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Wow, did anyone know this? $10 million matching grant pledge from Los Angeles entrepreneur Robert H. Lorsch

http://www.alexianfoundation.org/About/CapitalCampaign.aspx

Alexian Brothers Capital Campaign Will Enable World-Class Care in Your Community for Years to Come
Dedicated to nurturing a healthy community throughout the expanding Northwest suburbs, offering the area’s families the support you need to stay happy and healthy and providing you and your loved ones with unsurpassed world-class treatment when needed, the Alexian Brothers Foundation has a three-phase, multiyear capital campaign underway to raise $100 million for new and expanded facilities and services.

Primary projects the campaign will support include a new state-of-the-art children’s hospital on the campus of St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates [click here to for details about the Alexian Brothers Children’s Hospital] and a new bed tower at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village that will feature all private rooms and consolidate all outpatient services in one central location, as well as expansion of the Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, which receives requests to serve some 1,000 patients a year more than it can presently accommodate.

Named “Centuries of Caring, A Future of Excellence,” the capital campaign has received a major boost in the form of a $10 million matching grant pledge from Los Angeles entrepreneur Robert H. Lorsch. In addition to heading up the private equity and consulting firm The RHL Group, Lorsch serves as CEO of mymedicalrecords.com, which is revolutionizing the way medical information is stored, managed and shared. . “The Alexian Brothers leadership clearly has a vision of what a community-based health care system can achieve in the coming decades,” says Lorsch, who was raised in the Northwest suburbs. “I want everyone to join me in taking it to the next level. This is my way of giving back to the community I grew up in.”

An acclaimed philanthropist who has personally donated and helped raise millions of dollars for a variety of charities, Bob Lorsch’s many honors include being named the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s “Humanitarian of the Year” and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education America’s “Man of the Year.” According to Mark Frey, CEO of the Alexian Brothers Hospital Network, “Bob is an inspirational philanthropist, and his business career has been one of innovation and recognizing trends that could be turned into viable businesses. We are honored that he subscribes to our vision for the next generation of health care delivery and has accepted the challenge of making that vision a reality.”

Lorsch’s pledge was announced in October, 2007 at an inaugural campaign reception in the Barrington home of Elyse and Ray Roberts. Spearheaded by Lorsch, the capital campaign will be served well by a leadership group that includes Honorary Chair Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago, a strong Foundation Board that is hosting an ongoing series of campaign events to increase community awareness of all that the Alexian Brothers Health System has to offer and a Women’s Board that will focus on the campaign’s initial goal of raising funds to break ground for the new children’s hospital.


New Bed Tower at Alexian Brothers Medical Center Represents Latest Breakthrough Treatment
A significant beneficiary of funds raised through the “Centuries of Caring, A Future of Excellence” capital campaign will be the Bed Tower at Alexian Brothers Medical Center, which opens in Summer 2009. When you’re ill, the last thing you want is to sacrifice uninterrupted, quality time with family and friends. That’s why the new Alexian Bed Tower, designed with compassion at every turn, features all private rooms that will allow you to receive the best care in the company of those who matter most. The five-level bed tower will add 108 private beds to the hospital, increasing the overall percentage of private beds to nearly 80 percent.

Recognizing the importance of receiving input from the front-line workers who provide daily care and the patients who receive it, the Alexian Brothers consulted with doctors, nurses and patients on every detail, to ensure your stay is as safe and comfortable as possible. Rooms were made larger to allow loved ones to be more involved with the patient and to readily accommodate the technology equipment that needs to be available, and the work environment for staff configured to facilitate better patient care and keep critical supplies closer at hand.

The new facility will also improve outpatient care, by relocating services formerly spread among Alexian Brothers facilities in one convenient location. The new Bed Tower is more than just a better treatment center, because the Alexian Brothers mission is to develop better health care solutions for the entire community, and everyone in it.

[Click here to take the virtual tour of the new Bed Tower at Alexian Brothers Medical center.]