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LOS ANGELES (Nov.
14, 2012)
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
has named the new surgical and interventional center in its
soon-to-open
Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion
in honor of Bill and Sue Gross, philanthropists and donors of a
$20 million gift toward the building that will bring together
clinicians and researchers under one roof to accelerate
biomedical discoveries and to speed those advances into clinical
care.
“We wanted to make a gift to support a worthy Los
Angeles–based healthcare institution. Cedars-Sinai’s mission
resonated with us,” said Sue Gross, Gross Family Foundation
president. “We, too, share Cedars-Sinai’s passion for quality
patient care, research, teaching, education and service to the
community. The new Pavilion will be a place that harmonizes all
of those things, and we wanted to be a part of it.”
The Sue and Bill Gross Surgery and Procedure
Center will be an integral part of the 11-story,
820,000-square-foot Pavilion, which will serve an estimated 400
patients per day after its summer 2013 opening. The Pavilion
will be the new home of the Cedars-Sinai
Heart Institute,
neurosciences and other departments. It will feature
state-of-the-art research laboratories, along with five floors
of parking, a café, a pharmacy and an imaging center.
The entire fifth floor of the Pavilion will be
dedicated to the 50,000-square-foot Sue and Bill Gross Surgery
and Procedure Center, providing convenient outpatient surgical
and intervention procedures. The center will connect to the
Medical Center via the Sue and Bill Gross Skywalk bridge
dedicated for the transport of patients smoothly.
“While representing a significant leap forward,
the Pavilion will carry on a tradition that has long defined
Cedars-Sinai: our leadership in meeting the community’s health
needs and providing the best quality patient care,” said Thomas
M. Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System.
“This visionary gift from Sue and Bill Gross
demonstrates forward-thinking philanthropy. By supporting the
new Pavilion, the Gross family is helping to usher in a truly
new era of patient care,” said Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq., senior
vice president for Community Relations and Development.
www.cedars-sinai.edy/AHSP
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