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Supporting Community Health Services
Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation is a nonprofit organization. We are a planned giving organization that supports the outstanding medical services and programs of Weatherford Regional Hospital. The nonprofit Foundation is dedicated to fund-raising efforts on behalf of the Hospital, which has achieved a reputation as a medical facility with the finest physicians, as well as an array of specialty care services, community health programs and quality of life activities. Your gifts to Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation helps enhance patient programs, fund life-saving equipment and capital projects and support charity care programs and services for those who need it most.
Since its founding in 1950, Weatherford Regional Hospital has been fulfilling its mission to provide compassionate, exemplary, cost-effective health care services that are responsive to the ever-changing needs of our community. What began years ago has evolved into a multifaceted beacon of health care excellence, a center for care, and a multi-specialty clinic site. Weatherford Regional Hospital is home to many leading-edge health care services in western Oklahoma.
Supporting Thru Donations
As a nonprofit organization, Weatherford Regional relies on the generosity of friends like YOU within our walls and within the communities we serve to uphold our exceptional standard of care. The Foundation is a separate organization established to conduct fund-raising activities for the sole benefit of the Hospital, and to manage and allocate donations to the Hospital in accordance with donor wishes. Over the years, many caring individuals, corporations and foundations have played a significant role in bringing new medical technologies, new facilities and enhanced patient care initiatives to our community.
Your donations currently will benefit telemedicine programs that leverage technology to remove geographic barriers and bring primary and specialty care to patients in our community and surrounding communities.
When you donate to Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation, you support critical projects in our community. That’s right. Every dollar you give advances health care right here at home.
Generous community support is rooted in Weatherford's legacy of caring and is part of our blueprint for the future as we move forward to expand and enhance its medical capabilities, bringing an ever-increasing quality of health care to our community.
The Foundation welcomes individual donations in any amount. Donors can designate that funds be used for the following: continuing education, nursing development, equipment, or use by a particular staff member.
If you would like to have more information about the foundation, please contact Katie Bartmann at 580-819-2456.
Giving To the Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation
We Keep It Simple
We handle all administration and legal requirements associated with endowments, allowing you to focus on your charitable goals.
Financial Benefits
Because we are a 501(c)(3) public charity, you receive the maximum tax benefits available for your charitable gifts.
Flexibility
We accept a variety of gifts and will customize a giving plan that fits your charitable goals.
Give to an Existing Fund
You may give to any of the permanent endowments we administer to support charitable organizations, scholarships and awards, special purposes in the community or memorial gifts.
Create Your Own Fund
Whether you want to honor a loved one’s memory, create a family legacy or simply give to the organizations you care about, we offer several fund options to help accomplish your charitable objectives.
Giving Now
Cash Gifts
Cash contributions may be in the form of cash, check, money order or cashier’s check.
Mail to: Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation, PO Box 268, Weatherford, OK 73096.Credit Cards
Secure online givingIRA Charitable Rollover
Real Estate
Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds
Business-related Assets
Oil and Gas Interests and Royalty Interests
Grateful Families
Weatherford Regional Hospital patients and their families often want to say “thanks” in some special way for the exceptional care they received. Our Grateful Families program is one way to express gratitude while helping share the gift of healing with others.
Giving Later
Bequests
Retirement Plan Assets
Life Insurance
Charitable Gift Annuities
Charitable Remainder Trusts
A substantial number of forward-thinking supporters wish to preserve Weatherford Regional Hospital’s legacy of health care excellence for future generations by including a gift to Weatherford Regional Hospital in their estate planning. Aside from the tax advantages associated with planned giving strategies, making a deferred gift allows you to support a favorite charity without jeopardizing current or future income. By including Weatherford Regional in your estate planning, you have the opportunity to affiliate yourself indefinitely with the Hospital mission and ensure that outstanding health care will continue to enrich the lives of you or your neighbors for generations to come.
Any individual, corporation, foundation or other organization may make a gift payable to the Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation. Gifts or bequests to the Foundation attain full tax benefits for the donor. All gifts made to Weatherford Regional Hospital Foundation remain at Weatherford Regional and are used for the sole benefit of the Hospital and the community we serve.
If you would like to become a member of the Weatherford Regional Hospital family of supporters, you may do so in several ways: You may designate your gift for a restricted purpose or specific project, or you may allow the Foundation's Board of Trustees to determine the most necessary application of your donation. You may make a donation to memorialize or commemorate any individual, family or group. You may make a planned gift or donation, to maximize tax advantages and/or protect current or deferred future income. You may wish to make a corporate matching gift.
Become a Part of Our Future
Now that you've become more familiar with the Foundation and its mission to maintain Weatherford Regional Hospital as a leading provider of quality medical care, we hope that you are inspired to become part of our future. Whether your gift is an immediate contribution or a planned gift, there is a role for everyone who wants to ensure that their community hospital remains at the forefront of exceptional health care.
It all comes back to YOU!