Baylor Health Care gifts total $5.7 million_40504

Posted: 4/02/04

Baylor Health Care gifts total $5.7 million

DALLAS–Eleven charitable gifts totaling more than $5.7 million received recently by Baylor Health Care System will support critical needs in patient care, medical education and research, leaders of the Dallas-based hospital system said.

“We are deeply grateful to receive these generous gifts that will benefit the wide range of services Baylor offers,” said Joel Allison, president and chief executive officer of Baylor Health Care System.

“Each and every gift will help Baylor fulfill its not-for-profit mission of serving the community.”

The gifts included:

$1 million from Louis and Julia Beecherl for a new endowed chair to further the work at the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research. The Michael A.E. Ramsay Chair for Immunology Research will honor the president of the Baylor Research Institute and chief of anesthesiology and pain management at Baylor University Medical Center.

$1 million from the Stuart Johnson estate to benefit cancer research.

$900,000 from the Edgar Clark estate to benefit the Ann Rambar Clark Teaching Fund for medical education.

$700,000 from the O'Rene and A.C. Horn estate to build and equip a laboratory for islet cell transplantation research in the treatment of patients with Type 1 diabetes.

$618,000 from the Caring for Generations 2003 community annual giving campaign primarily benefiting charity care.

$454,000 from the Agnes Oliver estate for general support of Baylor Health Care System.

$400,000 from Elizabeth Hartman Osborn to build a chapel and pastoral care offices at Baylor Medical Center at Garland.

The chapel will be named in memory of her father, John Hartman, a Presbyterian minister.

$300,000 from Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and brothers of Saudi Arabia to support stroke research, cardiology research and asthma patient care.

An anonymous $200,000 gift to benefit the Kimberly H. Courtwright and Joseph W. Summers Institute of Metabolic Disease.

$100,000 from the Joseph and Gail Deering Fund of Dayton, Ohio, for research in traumatic brain injuries at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation.

$62,500 from the George and Fay Young Foundation of Dallas to support Type 2 diabetes clinical research and the healing environment rooftop garden on the fourth floor of Hoblitzelle Hospital.

Baylor Health Care System Foundation, a separately incorporated not-for-profit organization, raises and manages charitable funds to support Baylor Health Care System's mission of health care, education, research and community service.

Since the foundation was established in 1978, it has given back to Baylor Health Care System approximately $189 million. Support comes from about 10,000 active donors, including individuals, corporations and other private foundations.