The Cornerstone Society presents a unique opportunity for people with vision---the chance to make a gift that will endure for all time. In addition to assuring outstanding healthcare at Tri-City Medical Center far into the future and helping enhance the quality of life in your community, your Cornerstone commitment may also deliver substantial tax advantages.

Membership in the Cornerstone Society is easily achieved. Simply make a present commitment of future philanthropic support to the Tri-City Hospital Foundation. Either make the arrangements for an estate gift or enter into a mutually beneficial Income for Living Arrangement, and you can become a member of this wonderful collection of people who commit to supporting the health care needs of their friends and neighbors within the Tri-City community for generations to come.

Estate Gift - Easy to do, costs little or nothing to establish and may save your family a great deal in estate taxes. Simply name Tri-City Hospital Foundation as a beneficiary in your will or trust or as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy, retirement plan account, annuity or real property.

Income for Living Arrangement - Can increase your income and may help you bypass taxes while simultaneously helping you to support the Tri-City Medical Center. An Income for Living Arrangement is accomplished either by establishing a charitable gift annuity with Tri-City Hospital Foundation, naming Tri-City Hospital Foundation as a beneficiary of your charitable remainder trust or by investing in Tri-City Hospital Foundation's pooled income fund.

Please consider becoming a Charter Member of this important group. Your decision to join today will become the cornerstone for the quality health care of tomorrow.

Benefits of Membership

Because the commitment of Cornerstone Society members will support the health care needs of their friends and neighbors within the Tri-City community for generations to come, we celebrate each Cornerstone Society member in the following ways:

· Annual "members only" dinner - where like-minded individuals who value and believe in providing the residents of the Tri-City area with the very best in health care are personally thanked for their Cornerstone commitment.

· Special invitation seminars - To keep Cornerstone Society members up to date on topics of interest and matters of concern.

· Private Medical Center tours and programs - To keep Cornerstone Society members abreast of new and exciting medical developments at the Tri-City Medical Center.

· Recognition on donor wall - To permanently thank and remember each Cornerstone Society member so that those in the community recognize and know who's support has helped make their quality ofcare possible while at the Tri-City Medical Center.

· Recognition within Medical Center and Foundation newsletters - So that one's friends and neighbors can thank them for their support of the future health care of our community.

· Special memento gift - For each Cornerstone Society member to proudly display and serve as a tangible thank you for one's thoughtful support.