Giving

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Methods of Giving

There are many methods of giving to Stony Brook University Medical Center (SBUMC). They include Outright Gifts, Gifts of Shares of Stock (appreciate and depreciated securities), Planned Gifts, Charitable Remainder Trusts, and Charitable Lead Trusts. Each of these methods of giving is briefly described below. The SBUH Advancement Office is available to assist you in every way possible to arrange a planned gift or bequest to Stony Brook University Medical Center

  • Outright Gifts
    A gift to Stony Brook University Medical Center establishes the donor as an active partner in the tradition of excellence and helps maintain the Medical Center’s commitment to patient care, research, education, and community service.
  • Gifts of Shares of Stock

Appreciated Securities
A gift of appreciated securities is another way that you can help Stony Brook University Medical Center and avoid or reduce your capital gains taxes, while getting a charitable deduction for the securities’ fair market value.

Depreciated Securities
By selling securities worth less than their purchase price, you may claim a capital loss for your income tax. The proceeds from the sale of depreciated securities can be donated to benefit Stony Brook University Medical Center.

  • Planned Gifts
    Planned gifts offer the benefit of helping donors and their families to retain or receive income in addition to providing assets to Stony Brook University Medical Center. Please consult your legal and financial advisors to determine the tax advantages of making a planned gift to Stony Brook University Medical Center.
  • Charitable Remainder Trust
    A charitable remainder trust allows a donor to make a gift to Stony Brook University Medical Center and, at the same time, retain income from the contributed asset.
  • Charitable Lead Trust
    Income generated from assets placed in a SBUH charitable lead trust is paid to Stony Brook University Medical Center over a period of years. Once that period ends, the assets are distributed to designated beneficiaries.

All gifts to Stony Brook University can be made for unrestricted use, allowing SBUH to use the funds where they are needed most. Gifts may also be designated for a specific program or service.

 

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Clinical Programs Accepting Gifts

All gifts to Stony Brook University can be made for unrestricted use, allowing SBUH to use the funds where they are needed most. Gifts may also be designated for a specific program or service. Below is a list of clinical programs for which you may make a targeted donation:

Heart Center

Stony Brook University Medical Center's Heart Center combines life-saving medical and surgical techniques with methods to deliver better care to our patients. Stony Brook operates the only heart center on Long Island that offers patients a unique patient-focused approach to care that constitutes a major improvement over the traditional academic practice of separating the services of cardiac surgeon and cardiologist. Recognizing heart disease as the nation's number on killer, Stony Brook is the only hospital in Suffolk County that performs highly specialized cardiology procedures, such as advanced interventional, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for life-threatening heart problems afflicting a wide range of patients.

Stony Brook University Cancer Center

The mission statement of the Stony Brook University Cancer Center is to establish a multidisciplinary, comprehensive cancer center and community network for the entire region; provide the best clinical care for patients and their families; conduct world-class basic research on the molecular features of cancer; and conduct translational research research to move the newest advances in research to the patient bedside. We anticipate great progress in creating new methods for the early detection of cancer and finding new ways to treat it. With the opening of the Cancer Center, Long Islanders will no longer have to leave the Island to find comprehensive and highly advanced cancer care: they will find the best possible care in the world already close to home at Stony Brook. For additional information, visit the Stony Brook University Cancer Center web site.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Stony Brook University Medical Center is the only provider of tertiary/quaternary care services for neonatal and premature infants in Suffolk County. Many babies admitted to our specially equipped neonatal intensive care unit are born prematurely and need careful observation and monitoring. Stony Brook's neonatologists and specially trained nurses work closely with cardiologists, surgeons, and other University Medical Center specialists to guide these and other seriously ill babies along the path to a speedy and full recovery.

Burn Center

Stony Brook University Medical Center is the home of Suffolk County's only designated Burn Center, which provides the most sophisticated, compassionate care to both adults and children with major burns. Our Burn Center is an eight-bed unit designed and equipped to meet the special needs of burn patients. Through its commitment to the local community, the Burn Center has gained the enthusiastic backing of Suffolk's volunteer firefighters, who created the Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center Fund to help support special clinical and research initiatives. One such initiative led to the creation of our Living Skin Bank which provides a unique clinical resource for wound dressings, that is, novel skin grafts made of cultured epithelial cells taken from the patient's own healthy skin.

Emergency Room

As Suffolk County's only Regional Level 1 Trauma Center, helicopter and ground transports deliver's most seriously injured and ill patients to University Medical Center. Our seven-bed shock trauma room is specifically designed for treating patients with problems ranging from multiple traumas to cardiogenic shock. The Emergency Department also serves as the county referral center for all psychiatric emergencies. For additional information, visit the Emergency Room web site.

 


Contact Us

If you would like more information about Stony Brook University Medical Center giving options or you would like to make a monetary donation, please contact:

Medical Center Advancement Office
HSC Level 3, Room 122
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8304
Phone (631) 444-2899

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