By Christine Davis and Amy Woods
The fundraisers at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation have more big reasons to smile. A recent pair of $1 million donations to the Keeping the Promise campaign came from Jonathan and Laura Beinner and Ken and Maggie Rosenberg of Boca Raton.
With the Beinners’ gift announced in late May, the campaign to construct and upgrade hospital facilities has collected more than $230 million toward its $250 million goal.
That sum included 43 donations of seven or eight figures.
The Beinners’ generosity will be acknowledged with the naming of the Jonathan and Laura Beinner Administrative Offices Suite in the new Gloria Drummond Patient Tower. The tower is the centerpiece of the project.
The eighth-floor nurses’ station in the tower will be named for the Rosenbergs.
Both couples cited the importance of health as the motivation for their donations.
“In the old days, if you got sick, you would run back to New York to see your doctors,” Ken Rosenberg said in a news release. “Now, we are running back to be here in Boca Raton to have the quality facilities and physicians offered by this growing hospital.”
Laura Beinner said: “Without your health, it becomes really hard to enjoy your life. Jon and I always support the hospitals, wherever we are. Now that we’re in Boca for the school year, we wanted to add Boca Regional to our list. “Our family recognizes the importance of education, health and human services, and local and national Jewish causes. We feel very fortunate to be able to support key agencies in the communities in which we live and are so grateful that we are in the position to do so.”
The Beinners have three sons and a daughter and the couple, through their philanthropy, want to teach them the importance of giving back.
A semiretired executive with Goldman Sachs, Jonathan Beinner recognizes the importance of strong leadership and felt it was important to support the hospital and its leaders.
“Successful hospitals rely on leaders who are skilled and committed,” he said. “The two go hand-in-hand. Laura and I wanted our gift to both support the hospital and salute its leadership.”
Lincoln Mendez, CEO of Boca Regional, said that the hospital is always grateful for extraordinary gifts, but these two were special.
For the Beinners, “this one is particularly moving because it is their very first gift to us, and the seven-figure generosity tells us the Beinners believe in our vision, this initiative and Keeping the Promise.”
As for the Rosenbergs, Mendez said: “Ken and Maggie were motivated by the great care that they received from Boca Regional doctors, including Dr. John Strobis and other outstanding physicians, who have all had a profound impact on his and his family’s health.”
The campaign is the largest fundraising initiative in the hospital’s history and is supporting its most ambitious period of growth and expansion.
Campus redevelopment plans include the new Drummond tower, where patients will be welcomed in the Louis B. and Anne W. Green Lobby with plans for retail, dining, meeting space, a sanctuary, outdoor courtyards and other conveniences for visitors.
The tower will feature all new surgical suites and all private patient rooms exceeding the latest safety standards for care. In the current hospital building, all existing rooms will be converted to private in a comprehensive renovation of all patient units.
An expansion of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute is well underway with emphasis on neurovascular/stroke, central nervous system tumors, spine, and epilepsy/seizure disorders.
The recently opened 972-car Schmidt Family Parking Facility will be connected to the Marcus Neuroscience Institute once the new tower is complete.
Also underway is construction of the Toby and Leon Cooperman Medical Arts Pavilion, with outpatient surgery, physician offices, an ambulatory surgery center and adjacent parking.
For more information, call 561-955-4142 or visit donate.brrh.com.
— Christine Davis and Amy Woods
Send health news to Davis at cdavis9797@gmail.com.
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