Bryant Billing – Staff Writer<\/a><\/p>\nFollowing a $40 million donation from philanthropist and entrepreneur Tom Golisano, Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital plans to rename its main campus in Dayton to be the Dayton Children\u2019s “Golisano Comprehensive Care Campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is about more than a name; it\u2019s about what children and families will experience because of this investment,\u201d said Jena Pado, vice president for Dayton Children\u2019s Foundation and chief development officer. \u201cWhen we meet families earlier, remove barriers to care and support the whole child, we change lives. That is the legacy this investment represents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Golisano is the founder of Paychex, a cloud-based payroll software system for businesses, and he also previously owned a fiber internet provider based in Rochester, New York, called Greenlight Networks from 2019 to 2022. He has a net worth estimated to be between $4.8 billion and $6.9 billion, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n
\u201cChildren deserve access to the right care before a problem becomes a crisis,\u201d said Golisano. \u201cDayton Children\u2019s has a clear vision for improving children\u2019s health by reaching families earlier, integrating care and expanding access in the community. This investment supports that vision and helps create a stronger future for children and families across the region. I\u2019m proud to partner with Dayton Children\u2019s to accelerate this important work.\u201d<\/p>\n
This investment will go toward a number of Dayton Children\u2019s initiatives of reinventing the path to children\u2019s health, including:<\/p>\n
Primary care as the engine of health: expanding access to pediatric primary care as the most effective way to improve long-term outcomes and intervene early.<\/p>\n
Integrated mental and physical health: addressing the mental health crisis by embedding behavioral health into every aspect of care.<\/p>\n
Care in communities and schools: bringing services closer to where children live, learn and grow to remove barriers and reach families sooner.<\/p>\n
Accountability through outcomes: using data and shared learning to continuously improve, measure impact and scale what works.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis moment allows us to confront a system that too often rewards care delivered in crisis rather than care that prevents it,\u201d said Deborah Feldman, outgoing CEO and president of Dayton Children\u2019s. \u201cWith this investment, we have the opportunity, and the responsibility, to get upstream, to intervene earlier and to redesign care in a way that supports the whole child. This is how we prevent the preventable and create healthier futures for children and families across our region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Children in rural and urban communities have different needs when it comes to accessing care, so while Dayton Children\u2019s leaders have ideas on what to do, Feldman said they plan to work with communities in the region to examine their needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a strategy that focuses on increasing where and how we deliver primary care in order to reach more children,\u201d Feldman said.<\/p>\n
Golisano Children’s Alliance<\/p>\n
This $40 million donation $125 million initiative to bring three hospitals, including Dayton Children\u2019s, into the Golisano Children\u2019s Alliance, which is a growing national network of children’s hospitals that share the goal of improving pediatric health care.<\/p>\n
The other two hospitals joining the group of about another dozen children\u2019s hospitals \u2014 mostly based on the east coast as the alliance grows to the west and south \u2014 include Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, which will receive $50 million, and Avera Health in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which will receive $35 million.<\/p>\n
“All three of these hospitals provide outstanding care for the children in their communities, and we look forward to seeing what they can do with the added resources being a member of the Golisano Children’s Alliance provides,” said Golisano. “As a father and grandfather, nothing brings me greater joy than seeing how better access to health care improves the lives of children and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Golisano is continuing to build relationships with children’s hospitals across the country, with a long-term goal of expanding the Golisano Children’s Alliance to 40 hospitals over the next several years. More hospital partnerships are expected to be announced in the coming year.<\/p>\n
“We’re excited to expand the Golisano Children’s Alliance once again,” said Erica Dayton, executive director for the Golisano Foundation. “Millions of children will have better access to state-of-the-art healthcare close to their homes thanks to these donations and the close collaboration and connection the alliance creates between hospitals that join the network.”<\/p>\n
The Golisano Children’s Alliance was founded in October 2025 when Golisano expanded his support of children’s hospitals with a philanthropic commitment totaling $403 million. Monday\u2019s announcement brought Golisano’s total giving toward this initiative to $578 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dayton Childrens President and CEO Deborah Feldman speaks on Monday, April 20 during an annoucement at the hospital’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[190370,163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-402099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-dayton-children","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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