Architectural rendering of The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH
The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH will open in early 2005.
What it is
The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH was designed as a home-like facility
for families while their loved ones receive care at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The Lodge will provide
a retreat and sanctuary for families and caretakers of NIH Clinical
Center adult patients participating in investigational and clinical trials
designed to further knowledge of new treatments for disease. The Safra
Family Lodge will be a home away from home; a comfortable environment
intended to alleviate the stress and anxiety that inevitably accompany
the serious illness of a loved one.
"Having a chronic illness places an incredible burden on the family as a whole--on
marriages, as well as on healthy children of an ill parent," explained
Dr. John I. Gallin, director of the Clinical
Center, the clinical research hospital of NIH. The Lodge will provide
housing for the families and loved ones of adult patients.
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Construction Photos |
April 27, 2004 |
East Side Facing Clinical Center |
April 27, 2004 |
Northwest side of the Lodge |
April 27, 2004 |
Inside the Lodge |
December 1, 2003 |
Views from the Lodge’s second-floor guest rooms |
December 1, 2003 |
View of the Lodge from Center Drive & Old Georgetown Road |
December 1, 2003 |
View of the Lodge from Center Drive |
December 1, 2003 |
View of Clinical Center complex “across the street” from the Lodge |
October 21, 2003 |
Second-floor walls going up |
October 7, 2003 |
First-floor walls going up |
July 15, 2003 |
Interior basement walls in place |
June 17, 2003 |
Basement walls going up |
June 6, 2003 |
Beginning of foundation |
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Background
Construction for The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH began in the spring of
2003 and is targeted for completion in late 2004, around the same
time as the opening of the new Mark
O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, a state-of-the-art clinical
research facility that will be in full operation in December 2004 and a short distance
from the Lodge.
The Family Lodge will include
- Thirty four guest rooms
- Family gathering areas including living, dining, kitchen, family playroom, library, exercise room, patio, and garden
- Telecommuting facilities so that families can manage their lives while they are at NIH
The Clinical Center initiated the pilot NIH Guest House, which opened in 1996 in the old
Apartment House (Building 20). With the demolition in 1998 of Building
20 to make way for the new Clinical Research Center, the 6-unit Guest
House moved to a nearby apartment building on Battery Lane in Bethesda
and continues today in a combination of local hotel rooms and two apartments.
Lodge dedicated to Edmond J. Safra
A $3 million donation to NIH from The Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation has helped fund the
Family Lodge. Other generous contributors also include the Merck Company
Foundation, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, and
many more corporations, foundations and individuals. The Foundation
for NIH hosted a ceremony marking the naming of the facility on April
17, 2002 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
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Edmond J. Safra |
Considered by many to have been
the twentieth century’s greatest private banker, Safra quietly carried
out many philanthropic activities. Rarely taking personal credit, he supported
thousands of students, underwrote medical research, built and restored
schools and synagogues as well as churches and mosques, endowed professorships
and contributed to countless humanitarian, religious, educational and cultural
causes.
After Safra’s tragic death, the Foundation and his wife Lily, who is a founding member
of the Foundation and serves on its Council, supported many projects
consistent with his vision. With the dedication of the Edmond J. Safra
Family Lodge at NIH, The Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation carries
forth Safra’s lifetime commitment to medical research and humanitarian
causes.
For more information on The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge
Contact Jan Weymouth, Executive Director
301-496-2925
jweymouth@cc.nih.gov
Continuing funding for the Lodge is sought through the Foundation
for the National Institutes of Health.
In the news
Clinical Center News
"Plans move ahead for Family Lodge" (April 2000)
NIH Record
"NIH Family Lodge to be Built Near Lasker Center on Campus" (March 2000)
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