Grinnell
State Bank has made a $250,000 pledge to Grinnell Regional Medical Center’s Moving at the Speed of Life comprehensive
campaign. The gift has been made in memory of Marion A. Jones and will create The
Marion A. Jones Patient Care Wing.
“We
felt very honored as a family when GRMC proposed naming a wing after Mom,” says
F. Austin Jones, son of Marion and F. Addison Jones. “It is meaningful to us,
and we are sure it would be with her, too. We also appreciate that this wing is
located beneath the Kintzinger Women’s Health Center, named for her very dear
friend, Jewel Kintzinger Day.”
In
the spirit of encouraging greater community participation in the campaign,
Grinnell State Bank is issuing a challenge. The bank is giving $100,000 to the
medical center as an outright gift and then will match dollar-for-dollar every
new gift to the campaign up to a total match of $150,000.
“This
gift provides a tremendous opportunity for donors to see their gifts double in
value,” says Todd Linden, GRMC president and CEO. “Our success in this effort
will bring us closer to being able to begin renovations on our emergency
department. This is truly a remarkable gift. All of us at GRMC are grateful for
this wonderful act of generosity by the Jones family. It is also an
understatement when I say how thrilled we all are to be naming one of our first
floor patient wings after Marion, who has played such a vital role in the
medical center’s history.”
As
the first female president of the hospital’s board of directors, Marion Jones
led the organization through many tough decisions. She helped hospital administrators
move toward increasing the hospital’s outpatient care services.
“There
is no question that Marion Jones had a profound and lasting effect on GRMC,” Linden
adds. “She served as board chair through a very difficult period. Her excellent leadership during this time with
the board, the medical staff, and the community as a whole was pivotal to
keeping the hospital open.”
In
addition to her eight years of service to the Grinnell General Hospital board
of directors, she was a tireless member of the auxiliary and an active
fund-raiser for the hospital. She and Kintzinger Day organized several
successful hospital charity balls and together they turned the gift shop into a
profitable money maker for the auxiliary.
“From
fundraising activities, auctions, and fairs, Jones demonstrated her belief that
the cause was one that all area residents should support and have fun doing so,”
Linden says. “She believed strongly in engaging the wider community as hospital
supporters. Her efforts built a level of community philanthropy that is
extraordinary and enviable for many hospitals and community organizations.”
The
Jones family, led by Marion’s husband, Addison, continues her legacy of
commitment to GRMC through this major gift and challenge in her memory. The Jones’s grandson, Fitzpatrick A. “Rusty”
Jones, currently serves on the GRMC board of directors. He is the fourth
generation of the Jones family to serve on the board of directors for the
hospital that is now known as GRMC.
F. A. Jones, Addison’s father, served on the
board of directors of Community Hospital. A major gift from Grinnell State Bank
and the Jones family to GRMC’s Blueprint
for Health campaign in the mid-2000s is now helping GRMC establish a new
home for its physical and occupational therapy services. Construction on the F.A.
Jones Physical and Occupational Therapy Center will begin in October on the
first floor of the Ahrens Medical Arts Building.
“We owe a great deal to Marion and Addison
Jones,” says Dan Agnew, co-chair of the Moving
at the Speed of Life comprehensive campaign. “The Jones family and the
employees of Grinnell State Bank have always been vital supporters and
promoters of the hospital. GRMC enjoys extraordinary community support that is
enviable by other hospitals. Their efforts to engage the entire community to
support the hospital is a very big part of why we enjoy a superb hospital
today.”
Gifts
to the Grinnell Regional Medical Center’s Moving
at the Speed of Life comprehensive campaign are making possible:
§ Extensive renovations to the
emergency department to modernize it.
§ The creation of an urgent care
clinic.
§ The creation of a new chemotherapy
and infusion department.
§ The purchase of a state-of-the-art
daVinci®
surgical robotic system and new CT scanner.
§ Renovations to Postels Community
Health Park to accommodate GRMC’s growing wellness program.
§ The replacement of equipment for
obstetrics and radiology departments, patient rooms, and nutrition services.
For
more information about making a gift to the Moving
at the Speed of Life campaign and to participate in the challenge, please
contact Denise Lamphier, director of communications and development, at
641-236-2589 or dlamphier@grmc.us.
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