Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has received the largest single gift in the institute’s history from the Josh and Anita Bekenstein and the Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine families.
The gift will support the cancer institute’s future inpatient hospital, which will be named in honor of the Lavine and Bekenstein families, according to a Feb. 4 news release from Dana Farber.
Construction on the new hospital is expected to begin in mid-2026. The $1.68 billion, 300-bed cancer hospital will operate as a joint venture between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. The inpatient cancer facility will be one of 14 in the U.S., the release said.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute President and CEO Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD, will be the keynote speaker at Becker’s Oncology Executive Summit on Tuesday, April 14 at 2:20 p.m. Learn more about the event here.
