Other Opportunities
Summa Health System – Akron Campus hosts more than 500,000 visitors every year and has numerous opportunities for philanthropic support in addition to the new patient tower. For more information, please contact Phylis Ferrara, president, Summa Health Foundation, at 234.312.5868.
"Should it not be the privilege as well as the duty to help care for the sick and afflicted?"
O.C. Barber
Businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of Akron City Hospital, June 5, 1904
"I was born at Akron City Hospital, along with all of my siblings, children, nieces and nephews. My mother was a volunteer at St. Thomas, and both of my parents served as trustees. My family and I have a strong emotional attachment to Summa that spans decades and generations. We believe the healthcare at Summa is as good as any in the country, if not the world."
Jim LaRose
President, House of LaRose, and generous family benefactor
"I became a surgeon because I wanted to know that what I did with my life made a difference. Pam and I believe in philanthropy for the same reason."
Gary B. Williams, M.D.
Former chief of the Division of General Surgery and former medical director of the Summa Health Breast Center and esteemed benefactor with wife, Pamela