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Heartfelt gratitude: Buddy and Anne Keyser’s Legacy of Thanks

Buddy and Anne are grateful for all the compassion and kindness extended to them at Sinai Hospital. Now, they’ve decided to create a legacy through an estate gift to support the Cardiovascular Institute at Sinai Hospital.

Empowering Generations: Brad and Rob’s Legacy of Compassion

Discover how two men found a way to secure an enduring legacy of caring for others by making an estate gift to LifeBridge Health.

Jimmy and Donna Smith Use Philanthropy to Bring Smiles to Children and Families in Difficult Times

Discover how Jimmy and Donna Smith's gift is making a profound impact on children and families facing challenging times. Learn how their generous contribution, focused on art-centered programs in the children's cancer center, is bringing joy and healing to the young patients.

LifeBridge Health Glazer Legacy Society member Konstantine Karavasilis

Konstantine Karavasilis Leaves Bequest Gift to Sinai in Gratitude for Giving Him His Life Back

Konstantine Karavasilis expressed his gratitude to LifeBridge Health’s Sinai Hospital through a bequest gift. After a life-altering accident, Konstantine made the decision to include a percentage of his estate in his legacy plan as a way of giving back and supporting top-quality healthcare.

Rohrs’ Smart Estate-Plan Giving Allows Him to Invest in LifeBridge Health’s Continued Success

After seeing an article about the LifeBridge Health Glazer Legacy Society, Richard (Rick) Rohrs, PA-C, decided to make a legacy gift to support the hospital that has been so supportive of him and his profession for so many years—which is why he has made a bequest in his will to ensure funding for the future of LifeBridge Health.

Dr. Dona Hobart Creates Trust in Estate Plan to Support Patient Care Beyond Her Lifetime

Inspired by her patients and wanting her important work to continue beyond her lifetime, Dr. Dona C. Hobart, FACS, has established a trust in her estate plan that will allow her to take care of her family first and then continue to support the charities and missions closest to her heart. “I grew up in a philanthropic family and always felt that giving to charities was simply the right thing to do,” she says. “I’ve spent my life caring for patients, and it’s important for that to continue in a meaningful way.

Greg and Sharri Rochlin Make Estate Gift to LifeBridge for Helping Him Beat Cancer

“It is important to give today, but making a planned gift is like planting seeds for the future,” Greg Rochlin says. “We are incredibly grateful for the care I received, and we want to give back in a meaningful way. Sinai is so important to the entire Baltimore community, and we want the topnotch care that we have received to be available to anyone who needs it.”

Alice Caltrider Makes Bequest in Gratitude for Her Career

Former Director of Development Alice Caltrider, who recently retired from LifeBridge Health after more than 40 years, says she got serious about a charitable bequest to the hospital system while attending retirement seminars at LifeBridge.

Rehab Pioneer Dr. B. Stanley Cohen Establishes Gift Annuity

Dr. B. Stanley Cohen, a pioneer in rehabilitation medicine who is the former President of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, is giving back to Sinai with a gift annuity funded with stock holdings that will pay him income for life.

On Staff for 42 Years, Dr. Bruce Berger and His Wife Toni Make a Bequest

Bruce W. Berger, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been a urologist at Sinai Hospital for more than 40 years and served LifeBridge Health in many other capacities. Now, he and his wife Toni are giving back with a bequest in their wills.

Burt and Myra Gold Make a Bequest in Their Will to Support Sinai for Generations to Come

Burton (Burt) Gold, his wife Myra, their two children, and their four grandchildren were all born at Sinai Hospital. The staff members at Sinai feel like family to them, they say. In thanks for the exceptional care that they have received over the years, the Golds have made a bequest in their will to support Sinai far into the future.

Longtime Supporter Ronnie Footlick Makes Estate Gift as a Legacy to Her Late Husband

“Both of my daughters were born at Sinai,” Ronnie Footlick says, “and three of my family members had their lives saved there.” In gratitude, Ronnie has made an estate gift to support a lecture series as a legacy to Bob. She feels there is a need to educate residents and physicians on the importance of palliative care.

Dr. Chaitanya Ravi and Wife Rajani Give Back to LifeBridge with Gift of Charitable Remainder Trust Because “It’s the Right Thing to Do”

While recently updating their wills, Dr. Chaitanya Ravi and his wife, Rajani, decided that it “just made sense” to give back to the place that has been and continues to be such an important part of their lives. They chose to fund a charitable remainder trust that will ultimately benefit LifeBridge Health Affiliates. They have left their gift unrestricted to be used “as LifeBridge Health sees fit in years to come.”

Gabbay Family Makes Major Gift Commitment to Labor and Delivery

It makes sense that after Dr. Gabbay’s death in 2013, his family chose to honor his legacy with a significant gift of $100,000 in cash now and the remainder through Mrs. Gabbay’s estate. Because education was of paramount importance in Dr. Gabbay’s life—his father was an Iranian educator who opened schools in Mideast countries—part of the gift will fund simulation education to enable residents to practice their OB-GYN skills.

Lowell Glazer Makes a Big Philanthropic Impact

Now Glazer is focusing his charitable efforts on the LifeBridge Glazer Legacy Society. “When most people think of a legacy, they think of not being alive. What you have to do is think of a legacy as a way to be active in the future and help LifeBridge do more great things. If you look at where LifeBridge was 15 years ago and where it is now, just imagine how much more it could do in the next 30 or 75 years if people start leaving legacy gifts to it now.

Legacy Society Spotlight: Charlene Moore Hayes & Dr. Floyd W. Hayes

Recently, we sat down with Charlene Moore Hayes and her husband, Dr. Floyd W. Hayes III, members of The Family Tree’s Legacy Society, to talk about what prompted their decision to include The Family Tree in their will. Charlene told us, “It’s a way of signaling to our legacy, to our children and grandchildren, that this is important work and we’re supporting it…I think it’s important to get kids engaged…to live the life you want your children to live, to be a model, talk about it and reinforce it by doing.”

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