Southern Health: Help Us Continue to Care

• Donations
• Bequests
• Corporate Support
• In-Memoriam Donations
• Volunteering

Message from Southern Health’s Chief Executive

All members of the community have a stake in ensuring the best health care is available when they may need it, and the best services is a partnership where we all contribute together.

Fundraising and donations enable Southern Health to buy the additional equipment, improve facilities and environments and conduct research to further benefit those who rely on us when they need our help.

The extra support we can receive helps us ensure that the best possible care we can provide will be there when you need it. Our ability to consistently offer our unique comprehensive services and facilities is enhanced by the generosity of patients (past and present), individual donors, community groups and corporate supporters.

Southern Health’s Fundraising Department, based at Monash Medical Centre Clayton, is there to help you contribute to your health service, including general donations, and donations relating to equipment, corporate support, events and bequests. Donations of $2 or more to Southern Health are fully tax deductible.

For further information on how you may like to support your health service, please contact 9594 7689 or email michelle.rule@southernhealth.org.au.

These improvements may include:

the purchase and/or replacement of medical equipment the refurbishment of patient accommodation areas the expansion of clinical programs and surgical services. the conduct of valuable research and clinical trials into the causes of various diseases.

There are many ways you can demonstrate your support of Southern Health. These include:

• General donations
• Bequests
• Corporate/ Business Community Support
• In Memoriam Donations
• Events and other fundraising activities

For further information on how you may be able to support Southern Health, please contact our Fundraising Coordinator, Michelle Rule on 03 9594 7689 or e-mail: michelle.rule@southernhealth.org.au

DONATIONS

You can help support the important work being done by Southern Health by using our internet donation form.
Click here to view / download a donation form.

Donation options are as follows:

• For credit card donations either call 03 9594 7689 or print the form above and either fax it to
  03 9594 6677 or post it to the address below.
• For cheques and/or money orders you should print this form and post it to the same address:

Southern Health Fundraising
246 Clayton Road
CLAYTON VIC 3168

Gifts of $2.00 or more are tax deductible.

BEQUESTS

Southern Health – caring for our community

By supporting a member of Southern Health in your Will you will be helping improve your community’s health and provide a legacy which will have a positive and lasting impact on millions of people.

Click here to view / download a bequests brochure

Types of Bequests

Your solicitor or trustee company can give you more information, but in general there are three major types of bequests.

Specific Bequests are gifts of particular articles of property, such as houses or land, shares, cars, furniture, jewellery, books, etc. given to a particular person or organisation.

General Bequests are usually sums of money or percentages of the value of your estate given to persons or organisations.

Residual Bequests are what is remaining of your estate after the specific and general bequests have been distributed. For example, you may leave residual bequests to your family, friends, or an organisation such as a registered charity. In your Will you can nominate how this is to be divided.

Leaving a Bequest to a Southern Health Service / facility.

When preparing your Will, your immediate family should always be the first ones you consider when dividing up your estate.

However, you may also like to consider a bequest to one of Southern Health’s facilities, enabling us to improve and expand upon the health services we provide to the millions of patients that rely on us each year.

For some people, giving through their estate is the only time they will be able to give a significant gift to an organisation which has helped them throughout their lives.

The following is some suggested wording, should you wish to support one of our health care facilities.

More Information.

Further information about how best to leave a lasting legacy in your Will to Southern Health can be found in our bequest brochure “Help Us Continue to Care”. For your free copy of this booklet and our other “Wills” kit information simply e-mail us at fundraising@southernhealth.org.au  or phone us on 03 9594 7689.

If you would like to discuss how you can help one of our vital public health care services through your Will, please phone Michelle Rule on 03 9594 7689 or e-mail: michelle.rule@southernhealth.org.au

CORPORATE SUPPORT

Southern Health, as the largest public health service in Victoria, welcomes the support of the business community.

Companies ranging from some of Australia’s largest corporations to a number of smaller local businesses, have given generously over the years to Southern Health hospitals, with both their time, and expertise.

This has enabled our hospitals - Casey Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Kingston Centre, Monash Medical Centre - Clayton and Moorabbin, to purchase much needed medical equipment, undertake major capital redevelopments, expand their clinical and surgical services and provide better patient care to many thousands of people.

There are many ways that this support has been realised, including:

• Cash gifts or donations
  Donating money towards the purchase of specific items of medical equipment to clinical areas in need. Donations of $2 or more to Southern Health are tax deductible.
   
• Cause-related marketing and special events
  Active participation in fundraising and public relations events and promotions designed to raise funds for a specific purpose such as research into diseases, building works, equipment purchases etc. This type of support often includes a cash donation pledge as well as offering your organisation’s expertise in marketing and promotional initiatives.
   
• Payroll deductions and gift matching
  Some organisations have "adopted" a Southern Health service, by encouraging their staff to consider regular and small deductions from their pay, which are then transferred electronically to our banking account. These employee contributions are tax deductible. Matching their employees’ commitment to Southern Health, companies will often match (dollar for dollar), the level of support provided by their staff.
   
• Gifts in Kind & Pro Bono Services
  Businesses that may not be in the position to provide a cash gift, often demonstrate their support by donating some of their products or services. This may be the provision of a raffle prize, the provision of food and/or other consumables which might otherwise be an operational or event management expense to the Southern Health, or by providing their technical and professional skills free of charge (ie printing, marketing and legal advice)
   
• Staff / Community Group Fundraising
  Local businesses and community groups sometimes choose to run a company function or social event (ie. golf day, BBQ, Dinner Dance or Trivia Night in support of a Southern Health service). Proceeds from such occasions are then passed onto the Unit or service of their choosing.

If you or your company are interested in discussing ways you might be able to help Southern Health, please contact our Fundraising Coordinator, Michelle Rule on 03 9594 7689 or e-mail: michelle.rule@southernhealth.org.au

IN- MEMORIAM DONATIONS

Many people find comfort in making a gift in lieu of flowers to Hospitals, in recognition of the medical care and attention provided to someone who has recently died.

Each of Southern Health’s  hospitals Monash Medical Centre – Clayton & Moorabbin, Dandenong Hospital and the Kingston Centre and the new Casey Hospital are grateful recipients of these gifts using them to purchase much needed medical equipment that one day will help save the lives of others.

Southern Health’s Fundraising Department produces a series of In-Memoriam donation envelopes which can be given to families and their chosen funeral director on request.

These envelopes are then distributed at the funeral service to those interested in supporting the family’s wishes.

Money collected at the funeral is then forwarded to Southern Health by either the family or the funeral company within days of the service.

Money is also received via the post from those who have collected an envelop at the funeral service and made a subsequent donation.

To receive a supply of In-Memoriam donation envelopes, please phone Southern Health Fundraising on 9594 7689 or e-mail us on fundraising@southernhealth.org.au.

Events Calendar 2009

• If you would like any further information, please ring:           9594 7818

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