Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, has announced a $100 million gift from the Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation.

Thought to be the largest gift ever to a hospital in New Jersey, the commitment will enable the medical center to continue efforts to provide the highest-quality and most advanced care available in the New York metropolitan region. In recognition of the gift, the hospital will be renamed the Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center.

Leon and Toby Cooperman, who lived and raised their family in Essex County, New Jersey, have made more than a hundred donations to the medical center, including a $25 million gift in 2014 that provided the catalyst for a vast expansion of the hospital. In 2017, a $200 million, five-story, 241,000-square-foot medical building with 114 private rooms and a state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit was named the Cooperman Family Pavilion in their honor.

"I am at the point in my life where I want my gifts to have real impact, and I could think of no better way to do that than to make this investment in health care in the community that has given so much to our family," said Leon Cooperman. "The pandemic has shown us that heroes are working in our hospitals every day, and I'm honored to help support their work."

(Photo credit: Saint Barnabas Medical Center)