Campaign milestones

The Laurie C. McGrath Foundation signed a $10 million pledge for ENVISION Sharp Metro Modernization project, matching the largest gift Sharp has ever received.

With the donation, the ENVISION campaign surpassed the midpoint of its goal, raising more than $134 million of its milestone $250 million goal investment in the future of healthcare in San Diego.

To recognize the generosity of Laurie McGrath, the new acute care facility on the Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus will be named the McGrath Tower.

The James Silberrad Brown Foundation generously donated $6 million to Sharp HealthCare to aid our efforts in providing exceptional care in San Diego in 2022.

In recognition of this gift, Sharp Memorial Outpatient Pavilion was renamed James S. Brown Pavilion in September 2023.

Patients will be able to receive the same services within the pavilion as they have in the past, such as outpatient surgery, cancer treatment and imaging. The pavilion will also house the Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, outpatient endoscopy and physician medical offices for ophthalmology and oncology.

On June 29, Coronado Hospital Foundation celebrated the expansion of the Emergency Department with a groundbreaking ceremony at Sharp Coronado. In attendance were leadership donors to the Campaign for Emergency and Intensive Care: Lyndsey Arendsee, Lynne Harpst, Lyn Perino, Catharine Reed (representing the Auen Foundation) and Carol Sommer.

Hospital and Foundation leadership helped to break down the wall including, Scott Evans, Market CEO for Sharp Regional Hospitals, Fahd Benjalil, CFO/COO, Sharp Coronado, Marlena Montgomery, Chief Nursing Officer, Dr. Gregory Apel, Chief Medical Officer, Marla Poston, Director of Patient Care, and Elisabeth Green, Manager of Emergency Services, Sydney Stanley, Board Chair of Coronado Hospital Foundation and Foundation staff, Nora Allen, Sandy Gross and Shannon Pavell.

On April 14, 2023 a milestone was reached in San Diego with the dedication of the Sharp Prebys Innovation and Education Center — a continuation of Sharp HealthCare’s mission to improve the health of our community with a commitment to excellence in all that we do.

The Innovation Center is a community landmark made possible by the generosity of The Conrad Prebys Foundation and the contributions of thousands of donors in support of ENVISION: The Campaign for Sharp HealthCare.

It was indeed an historic launch of ENVISION: The Campaign for Sharp HealthCare on June 8 at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. More than 600 guests joined us at Envisioning Excellence – an evening of sharing, powerful messages, moving performances and our opportunity to thank our philanthropy partners.

Long-time Sharp donors and friends Willy and Alchera Ayyad have established the Del Corazon First-Generation Fund at the Terrence and Barbara Caster Institute for Nursing Excellence with a $1 million gift. 

Their extraordinary generosity will enable the Caster Institute to provide scholarships to first-generation nursing students (first in their family to attend college) to help complete their training and entry into practice.

May 26, 2022, saw the launch of ENVISION with the groundbreaking for the Cushman Emergency and Trauma Center at Sharp Memorial Hospital. At the groundbreaking, we announced that more than $88 million has been raised toward the $250 million goal.

We rang the giving bell twice – to celebrate the extraordinary $4 million gift to ENVISION from the Cushman Foundation! The gift includes $1 million for the Moore MountainView Hospice Home and $3 million for the Cushman Emergency and Trauma Center at Sharp Memorial Hospital – fitting tributes to one of the “first families” of Sharp HealthCare and among our most generous benefactors.

Congratulations to Coronado Hospital Foundation on achieving the initial $12 million goal for the Campaign for the Emergency Department and ICU! 

Yet, we are not slowing down – the Board approved a $6 million extension to the campaign to fund a dramatic new Emergency Department entrance, access and drop off. Sharp Coronado Hospital continues to undergo an extraordinary transformation, made possible through generous community philanthropy.

Sharp HealthCare Foundation was awarded $900,000 from The Conrad Prebys Foundation for the Neonatal Research Institute (NRI) at Sharp Mary Birch and our project “Providing oxygen during delayed cord clamping to improve long-term neurodevelopment in children.” The Foundation was impressed with the work and success of Dr. Anup Katheria and the NRI; including that we were able to share the NRI has been awarded additional grants during the review process, which strengthened the submission.

Congratulations to Sharp Mesa Vista for a $500,000 matching grant from the David C. Copley Foundation for the SMV Behavioral Health ICU project!  A great gift from a long-time philanthropy partner of Sharp.  This indeed stimulated giving – and quickly – as the match was achieved well before the deadline of December 20, 2022.

September 30, 2021 was another historic milestone for Sharp HealthCare with the official groundbreaking for the new, named in recognition of a $5 million challenge grant from The Conrad Prebys Foundation. This extraordinary new facility, which will open in 2023, will be a “Hub” for all Sharp innovation, furthering Sharp’s vision to be the best place to work, practice medicine and receive care. The SPIEC is one of the most important projects in Sharp and San Diego’s history.