Fundraising GOAL: $650,000 Total raised to date: $330,000.00
To make a donation, please call 507-665-8659 and a member of the Minnesota Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation will contact you.
Campaign 2011 – Beyond “The Build”
The Minnesota Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation (MVMH) has officially launched Campaign 2011 – Beyond “The Build.” The Foundation’s goal is to raise $650,000 to complement Minnesota Valley Health Center’s (MVHC) major construction project, known as “The Build.”
“We are proud to know the Minnesota Valley Health Center is financially strong enough to embark on a $6.6 million building project,” said Paul Borchert, chair of the MVMH Foundation Board of Directors. “The Foundation is privileged to raise funds to put some final touches on the build project. This will add tremendous value to the nursing home, hospital and the services they provide.”
Funds raised will be dedicated to the early completion of interior projects in the hospital and nursing home that are a part of MVHC’s long range Master Plan.
“These projects include gutting and rebuilding patient rooms in the hospital and renovating resident rooms in the older Bluff and Meadow wings in the nursing home,” said Borchert. “We’re pleased to assist and go beyond the build.”
Trish Townsdin, CEO and President of the Minnesota Valley Health Center, expressed gratitude for all of the foundation’s work and explained the health center’s Master Plan.
“In 2009, the MVHC Board of Directors and staff completed a Master Plan to set the direction of our capital build improvements over the next ten years,” Townsdin said. “The first page of the plan reads that the plan is dedicated ‘…to all of the corporation, board, auxiliary, and staff members throughout our 50 year history and to the community of Le Sueur for the privilege of serving you …..With your vision always with us, we continue your journey into the future.’
Our current build project and the foundation’s planned interior projects are the best tribute I can think of to honor those who came before us. My deepest gratitude goes out to the Foundation and the community."
Contributions can be made by sending a check, made out to MVMH Foundation, to the attention of:
Pat Schlegel, MVHC, 621 S. Fourth Street, Le Sueur, MN 56058
A History of Giving
The Foundation began in the 1980s when two long-standing Le Sueur business leaders, Art Anderson and Dick Pederson, decided to create an Endowment for the Health Center. They created a non-profit organization which is now known as the Minnesota Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation. Art and Dick funded the organization by making the first donations. Since that date, more than $2.265 million has been generated by the Foundation. Through the years, we have raised money for specific purposes, such as the helicopter pad, new beds in the nursing home, a digital CT scanner, digital mammography equipment and the 2000 Prairie Wing of the Nursing Home.
In addition, our Foundation has accumulated more than $840,000 in an Endowment Fund that is managed by the Minnesota Foundation. This fund generates annual distributions to the Minnesota Valley Health Center.
To make a donation: Send a check, made out to the MVMH Foundation to: MVMH, Attention: Pat Schlegel, 621 S. Fourth Street, Le Sueur, MN 56058.