Forget about the Money

A commentary by Keith Kirkland
 

Forget about the money?  That’s not a phrase you hear in financial circles very often.  But I don’t mean it in the way you think I mean it…but I know you will like it just the same. 

One of our long-standing clients came to visit us the other day.  For over twenty years, we have been financing this emergency medical services company, helping them to navigate the successes, challenges and growth that they have experienced. 

Our client manages a fleet of emergency responder vehicles, as well as the team of medical professionals who save lives every day.  Over this twenty-year period, the financing that Presidential provides has helped this company to achieve a level of success that has allowed it to expand its vehicle fleet to include high-tech ambulances, and even a plane that is used for “life-flights”.   As the president of this company sat down with our CEO, Tom Matthesen, he shared an amazing story. 

The story is this:  Our client received a phone call from an Atlanta hospital, sharing the news that a young child in Florida had been traumatically injured in an accident.  The local hospital did not have the capability to treat the severe injuries, so they needed to transport the patient to Atlanta.  Our client received the call, requesting a life-flight from Florida to the medical center in Atlanta in an effort to save this child’s life.  Within minutes, our client had their specially equipped plane in the air and on its way to Florida.  Within a couple of hours, the child was in the Atlanta medical center receiving the treatment needed to survive. 

The president of this company sat in Tom’s office, and said, “We’ve had a lot of conversations over the years, and most of them have been about money and lines of credit and things of that nature.   But for right now, Tom, forget about the money.  We saved a kid’s life today.” 

That, my friends, is why we do what we do. 

Each one of our clients does something different.  But every one of them has a “forget the money” moment.  It’s that moment when they accomplish something that maybe they’ve only dreamed of, or when they achieve a level of success that always seemed out of reach.   Sometimes those moments are few and far between…but they happen. 

And being a part of that?  Well, that is the ‘forget the money’ moment for us.