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Every day at Ridgeview, we are here to ensure every moment counts for our patients and their families. And now, we need your help to make this moment count.

Invest in Ridgeview’s future and leave a lasting legacy. You can ensure that patients fighting cancer, heart disease, lung diseases and diabetes will get the care they need close to home, always.

People tell us how easy it is to establish an endowment fund at Ridgeview. Endowments can be created with a minimum of $25,000 payable over five years or through a future gift from your estate.

Our staff will help you establish guidelines for your endowment so your wishes and Ridgeview’s needs align. Endowments can be personalized torecognize the unique interests and intent of each gift. You may also take the opportunity to name the endowment after you, or in honor of your family or someone special.

Once an endowment is established, a portion of the investment income is available for spending, while the remainder is added to principal to grow the fund over time and safeguard against inflation in accordance with Ridgeview Foundation policy.

With the community’s faith in us comes an awesome responsibility: to make sure our actions today will protect Ridgeview far into the future.

Please join us by establishing an endowment fund together.

Kind Regards,

Doug StasekVice President—Ridgeview Foundation

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As Ridgeview’s endowment grows, so does its capacity to

transform lives and impact generations to come.

In life, there are many ordinary moments. And then there are life-changing moments: the diagnosis of a serious illness, the rush to the emergency room or news you’ll require major surgery.

Ridgeview is committed to being there for you in these moments. To fulfill that commitment, we need to make certain that we have everything in place to provide you with the best patient care possible.

We need to invest in today and tomorrow to ensure we are ready for the moments when you need us most, now and in the future.

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What is the endoWment

Endowments may honor someone special or permanently memorialize a loved one.

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$134,400

$209,400

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Annual Distribution for Charitable Purposes

$5,000

$6,500

$10,200

$21,300

Much as a family would build up savings to buffer against financial hardship, the endowment is Ridgeview’s security for the future. An endowment fund is like a permanent savings account. The principal of the original contribution is never spent—only a portion of its earnings is annually allocated for the purpose of the endowment. The remaining amount of the fund’s earned income is reinvested to ensure future financial growth.

Power of EndowmentGreat medical centers have great endowments

The following illustration assumes a 7% annual return and a 5% annual distribution.

Cumulative Charitable Distribution

$5,000

$57,300

$182,300

$564,000

An endowment is a gift that keeps on giving despite a fluctuating

economy and unforeseen hardships.

In 2018 Susan and Mike will welcome their first child at Ridgeview. Once daughter Emma arrives, they need intensive care for her respiratory distress syndrome. She needs critical, breakthrough therapy.

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Endowment funds offer lasting financial

resources for Ridgeview Medical Center.

How Your Endowment Gift Benefits Ridgeview

Without question, endowments are one of the most advantageous sources of funding for Ridgeview. The principal is continually preserved and only a percentage of the investment income is spent annually. There are many ways Ridgeview benefits from endowment gifts:

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Enables Ridgeview to direct support to areas of greatest promise or need, and seize timely opportunities.

Ensures the most cutting-edge medical treatment and technical advances have the opportunity to flourish.

Ensures excellence by making certain that quality medical care, research and outreach can be conducted in perpetuity.

Despite ebbs and flows in the economy, endowment dollars ensure that facility improvements, tomorrow’s technology and the critical need to attract and retain the brightest medical minds in the field will be here for you, your children and future generations—today and in years to come.

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How Your Endowment Gift Benefits You

The Every Moment Counts campaign is an ambitious undertaking, and you are the key! You, your family and Ridgeview have the opportunity to enjoy a long relationship built around something you value. There are numerous advantages to supporting the endowment:

Freedom to choose how or what your investment will support at Ridgeview.

Opportunity to receive annual reports so you can assess the impact your gift is making.

Ability to honor someone special to you or permanently memorialize a loved one.

Knowledge that the endowment inherently delivers a profound impact because of its longevity.

Opportunity for your friends and family to support your endowment fund.

Gratification that your gift becomes part of Ridgeview’s heritage and tradition.

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For more information about making a gift to the Ridgeview Endowment,

please call Ridgeview Foundation at 952-442-6010 or email Foundation@RidgeviewMedical.org

or visit www.RidgeviewFoundation.org

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Organizations of Ridgeview’s type, size and stature need endowment funds to generate ongoing income to buffer against:

A fluctuating economy and its effects in the ever-changing face of health care.

Unforeseen hardships that could threaten the state of our existence and effectiveness.

Fluctuations in federal and state funding related to health care.

Changes in insurance coverage and government reimbursements.

The health care landscape continues to change. At the same time, the community’s need for quality health care is constant.

The Every Moment Counts campaign is essential to creating positive outcomes for our patients and their families, sustaining and attracting the best and brightest medical staff, and ensuring the quality of our programs moving forward to find cures and save lives.

Organizations of Ridgeview’s type, size and stature need endowment funds to generate ongoing income to buffer against:

Over the years, Ridgeview has been very fortunate to have so many wonderful partnerships and collaborations with benefactors, volunteers and community leaders. Together, we have helped build new facilities, fund new programs and upgrade technology through philanthropy. We are in the midst of a major campaign to secure the future of medical excellence for our children, grandchildren, neighbors and friends by strengthening our foundation of support and providing security for Ridgeview.

The Every Moment Counts campaign is our opportunity to sustain vital programs for patients and families right here in our region. While annual contributions, tribute gifts and event support from a generous community has rewarded Ridgeview as a valued asset over the years, we will need even greater assistance to ensure that our actions today will protect the clinical excellence and extraordinary services Ridgeview provides far into the future.

Every gift counts and this is your chance to make a difference. Whether you choose to support cancer care, cardiology, wellness, surgical services, emergency services, women’s and children’s health or another area of the medical center, please know your gift is needed and appreciated.

We thank you for your continued support and are grateful to share in this journey with you.

Sincerely,

Jean BullerRidgeview Foundation Board Chair

Chuck SpevacekRidgeview Foundation Board Vice Chair

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An endowment will enable Ridgeview to invest

in the most promising innovations yet to come.

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An average of 400 new cancer cases are diagnosed and/or treated through Ridgeview’s Cancer Care program annually. From magnetic resonance imaging and 128-slice computed tomography to digital mammography and the breakthrough RapidArc™, Ridgeview physicians and specialists have access to critical technology—to help make patients’ lives better today.

Envision the future to help us keep pace and lead the way:

For more than a decade, Ridgeview’s Cancer Care program has earned national approval from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Only 25 percent of U.S. hospitals have this accreditation. For patients and their families it means excellent cancer care close to home.

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New technologies and approaches that can reinvigorate immune systems to treat certain cancers. The expansion of Ridgeview oncology services. New advanced technology using precise beams of radiation to shrink or eliminate tumors.

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The level of cardiovascular care is remarkable for a medical center of Ridgeview’s size. Patients benefit from the catheterization lab, the vascular outpatient clinic, interventional radiology and a pacemaker clinic.

Innovative, effective and minimally- invasive procedures for heart patients, reducing operating times and hospital stays. Technologies that could play a role in identifying vulnerable patients and those susceptible to heart attacks and heart disease. The advancement of diagnostic and treatment technologies at Ridgeview.

Ridgeview patients with common to complex cardiovascular diseases can be treated close to home through our partnership with the Minneapolis Heart Institute ®, a nationally recognized leader in cardiac care.

Envision the future to help us keep pace and

lead the way:

New technologies and approaches that can reinvigorate immune systems to treat certain cancers. The expansion of Ridgeview oncology services. New advanced technology using precise beams of radiation to shrink or eliminate tumors.

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Wellness

Ridgeview physicians, specialists and nurses are dedicated to the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. These changes can be facilitated through a combination of efforts that encourages people to develop healthy habits, while discouraging those habits that may lead to illness, disability or premature death.

The goal of Ridgeview’s health and wellness program is to achieve a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, occupational and intellectual health.

Envision the future to help us keep pace and lead the way:

Fund the effort to help physicians establish multi-faceted programs dedicated to quality of life, exercise, diet, smoking cessation, stress management, pain management and work-life balance.

Establish a program to facilitate health screenings and alternative medicine education.

An endowment gift ensures continuous, high-quality care is always available

in our community.

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Envision the Future to Help Us Keep Pace and Lead the Way:

The improvement and expansion of Ridgeview’s Surgical Services to offer more minimally-invasive procedures that allow shorter hospital stays and faster patient recovery. Innovative operating rooms that incorporate computer-assisted technologies for the advancement of surgical outcomes. Developments in augmented reality, where computer-generated images are overlaid onto images of the real world to help surgeons more accuratelyand effectively perform surgeries and procedures.

Ridgeview offers state-of-the art procedures using the da Vinci® robot. Its Center for Joint Replacement offers programs and services conveniently close to home. But it’s the well-orchestrated, personal care that patients remember most.

suRgical seRvicesRidgeview Surgical Services improves outcomes while reducing complications—a distinction awarded by the Surgical Care Improvement Process that ranks Ridgeview in the top 3 percent of more than 2,300 acute care hospitals nationwide.

Emergency care impacts the lives of more than 20,000 patients annually at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia.

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State-of-the-art communications center and helicopter pad.

Staff certified in emergency medicine, advanced life support and trauma care.

On-site diagnostic imaging.

Dedicated trauma bays.

With the opening of the Two Twelve Medical Center in Chaska —the first stand-alone emergency care and urgent

care model in the upper Midwest—patients and their families are ensured seamless emergency care through:

Envision the Future to Help Us Keep Pace and Lead the Way:

New cutting-edge software and mobile devices to streamline patient care and improve paramedic efficiency. Creation of new triage areas with new technologies that will enhance the patient experience and improve patient care. Comprehensive cardiac monitors, CPR machines, and other life-saving, innovative devices for paramedics and professional responders to treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest and other emergencies.

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Ridgeview is prepared to be there for patients and their families with immediate resources and care when that moment arrives. We expect the unexpected—the reason you may prefer the idea of an unrestricted endowment gift. It means your gift will be used with the utmost care to support Ridgeview’s highest priorities. This type of gift is especially appreciated because it allows us the flexibility to respond quickly and effectively to critical operational and programmatic needs and opportunities.

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Ridgeview designed the Center for Women & Children with family in mind—to support individual health care needs at all life stages. From the Neonatal Care Unit, in partnership with nationally recognized Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, to a birthing center with a reputation as “the place” to have a baby, the center is a destination for individualized, medical excellence and a comprehensive service offering:

PerinatologyBladder & Pelvic Health Birthing Center

Pediatric & Young Adult CareNeonatal Care Unit

Women & childRen

Envision the Future to Help Us Keep Pace and Lead the Way:

New comprehensive health screening and management of unique health problems for women between the ages of 45 and 64.

Women’s and children’s specialty centers or virtual centers where services and providers are integrated through protocols, processes or technology, which could include screening, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation.

Implementation and expansion of minimally-invasive procedures for women to reduce hospital stays and improve patient recovery time.

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Endowments can honor someone special or permanently

memorialize a loved one.

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Q: What are Ridgeview’s endowment goals?

A: Each year, our goal is to provide stable support to the budget from the endowment, and to preserve the long-term value of the endowment in order to maintain support for future generations and their families.

Q: What is the investment strategy?

A: Endowments are invested with the objective of earning a total net return (interest and dividends plus appreciation in market value, minus inflation) of 6 percent.

Great medical centers have great endowments

Through effective management, Ridgeview maintains a balance between meeting the needs of today and preserving the long-term value of the endowment

to meet tomorrow’s needs.

Q: What is Ridgeview’s distribution calculation?

A: Historical investment performance will “trigger” the percentage distributed on a year-by-year basis.

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Q: What is Ridgeview Foundation’s distribution timing?

A: The historical principal and the investment return will be calculated on or about December 31 on a year-by-year basis. Endowment distributions will be based upon the annual calculation. Ridgeview Foundation’s Finance Committee may request receipt of the distribution either annually, semi-annually or quarterly. If the request is semi-annually or quarterly, Ridgeview will receive a proportionate share of the distribution; the remainder will be invested in a money market until such time that it has been fully disbursed.

For more information about making a gift to the Ridgeview Endowment,

please call Ridgeview Foundation at 952-442-6010 or email Foundation@RidgeviewMedical.org

or visit www.RidgeviewFoundation.org

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Every day, people at Ridgeview make a difference.

Every day, we bring babies into the world, suture wounds from falls on the playground, set broken bones, replace aging knees and diagnose serious illnesses.

Every day, we tell patients the good news that their disease is gone, and regrettably the sad news. Every moment counts in the lives of patients and their families—and they happen at Ridgeview every day.

Ridgeview is a special kind of place. Our personalized patient care is one to which only the very best medical centers can aspire. We’re committed to hiring the best staff, doctors and nurses, and providing the best facilities and latest technologies. To be the medical center we are today, we’ve had to maintain our quality while always planning a better future.

And that’s what our endowment campaign Every Moment Counts is all about. We are planning on a future of exceptional care for the people in our community who depend on us.

I ask you to join me in supporting this effort with your financial help. This moment matters for everyone in the greater Ridgeview community. I promise you this will be a worthwhile investment.

Thank you for helping us help others.

Robert StevensRidgeview President & CEO

Since 1963 Ridgeview Medical Center has been the health care provider of choice for residents in the west metro and beyond, offering expert, personalized

and compassionate care. Each day: Ridgeview makes a difference in patients’ lives—welcoming new babies, relieving pain and effectively treating disease.

We offer some of the most advanced medical technology available in a setting where the personal touch is still paramount.

952-442-6010 | www.RidgeviewFoundation.orgFoundation@RidgeviewMedical.org

490 S. Maple Street, Suite 110, Waconia, MN 55387