CHRISTUS Spohn Foundation 2019 Annual Report - Page 14

Beecroft Construction
Sam Beecroft began working for his father at
the age of 16 in the B.E. Beecroft Company, a
family construction firm providing work and
renovations in the Coastal Bend.
At first the company provided small jobs for small
businesses, but when Hurricane Celia struck the
South Texas coast in 1970, everything changed.
Suddenly there was high demand for contractors
to rebuild the region after the devastating
destruction from the unprecedented storm.
One of the company’s first major projects was
replacing a floor in Spohn Hospital, a bid they
received from the hospital’s administrator Sister
Kathleen Coughlin.
It would be the start of a lifetime of service
and stewardship between the Beecroft family
and CHRISTUS Spohn Health System, one that
continues to this day.
“We very much value the relationship we have
had with CHRISTUS Spohn over the years,”
Beecroft shared. “We believe in the mission to
provide care for everyone in the community and
want to see it succeed.”
Beecroft’s parents instilled a sense of giving back
in their children through their own commitment
to volunteerism and philanthropy. Like many
women of the generation who were also busy as
homemakers, Beecroft’s mother volunteered in
the Fig Tree, a retail store which benefited Saint
Bartholomew Episcopal Church. She worked
tirelessly to raise money for the church and
deeply believed in its compassionate mission.
That care for the community has been passed
down to Beecroft who is an active supporter of
the annual CHRISTUS Spohn Golf Tournament
and Lyceum Speaker Series, the proceeds from
which provide for
a range of services
and equipment to
care for patients at
CHRISTUS Spohn.
Sam and Melissa 2018 Lyceum
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“Lyceum is the
single most
uplifting event
that we have in
this community.
It’s a privilege to
help to host an event year after year to make this
community a better place,” Beecroft said.
“We should strive to be better in every way,
whether it be our streets, our schools, our health
care, our hospital systems, we need to uplift
ourselves educationally in every way and the
Lyceum is a part of that,” he added.
His personal business philosophy is “do what you
say you are going to do.” Beecroft has undertaken
a commitment to help CHRISTUS Spohn through
the years and has followed through on that
promise. He says the health system’s mission to
“extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ” is
what motivates him each year to raise funds and
volunteer at philanthropic events.
“We as a community need to have the best health
care available to everybody, for those who can
pay and those who can’t,” Beecroft shared. “And I
think that CHRISTUS Spohn is the best way we
can hope to have that quality of health care for the
whole community.”
One of the projects Beecroft is most proud, is the
Dan A. Hughes Family Hybrid Suite at CHRISTUS
Spohn Hospital-Shoreline. The unique surgical
suite combines the most advanced surgical and
imaging technology available, coupled with
spacious operating room allowing physicians
to provide state-of-the-art treatment for
cardiovascular and neurological disorders.
Beecroft said the job was incredibly complex
because of the proximity to other operating
rooms and the ICU within the Shoreline Pavilion
tower. He said it was thanks to the coordination
and teamwork between Beecroft and CHRISTUS
Spohn leadership who helped to make the project
such a success.
“That’s probably my favorite project that we’ve
done for CHRISTUS Spohn because of the
challenge, and it’s a beautiful suite.” Beecroft
said. “The community had been needing that
technology for a long time, so it was a tight
schedule, but in the end everything was
successful.”
Though he has played a hand in helping
CHRISTUS Spohn elevate the level of care in the
Coastal Bend for many decades, Beecroft says
there is still much work to be done.