Barbara and Dick Schmidt and the Schmidt Family Foundation’s
gift to Boca Raton Regional Hospital follows a $25 million gift
by Billi and Bernie Marcus. Photo provided
The Marcus Neuroscience Institute, scheduled to open in 2014, got a hefty cash
Bernie Marcus, chairman of the Marcus Foundation
and co-founder and former CEO of The Home Depot,
and his wife, Billi, announce their $25 million gift to
Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Images provided
With the new $25 million
Cancer patients who have had to travel out of the county for proton therapy treatments got some good news late in January. That’s when Boca Raton Regional Hospital announced plans to build a $120 million proton therapy center on Glades Road.
Proponen
The Debbie-Rand Memorial Service League Board of Trustees includes
front row, from left: Debbie Leising, Diana Rivellino, Marci Nowak. Back
row: Mildred Schwartz, Barbara Gideon, Eileen Carlins, Diana Bubb, Marty
Lambert, Lois McGinn, Deyse Norwitz
Gloria Drummond was motivated to help found Boca Raton Regional
Hospital after two of her children were poisoned in 1962 and they died
en route to the hospital. Photo provided
For more on the Debbie-Rand League to support the Boca Raton Regional
Dr Juliette The lives in Highland Beach and is president of the South
County Chapter of the American Cancer Society. Photo by Tim Stepien
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the differe
Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s foundation received a $5 million donation from Elaine J. Wold and the family of the late Dr. Keith C. Wold to start the Wold Family Center for Emergency Medicine.
The new program will enhance the hospital’s emergency de
Gloria Drummond marked her 80th birthday on Aug. 20, but festivities are being delayed so the whole community can join in.
