$7 Million Donation Funds 

State-of-the-Art Neurological Care

P

hil Smith, president and CEO of the Phil Smith
Automotive Group, and local neighborhood resident,
has donated $7 million to fund state-of- the-art

neurological care at Holy Cross Hospital. A longtime
supporter of the hospital, Smith has designated these funds
to name the Phil Smith Neuroscience Institute and to
establish the Phil Smith ALS and Movement Disorder Clinic.
He is earmarking $2 million of the gift as matching funds
in a community challenge to bring first class research and
treatments to South Florida.

Once established, the Phil Smith ALS and Movement
Disorders Clinic will provide the local community with access
to leading edge clinical trials and research through an
expanded relationship with Massachusetts General Hospital,
the largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

The clinic will be permanently housed in what will now be
known as the Phil Smith Neurological Science Institute at
Holy Cross. The institute currently includes more than 15
neuro physician specialists and provides a comprehensive,
multi-disciplinary approach to neurological conditions and

diseases that affect thousands of individuals such as ALS, a
progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve
cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

“High level specialized neurological care is only available
in a few areas of the country,” said Smith. “I’ve learned
from my own experience the importance of having access
to this specialized care. Fortunately, through the medical
connections and care coordination Holy Cross provided, I
was able to leave to seek the best care in the country
though it meant traveling outside of South Florida.
Unfortunately, most people in our community do not have
the resources to do that. My vision with this matching
contribution program is to establish a neurological center
having the same level of cutting edge care for our own
community so our residents can access this care without
traveling elsewhere.”

Smith’s involvement with Holy Cross is shaped through
person experience. Inspired by his personal admiration of
and gratitude to the late automotive pioneer Jim Moran,
Smith played an instrumental role in galvanizing

Philanthropy

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Donation by
longtime hospital
supporter includes
funding the
creation of South
Florida’s first
Certified ALS
Center of
Excellence 

Patrick Taylor and Phil Smith