Golisano Forms 10-Hospital Children's Alliance

Philanthropist Tom Golisano committed $253 million in gifts—including $50 million awards to six hospitals, among them Penn State Health, the University of Kentucky, the University of Maryland and Connecticut Children’s—to create the Golisano Children’s Alliance, a network of ten independent children’s hospitals that will share a common name while operating independently. The donations will rename recipient hospitals to include “Golisano” and fund expanded services such as neonatal intensive care expansion, pediatric and adolescent behavioral-health and developmental programs, family-centered crisis care, specialized cardiology and neurology services, gene and CAR T‑cell therapies, multi-site rare-disease research and training for pediatric specialists. Alliance leaders said the network will share research, training, best practices and advocacy to increase access to high-quality pediatric care close to home. The alliance plans to hold its first symposium in May 2026. Golisano’s giving now tops $1 billion, and several recipients called the awards the largest single donations in their hospitals’ histories.