The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation (RMSFF) has announced a $4 million gift in support of Children’s Minnesota’s neurosciences program and the launch of a $1.5 million matching challenge to encourage the Minneapolis community to support the program.

The gift will fund the health system’s new pediatric hybrid intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) neurosurgery suite, a 2,970-square-foot surgical suite named in honor of the foundation and scheduled to open in February. When opened, the suite will be the first at a pediatric health system in North America equipped with both moving-scanner and moving-patient MRI technology in the same surgical space.

In addition, the matching challenge will bolster support for the iMRI suite and the neurosciences program at Children’s Minnesota. If the community provides $1.5 million exclusively to this challenge, RMSFF will match it to further support the new iMRI suite and the neurosciences program at Children’s Minnesota.

“Our foundation is honored to support Children’s Minnesota as they pioneer new ways—both technologically and clinically—to care for children across our region,” said RMSFF president and CEO Mark Dienhart. “Part of our foundation’s mission is to strengthen and support effective initiatives in health care that benefit all—this iMRI suite is now an important part of our mission.”

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