A currently anonymous donor stands ready to give $30 million to help a pair of regional hospitals.
Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) and its Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital announced a $10 million commitment from an anonymous Danbury resident who is challenging the community to help WCHN meet its $50 million campaign goal. If that milestone is achieved, the donor will contribute another $20 million and reveal his name.
Explaining his rationale for the gift and challenge, the donor said, “Danbury Hospital provides my family and our region with world-class health care that rivals the best academic medical centers in America. It”™s an organization that can serve as a national model for personalizing exceptional care in a cost-efficient manner. I hope that my donation and challenge inspire many others to make similar contributions to our community”™s health.”
Through its Imagine Build Transform campaign, WCHN is “reimagining and expanding” facilities to increase access to care and ensure that it is responsive to patients”™ needs. The campaign”™s priorities include significant investments in facilities, research and technologies at Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital and the WCHN Biomedical Research Institute in Danbury.
“We are exceedingly grateful to this generous donor who has made the largest commitment in our history and wishes to inspire others to enhance healthcare in our community,” says Grace Linhard, executive director and vice president of the WCHN Foundation. “Now, we need every grateful patient, business and community member to make a gift so we can realize our campaign goal. We only need $10 million more to meet this incredible challenge.”
“With this donor”™s generosity and creativity, we inaugurate a new era of philanthropy,” said Dr. John M. Murphy, president and CEO, WCHN. “This enables us to continue to transform and improve our health care delivery system, a process that we began well before the Affordable Care Act was drafted. Thanks to our donors, we can continue to imagine new ways to deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right time.”
The WCHN Foundation”™s fundraising campaign ”” Imagine Build Transform ”” focuses on raising funds for a new patient tower, an expanded emergency department with level II trauma designation, and an advanced neonatal intensive care unit at Danbury Hospital; as well as the emergency department at New Milford Hospital; and the network”™s Biomedical Research Institute.
