HOSPITAL GALA RAISES ALMOST $2 MILLION

Over 1,400 guests attended St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center’s Miracles gala at the Connecticut Convention Center Sept. 25. This year’s 21st edition of the black-tie event, the largest gala of its kind in Connecticut, raised almost $2 million for the Joyce D. and Andrew J. Mandell Center for Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Care and Neuroscience Research at St. Francis, including a matching donation from the Mandells. Pictured are, from left, Andrew and Joyce Mandell; Archbishop Henry J. Mansell; Eileen Dadlez and Christopher M. Dadlez, president and chief executive officer of the hospital.