From supporting the construction of new hospitals to helping fund a new medical school, here is how seven health systems are using recently received gifts:
1. Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute received $50 million from the Yawkey Foundation to support the institute’s planned $1.7 billion cancer hospital, currently under construction. A bridge connecting the new hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care will be named in honor of donors Jean and Tom Yawkey. The bridge will connect Dana-Farber’s inpatient and outpatient facilities.
2. Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center received a $9 million gift to support pediatric cardiology at its Children’s Heart Center. The gift was given by Priscilla and David O’Donnell, with $4 million given to establish a permanent endowment to support the children’s heart program in perpetuity, and $5 million to help grow the hospital. The center will offer comprehensive cardiovascular specialty care from fetal diagnosis through adolescence.
3. Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai received a $13 million donation from Eric and Terri Holoman to establish the Cedars-Sinai Holoman Health Equity Center and endow the Holoman Chair in Health Equity at the Los Angeles-based academic medical center. The center will function as a data and innovation engine, expanding Cedars-Sinai’s research equity infrastructure, deepening community nonprofit partnerships and upgrading disparity measurement analytics, among other efforts.
4. St. Louis-based SSM Health’s foundation will create a new community health impact fund focused on housing and food insecurity with a $10 million investment from Carolyn Kindle, CEO and owner of St. Louis City Soccer Club, president of Enterprise Mobility Foundation and an SSM Health board member. The fund is designed to improve the health and well-being of SSM Health patients and the communities it serves by strengthening partnerships across St. Louis and addressing social factors that influence health outcomes.
5. Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida received $100 million to advance cancer care, research, prevention, education and innovation. The donation is the single largest philanthropic gift in Baptist Health South Florida’s 66-year history. Baptist Health will use the gift to establish the Dr. Herbert Wertheim Center for Cancer Prevention, which will focus on preventative services such as genomic risk assessment, early detection, screening and community-based initiatives.
6. Jacksonville-based Mayo Clinic in Florida received a $75 million gift to support its expansion initiative. The donation from Paula and Randy Ringhaver will support the Lee Ringhaver Tower, a newly expanded hospital tower named in honor of the couple’s son, Randal “Lee” Ringhaver Jr., who died from leukemia in 1980 at 8 1/2 months old.
7. Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health and Santa Clara (Calif.) University plan to launch the Mark & Mary Stevens School of Medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is funded in part by a $175 million gift from Mark and Mary Stevens. It will be the first new medical school in the San Francisco Bay Area offering doctor of medicine degrees in more than a century, according to Sutter. The future campus is an 82,000-square-foot facility under construction five miles from Santa Clara University’s campus and adjacent to the Sutter East Santa Clara Campus in Silicon Valley. Sutter also plans to open a 272-bed, eight-story medical center on its West Santa Clara Campus by 2031.
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