Hartford HealthCare said it recently received two “transformational philanthropic investments,” describing each as each a “multimillion-dollar amount from area families, to support its neuroscience institute.
The health system declined to provide the exact value of the gifts, which will lead to a renaming of two facilities.
Hartford HealthCare’s neuroscience institute will be called the Ayer Neuroscience Institute, after Louise and Ramani Ayer, while the the system’s movement disorders center will be named after David and Rhoda Chase.
“These gifts will take research to a new level and increase our understanding of the brain,” Hartford HealthCare CEO Elliot Joseph said in a statement. “We will translate that knowledge into new treatments, improving the overall health of the people we serve.”
