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Capital Hospice Polo Cup Benefits Loudoun Facility
Terminal illness is the great equalizer. It comes to the very rich as well as to the very poor.
And the bottom line is that both groups will require the same level of care.
When you want to raise $12-$15 million to build a much-needed free-standing hospice care facility, to whom do you turn?
You turn to the rich and the famous and host a polo match or three.
To this end, the third annual Capital Hospice Polo Cup takes place Sunday, June 28, at Great Meadow in The Plains, and everyone is invited.
Current hospice care facilities in the Northern Virginia area are stretched to the maximum, and fast-growing areas such as southern Loudoun lack sufficient care.
Carol Kennedy, director of corporate and community support for Capital Hospice, said the cup was held the first year at the Goose Creek field between Middleburg and Upperville, then at the Llangollen estate in western Loudoun near Upperville, but it needed a bigger facility this year.
"We wanted to expand the audience, and there wasn't room," she said.
Since its inception, the Capital Hospice Polo Cup has raised more than $65,000 for the proposed building at U.S. 50 and Gum Spring Road, part of the Van Metre Cos.' Stone Ridge development.
Current plans call for a 48,000-square-foot building with 21 beds, inpatient hospice care, meeting space and clinical offices for hospice home-care teams.
Applications for the permits have been submitted to Loudoun County, and once these permits are approved, construction will take about a year.
When the Great Meadow Foundation agreed to be the venue for this year's cup, chaired by Dee and Beau Van Metre, the response was immediate. The organizers report that they have already received almost $7.5 million in pledges and gifts, including more than $4.5 million in cash...See the Wednesday print edition of the Fauquier Times-Democrat for the complete story.
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