Dec 24 2009
SECU members have once again exemplified their “People Helping People” giving spirit through their Foundation’s support of Hospice of Wake County. A $500,000 check was presented to Hospice of Wake County at a December 17, 2009 Hospice Volunteer Appreciation event.
Picture left to right: Shirley Bell, Hospice of Wake County Board members John Bason and Chip Anderson, and McKinley Wooten
The grant will be used to construct SECU Healing Gardens, a peaceful, reflective area to benefit patients and their families. On hand for the check presentation were SECU Foundation Board of Directors Chairman Shirley Bell, as well as McKinley Wooten, Vice Chairman of SECU’s Board of Directors.
The grant was first announced in October 2008 and is a matching gift to Hospice of Wake County “Building Partners in Caring” capital campaign. The newly completed Hospice and Palliative Care Center is scheduled for public dedication on January 9, 2010 and will serve five North Carolina counties.
Shirley Bell, Chairman of SECU Foundation Board of Directors, comments, “This new Hospice of Wake County center will give families a free-standing facility where compassionate, tender end-of-life care for patients and support for their loved ones will be administered. The new facility is a great complement to the longstanding care already being provided through Hospice of Wake County. Hospice shares the Credit Union’s philosophy of ‘People Helping People,’ which makes it a perfect fit for SECU members’ support.”
Michael D. Blanchard, Vice President of Development for Hospice of Wake County, adds, “We are so pleased to be able to share the fruition of a 30-year dream with members of our community. The building of this facility and the surrounding campus has been a labor of love, one we undertook to ensure no patient would ever be turned away from service, just because of their living conditions. In fact, we will serve about 600 patients each year in the hospice home, in addition to the 5,000 we serve in their own homes. We truly appreciate the generosity of SECU members in making SECU Healing Gardens a great addition to the Wake County hospice campus.”
Source: https://www.ncsecu.org/