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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Inspired by the memory of their infant son and Mayo Clinic\u2019s vision for the future of healthcare, Paula and Randy Ringhaver of St. Augustine, Florida, have made a $75 million gift to Mayo Clinic in Florida<\/a>. The gift will support Bold. Forward. Unbound.<\/a>, Mayo Clinic\u2019s investment across the organization to transform healthcare through integrated digital and physical spaces.<\/p>\n In 1980, the Ringhavers\u2019 son, Randal \u201cLee\u201d Ringhaver, Jr., passed away at 8 1\/2 months old from an aggressive form of leukemia. Their daughter, Bree, was 2 1\/2 years old at the time of Lee\u2019s passing. To honor his memory, the family has chosen to name the newly expanded hospital tower at Mayo Clinic in Florida the Lee Ringhaver Tower.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we walk into the tower, we feel optimism and confidence,\u201d says Paula Ringhaver. \u201cIt symbolizes growth and progress. We believe in what Mayo Clinic is building here, and we trust that Lee\u2019s legacy will live on through the care and hope this tower represents.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ringhavers\u2019 connection to Mayo Clinic spans generations. Randy Ringhaver\u2019s father, L.C. \u201cRing\u201d Ringhaver, received care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and became an ardent advocate. Over the years, other members of the Ringhaver family and employees of Ring Power \u2014 the family-founded heavy equipment company \u2014 have received life-changing care at Mayo Clinic in Florida.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen firsthand the value of having Mayo Clinic\u2019s expertise close to home for our family and for Ring Power employees,\u201d says Randy Ringhaver. \u201cThis gift reflects the values our company was built on, including giving back to the communities we serve, and it demonstrates our confidence in Mayo Clinic\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n Lee Ringhaver Tower is a central component of Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Florida, the initiative the Ringhavers\u2019 gift supports. A five-story expansion of the tower began serving patients in 2025, adding 121 new rooms and integrating digital technologies that empower patients and support more personalized care. The tower also includes shell space for future growth and capacity for three additional stories.<\/p>\n \u201cPhilanthropy makes it possible for us to build the future of healthcare,\u201d says Kent Thielen, M.D.<\/a>, CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida. \u201cWe are deeply grateful to Paula and Randy for their extraordinary generosity and trust. Their gift will change lives \u2014 now and for generations to come \u2014 in our community and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Including the Lee Ringhaver Tower expansion, Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Florida encompasses more than 725,000 square feet of new clinical, research and education space. It includes the Duan Family Building, which contains the Americas\u2019 first carbon ion therapy system; a biomanufacturing expansion; and a soon-to-be-constructed research and education building. Along with adding more capacity, these facilities feature innovative digital technologies that help them function like members of the care team. Across Mayo Clinic, Bold. Forward. Unbound. will add more than 4 million square feet of transformative spaces to the campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.<\/p>\n Together, these investments advance Mayo Clinic\u2019s Bold. Forward. strategy to transform healthcare through cures, data and new care delivery models that enable patients to access Mayo Clinic\u2019s expertise anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About Mayo Clinic Media contact: \u00a0 <\/p>\n Related Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Inspired by the memory of their infant son and Mayo Clinic\u2019s vision for the future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Randy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Randy-and-Paula-Ringhaver-WF8651406_0130-2_1x1-1024x1024.jpg\")
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