Here are eight recent donations, grants or gifts given to healthcare organizations by various entities in the past two weeks, beginning with the most recent.
1. Gilead awards $7.5M to 5 medical institutions to advance HIV research
Gilead Sciences, a California pharmaceutical company, awarded $7.5 million to five healthcare organizations to advance research on HIV.
2. Columbus Marathon raises $1M for Nationwide Children’s Hospital
The 2017 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon and Half Marathon, which took place Oct. 15, raised $1.2 million for Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
3. Dolly Parton gives $1M gift to Vanderbilt children’s hospital
Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Nashville, Tenn.-based Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt on Friday.
4. Houston Methodist Hospital receives record-breaking $101M donation
Houston Methodist Hospital received a $101 million donation from Rusty and Paula Walter — the largest philanthropic gift in the hospital’s 98-year history.
5. MUSC Children’s Hospital receives $5M donation toward $385M hospital project
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital received a $5 million donation from the Zucker family, which will be used toward the facility’s $385 million project.
6. U of Mass Medical School founds Institute for Rare Diseases Research with $10M gift from Chinese businessman
Worchester-based University of Massachusetts Medical School will establish an Institute for Rare Disease Research with a $10 million endowment from Chinese businessman Li Weibo’s foundation.
7. Donations to help foot part of uninsured shooting victims’ hospital bills, Las Vegas hospital says
Las Vegas-based University Medical Center of Southern Nevada will use the donations it has received to cover “as much of the uninsured expense as [the hospital] possibly can” for those injured during the Oct. 1 shooting.
8. Michael Jordan donates $7M to Novant Health
Michael Jordan, basketball legend and majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets, is donating $7 million to Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health to build two medical clinics.
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