United Hebrew of New Rochelle has announced a major gift from Scarsdale residents Patricia and Malcolm H. Lazarus in support of memory care on the facility”™s senior care campus in New Rochelle. The gift will endow Willow Gardens, Westchester”™s first assisted living residence dedicated exclusively to Alzheimer”™s and dementia care. In gratitude, the facility will now be known as “Willow Gardens ”“ The Patricia and Malcolm H. Lazarus Pavilion.”
The Lazarus couple are long-time supporters of United Hebrew. According to Rita Mabli, president and CEO,
“Mal and Patricia care deeply about providing a high quality of life for the elderly. Their extraordinary gift exemplifies their longstanding, visionary commitment to superior care for seniors across the region.” With the couple”™s support over the years, United Hebrew has been transformed from its modest beginnings as a home for the aged to a full continuum of care offering a broad array of services, including long-term skilled nursing, short-term rehab, assisted living, memory care, senior housing and home health care.
Malcolm Lazarus joined the board in 1982 and served as president five times between 1993 to 2007. He also served as chair and senior chair of the board, chaired fundraising since 1998, served as chair of the Foundation since its formation in 2000 and founded and endowed United Hebrew”™s art gallery.
“”¦The Lazarus investment makes certain that we will be able to care for some of our most vulnerable citizens for generations to come,” said Mabli.
