Bluestem Foundation
Planning Your Year-end Gifts
It is the mission of Jane Phillips Medical Center to provide healthcare and related ministries for the people we serve, especially the sick, the poor, and the powerless. In this past year alone, our hospital provided $6.2 million in indigent care. JPMC provides care for each person who enters our doors regardless of their ability to pay.
An additional component of our mission calls for us to successfully address unmet needs in our community and to anticipate future demands for healthcare. As we carry out our mission, we are guided by our core values of Service, Human Dignity, Presence, and Wisdom. This means that we value the opportunity to serve the sick. We reverence human life and promote the dignity of each person. Through our presence we provide compassionate care to our patients and seek to alleviate their pain and suffering. We ask God to provide us wisdom so that we exercise responsible stewardship in the use of our resources. As you contemplate your charitable giving plans for the remainder of 2009, I would ask that you consider the value in supporting your local hospital. In doing so, your spirit of generosity and compassion will be multiplied many times as you help us provide medical care and services to each person who enters our doors.
God's Blessings.
David R. Stire, President/CEO
Where Your Help Is Needed:
- Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE). Seniors comprise an overwhelming percentage of hospital patients. JPMC provides acute nursing care to older adults with special emphasis on prevention of physical and mental decline. This is done through an ongoing program that focuses on geriatric nursing measures to promote healing and minimize complications.
- Cancer Center. On a typical day, there are over two dozen people receiving treatment in this facility. Your gift helps us ensure that cancer patients in our area receive the best possible care.
- Critical Care Unit (CCU). This highly-specialized unit cares for the most seriously ill or injured patients. A gift to our CCU assists us in providing the finest in specialized care to those in need.
- Surgery. Over 335 surgical procedures are done each month at Jane Phillips Medical Center. As innovation brings about improvements in surgical equipment, your support is needed as we seek to keep pace with these important developments.
- Heart/Lung Center, Wellness Connection. Serving nearly 250 people each day, the wellness facility takes an aggressive approach to fighting heart disease. Some persons do not have access to insurance or financial resources to continue their cardiopulmonary rehab. Your gift can help fund scholarships to assist these individuals on their road to recovery.
- Indigent Care. Your contribution to the Bluestem Foundation's Indigent Care Fund will help us continue to meet our mission of serving the sick, the poor, and the powerless. We believe health is a basic human value. We strive to maintain and to restore the physical, spiritual, social, and emotional well-being of all who come to us for care.
How To Help:
- Simply Write a Check. There's no easier way to gain a charitable deduction and to support JPMC at the same time. Your gift is fully deductible on your federal return up to 50% of your adjusted gross income. Gifts exceeding this threshold may be carried forward for tax purposes for up to five years.
- Rollover IRA. If you are over age 70 ½ and are considering making a gift to charity before the end of the year, consider making the gift with a charitable rollover from your traditional IRA to the charity. You can exclude up to $100,000 of the rollover amount from your 2009 income and, as a bonus, the amount counts towards your Required Minimum Distribution for the year. In addition, if you are a retiree of a company that matches qualified charitable gifts, you may be able to double your gift by completing the necessary paperwork and submitting it to your former employer.
- Gifts of Stock. You can receive a tax deduction for the full fair market value of the stock on the date of the gift. Plus, you avoid paying capital gains tax on any increase in the value of the stock that may have occurred during its ownership.
- Gifts of Real Estate. An outright sale of a home, a commercial property or a farm would result in a capital gains tax, assuming the value has increased during ownership. A property gift to Bluestem Foundation could help you avoid capital gains taxes and to receive a charitable deduction for the full market value of the property.
- Gifts Producing Life Income. You transfer the assets now in an irrevocable arrangement. Yet, you continue to receive income from the gift, such as cash, securities, or other property. Such a gift may allow you to receive a significant deduction for a charitable contribution. It may also allow you to increase your income stream from the asset; and, in the case of stock or property, you may avoid capital gains tax on the appreciated value. Each individual's situation is unique, so consultation with your professional advisor is essential.
(This information is presented with the intent of providing accurate and authoritative material of general character only. Neither Jane Phillips Medical Center nor Bluestem Regional Medical Development Foundation is engaged in offering legal or tax advice. We would be pleased to provide you, your attorney, your trust officer, your accountant, or your financial advisor with additional information and assistance. Information in this publication is general in nature. We encourage you to contact your own professional financial advisor to learn how this general information may relate to your unique financial situation.)
For more information, contact Mike Wilt, Executive Director, at 918/331-1431 or email him at mwilt@jpmc.org.
Bluestem Foundation Board Members:
Betty Dalrymple, Chairman
Kenneth G. Adams, Vice Chairman
Mark Denyer, Secretary
Bruce Brookby, MD, Treasurer
Kenneth G. Adams
Jerry Barnett
Edd Bellatti
Charlie Bowerman
Craig Bradshaw
Bruce Brookby
Sherry Cox
Betty Dalrymple
Julie Daniels
Stan DeFehr, MD
Mark Denyer
Donald D. Doty
Frederick Drummond
JoAnn Gallery
Tom Gorman
Tracy Harlow
Lee Holcombe
Charles H. Johnson, DDS
Robert Kane
David Kedy
David King
Maurice Krause, MD
Mike May
David Oakley, Jr.
Mary Simpson
