WHAT: Boca Raton Community Hospital will receive the largest gift ever given to a community hospital and the third-largest among all hospitals and health systems in the United States (based upon information from the Advisory Board for the latest year available, 2005) to help build a new academic medical center that will serve as a national model of hospital safety while educating a new generation of medical professionals.
The announcement follows a unique public-private affiliation among Boca Raton Community Hospital (BRCH), Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSOM) to develop an academic medical center with the state-of-the-art facility as the primary community-based teaching hospital in service to South Florida.
WHY: The community hospital known for its medical centers of excellence will contribute to the birth of the first new academic medical center in the United States in the past decade and become a standard for hospital safety. The teaching hospital will also help to address an anticipated nationwide shortage of health care professionals.
The academic structure of the new center will allow medical students at Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton Campus to spend all four years of their medical training in the Boca Raton community area while earning a degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 30, 2006, at 11 a.m.
WHERE: Avitat Aviation Park3300 Airport RoadBoca Raton, Florida
WHO: The following spokespeople will be available for interviews:- Gary Strack, President & CEO, Boca Raton Community Hospital- Richard Schmidt, President & CEO, Schmidt Companies, Inc. and Chairman of the Boca Raton Community Hospital Board of Trustees- John Reiling, Project Manager, Boca Raton Community Hospital- Richard Greenwald, MD, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Boca Raton Community Hospital- Paul Risner, Vice President and General Counsel, Boca Raton Community Hospital- Frank Brogan, President, Florida Atlantic University - Pascal Goldschmidt, MD, Dean, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
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