home capital campaign donation made possible the naming of a patient room patio at the SECU Hospice House. It will be The McMullan Family Room in memory of “Grandma Mac” McMullan. Thanks!
Construction Update
Construction on the SECU Hospice House is continuing well, and the warm, dry weather is helping. The picture on the left below shows the installation of the ridge beam for the front entrance roof, and the one one the right is the southeast corner of the building. Exciting!
The Latest News
Click on the graphic at left for the lastest information about our campaign and our Brunswick Couty hospice care team. We extend our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the campaign. We are excited that the construction is progressing well and looking forward to our opening in late summer 2012!
Brunswick County Care Center Work Has Begun!
Crews have been busy surveying, clearing, and creating a construction entrance at the site of our hospice facility on Old Ocean Highway in Bolivia. The 15,584-square-foot facility, $4.5 million facility will have seven patient rooms with patios, family kitchen, dining room, and gathering space, as well as medical and administrative areas. We’re hoping for a June 2012 completion date if all goes well. We’re excited to see our vision starting to become reality!
Campaign Receives Cape Fear Memorial Foundation Grant
Cape Fear Memorial Foundation awarded a $300,000 grant to our agency for our Closer to Home capital campaign to build a care center in Bolivia. Cape Fear Memorial Foundation's Carter Mebane and Beth Daugherty presented a "check" to Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter President & CEO Laurie Bystrom and campaign chairs Sibyl and WJ McLamb at a campaign celebration breakfast. The grant is the campaign’s largest gift yet, and it pushed the campaign over the $2 million mark!
Groundbreaking Ceremony A Success!
Thursday, October 14 was an exciting day for Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter! We held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the agency’s third hospice care center – to serve the patients and families of Brunswick County. Capital Campaign Chairpersons WJ and Sibyl McLamb welcomed approximately 150 people at the site of the facility off Old Ocean Highway in Bolivia.
Speakers included Laurie Bystrom, president & CEO; Bill Sue, chairman of Brunswick County Commissioners; Dr. Brian Gilmore, Board of Directors chair-elect; Will Stanfield, Board of Trustees chair; Shelbourn Stevens, Brunswick Community Hospital senior director; and Edgar Haywood, Dosher Memorial Hospital CEO.
Congressman Mike McIntyre presented the keynote address. A special donation was made by Bill McCormack, who presented Laurie Bystrom with a large check of almost $200,000 from the residents of St. James for the capital campaign. Louie Lewis, who generously donated the land, led the group in the ceremonial groundbreaking with gold shovels. Construction will start, upon approvals, in early 2011. The building is expected to be completed spring of 2012.
Building the Next Dream
Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter has received approval of our Certificate of Need for a Hospice Care Center in Brunswick County! We extend our gratitude to those of you in our Brunswick County community for your assistance. Your letters of support and testimony in favor of the project played a large part in gaining the required state approval, and we thank you.
We have begun planning for the seven-bed hospice inpatient facility. The Brunswick Hospice Care Center will have a similar floor plan to the Columbus County facility with an additional bed in the patient wing. We hope to build in a central location near the Brunswick Novant Medical Center campus on Highway 17.
To construct the Care Center, we must raise $3.5 million. The Capital Campaign Committee will include people you know – volunteers from Brunswick County who will ask you to donate to this project created for you, your friends, and your neighbors in your community. We extend our thanks to our 2010 campaign donors.
In the months to come, you will be hearing more about this project. Our fact sheet has more information as well. You can help build the Brunswick County Hospice Care Center to take end-of-life care to the next level, closer to home. Together, with your support, we can make the next dream a reality. Feel free to contact Cindy Cheatham, our capital campaign manager, at 910.523.2770 for more information or ways to support the campaign.
Capital Campaign in the Media
Listen to people in your neighborhood talking about the need for a hospice care center in Brunswick County, closer to home.
Have you seen the Closer to Home campaign appeal that features In Plain Sight’s Mary McCormack asking for support? Mary also talked about the campaign in an interview on Chelsea Lately.
The State Port Pilot describes the need for a Brunswick County care center and an information session scheduled for July 12 in its article, Care Moves 'Closer to Home.'
The Brunswick Beacon ran a number of articles on the campaign including an editorial, the campaign chairs, and the land donation from Louie Lewis.