Community Memorial Hospital Foundation

Director of Development

David Buran

Administrative Staff

David W. Felton, Foundation President
Lawrence Baker, Chairman
Carolyn Gowan, Vice Chairman
Patricia Caprio, Secretary
Matt Norris, Treasurer

Directors

Lawrence Baker
Patricia Caprio
John Cochran
Robert Delorme, MD
Carolyn Gowan
Susie Gustafson
David Hale
Alice Jacobs
Polly Mahoney
Matt Norris
Jim Sessler
Barbara Wheler
Lee Woltman
Richard Woodman

The Community Memorial Foundation was established in 2001 to consolidate all fundraising efforts for the hospital. The $1.1 million Golden Anniversary Campaign, which was launched simultaneously, was successfully completed on December 31, 2007.

The hospital has now begun the Campaign for Community Memorial Hospital: Caring for Your Future, a $1.5 million effort to meet the needs of capital equipment and to build the endowment.

David W. Felton, President and CEO of Community Memorial feels the campaign is essential to, maintain and expand upon the tremendous growth of the past 25 years.

Foundation Board Chair Lawrence Baker agrees, Community Memorial has escaped the plight of many small, rural hospitals thanks in large part to the financial support of area friends, businesses, institutions, staff and patients. The Campaign for Community Memorial Hospital is an opportunity to help purchase capital equipment for radiology, cardiology, surgery and in all other departments. Donors can also make gifts to the endowment, providing funds that will generate income for the future.

Susie Gustafson, a Hamilton Realtor, and retired physician/surgeon Dr. George Gillmore, have agreed to co-chair the campaign.

The hospital is so vital to this community and the surrounding area that it must maintain updated standards at all levels of care, said Dr. Gillmore. To do that requires money; specifically, a monetary commitment from those it serves.

Gustafson has played a key role in several fundraising projects and is a long time supporter of the hospital.

The community has a history of generously supporting the hospital. Community Memorial was able to raise $750,000 in the mid-eighties, $1.2 million in the early nineties, a additional $750,000 late in the decade, and is now $1.1 million to begin the Millennium. Considerable funds have been raised through the Hospital Auxiliary as well.

To make a gift

Checks made out to Community Memorial Hospital Foundation should be mailed to:

David W. Felton, President & CEO
Community Memorial Hospital
150 Broad St.
Hamilton, NY 13346

For information on making a gift, please contact David W. Felton at (315) 824-6080 or at dfelton@cmhhamilton.com.

Please consider putting Community Memorial Hospital in your Will.