University Hospitals Case Medical Center has received the largest-ever gift in its 145-year history — $42 million from the founder of a group of car dealerships.
The announcement of the gift from Lee and Jane Seidman at an invitation-only event at Severance Hall also marked the beginning of another milestone effort for the hospital system: the public phase of UH’s $1 billion fundraising campaign called Discover the Difference: The Campaign for University Hospitals.
UH will name the new $260 million cancer center at its main campus after the Seidmans in honor of their gift. The 120-bed, 375,000-square-foot cancer center is expected to open in the spring.
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Philanthropy is nothing new for the Seidmans, who have donated $23 million to the Cleveland Clinic, including $6 million last year to Hillcrest Hospital. In 2008, the couple donated $1 million for pediatric cancer research to UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Lee Seidman founded the Motorcars Group in 1958.
While the Seidman’s gift marks the beginning of the public phase of the UH fundraising campaign, the effort has been marching along quietly since 2003. So far, the campaign has raised $685 million, including 66 donations of at least $1 million and seven of at least $10 million.
Much of that cash has gone toward UH’s $1.2 billion Vision 2010 strategic plan, which includes the Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, scheduled to open early next year.
While impressive in size, the $42 million gift isn’t the largest to go to a Northeast Ohio hospital. That honor goes to a $70 million gift from the Miller family in 2006 for the Cleveland Clinic’s heart center. UH’s largest gift had previously been $36 million, which was announced in August and earmarked for cancer research.
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