Leaving a lasting legacy

Jim Copeland

Jim Copeland, a respected local business leader and generous philanthropist, passed away in April 2022 at 80 years old.

Jim was a dedicated community advocate who endeavored to make San Luis Obispo a better place for future generations. His expertise and insightful wisdom guided the French Hospital Community Board for 16 years.

His family’s generous support of French Hospital continues to make a dramatic difference in the quality of local health care available, thanks to their support of the Copeland, Forbes and Rossi Cardiac Care Center, the “French—Well into the Future” campaign, and the Copeland Health Education Pavilion.

In 2014, Jim was recognized with the Foundation’s Louis Tedone, MD, Humanitarian Award for his contributions to the community and health care.

Jim truly embraced the hospital’s vision for the future to enhance our local health care. We will always remember him as a true humanitarian, and his legacy will live on through the impact his generosity continues to make on French Hospital’s patients.

Jim Sargen

Our community lost a beloved community member in October 2021. Jim Sargen was an avid philanthropist and supporter of many local causes and charities.

As one of the founding members of the French Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors, Jim’s involvement with the hospital and his dedication to health care was inspiring. He was recognized for personifying humankindness and for his dedication to our community when he was presented with the Foundation’s Humanitarian Award in 2012.

As a former patient himself, Jim’s gratitude guided his generous philanthropy support of the hospital. Over the years, he made significant gifts to the Intensive Care Unit, the Hearst Cancer Resource Center, and the “French—Well into the Future” campaign. Most recently, his dedication to ensuring that the San Luis Obispo community has access to world-class care led him to make a significant gift to support the Beyond Health campaign for Your New French Hospital. Jim established a lasting legacy at French Hospital through a generous bequest from his estate. We will always remember Jim for his many contributions to our community, French Hospital and our patients.

Join our Legacy Circle

Philanthropy is one of the most powerful expressions of compassion. Legacy gifts are an investment in the future of French Hospital and touch the lives of our patients and our community for many years to come.

The French Hospital Legacy Circle recognizes generous individuals who have made a financial provision to French Hospital in their estate plans. These supporters have named French Hospital as the beneficiary of a planned gift.

You can make a gift that costs you nothing in your lifetime.

Such gifts might include a bequest, appreciated securities, gifts of retirement accounts, gift of real estate, gifts of life insurance or charitable income gifts, such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder unitrusts, or charitable remainder annuity trusts.

Not only do you have options for how your gift will be used, you also have options on what to give and how to give. There are gifts that cost you nothing now, gifts that pay you income, gifts that provide tax savings and gifts that allow you to decide what happens when.

To learn more about planned gifts, visit myfhmclegacy.org or scan the QR code with your smartphone camera. You can also email legacycircle@dignityhealth.org or call 805.542.6496.

Learn more about the Legacy Circle and how you can include French Hospital in your estate planning by scanning the QR code.

Legacy Circle Donors

Sam Argentieri

Stephen & Karen Chubon

Stan & Barbara Clark

Leslie E. Coe

Burke & Rena Dambly

Reese T. Davies & Vicki Mazzei-Davies

James R. Flanagan

David L. George

Roy Gersten

Cydney & Reed Holcombe

Jeanne Hutchison

Carol S. Judd

Robert & Carol Kerwin

John & Marcia Lindvall

Dorothy J. Lunsford

Noreen Martin & Dr. Chris Hulburd

Nancy Morrow

Brad & Ginny Parkinson

Russee Parvin

Lloyd & Margaret Peterson

Burt W. & Virginia Polin

John & Tracy Ronca

James P. Sargen

Ralph Henry Soto, Sr. & Bonnie Jackson Soto

William H. & Cheryl K. Swanson

Dr. & Mrs. Louis Tedone

Dr. Ke-Ping & Susan Tsao

Rochele Tyler Ullum

Michael Walsh

Diana J. White