CORTLANDVILLE, N.Y. — Guthrie Clinic says a $1 million donation will help support and place a name on the upcoming health campus that’s currently under construction at 4057 West Road in the town of Cortlandville.
Nicholas Renzi has pledged $1 million to the new facility, which the health-care system says will be called the Guthrie Cortland Renzi Health Campus.
“The driving force for my gift is to help make Guthrie Cortland Medical Center and its affiliated offices be the best they can be, providing complete and easily accessible health care services without the need to travel out of town,” Renzi said in the Guthrie announcement. “It is a privilege and personal pleasure that my late wife Agnes and I have been able to support many worthy organizations through the Nicholas and Agnes Renzi Charitable Fund.”
Renzi’s donation will be matched with an additional $1 million in donations by Cortland Memorial Foundation, “a goal the community is already close to helping us achieve.”
“Words cannot express the gratitude we feel for Nick Renzi,” Dr. Edmund Sabanegh, president & CEO of the Guthrie Clinic, said in its announcement. “A donation of this magnitude, in our region, stretches extremely far. We are proud to have Mr. Renzi’s name next to ours, so that members of this community will understand what he and his late wife have done to help us meet their health care needs.”
The new campus is “just weeks from opening its doors to patients,” Guthrie noted.
Half of the new 32,000-square-foot-building will house laboratory and imaging services, as well as Guthrie Cortland’s existing primary care team, with additional providers joining the group to help meet the growing need of the local population. The other half of the new facility will house specialty services, bringing multiple care options under one roof.
A news conference will be held on Dec. 3 at 11 a.m. to formally unveil the new Guthrie Cortland Renzi Health Campus, at which time Guthrie will announce additional details about the facility and the services to be offered within.