GIFT PLANNING
BPSS luncheon highlights Hope Lodge Dallas
On Monday , April 18 , Baylor Health Care System Foundation hosted the seventh annual Boone Powell Sr . Society Luncheon . This annual luncheon provides an opportunity to express gratitude and honor the more than 200 members of the Society . Membership in the Boone Powell Sr . Society is available to anyone who informs the Foundation they have made a gift through a will or have designated the Foundation as a beneficiary of their estate .
The luncheon program highlighted the partnership between Baylor Scott & White Health and the American Cancer Society ( ACS ) to build a Hope Lodge facility on the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas campus .
The home-like facility will offer free accommodations for 50 cancer patients and their caregivers who are traveling more than 40 miles for their care . The building will also house the regional headquarters of the ACS .
Rowland K . Robinson , Foundation president , led a panel discussion with Deidre Bacala , director of major gifts for ACS ; Tori Wickard , an architect with Perkins + Will ; and Diane Dobbs , a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors in Wichita Falls who gave her personal testimony about what it is like to travel with a loved one for cancer care .
Diane said a comfortable place to stay during treatment wouldn ’ t have changed the final outcome for her husband , Kenny , but it would have reduced her many concerns during his final months . “ If we didn ’ t have to worry about the travel and the hotel and how we could afford these , Kenny could have just rested , and I could have just been with him . You don ’ t get that time back . If we had something like Hope Lodge , it would have been so great . I ’ m telling you , this will change people ’ s lives ,” said Diane .
$ 25 million is needed to complete the project . Construction will not begin until 85 percent of funding has been secured . To date , more than $ 10 million has been raised .
If you have named the Foundation as a beneficiary of an estate gift , or for more information about the Boone Powell Sr . Society or planned giving opportunities , contact Cynthia Krause at 214.820.7928 or Cynthia . Krause @ BSWHealth . org . To visit the website , go to www . BaylorHealth . PlanYourLegacy . org .
Deidre Bacala , John McWhorter , Tori Wickard , Rowland K . Robinson and Diane Dobbs
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