Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital received gifts of $50 million each from Rob and Karen Hale and their family to support innovation and patient care.
Karen and Rob Hale are Boston-area philanthropists with ties to BWH and BCH. Karen serves on BWH’s Cancer Advisory Board and Rob, who is CEO of Quincy-based Granite Telecommunications, serves as a chair of BWH’s $1.5 billion Life.Giving.Breakthroughs. campaign, as well as on the Steering Committee for Boston Children’s Dream, Dare, Deliver campaign.
In recognition of the gift, BWH will name their recently opened building the Hale Building for Transformative Medicine. The building houses the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases; the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases; The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation; The Neurosciences Center; the Orthopaedics and Arthritis Center, and the Brigham Innovation Hub.
The building is also home to an infusion suite and imaging center featuring technologies such as a 7 Tesla MRI, the first to be installed in a clinical setting in North America.
