CATHOLIC HEALTH EAST
Holy Cross Hospital of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., plans to use a $4 million naming gift from a family foundation to help complete a pavilion at the hospital's women's center.
Set for a Nov. 19 opening, the Patricia R. Guerrieri Pavilion will feature a café, medical spa, counseling rooms, volunteer office, physician suites, community rooms for presentations on women's health topics and a kitchen where experts will offer healthy cooking demonstrations and nutrition classes.
The gift that helps to fund the pavilion is from the Guerrieri Family Foundation, which is headed by M. Alan Guerrieri. He was president of Showell Farms, a family poultry business sold in 1995. He and his late wife Patricia were impressed with the high-quality care they received at Holy Cross; and over a decade ago, they donated $2 million to a Holy Cross capital campaign. Patricia Guerrieri died two years ago, and the family foundation made its recent gift in her honor.
The pavilion is part of the Dorothy Mangurian Comprehensive Women's Center, a $15 million facility funded entirely through philanthropy and located at Holy Cross' HealthPlex outpatient services complex about two miles from the hospital. The women's center, which opened in 2010, includes imaging and diagnostic facilities, a meditation chapel and a healing garden.
Previously announced million-plus dollar donors to the center include the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation, which gave $5 million; Jan Moran, who gave $1 million; and the Girlfriends Club, which contributed $1 million. That "club" is made up of more than 200 women who pledged to give about $5,000 apiece for the women's center.
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