Catalog of Funds

Listed below are the current funds held by the CoxHealth Foundation (CHF). All funds are established for the benefit of patients and community health through education, technology, financial assistance and facilities. This list is updated annually as new funds are created through the generosity of donors. For more information on how to donate to one of these funds or to establish a new fund or endowment, or how to include a fund or funds in your estate plan contact Lisa Alexander, CHF President, 417-269-7109.

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Funds

Restricted Funds

Auxiliary Fund The purpose of the Fund is to promote and advance CoxHealth, it’s mission, staff and programs. This can include the purchase of equipment, capital items, to further education, to provide grants to CoxHealth departments for patient care related items, Auxiliary state projects, Children’s Miracle Network, volunteer crisis assistance, nursing and medical technology scholarships for students of Cox College, Medical Explorer scholarships and to promote the causes of the Auxiliary as well as community projects as selected by the Auxiliary board.

ADE Fund: This fund provides outreach for those wishing to extend medical care out of the norms of the health care setting, into the community at large; as local, national and international care is brought to people in need.

Bethlehem Fund: This fund is for high-risk, low-income expectant mothers. This fund assists with those expenses not covered by insurance or government programs to ensure the healthy delivery of the child. An average of 18 mothers are being assisted per month. A physician’s referral is required to access this fund.

Breast Care Fund: This fund supports the needs of women before and after diagnosis of breast cancer. Funding provision for mammography and biopsy, as well as follow-up care. The Ozarks Women’s Links golf tournament and auction started this fund. An application is required to access this fund.

Chaplain’s Fund: This fund supports the needs of the Pastoral Care program at CoxHealth. This includes education, chapel services, family counseling services and support of all pastoral care needs. This fund also includes a special component to pay for meals for hospital patients in emergency situations. All requests for funding must be approved by the head of the pastoral care department.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Endowment (CAM), Jane A. Meyer Endowment: This fund supports the “Music for Healing” and “Art for Healing” programs that brings in musicians/artists to play/provide distraction at the bedside of terminally ill patients. This fund was started in honor of the late Jane A. Meyer. All musicians/artists are volunteers. All requests for funding must be documented for CAM purposes.

Cox Family Assistance Fund: This fund was established to assist employees and their immediate families at times of unforeseen crisis. Situations that would qualify include loss of home due to natural disaster, fire, loss of income due to the death of a spouse, disability, long-term or terminal illness, etc. An application is required to access this fund, along with supervisor recommendation and a pay stub copy. Employees must also be full time for six months or part time for one year to be qualified for this fund.

Diabetes Education Fund: This fund helps to cover the expenses of education classes to those who cannot afford them for the management of their disease. Currently 30% of patients seen at CoxHealth suffer from Diabetes. An application is required to access this fund.

Family Medicine Residency Endowment Fund: This fund supports and promotes the Family Practice Residency Program at Cox North, which trains physicians in the Family Practice field and includes a component that provides special attention to case management and study of chronic disease, especially diabetes.

Good Samaritan Fund: This fund assists individuals who need help paying their hospital charges at CoxHealth. A committee meets monthly to review applications and award grants. An application with proof of income is required to access this fund. No bills in collections will be considered.

Parkinson’s Fund: This fund supports the creation of the Parkinson’s Clinic of the Ozarks, which provides for diagnosis assistance, review of care, and management of the disease. Documentation of the use of funds is required to access this fund.

Rehabilitation Fund (Meyer Center): This fund assists in providing a comprehensive array of rehabilitative services to all those who utilize CoxHealth for their rehabilitation and recovery. This fund also supports the state-of-the-art Meyer Wellness and Rehabilitation Center, assisting with programs, education equipment, services, and faculty improvements.

Senior Services Fund: This fund helps members of our senior community with immediate, urgent needs. These needs are identified by social workers and Senior Health Center staff. This fund also assists in providing free health screenings for seniors, supports senior services and programs at CoxHealth, and supports Senior Advantage.

Cox Monett Fund: This fund supports the needs of Cox Monett Hospital and the communities served by the hospital. The fund began as the Capital Campaign to renovate the hospital in 2000 and continues to offer funds for new technologies, education, and patient services.

Martin Center Fund: This fund supports the technological needs that will maintain the diagnostic technologies in the Martin Center. This fund also supports facility improvements, services, and programs.

Interventional Radiology Fund: This fund supports educational grants for students in the School of Cardiovascular Interventional Technology. This is a specialized branch of radiology that performs invasive diagnostic procedures. Awards are chosen by a committee of the IR program, an application is required.

Lab Fund: This fund provides for the needs of enhancing excellence in patient care through the services of the CoxHealth lab.

Pharmacy Fund: This fund provides for the needs of enhancing excellence in the pursuit of outstanding clinical excellence in pharmacology at CoxHealth.

Oxford Health Care Hospice Fund: This fund provides for the unfunded needs of patients in the care of Oxford Health Care Hospice.

Life Line Fund: This fund provides for uninsured individuals to receive Life Line services. An application is required to access funds.

Ozarks Dialysis Fund: This fund provides for the unfunded needs of patients receiving care at CoxHealth Dialysis units. An application is required to access funds.

Turner Center Fund: This fund supports the Women’s and Children’s Center established by Bill and Ann Turner, home to the Pediatric Urgent Care. This fund supports facility improvements, maintenance, services, and programs.

*Joyce Schwandt Memorial Library Fund: The Joyce Schwandt library is housed inside the Women’s Center within the Turner Center. Donations help to maintain the library and provide new materials for women in all aspects of healthcare.

Neurological Services Funds

Ozarks Endowment Fund for Neurosciences: This fund is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with neurological disorders through basic and clinical research, education, and community outreach.

Cancer Services Funds

Cancer Endowment Fund: This fund exists to support the long-range needs of oncology programs and services within CoxHealth as well as the day to day patient needs that are unfunded through normal payor sources. This fund is an endowed fund with only interest income earnings spent on programs and services. To date, it has helped support the expansion of the new Radiation Center, Healing Garden, and Hope and Healing Place as well as having helped provide technology for breast cancer patients, patient financial grants, nutritional supplements, medications, mastectomy supplies and much more. Patients must complete an application to access funds.

Glauser Oncology Fund: This fund, created by James and Rosemary Glauser, exists to enhance services, clinical awareness, and technological advances at the Hulston Cancer Center at CoxHealth. The fund has provided thousands of free community-wide Cancer Prevention and Screening Guidebooks and provided the establishment of the Patient Advocacy Program. All newly diagnosed cancer patients can benefit from the free services provided by the Patient Advocate.

Colorectal Cancer Prevention Fund: This fund was established in honor of Tiffany Taylor, colorectal cancer survivor. The fund is used for educational purposes only in providing prevention information to the community on colorectal cancer.

Allenbrand Endowment Fund: This fund established by Rick and Lori Allenbrand exists to support patient needs within the oncology programs at CoxHealth. This may include, but is not limited to, transportation and accommodations, financial counseling, and complementary medicine services. This fund helped establish the Allenbrand Resource Center and the library located on the first floor of the Hulston Cancer Center.

“Hannah’s Hope”- Rosh Jenkins Memorial Fund: This fund is in memory of Rosh Jenkins as a celebration of his life and in honor of other brain cancer patients. Funds are used to provide medical grants for brain cancer patients for treatment, rehabilitation and therapy, medications, travel assistance, research and other identified needs. This fund requires an application be completed to request support.

Cardiology Services Funds

Cardiology Endowment Fund (Wheeler Heart and Vascular Center): This fund exists to support the current and long-range needs of cardiac services at CoxHealth at the Wheeler Heart and Vascular Center, patient care and technology enhancements. This is an endowed fund with only the interest earnings being spent on program and service needs. Patient requests require an application to access funds.

Stroke Fund: This fund supports the Stroke Clinic at CoxHealth by providing support for patient needs through education and technology. This fund will assist in providing additional resource materials to patients and their families in the Stroke Clinic library.

Nursing Funds

Nursing Practice and Excellence Fund: The purpose of the Fund is to support the advancement of nursing excellence, including but not limited to the education of the nursing staff to include seminars, educational classes/conferences, the cost of obtaining nursing certifications, grants for educational programming, paper and electronic references for nursing practice, technologies, software, equipment, speakers to benefit nursing practice and enhance nursing opportunities.

Cox College of Nursing General Fund: The Cox College of Nursing has been training nurses and healthcare professionals for over 100 years. Changes in educational methods, health care systems, medical technology and nursing technique make it necessary for the College to continue to grow and change with the times. Funds are needed to provide nursing students with the latest resources necessary to prepare them for the high-demand field of nursing. Funds are used to provide classroom technologies, simulated fields of training and much more. Funds can also be used to establish one-time scholarships for students based on financial or academic criteria established by the donor.

Elaine Crabtree Fund: This fund was established at the retirement of Mrs. Crabtree as Director of the College. The fund is for general-purpose needs for the College.

Burge/Cox College Alumni Endowment Fund: This fund is at the full discretion for use by the Alumni Association and its board of directors. Funding has additionally been used for scholarships.

Mary Ruth Cuddy Endowment: Miss Cuddy set the bar for nursing education as the Burge School of Nursing’s long term director. At her retirement the Endowment fund was established to provide for the future needs of the nursing program and continues as it’s unrestricted fund to this day. The distributions are directed by the College’s president and board of director and focuses on the priority needs of the institution and it’s students.

Scholarships

Cox College Scholarships: These scholarships are currently established in the names of the following. A named perpetual scholarship fund can be created with a minimum donation of $5,000. All scholarships provide on-going support to students and are open to receiving outside donations. Contact the CoxHealth Foundation for more information on scholarship establishment.

  • A.P. & Faye Stone Memorial – the Stones dedicated their lives to legal and health work in Southwest Missouri.
  • Bill & Bernice Evans – general nursing scholarship
  • Brisley-Phillips – minority scholarship.
  • Charles Bush Memorial – general nursing scholarship
  • Cheryl Hasch-Feeney Memorial – this fund was started by the parents of Cheryl, after she and her two children tragically died, to honor their lives and Cheryl’s dedication to helping others.
  • David Miller Library Memorial – supports the library at Cox College/CoxHealth.
  • Dee Ann White Memorial – this fund was established by Arthur and Ruth Ann White after the death of their ten-year-old daughter.
  • Dick Brumfield Memorial – after the death of Dick in a car accident, his friends and family started this fund as a way to honor his life.
  • Dr. Carl Rinker Memorial – after radiologist Carl Rinker died, his friends, family, and colleagues started this fund to help students care for their patients without financial worry.
  • Dr. E.B. Hannan Memorial – friends and family started this fund to honor E.B. for his dedication at Cox North.
  • Dr. Daniel Holmes – in honor of his dedicated years to medicine at Cox.
  • Dr. George Klingner – this fund was created by George’s wife as a memorial to his life and dedication to Cox.
  • Dr. Hal Lurie – friends, family, and colleagues started this fund upon Dr. Lurie retiring from serving on the College Board of Trustees.
  • Dr. Max Fitch Memorial – Max was a fixture and enthusiastic caregiver at Cox North, and he left a legacy for the College.
  • Eugene & Martha Charles Fund – friends of CoxHealth who were impressed by the College and the opportunities it provided our community.
  • Frances Rogers Gale Memorial – general nursing scholarship in Frances’ name.
  • Frank Evans – Frank was responsible for the laundry of the hospital, and he and his wife left an estate trust for the College.
  • Grace Bales Hirst Memorial – Philip Hurst established this fund in honor of his wife, Grace, who both wanted students to be able to afford an education from the College. Grace was an alumni of Burge School of Nursing.
  • Harold Teegarden – was a patient for six months at CoxHealth, and his wife Olive was so grateful and impressed by the care he received that she established a scholarship in his name after his passing.
  • Jack and Beatrice Levan Scholarship – Jack and Beatrice were friends of Lester L. Cox, and they established this fund because of how impressive the hospital was at caring for their patients.
  • Jeannette Musgrave Award – this supports nursing students.
  • Jennifer Marie Lindsey – Jennifer was a sophomore in high school who was enthused about nursing and was planning a career in nursing before she died in a car accident. It was established as a memorial by her family.
  • Lawrence Memorial – his wife created this scholarship after Lawrence, a CoxHealth board member, died.
  • Lena Zongker Memorial – Lena was a long-time volunteer with the Cox Health Auxiliary, and this scholarship was setup to give nurses in the Cox community more funds.
  • Lester E. and Mildred Cox Memorial – Formally Burge Hospital, CoxHealth was named after Lester for his work in revitalizing the hospital, expanding it, and the fund helps nursing students with scholarship needs.
  • Lester L. Cox Memorial – The son of Lester E. and Mildred Cox, a long time board chair and supporter of CoxHealth. This fund was established to honor his long-time dedication to the College.
  • Lillian Virginia Burks – a Red Cross nurse for years, named at her passing.
  • Lillie Ward Wood – Lillie generously donated to Cox College to honor all nurses.
  • Lipscomb Family Nursing Scholarship – Jack and Cathryn, the son-in-law and daughter of Lester E. Cox, started this fund to ensure the nursing education continued and thrived by allowing scholarships for nursing students wanting to pursue supervisory roles in the hospital.
  • Loren & Mary Brunner Fund – friends of Cox who were impressed by the College and wanted to support health professions.
  • Lucille Wood Magers – established by her family in her memory and in memory of the outstanding care she provided as a nurse.
  • Madge Mills Arthur Nursing Endowment – Madge found the tuition for nursing school an obstacle, so she started this fund to help a student with the scholarship. A long time volunteer at Cox North.
  • Mary & Otis Mackey – this scholarship was created by the daughters of Mary and Otis to honor the dedication of their parents who worked side-by-side to send them through nursing school.
  • Mary Wortley Student Nurse Fund – this scholarship was left in memory of Mary, wife of Cox administrator Neil Wortley, for her dedication to helping serve people in the community.
  • Michelle Cross-Good Memorial – this was created in honor of Michelle, a dedicated nurse who was a Burge alumni.
  • Ms. Janie Campbell Memorial – Janie was the first graduate of the Burge School of Nursing and this scholarship was set up to honor her legacy as Burge’s first graduate. An estate gift supported this memorial in later years.
  • Normal Dale Reimer Nursing Scholarship – in honor of Normal Dale Reimer, loved one of Burge alumni Yonnie Murphy.
  • Peggy Pomeroy Memorial – this scholarship was established to honor the dedication and support Peggy gave to Cox College.
  • Pete & Dorothy Crouch – named in their honor for respiratory care.
  • Polk Memorial – this scholarship was established after John Polk’s death to continue his legacy of dedication to healthcare.
  • Ronald & Betty Campbell Memorial – both were active volunteers within the community, and they left a trust for Cox College as a dedication to the service of this community.
  • S. Lee Honig – Evelyn and Robert Honig, the sister and brother of Lee, started this fund by leaving a portion of Lee’s estate after he passed away.
  • Thelma Silsby Memorial – this scholarship was established by Thelma’s husband, Dr. Silsby, for the continuation of educating students that make the community healthy and viable.
  • William Foster Fund – William and his wife Juanitha created this scholarship to honor nursing professionals and the dedication and service they bring to the Ozarks community. Mr. Foster is a member of the CoxHealth Foundation Board.

Radiology Fund: This fund provides scholarships to Radiology students annually for excellence in education.

Patrick Moran Scholarship Fund: The fund was established after the passing of CoxHealth employee Patrick Moran to honor his dedication to the field of Radiology. The scholarship committee provides the scholarship each year to an outstanding radiology student.

Unrestricted Funds

The CoxHealth Foundation holds an Annual Appeal to raise funds for the areas of greatest need within CoxHealth. The CHF Board of Directors meets each year to review grant requests from hospital departments and affiliates, in addition to community service organizations. These funds are for the purpose of satisfying unmet health needs within the organization and the community at large. Only those requests which support community health and well –being are reviewed. NO sponsorships are provided out of these funds.