Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is the recipient of a $1.5 million challenge grant from The Russell Berrie Foundation. The gift, which requires the Medical Center to raise an equivalent amount, will benefit its $30 million Lifeline to Tomorrow Campaign for the new emergency care center.

“The exceptional generosity of the Berrie Foundation will be the catalyst for the completion of the community-wide campaign to fund the new emergency care center. The center is housed on the first floor of The Kaplen Pavilion, which opened last September to accolades from our patients and their families, the medical community, staff and numerous other parts of Englewood’s extended family,” said Douglas A. Duchak, president and CEO of the Medical Center.

“We are most grateful to the Berrie Foundation for this very important donation, and for its enduring friendship and inspirational leadership in the area of humanism, a belief system at the very core of the missions of both the foundation and the Medical Center,” continued Mr. Duchak.

For more information about the Campaign, please contact Todd Brooks in the Foundation office at 201-894-3004.