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New Foundation for Lucerne Children’s Hospital Receives Large Donation in the Double-Digit Million Range
The Stiftung Zukunft Kinderspital Zentralschweiz wants to support research and teaching of children’s medicine, as well as the construction of the new children’s hospital in Lucerne.
View of the current building of the Children’s Hospital of Lucerne.
A new foundation for the advancement of children’s medicine was launched at Children’s Hospital Lucerne: the private non-profit Future Children’s Hospital Central Switzerland foundation. The foundation wrote this in a statement Tuesday morning. The aim of the foundation is to provide sustainable support for the research and teaching of modern children’s medicine, as well as to support the project for the construction of the new children’s hospital in Lucerne. The opening ceremony of the new children’s hospital and gynecological clinic took place in September. The costs range from 170 to 200 million francs.
Big donation of double digit millions
The seed money for the new foundation comes from the “Spitalstiftung Paul and Gertrud Fischbacher-Labhardt”, as the message continues. The foundation has been supporting the children’s hospital since 1971 with its hospital foundation and annually makes a high proportion of the income from its foundation’s assets available to the children’s hospital. Additionally, the newly established foundation receives a large double-digit million donation from the Walter Haefner Foundation, which is supported by Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner, her daughter and son. The Walter Haefner Foundation, once generously donated by the founder of Amag, Walter Haefner, and later supported by the Bucher family, annually supports many institutions and projects in the social, cultural and educational sectors.
Tanja Temel from Lucerne is the president of the founding board of Stiftung Zukunft Kinderspital Zentralschweiz. With Susanne Suter-Wick and Carla Schwöbel-Braun, two other personalities from Central Switzerland are represented on the Board. In the coming weeks, the foundation and its office will be expanded operationally, as the announcement continues. “We are very happy to have such a promising start,” says Tanja Temel, “and we are very grateful to the donors for their generous support.”
Starting sign for fundraising
The establishment of the foundation is also the beginning of targeted fundraising. “To sustainably support the long-term progress of pediatric medicine, considerable funding is needed, which has yet to be secured,” the message says. The foundation is confident that it can count on your support.
