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For release June 9, 2010
LCC awarded $800,000 Kresge Foundation grant for Health and Wellness Center
Grand opening planned for September 23 at 4 p.m.
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Health and Wellness Center |
EUGENE, OR – The Lane Community College Opening Doors fundraising campaign has met an $800,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation for the college's new Health and Wellness Center.
The grant brings the campaign to $19 million towards its goal of $23 million. "This is a significant milestone in the campaign," notes Lane President Dr. Mary Spilde. "We're now closer to our goal and better positioned to provide more nursing and health care education for our community."
The campaign will fund a new Health and Wellness Center on main campus, faculty endowments, scholarship endowments, and a fund for innovation.
The Kresge challenge grant was met by leveraging gifts totaling $2 million including donations from Oregon Medical Group, Slocum Orthopedics, Oregon Urology Foundation, PeaceHealth Siuslaw Region, The Papé Group, John and Chrissy Murphy, Hamilton Construction Company, Patricia Shepard and Family, The Hites Foundation, and The Haugland Foundation.
The Opening Doors campaign public phase kicked off in 2009 with gifts of $500,000 or greater from six donors including the Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation/ PeaceHealth Oregon Region, John and Robin Jaqua Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, The Haugland Foundation, Tykeson Family Charitable Trust, Carlton and Joy Woodard, and J. Douglas McKay. The campaign also has received gifts of $100,000 or greater from the Meyer Memorial Trust, Chambers Family Foundation, N.B. Giustina Foundation, and PacificSource Health Plans.
"The success of the campaign is a tribute to so many people who recognize and support the college's ambition and goal of being a leader of health care education in the state," says Tony Baker, chair of the Lane Foundation board of trustees, chair of the Opening Doors campaign, and editor and publisher of The Register-Guard. "Even in these difficult economic times it has been gratifying to see that our message resonates with not only medical professionals but scores of others in the community as well who are keenly interested in the quality of local health care. The generous spirit of those who've given to this campaign is remarkable."
The campaign is the college's first comprehensive capital campaign. Funding for the two-story, 41,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Health and Wellness Center, along with funding for additional faculty, will allow Lane to double the number of nursing graduates. Lane is the only provider of associate degree registered nurse training in Lane County. Lane also offers respiratory therapy, physical therapy assistant, and other health care training.
The center is targeted to be certified for the Gold LEED standard. The LEED program encourages sustainable green building practices through a ratings system that recognizes strategies that improve environmental and health performance.
Construction crews broke ground on the new Health and Wellness Center on June 15, 2009. The building is on track for completion in August, with a grand opening celebration planned for September 23 at 4 p.m.
A web camera view of the construction is available online at 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/healthwellness/webcam.html
Lane is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
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