The Jupiter Medical Center Foundation announces a $10 million gift from The Lawrence J. and Florence A. De George Charitable Trust. The donation – the largest single donation in the hospital’s history – paves the way for Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) to advance children’s and women’s healthcare services in northern Palm Beach County.
The gift will fund the creation of The Florence A. De George Children’s and Women’s Healthcare Services at JMC.
The Florence A. De George Children’s and Women’s Healthcare Services will encompass both new and existing services. A key component, envisioned to occupy an entire floor of the new addition, will be an obstetrics unit with six labor rooms, 12 post-partum rooms and two operating rooms, as well as a Level-II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The 10-bed NICU will enable women who are less than 36 weeks into their pregnancies to deliver at JMC, will greatly reduce the risks involved with problem pregnancies, and boost capacity from the current 1,200 births annually to 2,000. The existing birthing suites will be converted to patient rooms.
The Florence A. De George Children’s and Women’s Healthcare Services also will encompass the hospital’s existing pediatric therapy services for children ages newborn to 17. Through this program, speech/language pathologists, and occupational and physical therapists provide specialized, comprehensive and individualized treatment to meet a child’s particular ongoing healthcare issues.
