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Helen Westland Legacy Society is named in honor of a
true champion for hospice care. She was a strong
advocate for quality, dignified
end-of-life care and services for her community. A dear
friend of Hospice Foundation, Helen Westland, who died in
2006, embodied generosity, kindness and a tireless
commitment.
From the founding of the first hospice program in Monterey
County in 1977, Mrs. Westland was steadfast in her advocacy
and support of hospice care in our community. Over the
years, her leadership in fundraising helped to make hospice
care possible for hundreds of Central Coast families. She
was also instrumental in raising money to build a 28-bed
skilled nursing facility in Monterey, California for
inpatient hospice care. The center opened in 1994 and
is now owned by Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
for post-surgical rehabilitation care. Hospice care is
still available there when needed.
The Society recognizes individuals, like Mrs. Westland, who
have named Hospice Foundation in their estate plans through
either a will, a charitable gift annuity, or other avenues
available, or as an endowment.
Members of the Helen Westland Legacy Society can take pride
in knowing that they are helping to ensure the availability
of quality, dignified and compassionate end-of-life care
into the future.
Members of the Society are also invited each year to the
Foundation's annual meeting where grants are awarded, and to
the annual major donor reception, an elegant cocktail and
hors d'eouvres party to recognize the Foundation's benefactors. Legacy
Society members are also listed in the Foundation's Annual
Report which is published in the Fall.
To request a pamphlet describing the Legacy Society program,
click here.
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