Easton people Anthony (Tony) and Adrienne DaRe have pledged $1 million to St. Luke’s College Overall health Network (SLUHN) to aid fund the development of the Gals & Babies Tower at St. Luke’s Allentown and establish an endowment for scholarships to the Temple/St. Luke’s Faculty of Drugs.
“We are generating this individual expense to make sure that St. Luke’s is able to give planet class health treatment to our neighborhood for yet another 150 decades,” mentioned the couple.
This year, St. Luke’s is celebrating its 150th anniversary of serving the wellness needs of the region, which started with the founding of the St. Luke’s University Clinic in Fountain Hill.
50 % of the reward from the DaRes will help the expansion of local community accessibility to superior-high-quality birthing, article-partum and new child solutions, like neonatal intense treatment at St. Luke’s Allentown. Floor was broken in November to commence construction of the 85,000-sq.-foot tower that will home these expert services. Completion of the venture is expected in early 2024.
Two of the couple’s young children had been born at St. Luke’s, and their daughter, Adele, obtained critical, compassionate care at St. Luke’s for a substantial health care unexpected emergency when she was only 3 a long time previous.
The remaining $500,000 will develop scholarships for students at Temple/St. Luke’s Professional medical Faculty, which stays the region’s 1st and only medical school. Temple/St. Luke’s graduates 40 new physicians every single yr, a lot of of whom stay nearby to just take treatment of people in the neighborhood.
The medical faculty awards much more than $1.5 million in scholarships on a yearly basis to assistance offset the substantial price of professional medical instruction.
The DaRe family’s connection to St. Luke’s dates back more than a century.
“St. Luke’s has cared for cherished types over the very last four generations,” the pair explained.
“My household settled in the city of Allentown in excess of 100 years ago,” stated Tony DaRe. “Having the capability to help the vital treatment that St. Luke’s is dedicated to offering inhabitants by using the Allentown and Sacred Heart campuses fills us with satisfaction.” He is a member of the board of trustees for St. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus.
DaRe also serves as chief executive officer at BSI Corporate Advantages, a nationwide worker health and fitness benefits group dependent in Bethlehem. BSI has sent over 100 consumers by means of St. Luke’s ExecuHealth Method, which delivers members a centered, proof-primarily based photo of their general health and very well-being in a person working day.