Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, have announced gifts totaling $150 million to hospitals in Hawai‘i to increase access to health care in the state.

The combined gifts from the Giving Pledge signatories are among the largest single private donations in state history.

A $50 million gift to Hilo Medical Center—to be renamed after the Benioffs—will support the expansion of critical areas of care, including a state-of-the-art family birthing center, intensive care unit, and neurosurgical program, as well as behavioral health services. The Benioff contribution matches a $50 million appropriation from the State of Hawai‘i, according to Hawaiʻi Public Radio.

A $100 million gift to Hawai‘i Pacific Health—one of the state’s largest nonprofit healthcare providers—will support a renovation project to create a “healthcare campus of the future” and triple the size of Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, which includes the state’s only burn unit. In addition, the funding will support deeper collaboration between both hospitals and the University of California-San Francisco’s UCSF Health—which the Benioffs have long supported—to expand Hawaiʻian residents’ access to specialist care in oncology, neurology, and other medical fields.

“The Benioffs share our vision and commitment to ensuring access to high-quality care for our community, and we are excited to work with them and our healthcare partners to expand our efforts,” said Hawai‘i Pacific Health president Ray Vara.

“Our philosophy has always been to give locally and to give through experts who deeply understand local needs,” said the Benioffs, who own a home and other property in Hawai‘i. “We feel fortunate to have been part of the Hawai‘i community for many decades and to be able to support our ohana in this way. Nothing is more important than the health of our community and access to care for all who need it.”

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