AS THE END OF LIFE DRAWS NEAR,
EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY IS
TIME TO BE CHERISHED.
The positive impact of Quiet Oaks - and its expertise on end-of-life care - is needed now more than ever. With your help, we can build a future where every person - regardless of age, income or background - can spend the final days of their life in a loving, supportive community with extraordinary hospice care that feels like home.
THROUGH CAMPAIGN INVESTMENTS,
QUIET OAKS WILL BUILD FOR THE FUTURE WITH THESE CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES:
- Compassionate Care Funds that offset operating costs and ensure Quiet Oaks Compassionate Care is accessible to more people.
- Capital improvements to the house and surrounding property.
- Programming for end-of-life care and education. Resources for educational opportunities, services and outreach for community members, healthcare staff and other professionals.
BE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY MATCH
Your support is more important now than ever as Quiet Oaks remains committed to our mission of providing high quality, personalized care, comfort and dignity to our residents and their families in the remaining days of their lives together. In order to accomplish our mission, we need your help. We are thrilled to announce a $250,000 match made possible through the generosity of community donors.
Each dollar raised up to $250,000 will be
matched dollar for dollar thanks to:
Bonnie Singh • Diana Cook • AnnElise Bergstrom • Pat Lynch • Pat & Gloria Bauer
Lee & Vicki Morgan • Dick & Mimi Bitzan • David & Sarah Jane Nicoll
WHY WE SUPPORT QUIET OAKS HOSPICE HOUSE
Capital Campaign Co-Chairs:
Mary & joe bauer and
deb & dr. Patrick lalley
"We are supporting Quiet Oaks because it is the singular, valuable place in our community where patients, their families and friends, hospice and medical personnel, faith leaders and volunteers can gather to give comfort and healing to those who are dying."
"We feel that Quiet Oaks is important and vital to the community and hope that more individuals will be able to experience this in the future. Now is the time to ensure that Quiet Oaks Hospice House will continue to serve Central Minnesota families for many future generations."
volunteer & donor:
arlen johnson
"I support Quiet Oaks because this place is like a home to me - the staff and other volunteers have become my family. I am financially supporting Quiet Oaks to ensure this place is still around when I need it - there is no other place like this."
Quiet Oaks: Mixed Emotions and Mustard Seeds
By Bob Filipczak, spouse of former resident and current volunteer
A neighbor contacted me to let me know her father had just been admitted to Quiet Oaks. She knew I had a lot of history with the place after years of volunteering and spending my last days with my wife Amy there, I was immediately sad for her and her family, knowing that it meant it was time to say goodbye to a loved one, but also glad because I knew she and her father and her whole family would be taken care of. The nurses, the staff, the cooks (like me), the volunteers, the gardens, the very boards of the building seem to conspire to lift up people who are facing the end. Quiet Oaks provides care at a level that both exceeds and transcends typical end-of-life care. It sounds boastful, and maybe it it, but I'm proud to be a part of it.
It's that jumble of mixed emotions that I want to talk about, because at first glance you might say "how can you be glad that someone is in hospice?" It's both. It is, as they say, complicated.
For a current list of naming opportunities or for any questions, please contact Kristin Darnall, Director of Development & Operations (kdarnall@qohh.org)
