{"id":423175,"date":"2026-10-09T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423175\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:12:08","slug":"ken-griffin-donates-another-25-million-to-baptist-health-neuroscience-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423175\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Griffin donates another $25 million to Baptist Health neuroscience facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Groundbreaking<\/p>\n

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute. Ken Griffin, in center, is joined by Baptist officials and board of trustees members.<\/p>\n

Baptist Health of South Florida<\/p>\n

Miami billionaire Ken Griffin is putting another $25 million into neuroscience research and patient care at Baptist Health South Florida, bringing his total commitment to the health system to $75 million.<\/p>\n

The Citadel CEO announced the additional gift Wednesday as Baptist Health broke ground on a new 197,000-square-foot neuroscience facility at Baptist Hospital in Kendall.<\/p>\n

The gift comes just days after Griffin pledged $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University<\/a> to help bring a campus to Wynwood, underscoring the billionaire\u2019s growing investment in South Florida\u2019s healthcare and education institutions. His gift to Carnegie Mellon is believed to be the largest made by a single individual in the history of U.S. higher education.<\/p>\n

The health complex in Kendall will be called the Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute in recognition of Griffin\u2019s expanded commitment. Griffin originally gave Baptist Health $50 million in 2024<\/a> to expand neuroscience research and patient care. At the time, Baptist said Griffin\u2019s was the largest single donation in the health system\u2019s nearly 65-year history.<\/p>\n

The additional $25 million will support the center\u2019s focus in the care and research of complex neurological conditions, including dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, epilepsy and Parkinson\u2019s disease. The center will allow researchers and doctors to work under one roof on innovation, education and disease prevention.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we celebrate what makes Baptist Health truly special \u2014 the hope it creates for all of us,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cThe hope that this extraordinary team at Baptist Health gives to patients and families living with neurological disease. And the hope that, in the years to come, this team\u2019s research will continue to find ways to diminish \u2014 and ultimately end \u2014 the suffering inflicted by neurological disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Architectural Architectural rendering of the planned Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute off Kendal Drive Baptist Health of South Florida <\/p>\n

The building is scheduled to open in early 2029 on the Baptist Hospital main campus off Kendall Drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cKen\u2019s generosity will help us accelerate research and innovation, educate the next generation of neuroscience leaders, advance prevention and expand access to highly specialized brain and spine care,\u201d said Bo Boulenger, president and CEO of Baptist Health.<\/p>\n

The institute expects to add 16 subspecialty providers. Opportunities for patients to participate in clinical trials and access new technologies to treat neurological conditions also will expand.<\/p>\n

The complex will include additional examination rooms; outpatient physical, speech and occupational therapy; rehabilitation; and neuroinfusion services. The building also will include Baptist Health\u2019s first academic lecture theater.<\/p>\n


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Luisa Yanez covers real estate and the impact of wealth migration in South Florida for the Miami Herald. In her work, she will be using both traditional reporting and AI tools.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking ceremony for the Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute. Ken Griffin, in center, is joined by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-423175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423175","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=423175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}