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BPSS luncheon highlights Hope Lodge Dallas
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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.
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