A small rural hospital in Randolph raised $4.7 million for its capital campaign.
Gifford Medical Center’s fundraising campaign, called Vision for the Future, started in 2013 and went public in the spring 2014, according to a news release.
The money is being raised for a three-phase project to build a new nursing home, renovate nursing space to give patients private rooms, and create a new birthing center.
“In planning our campaign we believed that every gift was important, large or modest, and that the willingness to give to support others in the community was significant,” Lincoln Clark, the co-chair of the campaign, said in a news release.
“We have raised $4,685,548,” Clark said. “Our largest gift of $1 million came from the Gifford Medical Auxiliary, which laid the foundation for a successful campaign and the hundreds of gifts that followed.”
Gifford Medical Center said the three-phase project will help ensure that the hospital can continue to provide the best possible health care “from newborns through old age, locally for generations to come.”
The new nursing home, called Menig, opened in May 2015, according to the hospital. Twenty-five private rooms opened in December. The new birthing center opened June 22.
“When it was clear that the Birthing Center renovation—the final phase of the project — would open in mid-June, our campaign committee decided to celebrate the end of our campaign at the same time,” Ashley Lincoln, the hospital’s director of development, said in a statement.
“As each phase was completed, campaign contributors could see firsthand the impact their gifts have had on the lives of their neighbors and friends,” Lincoln said. To celebrate, the hospital held a culminating event with more than 125 people on Tuesday.
