May 27, 2022 — Palm Beach residents Mr. Jeffrey Cole and his wife Patricia O-Brien Cole recently celebrated the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Jeffrey and Patricia Cole Building at Cole Eye Institute on Cleveland Clinic’s Ohio campus. This expansion was made possible by a lead gift of $31.5 million from Mr. and Mrs. Cole in 2016. Mr. Cole and his company Cole National Corp. also contributed the lead gift that established Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute in 1999. Mr. Cole was chairman and CEO of Cole National Corp. He also co-founded Pearle Europe, which is now GrandVision, and he continues to serve on the boards of eye wear companies.
Jeffrey and Patricia are both native Clevelanders, but now reside in Palm Beach where Mr. Cole’s family has had a home for over 50 years. The Coles continued their philanthropic legacy by supporting this expansion to help serve more patients in need of eye care. “I was taught about giving from the time I was in kindergarten and I would say that that really is what led to my involvement with Cleveland Clinic”, said Jeffrey Cole. Mr. Cole and his wife Patricia have also been generous donors to the Cleveland Clinic Florida Tomsich Health and Medical Center located in Rosemary Square in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida.
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