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Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Donates $15 Million To Los Angeles Jewish Home
Keeping The Vision Campaign
RESEDA, Calif., March 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joyce
Eisenberg-Keefer, philanthropist and local businesswoman, has
increased her support of the Los Angeles Jewish Home by making a $15
million gift to the Home's Keeping the Vision campaign, it was
announced today by Jeffrey Glassman, board chair of the Jewish Home.
The $215 million campaign will create the Gonda Healthy Aging Westside
Campus in Playa Vista, CA, build and remodel existing facilities at
the Home's Grancell and Eisenberg Village Campuses, and develop the
new Hirsch Family Campus in Reseda. In addition, the funds will allow
the Home to expand its community-based programs including the Brandman
Centers for Senior Care, Skirball Hospice, Jewish Home Center for
Palliative Care, the Ida Kayne Transitional Care Unit, the Auerbach
Geriatric Psychiatry Unit, short-term rehabilitation and Jewish Home
Care Services.
This gift continues Mrs. Eisenberg-Keefer's tradition of support of
the Los Angeles Jewish Home. It includes the Home's Eisenberg Village
campus in Reseda, the Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Medical Center,
Neighborhood Homes on Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Lane at the Jewish Home
and the courtyard (gallery) and Sky Terrace at the Gonda Healthy Aging
Westside Campus in Playa Vista for which the current $15 million gift
is earmarked.
"Joyce's vision is matched only by her charitable giving for which we
will be forever grateful," Glassman said. "Her ongoing commitment has
been instrumental in helping the Home expand its programs, services
and locations."
A dedicated philanthropist, Ms. Eisenberg-Keefer supports a wide range
of institutions, many of which are engaged in promoting health and
fighting cancer. Her late husband, Ben E. Eisenberg, contracted
melanoma in the mid-1970s and for years Ms. Eisenberg-Keefer has been
committed to supporting institutions that combat the disease.
Some of the other organizations Ms. Eisenberg-Keefer supports include:
the Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Breast Center at St. John's Hospital in
Santa Monica, the Wellness Centers, The Weizmann Institute of Science
in Israel, the pediatric wing of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in
Jerusalem and its Comprehensive Chest Trauma Care Unit in the
Department of Emergency Medicine as well as the hospital's
Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. She also is a major contributor to
Disney Concert Hall and the Israeli Philharmonic.
"Improving the quality of life for seniors is a cause that is dear to
my heart," Ms. Eisenberg-Keefer said. "It is gratifying to see the
positive impact the Jewish Home makes on the lives of seniors on a
daily basis."
Ms. Eisenberg-Keefer is president of Ben B. Eisenberg Properties, a
property management firm located in downtown Los Angeles. Among many
downtown properties, the firm owns the New Mart, perhaps the best
known fashion industry showroom in downtown Los Angeles.
Founded in 1912, the non-profit Los Angeles Jewish Home is among the
largest providers of senior healthcare services in Los Angeles. Each
year, more than 4,300 seniors benefit from the Home's community-based
and in-residence programs. Community-based programs include the
Brandman Centers for Senior Care (BCSC), a Program of All-inclusive
Care for the Elderly (PACE), Jewish Home Care Services, Skirball
Hospice, Jewish Home Center for Palliative Medicine, the Ida Kayne
Transitional Care Unit, the Auerbach Geriatric Psychiatry Unit and
community clinics. Two village campuses in Reseda serve seniors with
independent living accommodations, residential care, skilled nursing
care, short-term rehabilitative care, and Alzheimer's disease and
dementia care. The Home recently announced plans to build the Gonda
Healthy Aging Westside Campus in Playa Vista, CA. Further information
regarding the Jewish Home can be found online at www.jha.org or by
calling (818) 757-4407.
SOURCE Los Angeles Jewish Home
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/CONTACT: Bonnie Polishuk, Los Angeles Jewish Home, (818) 757-4407, Bonnie.Polishuk@jha.org
/Web Site: http://www.jha.org
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