Fairfield University trustee and alumna Robin Kanarek of the Kanarek Family Foundation of Greenwich has made a leadership gift of $2.5 million to found the Kanarek Center for Palliative & Supportive Nursing Education, to be housed in the school”™s newly renamed Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies.
Palliative care programs and services are designed to benefit patients who have a life-threatening illness and require supportive care, pain and symptom management from a multidisciplinary health care team to enhance quality of life.
The center”™s doors will open this fall and will offer a comprehensive curriculum providing nursing professionals the education needed to effectively practice palliative care and improve the quality of life for those suffering from serious or life-threatening illnesses.
The donation is part of the university”™s $160 million “Fairfield Rising” capital campaign. In addition to the Kanarek Center, Fairfield University Trustee William P. Egan and his wife Jacalyn announced a $10 million gift to rename the university”™s nursing school as the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, in honor of William Egan”™s mother. Ground was broken on the expanded health studies facility in April 2016.
