Many grateful patients give yearly gifts

After receiving excellent care from Beebe’s Tunnell Cancer Center or other Beebe Healthcare services, many grateful patients give a gift to thank their nurses, physicians and staff, but then continue giving every year through the annual fund. Beebe Medical Foundation’s Annual Fund provides the necessary funds for critical equipment, services and the daily needs of all departments.

Other grateful patients and their families decide to make a long-term gift to Beebe Medical Foundation through the establishment of an endowment. An endowment is a fund made up of gifts and bequests that are subject to a requirement that the principal be maintained intact and invested to create a source of income for an organization.

Donors may set up an endowment to fund a specific interest. An endowment requires that the principal remain intact in perpetuity, or for a defined period of time, or until sufficient assets have been accumulated to achieve a designated purpose.

Contributions can be made online at beebehce.org, mailed to 902 Savannah Road, Lewes, DE 19958, or taken over the phone at 302-644-2900.

A Gift

Today is no ordinary day - Today is a gift

Yesterday was a gift as well

And if there's a tomorrow, another surprise

I'll smell the fragrance of wild flowers admire the birds as they soar

I'll look for the rainbow after the rain

And rejoice I've been given another sunrise

Today is the day I count my many blessings

The smiles of hapoy children

My faithful friends, my trusty dog

The love of my family

Today I'm not sick, I'm not in pain

I don't have this cancer, this insidious disease today

I am whole, I am full of life

Today I am grateful for all the beauty I see

Written by Sharon Drummond, a cancer survivor and former patient at Beebe Healthcare’s Tunnell Cancer Center.