| Leaders of a capital campaign for Gig Harbor’s new hospital announced in March the start of the public phase of the initiative to raise a total of $10 million for the project. St. Anthony Hospital, expected to open in Gig Harbor North in 2009, is being built by Franciscan Health Systems and Catholic Health Initiatives. The campaign has raised $7 million during an eight-month “quiet” phase, and the new phase of the campaign will seek to raise the final $3 million from the general public.
“The response to the Campaign for St. Anthony Hospital has been absolutely wonderful,” said Rick Larson, Gig Harbor resident who with Sharon Snuffin is chairing the St. Anthony campaign. “We are very grateful for the generosity shown by this community for this very special hospital.”
Snuffin, also a longtime Gig Harbor resident, noted the community has expressed overwhelming support for St. Anthony since the Franciscan organization announced it would build the area’s first and only acute-care hospital.
The hospital will cost approximately $150 million. Money generated by the campaign for will help pay for special medical technology and many other enhancements to the facility.
The Campaign for St. Anthony was launched in 2007 with a $1.5 million gift from the George F. Russell Jr. Fund at The Russell Family Foundation in Gig Harbor. Other lead donors include the Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation, $2 million; Mary Ann Walters, $1 million; TRA Medical Imaging, $350,000; Ben B. Cheney Foundation, $300,000; an anonymous donor, $150,000; Columbia Bank, $100,000; Brian Dammeier, $100,000; Rick, Susan, Jennifer and Kristen Larson, $100,000; Dan and Pat Nelson, $100,000; Rainier Pacific Bank, $100,000; Gordon and Traci Rush, $100,000; and Sharon Snuffin, $100,000.
The balance of the money raised to date has come from 65 other donors, who have pledged between $1,000 and $50,000.
“We are extremely grateful to all of our donors who have already stepped forward to help us launch this effort,” said Larson. “Now we are reaching out to everyone else who loves this community and asking them to contribute whatever amount they can to help build a legacy of world-class hospital care in Gig Harbor.”
Donors who pledge $25,000 or more to the Campaign for St. Anthony are being offered an opportunity to have their name or the name of a loved one permanently linked with a specific room or area of the hospital.
To learn more about the Campaign for St. Anthony Hospital, call (253) 857-1436 or email the campaign director, Bob Krotz, at bobkrotz@FHShealth.org.
For information about St. Anthony Hospital and its construction status, please go online to www.GigHarborHospital.org.
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