Kimball Health Services receives generous donation

Once an active member of this community, the late Ron Scott, chose to gift his home to the Kimball Hospital Foundation, which has recently been re-gifted to Kimball Health Services.

Scott, who passed away on March 10, 2015, spent many years of his life serving, not only did he serve his country, but served people in general.

During his eighty-years of life, Scott was an active member of the Catholic Church where he was a member of a Catholic School Board and a Eucharistic Minister. He was a Cub and Boy Scout leader, a Civil Air Patrol leader, a Little League coach, a member of AMVETS, the VFW and the American Legion.

After he retired he was also a member of the Kimball Rotary Club and the Kimball Lions Club and following the loss of his wife, Scott became Kimball County's VSO.

"Serving others," Scott was quoted, "is what it's all about."

Before his death, Scott had a conversation with his sons about what should become of his home when he passed.

The Kimball Hospital Foundation's Retained Life Estate gift plan, which allows the donor to make a gift of a home or farm, but retain the right to use it for their lifetime, was the option the family chose.

It was in the same spirit of service and concern for his fellow man that led Ron Scott to make the donation of his home to the Kimball Hospital Foundation.

In turn, the foundation donated the Scott home to the Kimball Hospital in December, and according to Kerry Ferguson, Foundation Director, the residence will be used by medical providers currently living out of the area.

Those doctors have been residing in rented rooms at Vista Villa, but will now have a rent-free place to stay. Ferguson added that because the home has two separate entrances, two physicians will be able to stay in the home at the same time.

"A retained life estate is just one of several charitable planned giving options available through the Foundation. Others include outright gifts, life insurance policies naming the Foundation as beneficiary, bargain sales (a sale of property to the Foundation for an amount less than the property's current fair market value), real estate gifts and traditional wills and bequests," Ferguson said. "What a nice gift that the late Ron Scott gave...really to this community."