An article in Friday's editions of The Sun misstated the amount of money appropriated by the state toward a new comprehensive cancer center at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Maryland General Assembly has authorized $30.5 million for the center.
The Sun regrets the error.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital has received the single largest gift since its inception 106 years ago -- the pledge of $20 million from the Baltimore-based Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation toward the construction of a clinical building for its comprehensive cancer center.
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"I can't tell you how pleased and how honored we are that the Weinberg Foundation has recognized the importance of this project and has placed its . . . trust in the Johns Hopkins institutions," Dr. James A. Block, president of the hospital, said at a news conference yesterday.
A Hopkins spokeswoman said yesterday that the hospital also had received a $10 million pledge for the center earlier this year, but that the gift had not been announced because the donor family had insisted upon anonymity. The hospital released no further details about the earlier gift toward the center's total $97 million price tag.
The hospital requires an additional $17 million to cover the center's estimated cost, said Robert L. Lindgren, Johns Hopkins University's vice president for development and alumni relations. Hopkins intends to pay for the center entirely with government and donor funds.
Last year, the General Assembly approved a $40 million subsidy for construction of the center, which includes a second, smaller building for cancer research. Maryland has one of the highest cancer rates of any state in the nation. Designs for the two buildings were announced previously.
The Weinberg Building of Hopkins' cancer center will unite doctors, nurses and other staff from departments throughout the hospital under one roof to provide comprehensive treatment of cancer.
"The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg cancer center building will be a place of hope and healing for patients," Dr. Martin D. Abeloff, director of the center, said yesterday.
The seven-story, 515,000-square-foot building, on a 2.3-acre site Broadway and Orleans Street, will cover the largest area of any structure on the East Baltimore medical campus.
