Our Blueprint for Health campaign surpassed its ambitious $8.2 million goal with a total of more than $8.26 million given in pledges and gifts, with thanks to our three campaign co-chairs – David Coster, MD, Ed Hatcher, and Stuart Kintzinger.
This extraordinary accomplishment could not have happened without the commitment to GRMC and support of its mission demonstrated by more than 1,900 individuals who made gifts to the three-year campaign.
The projects that GRMC will be able to complete with Blueprint for Health funding will touch virtually every person who lives in the GRMC service area.
- The Candace Packard Lambie Intensive Care Unit and the Warren H. Bower Surgery Center was completed with early gifts to the campaign.
- The new auxiliary gift shop, “The Glass Gift Box” opened in November 2006 to meet the needs of guests, patients, volunteers, and employees.
- A new health information system is being implemented to help us make gains in patient safety and quality, billing, and greater efficiency.
- Additional initiatives to be funded through the campaign include building renovations to physical and occupational therapy, laboratory, emergency, and cardiopulmonary departments.
Because the improvements and renovations to the areas listed above will exceed $11 million dollars, we are still accepting gifts to help with Blueprint for Health.
The following are just some of the results that made the Blueprint for Health campaign so successful:
- GRMC’s physicians made contributions or pledges to the campaign totaling $274,541.
- GRMC’s employees made contributions or pledges to the campaign totaling $331,133.
- GRMC’s board of directors made contributions or pledges to the campaign totaling $570,892.
- GRMC’s foundation board members made contributions or pledges to the campaign totaling $286,546.
- 1,029 donors made first-time gifts to GRMC after the campaign started in November 2002.
- Fifteen donors gave gifts of stock to the campaign totaling $81,110.
- The JELD-WEN Foundation awarded the largest single gift to the campaign in the form of a $1 million grant. JELD-WEN is the parent company of Wenco and Doorcraft of Iowa, and is the world’s leading manufacturer of windows and doors. In addition, Frank Brownell, the Jones Family and Grinnell State Bank, the late Donald W. Lambie, Grinnell College, the Kintzinger family, and the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation all gave $200,000 or more each to the campaign for a total of $1.85 million.
- During the three-year campaign, donors also rose to a number of challenge gifts, seven of them in fact. These consisted of a $750,000 challenge from an anonymous donor that matched every gift or pledge of $1,000 or more; a $200,000 grant that matched of $1,000 or more by 50 percent; a $250,000challenge from an unnamed benefactor that matched all gifts from new campaign donors of $500 or more dollar for dollar and gifts of $5,000 or more $2 to $1; a $200,000 challenge from the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation and the Kintzinger family that matched all gifts to the campaign dollar for dollar before the clock hit midnight on December 31, 2005; and a $50,000 challenge put forth from the Jones family, prominent bankers in Grinnell.
- Throughout the campaign, several area farmers – including Jim and Jan Hansen of Montezuma – contributed their harvests to the medical center. GRMC accepted a total of 49,160 bushels of grain toward the effort for a grand total of $147,036.49.
- GRMC also accepted one gift of real estate, totaling $64,500 from John and Nadine Runyan of Montezuma.
Everyday, GRMC touches hundreds of people with compassionate care. GRMC’s medical staff and practitioners, more than 700 volunteers, and 500 nurses, technologists, and staff are always here for you when you need us.
As a nonprofit, non-tax supported hospital; GRMC relies on philanthropic support to meet the healthcare demands of the communities we serve. A first-time or second gift to the campaign will allow us to continue to make a difference in people’s lives for generations to come.
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