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$25 million gift will build a freestanding facility to house medical specialty clinics and physician offices along with an ambulatory surgery center and orthopedics program
 
 
Official Ground Breaking
 
April 23 2021- On Friday,  April 23, 2021 – Wall Street Legend, Leon Cooperman and wife Toby celebrated the start of construction on the Toby and Leon Cooperman Medical Arts Pavilion. The Coopermans are noted community and national philanthropists who have made extraordinary gifts to multiple organizations. They are signers of the Giving Pledge, which was initiated by American investor and business tycoon, Warren Buffett to help address society’s most pressing problems by inviting the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy. Toby and Leon Cooperman intend to give all their wealth away, to those organizations, institutions and individuals that have made a difference to them in their lifetime.
 
Attending the event today were Toby and Leon Cooperman – national philanthropists; Lincoln Mendez – CEO, Boca Raton Regional Hospital; Mark Larkin President, Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation; Sarah Pollak – Assistant Vice President, Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation; Christine E. Lynn – Chairman, Board of Directors, Boca Raton Regional Hospital and Co-Chair, Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital; Stanley Barry, Chairman, Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation and Co-Chair, Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital; Richard Schmidt – Co-Chair, Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital; Barb Schmidt – Co-Founder of Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life and The Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life Wellness Series and Co-Chair, Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital
 
Wall Street Legend, Leon Cooperman and wife Toby will celebrated the start of construction on the Toby and Leon Cooperman Medical Arts Pavilion. The Coopermans are noted community and national philanthropists who have made extraordinary gifts to multiple organizations. They are signers of the Giving Pledge, which was initiated by American investor and business tycoon, Warren Buffett to help address society’s most pressing problems by inviting the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy. Toby and Leon Cooperman intend to give all their wealth away, to those organizations, institutions and individuals that have made a difference to them in their lifetime.
 
Boca Raton Regional Hospital is eternally grateful for this extraordinary gesture of generosity. It will have an enormous impact on the care we provide, and their commitment will live on in our community for generations to come.